Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-03-28
The Old Parties or the Nsw?

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EDITOR BULLETIN Sir-What is
the matter with the country2 Why
such an army OF tramps, so much
distress, bankruptcy, Insanity and
crime? Is it e just retribution? We
are told that tho country is busted
and tbat seems to be abou. the size
OF 1t. And we are truthfully told
that the cause is on account OF there
not bong sufficient money to do the
enormous business OF the country.
That we are reduced to . gold basis,
The laboring classes are reaping as
they sowed They voted for Cleve.
land or Harrison, and IL ia not alto
gether certain but that they may
continue to 60 SO, II not for the men,
for the parties they represent.
WAat will Nevada do? The Re-
publican plrty demonetized silver, q
Republican President vetoed the
Bland bill, and Benjamin Harrison
IN message to Congress said:
think 1t clear that II we (the Republic
can party should make the coinage Of sill
Yer free. we tRepdhllcans) must expect
such result would bo discreditable to our
tRepab.ican) financial management and
disastrous to all business interests. We
lRepublican parity should not tread the
dangerous edge Of such peril"
Why? Because we (the Republ.-
can pasty, of course) would inevita-
bly, lose the goli-bug backing so in
.disPensable to campaign fund.
This must be the why, for no other
reason exists
The Republican party, being the
one to degrade silver, is persistent in
resisting every attempt to remone-
tie it. Mr.. r. G. Horn, financial
,editag oi the New York Tribune,
which may be relied on as . truthful
exponent OF Republican party doc
urine, and is goldbug throughout, re-
plying TO free coinage article of Mr.
s. s. Burrows in that paper, desig-
mates free coinage advocates as ',men
who long for SUBSCRIPTIONS scaling
down OF debts In favor OF robbery, J"
and says: Me- Burrows may b.
good Republican. l hops he is. If
bis Is goQa Republican doctrine, then
have failed to find it out. l have
supposed that the Republican party
has been fighting just that nome
sense for twenty-five years.
Free coinage, therefore. means
Just that nonsense, and is synon-
y1nous with discreditabiee and
disastrous. Silver men are rob-
tbers,9 as he etgsightopts in this
State during the last campaign called
them ghost dancers. This shows
bow silver and silver men are viewed
s.y the Republican party.
1t is urged that Nevada should up
hold aud support the Republican par
ty because it gave us the SHERIDAN
purchase law, is friendly to silver,
and in consequence we are more like
~ to obtain free coinage from it than
in any other way. This claim is sor-
rY rot. There is not to-day within
the list of probable nominees of that
party for President q man who fav-
ors the free coinage of silver. Nc
kinley, sherman. Harrison, Reed,
Allison, nor any of them that can be
named, favors free coinage, II there
is none, and free coinage is what we
want, what we need and without
which the people of the United States
must remain as they are, in distress,
then why follow the Republican par.
ty?
The Sherman law was extorted
from the Republican party. 1t was
pot enacted in spirit OF relief, nor
from any consideration of necessity
or the wants Of the people 1t was
the result Of trade. The Mckinley
bill was pending. The Senate would,
with the aid of Senators Jones, Stew
art, Teller and others, certainly have
defeated its passage unless there
should in turn be some silver legisla,
ton. The Republican majority in
the Senate was small, and it required
every vote possible to secure its
passage. Sherman stood in, and
from the conference committee had
Senator Jones report the bill and it
passed The Republican State Gen.
trail Committee advised the Nevada
members to block all legislation un-
less silver was recognized at that
time. No thanks to the National
Republican party for that measure,