Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-01-25
SENATOR JONES.

washington, IL. u, January ID, 1919.
My DEAR FRIEND: Your editorial on the
next Senatorial election in your State pleased
me very much | wish | could get pear
enough 20 every voter in Nevada to tell him
how worthy Senator Jones is of an endorse
ment. He has devoted himself to the study
of great question, and has mastered it; and
that IS the monetary question. He is to-day
one of the most able as well as one of the most
celebrated Of all the disputants in the great
field of the money debate, in Europe and
America The swindle whereby silver was
deprived of a portion of it's value by being de-
monetized in the United States, at a time
when it was more valuable than gold, has been
by him discovered and denounced, and the
outrage is, under his leadership, about to be
undone Placed at the head of a Monetary
Commission composed of Senators, Represen-
tatives in Congress and celebrated doctors in
political science from unofficial life, be con-
tro'led the Commission, and made It's report.
In 12S pages of printed matter, be discusses
the laws Of finance, the history of coinage IN
both the precious metals, the policies of all
nations, the opinions of all the most noted
doctrinaires, and finally the effect of our cur
rency and financial laws upon the industries
and property of the country The New York
Organs of Belmont and the gold gamblers, land
the Boston organs of Avarice and Greed do
not take kindly to the searching truth ard ar
guments of Senator Jones, but thay attack
neither his law nor his facts. They brItaly and
insolently demand gold alone in the payment
Of debts legally payable in gold or silver after
increasing its value eight per cent by fraudu-
lent legislation against silver, and when their
swirdle is exposed, and measure inaugur-
ated o repair the great wrong done by Them,
they resort to vile epithets toward Senator
Jones and those who agree with him.
The people of Nevada, in whose midst are
located the greatest silver mines in the world,
may well be proud Of having been represented
on the floor Of the United States Senate by
one who leads in the great movement to re
store silver to the place it occupied from the
time the patriarch Abraham paid Ephron,
four hundred shel,els Of silver, current
money with the merchant for he cave OF
iIachpelah in which - bury his wife, down to
tie year Of oar Lord 1913. have thus far
spoken only of your Senator's attitude on the
silver question, because "pon that he is emit
tied to the support Of al VINO do not want to
see half the prod0c, Of Your mines made una
7ai.a!1y. No new nam can take his place and
iIi it, The gold sharks have able lawyers and |
llroit deba+crs on their side, bat tie ptiiess |
o-c and the honest, strong and simple words |.
silver report, and III private conversations
with Senator's, have made impressions and es-
-ablishod convictions that cannot be changed. |
The battle is we'll nigh won. He VIII be need |
ed in the Senate hereafter to meet, expose
and defeat new schemes of the gold gamblers
,ai1st the people.
But as a Republican. earnestly desire the
,e-election of MIR. Jones, because, to degree
,1celled by none OF our public men, he has
1een and is faithful to the traditions, the prin-
;iples and the aims of his party. These he
ldhercs to. no matter with whom he has to
,ontend The league between the White
House and the less manly of the Coniederates
# the Senate, has in him an uncompromisng
oe. He, in common with many Republicans
Who are intelligent, and have political convic-
ions, regards the course pursued by the Pres
dent as a revival of doughfac;sm, and has ne
oft words in which to ascribe good intentions
o one who has. at the expense of his party,
made his peace with the chiefs of those who
asst Summer murdered Republicans for sup
or5ing Hayes and Wheeler. Senator Jones
as left no one in doubt as to his adherence
f the political crimes committed in The inter
st of the late Coniederacy by an Administra
ion brought into existence by Republican
otes This refusal by him to submit to polit-
cal mutilation, will not | think, be any STUN a
ling block in the way of those Democrats
-ho are inclined to support him because of
is financial opinions Every Republican who
,ould have his party live as becomes it, or
lie without recantation should stand by him;
nd every Democrat who has not sold himself
II the hope OF dive at the Presidents swill- r
ID should consider whether Jones cannot do
lore for Nevada, than any other man of any
lrty.
You are right i'll your supposition that the
enator has been financially crippled. He is
D longer man of wealth, though he will not