The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-10-01
WHAT An AWFUL ROAST!
Senator Stewart Of Nevada Jumps
on Harrison with Both Feet.

Senator Stewart Of Nevada Jump,
on Harrison with Both Feet.
The people of Idaho are prett.
we'll acquainted with Senator Stew
art of Nevada. That gentleman hal
been a pretty prominent figure il
politics in the west for a number o
years; he has long been known as ,
q dyed in the wool republican
There are few who doubt that b,
has been pretty valuable ally o
the republican party. His words
should therefore carry some weigh
with the members of his party il
this western country.
Senator Stewart is out in oper
fight against the election of Harri
son for president. In a speech
| which he delivered the other day
before the Winnemucca state silver
convention, Senator Stewart ar
raigned the republican party and
the republican nominee in the fol
lowing words:
"In 1888 the republican party
adopted platform which declared
that it was in favor of the use o1
both gold and silver as money and
condemned the democratic party
for it's efforts to demonetize silver
"Mr. Harrison, latter he was elected
followed the example of the admin
istration which his party condemned
and has ever since lent his entire
aid and force to destroy silver. The
first bill that was introduced and
which met the approval of the pres
ident, so far from recognizing silver
as money, which was known as the
Window bullion redemption bill,
proposed to allow bullion to be de-
posted in the treasury and bullion
certificates issued thereon, which
certificates were to be redeemable
in bullion. This bill was defeated.
A bill was extorted from the pres
ident, which is now the law on our
statute book, increasing the pur-
chase of silver bullion and the in
|surance of treasury notes thereon.
It provided that the treasury de-
partment should coin silver to pro-
vide for that redemption. The
president now declares that he will
not use silver for redemption, but
will use good money.
"The two parties met again this
year in convention. l was in the
republican convention of 1883, and
drafted the plank in the platform
relating to silver (the best l could
get and it was trampled upon by
the administration. Although Ne
vada elected me an alternate to the
Minneapolis convention, l would
not go there to be fooled again.
[Applause. Platforms were adopted
at the convention of the republican
party in favor of gold and repudi-
ated the idea of free silver coinage.
But President Harrison is not salts
fed with this declaration in behalf
of the gold standard. He tells US
in his letter of acceptance that the
conditions in the platform were in
line with his views, but that he did
not indorse the resolutions; but
states that he is opposed to inde-
pendent 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 of a gold man
that he is not willing to trust that
gold monopoly in its deliberations
and wisdom but gives them sug-
gestion. And what is that sugges-
ton? 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 % or Is to /. Such ratio
would surely meet the approval of
that monopoly and conspiracy, for
it would further depress silver, and
such an action would put an end
to silver mining.
"Now the republican party ask
the people of Nevada to support
Harrison, the most vigiiant and the
most untiring foe we have, for re-
election. We are told that q man
can be a good silver man and q re-
publican. Well, I have been for
the last six years a pretty liberal re-
publican, but q pretty good silver
man. [Applause. found it neces-
sary, in order to aid silver to affili-
ate with silver men.
"A scheme was devised by John
Davenport and others to subvert
this government. It placed in the
hands of the executive the power
to appoint an unlimited number of
heelers to be present at the polls
of thousands if he liked
and they were to be paid out Of .
appropriation. The bill
gave these appointees tho power Of