Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-25
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS OP
POSED TO SILVER COINAGE.


The Nevada Democratic State Conven-
ton administered well merited rebuke
to the Republicans of California, in the
following language, which is a portion of
one of the resolutions in the Democratic
platform
The action of the Republican party in
California in refusing to insert a silver
plank in their platform, deserves the con-
demnation of the silver-producing people of
the mining regions of the Pacific Coast
The action of the Republicans in Cali
fornia upon the silver question, although
in harmony with their party in the East,
is to be regretted by the friends of silver
everywhere California is nearly as
much interested in the silver production
as Nevada, Utah or Colorado, and should
be as unanimous in favor Of free coinage.
1t seems pitiful that body of men whose
constituents so unanimously favor all
measures calculated to increase the
value OF silver and encourage
the mining industry, should be
influenced by party dictation in the East
and the domineering policy of the gold
bug and national bank magnates who
control the organization in that section,
to such an extent as to omit such an inn
portant and essential matter in their plat
form. That the omission was not an
oversight is proven by the fact that the
Committee on Platform reported a free
coinage resolution, which was ruthlessly
stricken out by the Convention In ad-
dition to this, the delegates from the
Third Congressional District unanimously
nominated McKenna, who voted against
the free coinage bill at the last session.
There is a striking difference between
the action of the Republican Conven-
ton of California and the Demo-
cratic Convention of Nevada upon this
question. The former most abjectly sue
cumbed to the pressure from the East,
following blindly the dictation of their
Wall Street masters, while the latter had
the courage to take issue with the Presi-
dent elected by their party, entering a
most emphatic protest against his finan-
cial policy in the following expressive
and forcible language:
We demand that good faith shall be OBJ
served with the people by the Democratic
administration, by religiously adhering to
the money plank, as it does every other
plank of the Chicago platform.
President Cleveland, in his wise oonserya-
tive and patriotic administration of our pub
llc affairs, both foreign and domestic, ohal-
lenges our highest admiration, except in the
following of the beaten path of his Republi-
can predecessors and the policy of the Repub-
lican party on the silver question, in disre-
gard of the cherished principles of the Ma
tlonal Democratic party.
We demand of the Administration at
Washington, that it shall second the efforts
or the Democratic Representatives in. Con-
gress to give the people free coinage of sill
yer, Notwithstanding the formidable COM
binations existing between the gold rings,
National Banks and the National Republi-
can party to maintain the single gold
standard.
The last paragraph contains the entire |
matter in a nutshell The President
has but TO second the efforts of the mem
bers of his party in Congress to place
himself in line with the policy indicated
by the platform upon which he was
elected. This he has not done, and the
Democracy of Nevada did not for mo-
ment hesitate to administer to the Ad-
ministration a scathing rebuke for its de- |
parture from its obligations as expressed !
in the National platform, while the
Republicans of California virtually |
endorsed Mr.. Cleveland in the only
matter which renders him objection
able to the people of the Pacific Coast.
1t is pretty certain that if the Republican
nominees for Congress are elected in
California, the mono-metalists of the
East can count upon six votes from the
Pacific coast, every one of which should
be given for free coinage 1t is impos-
sible for us to conceive how any intelli-
gent person can fail to discern that the
only hope for free coinage rests in the
chances for Democratic House and
Senate.
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