Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-30
A SPLENDID SPEECH.
Every Pertinent Issue Clearly
Discussed.


Bonfires lighted up Main street las
night and the Uuion Guard Band with its
eloquent music preceded the grandest
meeting ever held in the Eureka Opera
House during the present political cam
paign. The house was filled to running
over to greet and listen with keen atten-
ton to Col. A. G. Ellis of Carson, one OF
the Presidential Electors on the Demo.
cratic ticket. He spoke clearly and
sharply and dispassionately upon the real
issues of the campaign and showed himself
to be a first-rate orator and logician and
withal thoroughly familiar With the i'm
portant topics that he analysed. He was
frequently applauded and left a marked
impression upon his large audience.
He concluded his remarks with a
glowing eulogy of R. Sadler, nominee
OF the Eureka Democracy for the State
Senate, and of the Democratic nominees
for the Assembly, especially the Hon. H.
j. Muldoon. 1t would be impossible to re-
produce his entire speech or to do
it justice in a synopsis. The following
partial analysis of it is presented. We
1 h6VC v u hClLJt VI tnO olANCi
State, a first-rate reporter, for having an
ticipated US in the work:
THE SILVER QUESTION.
In 1873, without discussion, and I'M
known to the people, Congress, both
Houses of which were Republican, demon
etized silver, the money of our fathers.
The people who came here to dig this metal
from the rock-ribbed mountains of Nevada,
were astonished at the result. Though
mining is as legitimate as farming, the
money gamblers of the East, through Con-
gress, tried to break il down, and depre-
ciate the value of the property depending
upon it, though nearly half the continent,
geographically speaking, is engaged in it.
Without warning, a Republican Congress
reduced the value of silver bullion from 10
to Is per cent. The Republicans after
wards admitted that the Act of 1873 was q
mistake, but doggedly refused to rectify
the mistake, In 1877 the Democratic House
Of Representatives attempted TO correct
the mistake, and passed q bill, which pro-
yided, among other things, that any owner
of silver bullion might deposit the same in
the United States MINIS or assay offices, to
be coined on the same terms as gold bull
ion. The Republican Senate struck out
this clause, only four Senators of that
party voting to retain it, and against 1t no
less a parsonage than Mr.. Blaine, who op-
posed the bill at every stage Of its passage,
and when 1t was vetoed by q Republican
President, at the suggestion of John Sher-
man, voted for sustaining the veto.
He challenged disproof Of what he said
and remarked that he understood Sena-
tor Jones said that Mr.. Blaine favored
a dollar OF 430 grains Of silver, but that
was the very thing Senator Jones OPP
posed. In answer to the remark of the
Senator that he would prevail on Mr..
Blaine, should he be President, to coin
the maximum amount of standard dollars
authorized by the Silver bill, he would say
that if Senator Jones could not prevail
upon his personal friend. President Ar
thur, to do that, he could hardly be ex-
pected to influence Mr.. Blaine, whose
nomination be opposed. The price OF sill
yer in the United States is now controlled
by a board Of gamblers, by reason of Re
publican legislation-they made it a mer-
charitable commodity, with no fixed value.
He was at a loss to know how Senator
Jones could support an administration
which prints $50, 600, 900 in two-dollar
bills, when there is silver enough for all
the change required.
II optdhSA OApldluCu II uOiAet,
and the purpose of its coinage, and how
millions of those dollars found their way
into the hands of business men and work
ingmen, and the efforts OF the Republicans
to force holders of these coins, which con-
tain 420 grains of silver, to exchange them
at a discount of IL per cent for standard
dollars, containing 412k grains Of silver.
He eulogized Representative Cassidy for
his able speech and manly efforts in Con-
gress to uphold silver, and as proof of the
trend Of parties on the silver question,
stated that only IS Republicans voted with
the Democrats against a bill to restrict
the purchase of silver bullion for coinage
purposes. He conceded that there is no
| difference between Republicans and Demo-
Gratis in Nevada on the silver question, as
| all are in favor of reconciliation; but in
| the East the Republicans are against it, as
| proved by the platforms of that party in
| New York. Massachusetts, and other States.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Colonel Ellis referred to the history Of
| the parties OIL the Chinese question, and
| said the records show that the Democratic
party has always been on the side of the
~workingmen. Logan, the Republican can
| didate for Vice President, opposed every
| bill to restrict Chinese immigration. n
voted to sustain President Arthur's veto Of
| the Restriction Bill, and now the Republic
| cans have Blaine at the head of their ticket
| opposed to silver, and Logan at the tail
| opposed to the restriction Of Chinese immi-
| grafton, and he expressed the opinion that
| such a combination would not meet the
| approval Of the people of Nevada.
PUBLIC LANDS.
Relating to the giving away of the pub
lie domain to corporations, the speaker
| said that from 1887 to 1861, only 81, 600. 900
acres of land had been given away by all
parties, and these we're donated to States
for internal improvements, while in the "a
years which the Republicans have been in
power they have donated IT'S, DOC, 900 acres
to corporations. The Republicans declare
that they are opposed to foreign corpora
tions getting control of public lands, yet,
| though they have been in power nearly a
quarter of a century, they have permitted
| those foreign corporations to get control OF
"a, OOO, 900 acres of public domain. Whose
fault is that2 Is not every land officer in
the country Republican And is not
James G. Blaine, whose vote while in
| Congress is recorded in favor of every land
grant, the champion giver of public landsP
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