Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-03-21
REPEREICANS ANB FREE COIN
AGE.
The Par IrreYocahly Opposed %
Silver.
EUREKA, March 10, 1884.

EDITOR JoURNAL:-Mr, Bartine
said at the rally, " My opinion Is
that our hope and cur only immedl>
ate hope lies with the Republican
party
Now ask every candid Republic
can is there any "lmta-I.ate ..ope'
for favorable silver legislation from
the Republican party All the Re
publican members Of the Lower
House f Congress, except thirteen,
are against any and all Favorable
silver legislation" In nearly every
Republican convention to nominate
candidates for Congress next fall
resolutions will be adopted unfavor-
able to silver. Candidates will be
nominated for Congress pledged to
vote against free coinage who In their
speeches will derlde silver from
every stump during their canvass.
All or practically all of the Repub-
lican newspapers will denouuce free
coinage and its advocates The next
Republican National Convention will
adopt a plank in its platform against
free coinage. Mckinley or some
ether equally bitter foe of silver will
be nominated for President, and IN
the event Of the success Of the Re
publican party at the next Preslden-
tial election free coinage and all
other favorable silver legislation will
be postponed for four years from the
4th Of March, 1897, seven years from
the present time. For seven years
more we are to be ''hewers of wood
and drawers of water" for the East
under high tariff that draws ten
dollars, out of our pockets when 1t
pats one in. Seven years, the exact
time Jacob served Laban for h
daughter Rachel, and after serr
the Republican party aI''t"o, 81 IN
wears we would be treated infinitely
worse by our task masters than La
ban treated Jacob.
But seriously, my Republican
friends, do You think that MIR. Bar
tire rea Iy believes that our only
hope for favorable silver legislation
is in the Republican party! Can
didly, do you not think that this
view was conjured up in the brain Of
a politician, imbued by partisan zeal
born of ambitious hopes, a zeal that
led him to express hope that had
no deeper seat than his lips.
Mr.. Bartine devotes some space to
sp, culation as to what the result
would have been if ex-President
Harrison had been elected. The po-
sition of Mr. Harrison on the silver
question is well known of all men.
He is opposed to free coinage unless
it can be brought about by interna-
tiuual agreement. Senator Hoar
and all of that class of goldbugs pro-
TESS the same views, In other words
they are opposed to the indepen-
dence of the United States financially
but they pirate periodically about an
American system when talking on
tariff and the industrial indepen-
dence of this country.
These men are the most dangerous
enemies silver has. There is no
hope of an international agreement
for free coinage at ratio of 16 to l.
Why should nations that produce no
silver agree to take the silver of this
and other silver producing countries
at 81 29.29 an ounce when they can
buy it for seventy cents, and by sim
ply placing the Government stamp |
upon it make it worth Sl.33 an
ounce! 1t is absurd. The sooner |
international conferences are aban-
doned the better for us. The sooner
we realize that ex>President Harrl- !
son, Senators Hoar, Allison and |
others are expressing like views are
our most dangerous enemies the bet
ter fer us. What we must insist
upon, if we expect to accomplish |
4nything, Is independent free coin ,
age by the United States at the ratio
Of Is 20 l. No more compromises,
no more International humbug CON
ferences, gotten up to delay silver
legislation, and for no ether pur-
pose.
The battle is on, our cause is Just,
men of Courage to the front, let the
falnt-hearted and camp foil wers re
tire to the rear. We want none IN