Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-08-13
ZONES N BLAND.

In its efforts TO undernlue an Adversary,
IA furnished by the treatm mt which oena-
tor jones has received at the hands Of the
Democratic journals Vi this State since his
return from Washington. Tn, re seems to
be a determined effort ON the part of such
: influential sheets as the Eurexa SENTINEL
TO take from our Senator the honor which
Is his just due, and az it would not he fafe
10 attack his record in the Senate Cham
Der, to- wipe out that r. cord altogether.
We are now grayely told that Senator
JON Q was not tie author Of the Silver bill
ut all, and that tie passage Of the bill was
not due to his efforts by any means, but
2 that the honor, such as 1t Is, belongs to
Richard P. Bland. a Missouri Democrat.
We have long been accustomed to carn-
paign trickery and misrepras, ntation Of
!. men acti sely engaged IN politics, but this
last stroke of tle SESTISEL and its fol-
lowers is SO mastery in its utter bassness
that it strikes even the boldest ~demagogue
with amazenent.
The Silver bill. as ii passed Congress, is
known as the Bland bill, and this fact is
seized upon to give color to the assertion
that it Is u Democratic treasure, originated
BY a Democrat. The Simple fact Of the
matter il that Richard p. Bland, Of Mis-
souri, introduced the bill in the House Of
R. representatives., aud Senator Jones, in
stead Of introducing a now measure in the
Eenate sccepted the Bland Bill, as en-
bodying the principles wlicn he had sp mt
years in elucid ilin5. Tde reading men of
tnis n.tion know, and the editors OF these
Democratic urna S know, tlat the BLIND
bull Is but o capitalization Of Senator
Jones silver rsp,,t; tlat but for the ex-
baustivr statistics presented by that report,
and gather d by the exp, nditure on the
part of our S nator OF q private fortune,
the Silver bill never would have attracted
attention beyond the Rocky Mountains.
1t was the facts and figures of s. nator
Jones that met the gold ring Of Wall strt ct
and worsted it in the hight. 1t was Jones,
and not Bland, whom the Eastern papers
attacked with their ~vituperative editorials,
because they knew that Jones and his fig
ures, and not Bland, were the powers that
they had to fear. The victory, such as it
was, belongs to Senator Jones, and the re is
4 no man In the country more willing to
accord to hin the honor than Richard p.
Bland, Of Missouri.
The above is from the Gold Hill Ners.
We are willing to concede that Senator
Jones performed a great service in behalf
OF tie RECOMMENDATION OF silver; we are
willing, in fact, TO go to the extent that it
was mainly due to his powerful influence
and energy that the Silver bill passed the
Senate at all. In yielding this mnch now
over, we do not admit, as the Meas claims,
that the Bland bill was tie crystalization
of the report Of tie Silver Commission.
We are merely contending for a historical
truth. We have ~alledsed, and do now,
that the original Bland bill passed the
House three months prior to the appoint
msnt of the Senate Com mission OF which
Senator Jones was the chairman. Ask the
Senator himself about it, and if BIO does
not say that wc arc wholly correct in this
regard, We will abandon the point. The
truth is that the Democratic House was
eager for reconciliation, while the Repub-
lican Senate in the beginning insisted, with
the Wall street gold ring, on the main
tainance Of a single standard. The ques-
ton hung fire in the Senate, and hence it
was that Senator Jones moved the appoint
ment Of the Commission. 1t was due to
the single standard Senators, with Presi-
dent Hayes at their head, that the Bland
bill was sborn Of its best features in the
Senate. We had been told by every Re-
publican newspaper in the land, including
the Gold Hill Neus. that characterization
in 1873 was the result Of a clerical error,
but when it came to the pinch the Repub-
lican Senate was strongly averse to correct
ing the mistake. OF course, there were
notable exceptions, such as Jones
and oshers, but it was not until
the popular clamor for the r~estora-
ton of silver had become almost universal,
give the subject respectful considers
ton. Ably seconded by the press OF the
West, Senator Jones did more, it
affords us pleasure to say, to precipi-
vid al in America. For this and all things
else performed in the inter st Of Nevada,
this writer in the SENTINEL honors Senator
Jones quite as much as the editor of the
Ne,0s. We believe he performed a hel-
culean task, and performed it well, con-
sidering that a MAORI y 4 j, Republican
colleagues in the Senate at the outset were
50 completely under the control Of the
Wall street gold ring. 1t is not necessary
to pull down Bland to build up Jones.
The former was the real author Of the
. Silver bill, 80 far as the public has any
knowledge, and the historical fact cannot
be obliterated that he framed it and passed
it in the Democratic House in a much
more acceptable form than it was left in
after running the gauntlet Of the Republic
can Senate. Conclusions must be drawn
from esllts. The shalloa and contradic-
tory assertions Of the Aews, with reference
to the Democratic press and party in con-
nection with the discussion OF the question.
should not weigh a feather with intelligent
people. The Nfscs is either grossly ignor-
ant in regard to tie history Of this i'm
portant financial measure, or ~wilfully lies
aboatit when it best suits its convenience
n 70 do so.
u LIEUTENANT GovEasoR PowNINo has
been figuring on the gnbernatorial situa-
tion. This is the way he cyphers it all out:
The fight for Governor on the Republic
can ticket is narrowed down to Gen raj
Conner and r. NJ. Daggett, and Daggett
will receive the nomination. We figure
that Daggett will receive the vote Of
Storey, Lyon, Washoe, Humboldt. Lander.
Elko, Lincoln, Eureka and White Pine,
which will nominate him by an overwhelm-
ing majority. Conner viii get Nye, orms-
BY, Churchill, Douglas and Esmeralda,
only 26 out Of the $50 d~elegatfs. If we
give him Eureka and White Pine, he will
atill be far short Of enough votes"