The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-11-01
THE CAUCUS SYSTEM.

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the party above the country and
happiness of the people.
sERyIIETY TO RAILROADS..
It accepted brides and was corrupt
ed to rob the people OF their lands
and grant them to railroad corpor-
ations, and TO hold their political in
| fluence and support, it refuses TO for
felt land grants which are not earned,
to enforce the payment OF obligations
overdue, and permits them to dis
criminate and exhort in freights and
fares, aud defraud and plumber the
Government and people.
RoBBERY OF THE PRESIDENCY. -
To continue its hold on the offices of
the Government, and its opportunity
to plumber the public Treasury, IL
menaced the country with war, de-
frauded the people OF their choice for
President, inaugurated Hayes, the
defeated candidate, brought elective
institutions into contempt and con-
summated the most stupendous crime
ever perpetrated against a free people.
FOSTERING MoNoPoLIEs AND TRUSTS.
II has created, fosterel and enriched mon
opoilcs and trusts, extended expiring pat
! ents, and enacted unjust and discrinnative
laws to destroy competition and Cypress un-
| favored industries 1t has enacted an cxor-
/ bitant and unnecessary tariff for the sole
purpose'of multiplying the already enormous
/ and excessive wealth. Under this vicious
policy labor has been degraded, impoyerish-
| ed and deprived of its share OF production,
| and capital has been favored and exempted
from taxation. To fictitiously increase the
price e domestic products, which are the
! common necessarieS Of llfo 1t has excluded
articles manufactured abroad and destroyed
our commerce with foreign nations. 1t has
| invited the cheap labor OF Europe and Asia
| to our shores and employed 1t in factory,
| furnace and mine, thus supplanting Ameri-
can wage-workcrs and suhjecting them to the
competition Of imported paupers and reduce
ing wages to starvation prices. AT this mo
/ mont ii Is pr0longing the session OF Congress
and wasting the peoples money in frantic
attempt TO increase and perpetuate the
! wrongs which have already become unbear-
able.
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.
TO increase the power and influence OF
| bondh0lders corporations and trusts. and by
the unstinted use of money to corrupt the
ballot box and bribe electors, it defeated the
| popular will aud restored itself to power in
1855, and to day the instruments Of this re-
voting crime arc honored leaders
EXPULSION OF SENATOR'S AND REPRESENTATIVES.
To increase its majority and augment its
power in the Lower House of Congress it
| elected a consciencelesE partisan Speaker of
the House, subyerted the rules, practices and
preCedents of legislative bodies. declared
quorums where none existed, deliberately
stole the seats of two Senators from Montana,
and unseated and expelled the lawfully cleo
ted representatives, of the peo"le TO increase
a partisan majority.
ADMISSION or TERRITORIES.
1t has admitted Territories on tho ground
alone that they were Republican in politics.
| and excluded other TERRITORIES of greater
population than those admitted on the sole
| ground that they would send Democratic
| Senators and Representatives. to the National
Legislature.
souANDERNG THE PUBLIC MONEY.
| When il succeeded to the control of the
| Government in March. 1882. the Treasury was
| Overlooking under the economical and hon est
| administration Of Grover Cleveland. There
was more than l25.0OO.tO0 In excess Of all
existing demands, and there was an annual
incoming surplus Of nearly $40 WOOO0. Ia
| less than two years this surplus has been
wasted the Treasury depleted, and there
is TO day an admitted deficiency Of more than
$4,000 ,OOu0.
THE PENSION ROLL.
With The most extravaganily liberal PEN
sion laws that ever existed since the Gov
eminent was formed it is chiefly occupied
| in passing special laws in the interest or
| partisan iavorites who have no claim under
| the general law. With an annual pension
roll exceeding SlJOOOO OjQ-greateri than main
| tanning the standing armies of Europe, and
more than one hundred times greater than.
tho administration of Washington, and more
| than double the cost of the Democratic ad-
mnisLration of lS6O-it has brought forward
and advocates a service pension bill which
| Will add $l75.D0O0O0 a year TO the already
enormous burdens Of the people
DEMoSETIE srIos or SILVER.
At the dictation OF capital and to increase
the value and power OF money, 1t demone-
tized silver in 1878 and in 1880 defeated the
passage Of free coinage bill by the threats
| Harrison and the Vaccinations of Sherman,
| Window, Reed and Mckinley and the cow
! ardy acquiescencc Of Jones, Stewart and
Bartine, our Senators and Representative
in Congress.
! THE GoLD-BUG BILL.
The compromise Silver Bill reported and
advocated by sherman of Ohio. the arch
| enemy OF silver money, though II has tempo
rarily advanced the price OF silver, yet for
the first time In the. history OF tho nation, II
| has deliberately and against the protest Of
1 tho people, degraded silver 10 commodity
and destroyed its function AZ a royal money
metal A Democratic Congress Temonetized
! silver but Republican Presidents have We
River to its proper place In the currency Of
the country.
DEMOCRATS AND SILVER.
The Bland Act was forced upon Republi-
can President by Democratic votes. The
| great body of votes In Congress in favor of
! silver has always been cast by Democrats,
and the bulk Of votes against silver have
invariably come from the Republican party.
1 a he nreapnf arsason of E0nUraee the Dam