Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-07-11

THE bHNES
The Republicans of Iowa have wheeled
into line with those Of Ohio on the silver
question. The platform adopted by the
former in State Convention yesterday
commends the Silver bill passed by the
last Congress, and expresses the hope
that out of it may come q wise adjust
ment Of the financial question. The Dem.
ocrats, generally, are heading in precisely
the opposite direction that is to say,
the free coinage Of silver. II is almost
certain that the national contest next
year will proceed on these lines. The
Republicans take the c-ommon-sense view
of the situation" They propose to
await the results Of the experiment that
is now being made-that is TO say, the
purchase Of $500, 900 ounces Of silver per
month, and the issuance of certificates
thereon, according to the needs OF the
country. They are not prepared to dis
turb all values and unsettle contracts at
the bidding Of silver spectators.
If the continued purchase Of silver at
the rate stated should have the effect Of
raising il to the old par with gold, and
to keep il steady there, free coinage can
be undertaken without danger to the 9.
nances Of the country. This is the policy
which common sense dictates, and which,
when the issue is made, is just as sure to
secure the approval of q majority OF the
people Of the United States as the prop
osition for sound currency against fat
money won the day in 1915. The De
mocracy is committed to free coinage"
unless it should happen to have q lucid
interval between this date and next June,
when it's national convention will prob.
ably be in session.-Ssn Francisco Bull
ietin, July I'd.
The above is . very correct statement
of the case. 1t shows the relative posi-
tions of the two political parties as af-
fecting silver. The Republican party is
the party of the single gold standard,
while the Democratic party claims equal
recognition for silver with gold. The
man Is an idiot who can see no politics in
the silver question. There has always
been politics in it since the Republican
party destroyed silver in 1873. That
party has never furnished a tenth OF the
in either House OF Congress to help
to restore the metal to its old place. The
Democratic party has done about all OF
the honest voting in behalf Of silver.
Last year it voted almost to a man for
free coinage, while only q half dozen Re-
all told, could be found tovote
the same way. Now we find the State
conventions everywhere resolving in
favor OF the continuance of the commod.
ity law swindle, while the Democratic
State conventions all along the line are
declaring with equal unanimity for free
coinage. Ohio and Iowa are samples OF
what is being done in all the States. The
Bulletin admits that it is on these lines
that the Presidential battle next year is
Il be fought out. The Republicans will
stand by the present law, while the Dem.
ocrats will have inscribed upon their ban.
ners free and unlimited coinage. This is
the issue and is to be the issue. 1t has
peer the issue for nearly twenty years.
The mining States, by electing Republic
cans to the House and Senate, have been
steadily voting against silver all Of this
time. When we make q Republican ma.
jority in the Senate, that party which is
VIGOROUSLY anti-silver in its biggest emo
does the organizing and never fails to put
John Sherman at the head Of the Finance
Committee. Jones and Stewart and
Teller and the rest, aid with their votes
in putting him there. Then when we
get a Republican majority in the House
we get a Tom Reed, or some other gold
bug for Speaker, who packs the Coinage
Committee against MS. With the COM
mittees against us the fight is lost for sill.
yer. Yet the people Of the mining States
go on voting against themselves year after
year. 1t were better that all Of the seats
from the mining States had remained va.
cant for twenty years than to have been
filed by Republicans. The only purpose
they serve is to give the enemy the power
to throttle and destroy our chief indus
try. A vote here in Nevada, or else
where, for a Republican legislative ticket.
or for a Republican candidate for Con-
gress, is a direct vote against silver.
The Bulletin declares that the few silver
Republicans on the Pacific Coast have no
business in the Republican party and
should go over to the Democratic party.
where they belong. A man, il says, can
not be q consistent Republican and advo.
cate the free coinage of silver. As .
measure Of partisan policy the Republic
can party has it's face firmly set against
silver. This is all as true as gospel, and
has always been so since 1878, but ii has
never cut the slightest figure with Ne
vada Republicanism. A Nevada Repub-
lican cares more about Pennsylvania
pig iron than he does for the silver pro-
duced by Nevada mines.
A report is current that Secretary