The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-09-30

instant 10 received.
4 You inxuirs If am Populist. My
answer is that am. There is no other
party in which true friend of the peo-
pie can be useful. The Democratic and
Republican parties have both been be-
trayed by their leaders. l became thor
oughly convinced that Mr.. Harrison and
Mr.. Cleveland were both nominated by
the money power as soon as those nom
nations were made and their platforms
published.
was a candidate for reelection to
the Senate of the United States from the
state of Nevada. / could not afford to
deceive the people, who had houored
me 80 much by asking reelection as
Repu blican. On my return home from
Washington, informed my constitu-
ents that could not support the Re-
publican nominee for President and
that the Democratic nominee was no
better than the Republican; that they
both belonged to and were representa-
tivss of the bondholding gold monopoly
of London and New York and that il
either of them was elected the power of
his administration would be used to aid
concentrated capital to absorb the earn
ings of the people, augment the power
Of the oligarchy of wealth and reduce
the masses to dependence and want,
/ canvasse d the State of Nevada and
advised the people to vote for Weaver
and Field, the nominees of the Omaha
convention, as the only true represen-
tatives of the peoples rights. The plat
form of the Omaha convention de-
mandsd the free anc unlimited coinage
of silver, and the delegates who COM
posed that convention were honest,
earnest men, and meant what they said
The people of Nevada, without regard
to former political affiliations, believed
as did, and cast more than two thirds
of their votes for Weaver an Field, and |
elected Francis G. Newlands, the free
coinage candidate for Congress, by
still larger majority. They also elected
every member of both houses of the leg
islature pledged to the restoration of
silver, When the legislature met was
reelected to the Senate of the United
States by a unanimous vote of both
houses.
My statement that whichever was
elected, Mr.. Harrison or Mr.. Cleveland,
he would use the patronage of the pres
idential Office to destroy one half OF
the metallic money of the world, was
denied by the friends of
both. 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 Gre
ated a panic. They falsely proclaimed
that the addition of $3.50, 900 of legal
lender money to the circulation of the
country was the cause of the panic they
themselves had created.
The President then declared that an
emergency had arisen,
ind called Congress together to repeal
he Sherman act, and nothing else. The
all increased the alarm and intensified
he panic. The subsidized press of all [
be commercial centers was made to dee
are that the people demanded the i'm
Mediate repeal of the purchasing clause
fba Oh ont r
Silver was clandestinely demonetized &
" the mint act of 1873, since which :
ime an overwhelming majority of the 3
eople of the United States have been ,
q favor of the restoration of the white c
lstal 10 the place it had occupied for u
housands of years as money metal :
reYious to the crime Of 1873. No party,
ate or national, dare go before the peo-
lie soliciting their suffrages upon dec n
Iration justifying or even paliating that il
rime, but all parties claimed to be BIZ b
letallists and in favor of tie use of sill n
er equally with gold. a
Some recognition of silver was OBJ Of
lined by the legislation of Congress fe
yainst vetoes, federal patronage, and p
,e influence of money. The Bland act, e.
squirting the purchase of not less than cl
10000 nor more than 100000 m
orth of silver bullion per month for b
image, was the first, the socalled Sher- CT
an act, requiring the purchase of Ell
100000 ounces of silver bullion per is
onth by the issuance of legal tender fu
easury notes, was the second. At
rery congress since silver was de-
onetzed vast majority Of the Demo- ad
ats in each house werei in favor of the er
ee and unlimited coinage of silver. or
nree bills for the free and unlimited es
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