Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-09-18

lncreoD0 and pefpetuato thee WronnR
Which. have alReady become unbsGz-
BY the power and influence OF bond
holders, corporations, rings and trusts.
md by the unstinted use OF money Is
corrupt the ballot box and bribe elect
ors, 1t defeated the popular will ard.
restored itself to power In 1883, and
to-day the instruments OF this revolt
ing crime are its honored and trusted
! leaders. "a ., q
10 increase it's majority and aug
ment its power in the lower house Of
Congress, it elected a conscienceless
PARTISAN despot, Speaker of the House;
lSubverted tho rules, practices and
Fprecedents OF Legislative bodies; de-
clared quorums- where mono existed;
dellberately stole tho seats of two
Senators from Moptana, and unseated
and expelled the lawfully elected rep
resentatiyes OF the people to increase
q partisan majority.
1t has admitted Territories on the
ground alone that they were Republi
can IN politics, aud excluded other
derrltories OF greater population than
those admlttedk on the sole ground
that they would send Democratic
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National Legislature.
| Whenit succeeded to the control of
the Government in March, 1889, the
Treasury was overfowing; under the
economical and honest administration
of Grover Cleveland there was more
than one hundred and twenty-five
million dollars in excess of all exist
ing demands, and there was an annual
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hive million dollars. In less than two
years this surplus has been wasted.
the Treasury depleted, and there il
to-day an admitted deficiency of more
than fifty millions Of dollars, with the
most extravagantly liberal pension
laws that ever existed since govern
ments began. tits chiefly occupied
IN passing special laws in the interest
OF partisan fayorites, who have no
claim under the general law With
an annual pension roll exceeding one
Fhuhdred and fifty millions OF dollars
greater than the cost Of maintaining
the standing armies of Europe-snd
| more than a hundred times greater
than the cost OF the administration,
OF Washington, and more than double
the total cost of the Democratic AID.
! ministration of 1860, it has brought
forward and advocates a seryice pen-
sion bill which will add one hundred
and twenty-five million Of dollars n
year to the already enormous burde. is
OF the people.
At the dictation OF capital and to
increase the value and power OF money
it-demonetized silver in 1873, and; in
1880 defeated the passage, OF a Free
Coinage blu by the threats OF Farri-
son and the machinations Of Sherman.
/ Window; Reed and Mckinley. ard
the cowardly acquiescence of Jones.
Stewart and Bartine, our own Sena.
tors and Representative in Congress-.
The compromise si,yer bill reported
j and advocated by Shermnr,, Of Ohio.
/ the arch enemy OF silver money,
though it has temporarily advanced
| the price OF silver for the first time in
! the history of the nation, deliberately
and against the protest OF the peonIe.
degraded silver TO commodity and
! destroyed It's function as a .royal
money metal. A Democratic Con-
grees remonetized SILVER, Republican
| PRESIDENTS vetoed bills passed bF
Democrats restoring silver to it's
5 proper place in the currency OF the
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| upon Republicans President by
( Democratic votes. The greut body Of
the votes in Congress in favor of ell
/ vel have always been cast by Demo.
Gratis, and the bulk OF the votes
against silver have invariably como
from the Republican party.
+ Atthe present session OF Congress
the Democratic Senators, with the aid
OF few Western members, forced a
free coinage measure through the
Senate, and the Democrats, with the
aid OF score of Republicans from
the silver States, would have. forced
it through tho House, but for the
active intervention OF PRECEDENT Tar-
riEon, Speaker Reed and BosS Quay.
j The silver billthat was adopted was
passed merely toprevent free c0inaEe.
Only 30 Republican Senators and
Congressman voted FOR tho FREQ coin
age bill and 163 OF them voted against
tho bill, while 146 Democrats voted
for II and % against it. In other
words, 81 per cent. OF tho Republicans
voted against silver, while 81 per cent.
& or the Democrats voted for it,.
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