Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1890-04-19
WILL THEY BE HELD REsPoN.
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WILL THEY BE HELD REsPoN.
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The Republicans had an evssive silver
plank in their last national platform. IL
did not mean anything. and was not IN.
tended TO mean anything, bat still the
trick worked in the silver producing
States. II was . mere declaration IN
favor OF "the use Of both gold and ell
ver." Nothing was said about the
amount nor the extent Of the fuse =
that should be given TO the white metal.
This important question was left TO the
determination Of each individual voter
according to his surroundings or the sec
tion in which he might live. The West
ern voter was told that it meant free
coinage while his Eastern brother was
informed that it meant the uttering BY
the Government Of only such subsidiary
coins (halves, quarters and dines) as
might be needed for change. Now you
see ii and now you don't. But the
Democrats met in National Convention
at ST. Louis and to spare Cleveland said
nothing in their platform about silver.
This, as we have said before, was the
extreme Of cowardice and cost the party
thousands Of votes all over the West.
There was hardly a delegate in the Dem.
ocrstic Convention that was not q silver
man. On the other hand there was
hardly q delegate in the Republican Con-
,vention that was not an anti-silver man.
Through co~wardice on the part Of one
and trickery on the part Of the other,
both parties went before the public in
some sense under false colors. The Re-
publicans were largely benefited, es.
pecially in the West, by the strategem
in which real positions were reversed.
The Democrats deserved to have been
defeated for emitting a cardinal princi-
pie OF party faith to ave Cleveland or
the devil from embarrassment. The Re.
publican stump orators, such as they
are, in Nevada, asseverated long and loud
that their platform guaranteed unlimited
silver coinage; that Harrison was sound
on the question; that the tariff must
never be touched; that their party was
the party Of the people and against the
corporations and trusts and combines,
and finally that il the people would only
elect the Republican ticket things would
boom like hell in less than thirty days.
Well, the people did elect the Republi-
can ticket, and how many Of these pre-
election promises are being fulfilled,
Instead Of free coinage, we are threat
ened with the Window fraud or tht
Jones; instead OF Harrison being sound,
the telegraph tells US that he will veto
any bill of substantial benefit to silver
instead Of the tariff being left alone it il
being changed almost as much as tn,
Mills bill proposed, only on the wronl
articles; instead OF being against trust
and monopolies. they are fos.ered every
where by this administration, and in
stead Of times growing better, Their
have been more failures and strikes il
one year OF Harrison than in four year
Of Cleveland, wages in all industrie
in all parts of the country declining full,
twenty-five per cent. If this is tn
boom the Republicans were to give u
we want no more of it or them. Blu
will the people have the manliness t
hold them responsible for their dems
gogery and downright lying? The re
turns Of future elections must answe
our qaestion. We shall see what mar
ner of rebuke Nevada gives the party {
false promises this Fall.