The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-08-06
Never Surrender.

For nearly twenty years, says the
Winnemucca Silver State, the peo-
pie OF Nevada have been discussing
the silver question and denouncing
in the press, on the stump, in party
conventions and by the tiresides,
the demonstration act of 1873.
From time to time we have been
electing senators and congressman,
and this question has been the lead
ing thought in all the elections.
Every four years it has especially
been made the main issue, each
party claiming and maintaining
that the national party which it af-
filiated with was in favor Of free
coinage. The people at each recur-
ring election for president stood
substantially solid for the candi-
dates of their respective parties,
hugging the delusive phantom that
the candidate if elected would favor
the clothing Of the silver dollar with
the functions of money alongside
of gold. and of opening the mints
toits free coinage. They have waited
and prayed, prayed and waited,
begged and duplicated the two old
parties until prayer, begging and
supplication have ceased to be a
virtue and become most humiliat-
ing to every thoughtful man in the
state. It is now evident to every
man in this state who has intelli-
gence enough to distinguish him
from a Panama ape that free coin
age will be-deferred during the next
twenty generations if the people
continue either of the gold-bug par
ties in power. That these parties
can never be dethroned by the bal
lot, the only American system of
wrestling power from faithless par
ties. as long as the people keep
electing their nominees, is a propo-
sition SO plain that the lowest in
telligence ought to be able to COM
prehend it. That to quit electing
gold-bug nominees, the people must
quit voting for them, is fact so
patent that even the combine in
Nevada ought to be able to partially
grasp the idea.
For the first time in twenty years
the people now have an opportunity
to support free coinage candidate
for president, General James B.
Weaver-the peer of any candidate
in the field and backed by the great
industrial classes, including nearly
every laboring organization in the
United States, with as fair a show
of an election as either Of the other
candidates. and whose election
would be moral certainty were it
not for the corruption fund Of the
money power, the power which de-
monetized silver, which will be used
in buying up the tramps, the scum,
the pimps and criminal classes Of
the cities in blocks of fves and
twenties or more. Then let Nevada
do her duty, throw her Ueight and
influence in the scale on the side of
silver. If defeated, still stand firm
and united on this question. Let
the people of Nevada join in with
their heroic allies in the south and
north and inter-mountain states,
resolve to dedicate their lives to
this cause, and if necessary hand
down tho fight against the gold-bug
commune to the coming and future
generations 30 long as the people
Of Nevada shall multiply or SO long
as there are enough left in this state
to form an election board. With
such will and determination on the
part Of the people, victory will not
be long delayed. Industry will re-
vive. labor receive its just reward,
the farm, the shop, the counting
room and every occupation will Be
put upon their feet and on the road
to business prosperity. To halt, to
heeltate Of follow the lead Of o1ics-