Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-12

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the Legislature soon to meet, it will ther
remain for the people to approve it al
the general election two years hence
Tie sole object of the Governors procla
nation was to give the people an oppor
tunity to choose members Of the Legisla
ture with reference to their friendliness
or unfriendliness to the proposed change
The new Legislature will meet as usual
on the first Monday in January.
n NEW ADMI~T RATION AM
~ SILVER QUESTION.
That legislation under the new Admin
istration inimical to the silver interest
will be attempted, hardly admits OF a
doubt. Already influential Eastern jour-
nails are demanding the immediate repeal
of the silver bill. The argument used is
that the Republican party has never been
especially favorable to silver, and after
the result Of the recent election, the same
being construed as an overwhelming en-
dorsement of the financial theories
that party, the Garfield Administration
can afford to lead the country back to
the single, or gold standard. The New
York Herald, which must be admitted to
be a journal of great power and influence,
has the annexed on the subject
Another important thing, which we trust
the new Administration will lose nc time in
promoting, is q completion of the measures
for giving soundness and stability to the
currency. What is most needed is the
early repeal Of the silver law, and when
this is accomplished it may be expedient
to consider the advisability of reducing
the amount of legal tender notes to three
hundred millions. After its great victory,
the Republican party can afford to put our
monetary system on q perfectly sound
basis. 1t had reason to fear the clamor Of
the silver fanatics and g~reenbackers while
important elections were in prospect. but
it can safely defy such clamor now. The
fruits of its financial policy have SO
strengthened it with the people, and have
contributed so much to its success in its
election, that the new Administration
should not hesitate to complete the edifice
which its predecessor has SO happily laid
the foundation.
If this clamor is acceded to by Presi-
dent Garfield and the Republican ma
jority in Congress, we opine that Nevada
will never regret having cast her three
electoral votes for Hancock.
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NO CHANGE.
Whatever may prove to be the politi-
cal complexion of the next Congress that
comes in with Mr.. Garfield, whether
there be a small majority of Democrats
or a small majority of Republicans, or an
even division. with the half dozen Green
hackers and Independents holding the
balance of power-one thing may be reas-
onably asserted, that it will not disturb
the existing monetary, industrial or trade
laws Of the country. If the Republicans
could have a decided majority. they
would repeal the silver act, ~demonetize
silver, and work gradually toward the
establishment Of gold as the only legal
tender coin. If the Democrats could
have a good working majority, they would
revise the tariff, but neither party will
have such a majority-and, therefore, the
silver law will remain unrepealed, and
the tariff unrevised. Both these ques-
tions may be taken out of the list of sub
jects Of legislation that the next Congress
will act upon. In fact, the next Con-
gress promises to be rather a tame body.
The parties are so evenly divided in it
that neither will be able to have its way,
and only such routine measures as both
can assent to will be enacted. The gov.
erning Republican cry in the late cam.
paign was-no change and this is an
additional reason for believing that no
legislation will ever be attempted that
would modify either the domestic or the
foreign policy that now exists.
Mr.. HAYES fluctuations to Nj. Gar
field are timely, for it is altogether proper
that the man who has ruled the country
four years by right of a title, the product
OF fraud, should lose no time in congratu-
the man whom fraud has made his
successor. There is only this difference
between the two frauds that which
made Hayes President followed the cleo
tion, and that which has given Garfield
victory was done before election. By
corruption and bribery of the returning
boards in 1875, the majority of the Amer
people have been defled. It is hard
10 say which kind Of wrong the country
Fan best afford 10 endure.
SOMETHING BEHIND TT.