Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-16
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HELENA, Mont, July l5.-Tho Ma.
tiUnGl Mining eoDgtoss completed Us
labor and adjourned this afternoon.
The congress passed the following res.
olutions, which are to be sent to Con
gress:
Whereas the theory Of the Constltu.
ton Is that the electors for President
shall be men OF the highest dignily and
integrity, III 10 be entrusted with tho
greatest concerns Of The nation, and
that they shall, when 0lcclsd, be free
70 cat n ballot for such pefsOns for
President az will insur0 the safety
honor and prosperity ol the country,
aud
whereas, I, h0s been the ondeayor
OF the OppouHntu VI bi.netallic coinage
10 secure action Of the csnd idntcs for
the Presidency by the Republican aud
Democratic pRtliee, who, Il elected,
will oppose the will Of the people ~
executive veto whenever Congress
shall express 1t la u FREQ coinage bill,
and,
Whegoag, 10 vote for cleclorspledred
In advance to select one or the other
Of them for President withou. condi.
lions viii be an endorsement in ad.
vance OF the purpose 10 dc eat the pop.
ular Will, ana
Whereas, In the silver States there
~ but one sentiment Ia all these nn.
ti0nAl paftiea In regard TO the full 10.
mouolizalion OF silver, therefore, be II
Resolved, That It IL the wisdom
and patriotism both 10 require that tho
peoIlU Of tho silver states and state
conventions OF ali parties therein shall
shape their action 50 rs 10 secure thr
balance Of power, II that be possible,
IN the electoral college, TO the end that
electors elected by the people Of such
ates may 70 net independently In
tue electoral college rs 10 defeat the
election OF any man ~ president who
will not agree that the Will OF the
people ~ expressed In any frr' o act
OF Congress In relation 10 silge. shall
stand without executive interference
or veto. That In order TO meet tho
contingency OF a possible election OF
president 10y the present House OF
Repre- oItatiVel, the constituents OF
the present Hluue he appealed 10 and
demand Of all members OF the House
who are candidates for reelection to
promise that thoy will support no msn
ior president who will not permit the
will Of the people AZ expressed In the
future acts OF Congress upon the silver
question 10 stand without executive
veto.
Before adjournment Fraucls q.
Newlands, Of Nevada, President Of
the mining congress, addressed tho
convention on the subject VI indepen.
deuce OF presidential electors. lie
saii that he was Il Republican, but his
loyalty was due, not 10 the Republi.
can party Of Massachusetts or New
York, but 10 the Republican party OF
Nevada; that the latter party had
never yet husitnled to instruct Its rep.
resentatlvts 10 net independently OF
party II necessary In the interest OF
silver upon which, as an inuustTy, the
prosperity OF tho State depended; that
SILVER was on the decline aud would
continue 10 decline II full monetary
use was not Restored, which could
only be done by free coinage; that the
Republican party had u bl.metaiic
plan, In III platform intended to have
one meaning In the East anu another
in the West. In the East IL was In.
tended 10 mean free coinage OF gold
aud limited coinage OF silver In tho
West free coinage Of both. What the
West demanded was that after twenty
years OF agitation and dis.
curssion iTeol coinage bill should