Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-11-02

we're landing Wlth arms In their
hands, we should engage in 4 discuss
On as to whether We should charge q
high or a low rate Of duty, or any
nate at all, on the enemy's munitions
Of war. Yet this is practically what
we are invited by both the old parties
10 do. In every state Of the union,
except in the silver states, the Re.
publican orators are constantly
sounding the alarm regarding the tar
il, Their speeches and discussions
all indicate that they consider the
monetary question closed. The most
careful perussl OF the daily papers
gives no indication that these orators
are spologizing for the repeal OF tho
Sherman law, but where they men.
ton it at all they mention the re-
peal with approval and with credit
to themselves, During the past sess.'
ion of congress, a session lasting ten
months, neither party took any action
with reference to the question of
monetary reform.
What is it that the advocates OF
silver wish to accomplish? Is it not
to elect a free coinage president?
How would the declarations of a
platform help them? Do they not
know that the experience of many
years with both the old parties rem
ders it impossible to place any reli-
ance upon platform declarations?
Those who are most powerful in in
fuencing the nomination of presi-
dents in both parties care not what
planks are contained in the platform.
Let them nominate the presidents and
they care not who make the laws
Bills can be vetoed, and If the vet, 0
be overridden by congress the laws
can be set aside, as has been done
during the past thirty years, by ex-
ecutive fiat.
Some of our Republican friends
lay some stress on the fact that the
silver question is partisan ques-
ton. 1t seems to me clear that 30
long as silver men vote with the old
party, the question will always re-
main bipartisan. The very pur-
pose Of the enemies of silver is to
continde 10 keep it as a non-partisan
question. Their motto is "Divide and
Conquer" They fear concentra-
ton Of the silver vote Of the country
into one party.
Before. the uprising OF national
party that would take the silver ques-
ton out of the bipartisan category,
the advocates Of silver had no re-
source but to permit it to remain
non-partisan. But now that there is
an organized party prepared to do
justice to silver-to take it ont of
the class of non-partisan questions
and present it for what it is-an issue
OF the first magnitude, no sound reas.
on can, in my judgment, be advanced
why the advocates Of silver should
not cooperate with that party. On
the other hand, the fact that a voter
lswllling. after all that has occurred
TO permit the question longer to re-
main non partisan, leaves him open
to the charge that he prefers the sue
cess OF party to the success Of silver.
In my letter announcing my inabil.
ity longer to act with the Republican
parry, said:
"Were all the Republicans and
Democrats who believe in the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to
Ito step at once out of their old
party organizations, even for one cam
paig"' and stand upon a platform Of
one plank, or at least on a platform
which makes monetary reform it's
dominant feature, not abandoning,
out holding in reserve their convic-