Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-05-25
SILVER PARTY ADDRESS.

Central Committee or the Silver
party at the Reno meeting:
The state central committee of the
Silver party of Nevada upon this, the
first occasion Of its assembling since
the election of 1892, sends it's greeting
to the people of the commonwealth
and extends TO them its hearty con-
gratulations for the signal victory
and glorious results achieved in their
first distinctive campaign for free
coinage. The long train of business
disasters which the old parties have
inflicted upon our whole country by
tae demonstration of silver, and the
refusal, for long period of years, to
repudiate the crime of 1873, to restore
silver to it's constitutional rank as a
money metal and admit it to our
mints upon equal terms with gold at
a historical ratio by congressional
legislation as in the days of the pur-
ity Of our government, aroused the
independentspirit of our citizens into
active cooperation, regardless OF
formar party ties, in the determine
ton that the electoral vote Of our
proud state shall never again be cast
for candidates for president and vice
president unless they shall be I'M
qualifiedly in favor of free coinage,
and shall stand upon free coinage
platform. Over one million of our
fellow countrymen united with us
upon this great issue, carried six
states and elected twenty-five presi-
Dental electors, whose votes we're
cast for General Weaver and Field,
the nominees of the Peoples party
the only national party in the United
States in favor of the free coinage of
gold and silver at the ratio Of sixteen
to one; a party composed of earnest.
honest and patriotic citizens, whose
members in congress are always at
their posts fighting for the silver cause,
as well as for long needed reform.
The base servility of the old parties,
led by Grover Cleveland and John
Sherman, to the gold trust of Europe
and America, 80 shamefully illus
trated in the last twelve months in
the executive and Legislative depart
ments at Washington, has demon
strated the wisdom of uniting the
silver sentiment of the country in an
independent party organization be-
fore we can reasonably hope for
monetary relief. Silver which has
been accepted as a money since the
dawn of history, was demonetized in
this country by the twin Wall street
parties, at the command of pluto
cratic oligarchy and the commune of
wealth, to add to the purchasing
power Of gold by decreasing the
value Of all forms of property, as we'll
rs of human labor, and the supply of
currency has been purposely con-
tracted to fatten usurers, stop pro-
duction, bankrupt enterprise and en-
slave industry.
A vast finance conspiracy against
mankind has been organized on two
continents and is rapidly taking pos
session of the world. If not met and
overthrown at once it forbodes terri
BILE social commissions, the destruction
Of civilization, the sapping of the pill
lars of free institutions and the estab.
ishment of absolute, relentless and
universal despotism. ZIG
Within the last twelve months, as a
step towards the contamination Of
this gigantic scheme, and in order to
accomplish the repeal Of the silver
purchasing law and the issuing of
millions more Of government interest
bearing bonds, money panic was
precipitated upon this country by the
cormorant greed Of gold syndicstes
and national banks i'll the great money
centera of auch maunitude and with