Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-09-22
SOCND TALK w CAE

A Cincinnati dispatch Of the 18th in
slant says:
The. Democratic Convention of the
Sixth Kentucky District to-day nomi-
mated John &. Carlisle for Congress.
The nomination was made with 9teut
enthusiasm, md upon Carlisle's up
penrance there was al outburst of ap.
Plause lasting several minutes. Speaker
Carlisle said:
Tine two political parties have NOM
mated their candidates md mdde n
formal declarmtion of the principles.
The Republican party has chosen as its
standard bearers Mr.. Harrison, a re-
spectable lawyer, for President, and
for Vice President, Levi P. Morton, a
very rich tanker. The Democratic
party hns selected tho true. tried, and
uucorrupiible President who now fills
the chuir---a man who has brought the
Administration back to the ways Of the
Constitution. and given to this people
clcan, conservative and faithful ad.
ninistrItion. OF law. With him they
have associated Mr.. Thurman, who for
many years has been the best and truest
representive of Western Democracy,
1t is not my purpose to make
speech. but want to call your atten.
ton to the overwhelming importance of
The greNt question which is nov pro-
vented for the decision of tho people.
1t is declared in the Democratic plat
form TINT unnecessary taxation is un-
just taxation, and by that declaration
the Democratic purity will stand or fall
In this contest. Whom President
Cleveland was inaugurated on tho 4th
of March. 1885. lie found on the statute
books laws passed by Republican
Congress Under which there was an.
hunlly Icing collected from tho people
$lOO,OOO,00O i'll excess of the actual
necessities of the Government. He
found large surplus accumulated in
the vaults of the Treasury, and that all
the public debt In control of the Cow
ernment, except nbout $106, Zoo, 200 of
per cent. bonds had been paid.
What wns to he done2 We were not
responsible for the existence of these
laws, but we felt. Us representatives of
tine American people. that the RESPONSE
b:lty rosie upon Us in some measure,
ut least to see il it could not BIZ RENE.
d'ed. We failed. Money went on nc
cumulating in the treasury OF the rnte
of per cent. per month, and is still
accumulating mt Tint rate. At the rate
of several hundred thousand dollars
every dhy md night the money of the
people IL being poured into the public
treasury, where it is not needed. To
relieve the treasury from this enormous
amount and to prevent disaster to the
business of the country, the Administra.
Ito liz Compelled to purchase outstand-
Ing bonds of tho Government ut an
enormous premium.
Harrison in his recent letter Of nc
coPtanct says That this process should
go OH and money should continue to be
pnid to the Gondhollcrs. Sherman,
former Secretary of tic Treasury, takes
the same ground, and ciiticizes in a
harsh manner the action of the present
Administration In deposi,iug part OF
this money i'll national banks, 20 That
1t can be loluod to the people and 20
thus into the channels of trade.
If had time think could show TO
the satisfnc ion Of every intelligent and
candid mau within the sound OF my
voice that the wages Of labor are no
more affected by the rite VI duties ND.
on imported goods than the yield Of
corn to the acre on your farm il affected
Ivy it. And one Of the chief benefits of
the system, in the eatimRtion of Hnrri-
son, is tho fact TINT the people do not
know how much they nre paying.
When n mana money is taken awny
without his knowledge some malicious
people call it stealing. will say that
1t IL the most dangerous form Of taxa
ton that could be devised, because il