The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1892-09-16

not indorse the resolutions; but states
that he is opposed to independent
action on the part of the United
States. What other action can we
have? He tells us what other action
he is going to have. He will submit
the question of our interests and our
financial system to the determination
and decision OF the gold monopoly
of Europe. He is so sanguine q gold
man that he is not even willing to
trust that gold monopoly in its delib-
erations and wisdom but gives them
suggestion. And what is that sug-
gestion? Why, it is that they should
make the commercial value. for all
purposes, Of the gold dollar and Of
the silver dollar equal. That means
q ratio between the two metals Of
about "a or 25 to l. Such a ratio
would surely meet the approval Of
that monopoly and conspiracy, for it
would further depress silver, and such
action would put an end to silver
mining.
Now the Republican party ask the
people Of Nevada to support Harri-
son, the most vigilant and the most
untiring foe we have, for reelection.
We are told that man can be a good
silver man and good Republican.
Well, / have been for the last six
years pretty liberal Republican, but
a pretty good silver man. Ap-
plause. / found it necessary, in or
der to aid silver, to affiliate with
silver men. A scheme was devised
by John Davenport and others to
subvert this government. 1t placed
| in the hands of the executive the
power to appoint an unlimited num-
Der of heelers to be present at the
polls--hundreds of thousands if he
liked-and they were to be paid out
of standing appropriation. The
bill gave these appointees the power
Of returning boards, under the pre-
text Of securing free and fair elec-
tions in the south, but with the real
design of establishing monarchy.
This scheme had the entire backing
OF the Harrison administration, and
by his determined and wilful support
OF it, it passed the house of represen-
tatiyes by six majority. In that
majority there were ten silver men.
Three of them, by their votes, could
have defeated the measure by tying
| the vote. Nevada had one vote, Col
orado had one, Montana had one,
and Oregon had one, and the menu
bers Of the South, who were mostly
concerned by the bill, said that ii the
silver states would come to their
rescue and join them in their efforts
to defeat this disastrous measure,
they would stand by them on the
silver question. Our silver men were
deaf to their appeal. Hence the
trouble in the house Of representa-
tives in passing free coinage bill
grew out Of that refusal more than
any other thing. They said that the
west and south must combine against
the combination OF the gold trust in
the east. Nevada, in the house, re-
fused. The dreaded "force bill
came to the senate, and I was the
first Republican to declare that |
would not vote for that infamous
measure Applause that ] would
do all / could to defeat it. con-
Quoted the campaign in the senate
against the force bill" for nearly
year, and number of silver sena-
tors followed me in fighting it. We
defeated it. What was the result?
II united the silver states with the
states Of the South and West that were
for silver and created silver party
in the senate. That is why we can
get the silver bill up for consideration
at any time; also why we can take it
out OF the hands Of the finance COM
mittee, which has always been hos
tile to silver legislation; and that
is why the bill was taken up against
the protests OF Cleveland and the
gold trust and the platform of the
Democratic party and passed through
the senate. We went to them in
their hour of need, and when we
called on them to give a helping
hand, they came. The silver states
cannot have friends of silver unless
they will be friends of the friends of
silver. Reciprocity in legislation is
a necessity, and whoever you elect to
congress must be man who will
respond when the silver men Of the
West and South call. The East is
solid against us. They know nothing
Of the silver question. The great me-
tropolitan press keeps the masses in
Ignorance. But the people are now
moving everywhere. There are in
the various organizations in the Uni
ted States, comprising labor organ
izations and trades unions and farm
ers' alliance, which have declared in