Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-16
SILVER IN NOVEMBER.
Mining States to Choose Independent
Electoral Tickets,
AIMING AT A BALANCE OF POWER.
No Candidate for President to Receive Their
Votes Unless
he sURRENDERs THE RIGHT OF VETO

HELENA, MONT, July 1a-The Nation
al Mining Congress completed its labors
and adjourned this afternoon. The follow.
ing resolutions were passed and will be
submitted to the United States Congress:
We declare that the responsibility for the
| bullion in silver dollars now coined being oil
less intrinsic value than the bullion in gold
dollars rests solely with those who demone
tized silver and forced the people to accept
the laws of 1878 and 1890, by which free
coinage of silver has been denied and the
purchase of bullion by the Government in
the lowest markets of the world substi
| tuted instead; and declare our unaltera
| bic conviction, based upon sound economic
| principles and the actual experience OF the
world between 1850 and 1860, when the rela
| tive increase in production Of gold in the
United States and the rest of the world far
exceeded the relative increase of silver over
| gold during the last decade, that the re-
| monetization of silver by the United States
at the existing ratio will speedily restore
| the intrinsic value of the silver dollars TO
that of the gold dollar.
Time Needed for the Proposed Test.
While we demand that the intrinsic value
of the gold and silver dollars shall be equal,
| we protest against test of value as to silver
and the Government engaged under exist
| ing laws in depressing the value of bullion
by purchasing it in the lowest markets; but
| shall make the necessary test after the full
use OF silver as money has been restored for
| a reasonable time. We declare the free
bi-metallic coinage of gold and silver
portant public question now unsettled in
the United States, as long as there is a lack
of sound metal money upon which to do the
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base a full and fair volume of Governmental
We urge that in every section of the coun-
try. North as well as South, that true friends
of free bimetGllic coinage shall make
the unquestioning friendship of every candi-
date for office bearing any relation whatever
to legislation upon the subject, as one of the
chief tests of worthiness to receive their
suffrages; that it is only by clearly discern
Ing the right and acting independently and
unflinchingly to undo the great wrong of
silver demonetiZation that the conspiracy
to force the United States to a single gold
standard of money can be thwarted.
Efforts to influence the Presidential elec-
tion took form in tie following resolutions
passed to-day:
The Electorship Theory Expounded.
WHEREAS The theory of the Constitution
is that electors for President shall be men
of the highest dignity and integrity, fit to be
intrusted with the gravest concerns of the
nation, and that they shah, when elected,
be free to cast their ballots TOR such person
for Presidenta as will best insure the safety,
honor and prosperity of the country; and
Whereas, 1t has been the endeavor OF the
opponents of bi-metallic coinage to secure
the election o. candidates for the Presidency
by the Republican and Democratic party.
who if elected, will oppose the will of the
people by Executive veto whenever Con-
gress shall express it In O free coinage bill;
and
in advance to select either one or the
other of them for President without condi-
tion, will be an Endorsement in advance of
a purpose to defeat the popular will: and
Whereas, In the silver States there is but
one sentiment in all three national parties
in regard to the full reconciliation of sill
yer: therefore be it
Resolved, That wisdom and patriotism
both require that people of silver States and
State conventions of all parties therein shall
shape their action so as to secure the bal
ance of power. if that be possible, in the
Electoral College, to the end that the Elec-
tors elected by the people of sucEStates may
so act independently in the Electoral Col
lege as to defeat the election of any man a
President who will not agree that
The viii of the People, as Expressed
many future act of Congress in relation to
silver, shall stand without executive inter-
ference or veto; that in order to meet the
contingency of the possible election of a
sentatives, constituents of members of the
present House be appealed to to demand of
all members of the House who are candi-
dates tor reelection q promise that they
will support no man for President who will
not permit the will of the people, as ex-
pressed in any act of Congress upon the sill
yer question, to stand without Executive
veto.
Resolved, That commercial relations with
South and Central America and Mexico
should be cultivated and be made moIe init
mate; that they are the natural markets for
surplus manufactures and farm products
and that it is of mutual int crest and import
ance that the resolution passed by the Pan
American Congress in favor OF an agreement
between all American nations that uni
form silver coin be adopted which shall be
legal tender for all commercial transactions
between all American Governments should
be carried into effect.
The resolutions congratulate the Worlds
Columbian Exposition upon its wisdom and
in establishing a Depart
ment of Mines to reflect in every way the
extensive scope of mining operations, etc,
and pledge united cooperation. A resolu-
tion was adopted declaring that the Expo
sition should be open to the public Sun
days.
The next session will be held at Salt Lake
December 2, before the meeting of the Elec-
toral College.