The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-10-29
STEWART IS WITH US.
THE NEVADA SENATOR Is
OPENLY A POPULIST.
Was anEHoneat Republican But Could
Not Follow the Party's Leader
Writes ~ Letter Sustaining HIS PO-
SitIon.

The following letter, from oenauor
Stewart of Nevada, is one of those
clear. ringing arraignments of the
two old parties that cuts like a. two
edged sword. 1t should be given
wide circulation by the reform press:
UNITED STATES SENATE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. IL, 1898.
Or. c. Q. Nelson, Grove City, Ohio:
DEAR SIR,-Yohr favor of the eth
instant is received. You inquire if l
am populist. My answer is, that I
am. There is no other party in which
true friend of the people can be use
full. The democratic and republican
their leaders. | became thoroughly
convinced that Mr.. Harrison and Mr.
Cleveland were both nominated by
the money power as soon as those
nominations were made and thc9r
platforms published.
i was a candidate for reelection to
the senate of the Tn ted States from
the state of Nevada. 1 could not
afford to deceive the people, who had
honOred me SO much, by asking q re-
election as a republican. On my re-
turn home from Washington L in
formed my constituents that | could
not support he republics nominee
for President. and that the demo-
cratic nominee was no better than the
republican; that they both belonged
10 and were represen ntatives of the
bondholding gold monopoly of Lond~n
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 dependence and
want.
canvasscd 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 and un-
limited coinage of silver, and the dele
gates who composed that convention
we're honest, earnest men. and meant
what they saia. The people of
Nevada, without regard to former
political affiliations, believed as l did,
and cast more than two-thirds of their
votes fer Weaver and Field and elected
Francis G. Newlands, the free coinage
candidate for congress, by a still
larger majority. They also elected
every mem Der of both houses of the
legislature pledged to the restoration
Of silver When the legislature met /
was reelected to the senate of the
United States by a unanimous vote in
each house.
My statement that whichever was
elected, Mr.. Harrison or Mr.. Cleve-
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 soundness of the money of the
government and created panic. They
falsely proclaimed that the addition of
$50 100000 of legal tender money TO
the circulation of the country as the
cause OF the panic they themselves
had Great d.
The President then declar that az
extraordinary emergency had arisen
and calle congress together to repeal
the Sherman act and nothing else.
The call increased the alarm and in
tensiied the panic. The subsidized
press OF all the commercial ctnters
was made to declare that the people
demanded the immediate repeal of the
purchasing clause OF the Sherman act
silver was clanfestincly demonetized
by Ahe mint act of l3-5, since which
time an overwhelming ma jority 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 1878. No
party, state or national, dare
go before the people soliciting
their suffrages upon declaration JUS
tifying or even palliating that crime,
bit all parties claimed to be bimetal-
lists and in favor of the use of silver
equally with gold. Some recognit on
of silver was obtained by the legisla-
tion 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