Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-07-09
the sTRueeLE FoR FREE
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COINAGE.
We invite the attention Of the Repub-
licsns and Democrats to the following
extract from the address Of the Denver
News:
"with Harrison's election came . Re
publican House. Reeds blind, dishon-
est p~srtissnship soon increased its ms
iority TO q safe one Of twenty-five.
Every Democrat thrown out and Repus-
lican installed made the horizon for free
coinage darker; nevertheless the free
coinage men Of both House and Senate
went valian.ly to work to pass the
measure.
"a free coinage bill was prepared and
introduced in the Senate. 1t passed that
body by q good msiorisy-every Demo.
crat but three voting for ID. 1t went to
the House. The country well recalls
the arbitrary rulings Of Speaker Read
in dealing with it. Mr.. Bland and
other silver men sought immediate sc-
ton, but through the rough riding OF the
Speaker over rules and decency it went to
q committed: organized to defeat it, or
any like measure. 1t was buried in this
committee for months. In the mean
while herculanaan efforts were put forth
by President Harrison With Republicans
and by Cleveland sfrien3s with Democrats
TO win them from its support. Senators
Teller and Wolcott have borne witness
against Harrison. How he used all the
powers Of his great Office through prey.
ing upon the hopes and fears Of mem
bers-threatening them with the gloom
Of Presidential disfavor il they sup
ported il. and offering them the warmth
and sunshine Of his smiles il they OPP
posed IL. In the meantime, Eastern
bankers, chambers of commerce, the
great brokers and msnipulators Of the
East, swept the West and South with an
avalanche Of lying literature upon the
subject, urging that resolutions should
be passed and letters sent to their Con.
grsssmen demanding that they
defeat the measure. All these
had little effect upon the Dem
ocratic members. The country was
demanding action on the bill.
The hostile committee could retain il 10
longer. 1t was about to be reported
back to the House and its passage was
confidently anticipated, when Cleveland,
from his office in Williams street, gave
the letter to the world which paralyzed
the efforts Of so many free coinage Demo
cratic members. In it he denounced the
measure as dangerous and declared that
il should not be passed. Considering the
relation Of Mr.. Cleveland to the Demo-
cratic party, the honors he had received
at at its hands, the earnest desire of
of the Democratic voters for
the passage Of the measure-that letter
was even more impairment and u%njusti.
fable than was his irst-after his election
and before he was inaugurated.
"Thas ended the hope Of free coinage
in the last Congress. The history of the
struggle in the present one-a struggle
yet continuing and that may be successful
lis too recent to justify any repetition
here. No man can study the relation OF
Mr.. Cleveland to Congress in its efforts
to remonetize silver without . conviction
being forced upon him that n other
man in the country has been as potential
As he in defeating free coinage and is as
lnrelenting in his opposition to it.
and he are the nominees Of the
.wo great parties. Against silver they
.re in perfect harmony, upon everything
slse they differ"