Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-10-25

am' mere is no Obner party In which
true fIiend OF the people can be use
full. The democratic and republican
parties have both been betrayed by
their leaders. | became thoroughly
cCny need that Mr. Harrison and Mr.
Cleveland were both nominated by
the money power as soon as those
nominations were made AMI their
platforms published.
was candidate for reelection to
the senate of the Tn tel States from
the state of Nevada. / could not
afford to deceive the people. who had
honored me so much, by asking a re-
lection as a republican. On my re-
turn home from Washington | in
formed my constituents that | could
not support the republican nominee
for President, and that the demo
cratic nominee was no better than the
republican: that they both belonged
10 and were represe natives of the
bondholding gold monopoly of London
and New York, and that if either of
them were elected the power of his
administration Won d be used to aid
concentrated capital to absorb the
earnings of the people augment the
power of the oligarchy of wealth, and
reduce the masses to dcpendence and
want.
/ canvasSed the state of Nevada and
advised the people to vote for Weaver
and Field, the nominees of the Omaha
convention, as the only true repre-
sentatives of the peoples rights.
The platform of the Omaha conven-
tion demanded the free ard I'M
limited coinage of silver, and the dele
gates who composed that convention
we're honest, earnest men, and meant
what they saio. The people of
Nevada, without regard to former
political affiliations, believed as did,
and cast more than two-thirds of their
votes for Weaver and Field and elected
Francis G. Newlands the free coinage
candidate for congress, by still
larger majority. They also elected
every mem Der of both houses of the
legislature pledged 10 the restoration
of silver. When the Legislature met
was reelected to the senate of the
United States by unanimous vote in
cach house.
Ny statement that whichever was
elected, Mr.. Harrison or Mr.. Clevc-
land. he would use the power and
| patronage OF the Presidential Office to
destroy one-half of the metallic money
| Of the world was vehemently denied
by the friends of bo h The truth Of
my statement has been verified. The
President united with the banks and
bondholders to alarm the people as to
| the sCundnesS of the money of the
government and created panic. They
falsely proclaimed that the addition of
$50 100000 of legal tender money 10
he circulation OF the country was the
ause of the panic they themselves
had created.
| The President then declared that an
extraordinary emergency had arisen
and callc congress together to repeal
the Sherman act and nothing else
tensified the panic. The subsidized
press OF all the commercial centers
was made to declare that the people
demanded the immediate repeal of til c
purchasing clause of the Sherman act
Silver was clandestinely demonetized
by the mint act of 1873, since which
time an overwhelming majority of the
| people of the United States have been
| in favor of the restoration of the white
metal to the place it occupied for
| thousands OF years as a money metal
| previous to the crime of 1873. No
party, state or national, dare
go before the people soliciting
| their suffrages upon a declaration JUS
tifying or even palliating that crime,
but al parties claimed to be bimetal-
lists and in favor of the use OF silver
equally with gold. : Some recognition
of silver was obtained by the legisla-
ton of congress against vetoes, fede al
patronage and the influence of money.
The Bland act, requiring the purchase
of not less than two nor more than
four million dollars worth of silver
bullion per month for coinage was the
first; the so-called Sherman act, re-
quiring the purchase of four and a.
nalt million ounces of silver bullion
per month by the issuance of legal
tender treasury notes, was the second.
At every congress since silver was de-
monetized. A vast majority or the
democrats in each house were in favor
of the free and unlimited coinage of
silver. Three bills for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver passed the
senate during Harrisous aGrDinistra-
ton. The first was passed June l.,
1880: the second Jan. IA, 1891: the
third, July l, 1892. The last was
passed after the nominations were
made and the platforms published.
A bare majority of the democrats of
the house, with the aid of a vast ma
jority of the republicans, have at last
obeyed the commands of Mr.. Cleveland.
and passed the bill repeating the uur-
chasing clause of the Sherman act.
The combined power of London. New
York and The administration at Wash
ington, aided by subsidized press,
are now attempting to coerce the SEN
ate and force the passage ofthe house
bill which ratifies the crime of 1878,
adopts the gold standard and rrecludss