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be either advised or c"rlin'nd'd Except III
obedience 70 the imI4 yratlEC demands "I
principle. Bur | submit 1" ny friends
and all VII" icileve with me That III TINS
great emergency ia" u'"'.' EtIF issue i
and # night ought 10 bee tine suurin" 4
not Tho solo Issue wlI,A should no" u"
deemed 10 be b,fulr the country hAt
being 81, | ask whether with the prihcl
pies which they really entertain, they are
not doing more violence I" their con
sciences by remaining in The old party cor
gau4zatIuus than they w"uld do by Join
ing "A party which, though new, has the
co ~is.c Of H. convictions, the courage
* Eat this great gu, -Jiun a. il deserve,
to Ue trras, d-namcly, a. the leading
question Of he age DO not the people Of
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every s'''' "ei'''' ''"' Wv i''''",HE ~
tioI Il NOR i'iIH'f'""' IMAM NV '"i IA
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And Is it not reversing the natural order
| Of things for political partic. t. treat as
: ,r;hprdinnt,. aud collaboration treat a. a
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sage of tin, rrDralint, law of lSg3 Inv means
| with which fine cnuntrv is familiar. will
not the voters who continue to act with
the old parIic, find themselves more un-
| true to their convictions than if they cast
| their ballots for political party whose
| success would for all time end the silver
discussion by cmbolying into law what is
| now unquestionab!y the most ardent a.
piration of the producing masses of the
| American nronlcs
So far as Nevada is concerned. it is not
a question a. to who is friendly or who Is
unfricndIv to silver. 1t is well known
that all the Droulc of Nevada. without dis
| y,
COINAGE at the old ratio II is only \ ones
ton as to how most surely and quickly to
accomplish an object the achievement of
| which the people of Nevada and all other
| advocates of free coinage throughout the
country hold to be TIE most INDISPENSABLE
| re0risttc of national urosDcrity
| The supreme purpose which the bcncG
Charles and advocates of the gold standard
not only in the United states, but through
out the world, now hive in view is to keen
what may be called the silver vote" in
This counfrv 80 divided ont anon,y the old
parties that it cannot ass, TT itself. SO that
it cannot even discover is strength. In
the ranks of the Republican and Dem
| ocratic Dartirs in every state in the Union
are large numbers of voters who believe
| that the free coinage Of silver at the Amer
| lean ratio is Indispensable to the prosper
ity of our people and to the maintenance
of our industries upon a level which shall
invite the Productive in, cst,nent of our idle
capital In thc present condition Of these
parties it is impossible for such voters %
give effect to their convictions In nv be
lief, il will ALWAYS be i!npoasibI,. while yot
srs tamely acquiesce in the sinister ma
| hlPulaIlohs bF "hlch LOT years Ihclr 'oles
nave peeh hld''e 10 count "iftttiy aSslils0
thelf strongest cvhvlc'loii'' "ere an 'he
hep''oIic'h7 ana l'ciiiocr"'' WHO "eileNt
IN the Tree coinage OF 9liVrf aC the ra'lo Oh
10 10 10 step Out OF thcir old party OF,
| ealliZ'iloilS 'Neii loI oile CdiiPals4 anu
| stalu upon platlorll "l one piailh-a
silver onc-or AT least on PLATFORM when
makes monetary REFORM us dominant lea
turc' not abandoning hut hoIdlhg IN re
serve thelf CONVICTIONS on oIher issues
the president TO oc elected IN loSo would
without tNe ahaooW OF ooupt, DC one
who would sign tree coinage Dill.
| No Prospect of Relief From Either of the
Old Parties.
| am firmly convinced that there IS nc
prospect Of relief from either of the old
partirs ~ such. and least of all, regret tC
saw, from the Republican party. The
financial leader Of the marty. Mr. sherman
of Ohio. stated in the senate at the open
ing of the debate of 1898 that the silver
law of 1890 had been passcd not for th.