Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1890-06-14
REPUBLICAN suLvEs BILL.

The Silver bill formulated BY the Re-
publican caucus and passed BY the votes
Of that party in the House last week 10
n Of the greatest frauds ever PerPe-
tratsd on the rights Of the people. It's
not reconciliation bat demonitization.
II il absolutely destructive Of silver as
one Of the money metals. Il degrades
silver TO the level OF pig iron. 1t treats
silver as q commodity. whose value shall
be measured by the single gold stand
ard. Il is TO be dealt in and speculated
in at the market price IS fixed by Lon
don. Il stops the coinage Of two million,
or any other sum, per month, as pro-
vided in the Bland law. and allows the
bullion purchased by the Secretary OF
the Treasury to-day to be dragged out OF
the Treasury tomorrow to supply the
English or any other foreign market.
We have no patience with such an out.
rage upon the people or the party that
passed il. 1t is as dsmnable q cheat upon
the people as was demonstration by the
Republican party in 1873. We are glad
that no Democrat voted for the steal
which has just passed the House. We
repeat what we have said again and
again that the Democratic party is the
party Of silver and Of the people. Re
publicans may claim that there is moth
ing political in the silver question. That
is not true. II is full Of politics. We
will admit that q Republican in Nevada
may be as good q silver man as q Demo-
crat in Nevada. The same may also be
said Of the other mining States and Ter.
ritories. But the rule extends no
further. When we get east Of the Mis-
souri, river practically the whole Repub-
lican party is against silver, while the
Democrats, almost to q man, are with US.
Coming right down to a common sense
view Of the situation. is it the part OF
wisdom for the West to longer
strengthen the hands OF their enemies !
This is the question, and this is where
politics enters into it. The Republican
party in the House has shown its hand.
We see the kind Of monstrosity it would
foist upon the country. That party has
never been the friend Of silver. 1t de.
stroyed this money of the people in
1873. IL has never furnished more than
q few scattering votes in Congress to
helo silver since that time. The Bland
bill was passed mainly by Democratic
votes. On BANDS free coinage motion
the other day only Is Republicans out
Of q total Of about 10 members Of that
party in the House could be found to
vote for il, while ll6 Democrats stood
by rs. Under all of these circum-
stances, can there be any doubt as to
which party the people of Nevada should
support. Our first duty is to our home
interests. Pennsylvania aud New Eng
land and the rest Of the East shape theiI
politics to protect their own local affairs,
without much regard for the rights Of
the other sections OF the union. Is il
not about time that the people Of Ne.
vada began to help themselves on the
silver question There is no way to dc
1t except to send Democrats to both
Houses of Congress at Washington. A
vote this Fall for the Republican Legis-
lative ticket will be q vote to send
Jones back and to keep John Sherman,
the arch enemy of silver, at the bead Of
the Finance Committee. And likewise
Q vote for Bartine or Tom Fitch. OF
whomsoever the Republicans may nom
mate for Representative in Congress,
will be q vote to give Tom Reed an.
other term in the Speakers chair with
a goldbug Committee on Coinage. These
Republican candidates will come around
and tell you that they will not do these
things, but they cannot help themselves
if you give the Republican party the
numerical strength to organize the
House and Senate. The only sensible
thing for the people Of Nevada to do is
to vote to strengthen their friends and
their cause at Washington |; and Colo
RADIO and Montana and the other mining
States should pursue the same policy.
This would mean the election Of Demo
Gratis. which is the direct remedy. Not
. speech has been made by q Democrat
against silver during the present agita-
tion. The opposition is all from the
other side. Hence we repeat what we
have often said before, that . vote to
send any Republican to either House Of
Congress in A yote against silvar-