Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-09-02
SIDE.TRACKING SILVER.
United States Senate.


Washington, d. c. Aug. &c. "a.
EDITOR MORNING APPEAL: 1 OBJ
serve in this mornings dispatches /;
resolution of the Nevada attachment
of the Eastern gold party, styling it
self a Republican convention, de
nouncing my course in not aiding the
Cleveland Republican combination
to defeat the tariff bill. The gold
mon care nothing for the tariff as al
economic measure, but have used it
and desire to use it as an issue tc
suppress the silver question. Al
long as the two old parties can con.
tinue the sham battle over the tariff
the gold standard will be maintained.
Nevada is not manufacturing
state and has no special interest in
the tariff, other than such as pertains
to the interior of the great West ]
did secure tariff on borax, which j.
Q Nevada interest, and aided to Sc
cure a small tariff on lead, in which
Nevada is also Interested. This |
could not have done had l aided Mr.
Cleveland in defeatsng the lsenate
bill. l labored hard to secure a
tariff on wool, but could not effect it.
The question then presented was,
tariff fight throughout the United
States, to the exclusion of the silver
question or the passage of the senate
bill. If no tariff bill had been passed
the excitement in the country over
that question would have attracted
the attention of the people, and sill
yer would have been lost sight of.
The tariff has been an issue for more
that hundred years, and if Nevada
must wait until the tariff question is
finally settled before the silver issue
can be considered, the silver fight is
ended.
The Democratic party have now
passed the tariff bill and they will
learn that no relief will come, and it
is hoped that they will also learn
that their Affections are due to the
demonstration of silver. The East
ern Republicans and the Cleveland
Democrats justly regard the tariff
issue as the most important weapon
against silver, and their policy was
the defea of the senate bill, TO be
followed by hot canvass over the
tariff. They have failed, and the
great mass of voters who have been
taught to look to the tariff for relief
will find that no change in the tariff
laws can save the United States and
Europe from the inevitable ruin
which always follows continued con-
traction and failing prices.
The fact that the so-called Repub-
lican convention of Nevada gave
such prominence to the tariff ques-
ton if conclusive proof, if proof were
hSSOoSoiys ehoo ohSy oeSiIeu W Jury
the silver issue, which they preten-
ded to favor. Nevada, California
and Idaho, so far as heard from, are
the only Republican conventions
which have declared for the free
coinage of silver without words of
duplicity and equivocation. Nevada,
while doing so, repudiated the silver
cause by making the tariff the para
mount issue. The candidate for
Governor on the Republican ticket
in California in his published speech
es relegates the silver question to the
rear and holds up the tariff as the
panacea for all the ills we suffer.
Idaho also loads down silver with a
high protective tariff plank.
The silver states have for many
years enabled the East to maintain
protective tariff. and have been re-
warded by the almost unanimous
vote of the North and East for the
characterization of silver. If the sill
yer states had been unit for silver |
al the paramount issue for the last |