The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-16

HELENA, Mon, July 15.-The National
Mining congress completed its labors and
adjourned this afte noon. The congress
passed the following resolutions, which
are to be sent to Con zress:
Whereas. Tne theory of the constitution is
mat the electors Tor p .eSident shall be men OF
the highest dignity ana Integrity. fit TO be en-
trusted with the greatest concerns OF the ma
ton, and thai they shall, when elected. be free
TO cast a ballot for such persons for president
as Will insure the safety, honor and prosperity
OF the country, anu
Whereas, II has been the endeavcr OF the op-
ponents OF bimetallic coinage TO secure action
OF the candidates Tor the presidency by the Re
publican aud Democratic parties VINO, If
elected will oppose the viii OF the people by
executive veto whenever Congress- shall eA-
press II IN free coinage bill. and
Whereas, 10 vote Tor electors pledged in ad
vance 10 select one or The other OF them for
president without conditions will be an endorse
ment in advance OF the purpose to defeat the
popular viii. ana
Whereas, In the silver states there is but one
sentiment IN all the national parties in regard
TO the full reconciliation OF silver, therefore
be it
Resolved That it is wisdom and patriotism
both 10 require that the people OF
the silver states and state conventions OF
all parties therein shall shape their action so
as to secure the alance OF power. If that be
possible, in the electoral college. TO the end
that electors elected by the people of such
states may so act independently in the cleo
toral college as 10 defeat the election of any
man as president who will not agre that the
Will OF the people as expressed in any
future act OF Congress II relation 10 silver
shall stand without executive interference or
veto. That in order to meet the contingency of
a possible election Of president by the present
House of Representatives, the constituents of
the members OF the present House be appealed
to and demand of all members of
the House who are candidates for
re election to promise that they VIII support
no man for president who will not permit the
Will OF the people IS expressed in tha future
acts of Congress upon the silver rquestion to
stand without executive veto.
Before adjournment Francis G. New
lands, Of Nevada, president OF the mining
congress, addressed the convention on tue
subject of the independence OF presidential
electors. He said that he was Repub-
lican, but his loyalty was due not to the
Republican party OF MASSACHUSETTS, or New
York, but to the Republican party of
Nevada; that the latter party had
never yet hesitated to instruct its
repI esentatives TO act independently Of
party if necessary ia the interest of silver
upon which, as an industry, the prosperity
OF the state depended; that silver was on
the decline and would continue to decline
If full monetary use was not restored,
which could only be done by free coinage;
that the Republican party had bi-metaliic
! plank IN its platform intended to have one
meaning in the east and another in the
west In the east it was intended to mean
free coinage Of gold and limited coinage
of silver. In the west free coinage for
both. WnaE the west demanded WIS
that after twenty wears OF agitation aud
after be passed, the popular will should not
be defeated by the presidential Veto The
platform of both parties was equiyocaI on
the subject, and before the west casts g
vote for any presidential candidate it has q
right TO require from him an ex-
plicit avowal on the subject That
by this system of nominating in all
national parties of these states the indie
pendent electors are especially charged to
act for the silver cause rather than TO vote
for any individual party organization
This could be maintained intact If before
the next election the question could be set
tied by an international conference or
otherwise. The successful electors from
these states should cast their votes for
their party candidate But otherwise be-
fore the casting of such vote, if they could
enquire of their candidate hs views on
the question of presidential veto. An
answer to such a question would not be
unfair to self-respect or dignity of presi-
Dental candidates if, as was claimed by
some Democrats in mining states, Cleve-
land y ould not oppose the popular will by
representatives of HARRISON that he
would say that he would not also. Why
were not the mining states
entitled TO direct positive
statement of the candidates before dis
Daraging their trusts by depositing their
votes, and were silver men content in every
redoubt and then abandon tne attempt to
secure The last redoubt but enc. with
out which victory WAS impossiblel
The situation was serious one. If the
mining states were not careful they stood
in danger by their essential votes of put
ting in power man whose power would
be equal 10 two-thirds of Tue Senate and
House. II would be difficult to pass free
coinage bill through both houses of Con-
gress. That fight must be taken up aud
renewed with daunti courage, but how
hopeless the task if a presidential veto
were TO be interposed.
The rock drilling contest was very excit-
ing and drew large crowds 10 the audi
forum.
The executive committee decided upon
Salt Lake Us the place of holding the next
national mining congress- AM instead CT
waiting till next year, decided to hold it at
Salt Lake in December, before the meet
ing of the electoral college.