Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-07-14
SILVER ANp IFS FRIENDS.


We would advise our Republican friends
in the west not to bank too high on Cen
eral Harrison's friendship for silver. His
record, all the way through, is the other
way. He has never given a single vote
in favor Of silver. In his official life he
has been as much opposed to silver as
John Sherman, who struck il down in
1873. We are not going to lie by claim.
ing that the head Of the Democratic ticket
is friendly to silver, but Grover Cleve.
land is as good a silver man as Ben Har-
rison. The exact truth is that there is
no difference between them, further than
that Harrison, living West, should have
been a silver man instead Of q gold bug.
Taking the position Of the respective
political parties on the subject, nine
tenths Of the Democrats in Congress
arc for silver, while nine.tenths of
the Republicans are opposed to it.
The late Beck amendment received
but four Republican votes in the Senate,
exclusive Of those furnished by this Coast,
while all OF the Democratic Senators but
four voted for it. The bill was side
tracked temporarily in the House out OF
fear of the effect on New York in the APP
preaching election, but this does not
change the friendship of the great mass
Of Democrats for the white metal. That
was simply the cowardice Of a lot OF very
small politicians and alleged statesmen.
We have no patience with thimble.rig-
cling by anybody, and we hope to always
have the independence to Genounce it,
whether practiced by the party with
which we are identified or any other. We
arc for honesty and direct methods, let
the consequences be what they may.
We would rather lose a political battle
on a truth than to win it on a lie. In
like manner the so.called silver plank in
the Republican platform is a cheat and a
fraud. 1t says we favor the use OF both
gold and silver" Who does not The
most violent Wall street gold bug in the
land believes in subsidiary coin-halves,
quarters and dimes-for change. But
what about the ratio and increased coin.
age! The Republican platform is as
silent as the tomb on these topics. Any
sane man in the United States knows
that a resolution in the Chicago Convcn-
ton favoring free and unlimited coin
age would have stampeded the whole
convention into the great lake near
by. This reduces the whole situation
down to this: The Republican National
Convention has ~endeavored to blind and
defraud us on the silver question, while
the Democratic Convention displayed
craven cowardice by failing altogether to
mention it. The two parties are there.
fore ~relegated to their past records on
this subject, in which Democrats are as
ten to one in our favor. If silver is ever
placed in a better position in this coun'
try it will be mainly by Democratic votes
in both houses of Congress. This is the
situation as it stands to-day, and the sill
yer men Of the Far West will conserve
the best interests OF this section by deal
ing fairly with their friends, no matter
to which party they belong, rather than
to ALLEVIATE them by Misrepresentation
and SANDER. This is a campaign that
should turn on high and honorable de.
bate instead of passion and prejudice.
Let US all be fair and truthful, no matter
which way the battle may go.