Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-07-30

| oral votes of the United states, and
| that these nineteen votes, or these
| thirteen votes, will determine the re-
Sult-hve votes OF whatever number
Of States we can induce to go into
movement If Mr.. Weaver has
enough votes in connection with their
votes TO elect him President of the
| United States, they can be cast for
him, and they ought to be cast Tor
him. lApplause.l On the other
! hand, if he has, as feel he may have,
very small vote in the Electoral
/ College, the electors from these min
ing States can then say TO Mr.. Cleve-
land and Mr.. Harrison: "Here are
| agree that the will of Congress
TnE WILL OF THE PEOPLE,
AS declared by Congress-shall stand
without the executive vetop ZAP
plause.l Can you doubt, gentlemen,
/ that one Of those Presidential candi-
| dates will yield to the demandP Can
you doubt that the party standing
back of one OF those Presidential
candidates will yield to the demand
when 50 much is at stake? Why, we
have already the pre1nonitions of the
abandonment of the veto upon this
question, i'll the utterances of Presi-
dent Harrison, himself, who, upon
several occasions, as II preparing
himself for this issue, has declared
that the veto of the President should
| be interposed only in cases where
! there has been Constitutional error
in the bill, or the bill has been passed
| through some error or mistake. Will
he not, with the power OF these entire
mining States aggregated either for
or against him, declare that the will
of the people, expressed after twenty
years Of agitation, shall stand? And
if he does not declare it, let US throw
the election into the House whatever
the consequences may be. Jap
plause.l
The Committee on Platform after
a hot debate between the Stalwarts
and the independent silver men re-
ported the following resolution:
INDEPENDENCE OF ELECTORS.
WHEREAS, The theory of the Con
stitution that electors for President
shall be men of the highest dignity
and integrity, tit to be entrusted
with the gravest concerns of the ma
ton, and that they SHALL when elect
ed, be free to cast their ballots for
such person for President as will
best insure the safety, honor and
prosperity of the country, and
WHEREAs, 1t has been the endeavor
of the opponents of free bi-metallic
coinage to secure the selection of can
didates for the Presidency by the Ma
tional Republican and Democratic
parties, who will, if elected, oppose
the will of the people by the execu-
tive veto whenever Congress shall
express it in a free coinage bill, and
WHEREAs, To vote for electors
pledged in advance to select either
one or the other of them for Presi-
dent, without conditions, will be an
Endorsement III advance of the pur-
pose to defeat the popular will and
WHEREAs, In the silver States
/, there is but one sentiment in all the
three national parties in regard to
the full demonstration of silver;
therefore be it
RESOLVED, That wisdom and pat.
riotisn both require that the people
of the silver States and the State
conventions of all parties therein
shall 50 shape their action as to Sc.
cure the balance of power, if that be
possible, in the electoral college, to
: the end that the electors selected by
independently in the electoral college
as to defeat the election of any man
as President who will not agree that
, the will of the people as expressed in
any future Act Of Congress in rela-
} ton to silver shall stand without ex.
/, ecutive interference or veto. That
in order to meet the contingency OF a
POSSIBLE ELECTION
OF q PtpCI1 ar1t hv rho 1Or-pGADt Hon &c
{ of REPRESENTATIVE the constituents
of all members of the present House
be appealed to, to demand of all the
, members of the present House who
are candidates for reelection Their
{ promise that they Will support nc
man for President who will not per
NIT the will of the people as express
ed in the future Acts of Congress
upon the silver question to stanc
without executive veto.
In the Convention also the Stall
wart Republicans and Democrats
| opposed this resolution on the grounC
| that IT was impractible, that th(
/ election OF Weaver was impossible
: that the contest was narrowed dowI
: to Cleveland and Harrison, that nei
| Their could consistently with party
, platforms veto n free coinage bill
that the national parties had spoken
and that every loyal party mar
should stick to his colors, etc.
Mr.. Newlands then abandoned the
chair. and took the floor in reply
and gave his idea of what was re
, quired of loyal Democrats and Re
publicans in the mining States. H.
, said:
Ny friends, l am Republican, bu
l do not belong to the Republican
party of Massachusetts or New
York. belong to the Republican
| party of Nevada. Two months ag't
the Republican party of Nevady
met in convention, their purpose be
ing to select delegates to the Nation
al Convention at Minneapolis. Their
t resolutions had no uncertain sound
| They denounced the administrators
: of President Harrison so far as i
: related to silver. Now, ask wheth
er the party-the Republican party
: of Nevada--can, after Mr.. Harrison
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