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

party afterwsr6.
His election is undoubtedly effected.
through the machinery of party. and
In the performance Of his duties he
must necessarily use the machinery
OF party to secure tho enactment into
law OF such policies as his oonstit-
uents favor. He naturally co-operates
with the party through whose instru-
mentality he was elected, because, un-
DER normal and rational conditions.
that wonld presumably always be the
party which would favor the poIicy
that he was elected TO advocate. But
whatever obligation implicitly rests
upon a senator to CO operate with and
support party, carries with it, NO
less implicitly, reciprocal obligation
upon the party that it shall not make
radical change in its policy from that
which he was elected to advocate-
that it shall not, for example make a
change from policy calculated to
advance the interests of his state to
one which consigns those interests to
absolute destruction. The moment.
the Republican party, not blindly
nor by accident, but well informed
and with eyes wide open to all the con-
sequences, ahandons and rejects that,
which, in the judgement of senator
from Nevada, is vital to the interests
OF Nevada, and not of those, alone,
but policy no less vital to the peo-
pie OF the entire union, that moment,
1pso Jdcto, senator representing the
people OF Nevada, is, in the very
nature of the case, and by every canon
OF ethics. moral and political,-by
every duty which he owes to his con-
stituents, TO his state and to his coun-
try. relieved OF obligation, express or
implied, to support the Republican
party. 1t is MOI the duty of senator
his state being smitten on one
cheek, to be the instrument by which
1t may he held, in order to be- smitten
on the other, and continue to be smit
ten indefinently and without recourse.
The moment any political party
adopts policy which necessarily
brings ruin upon anentire common.
wealth it is preposterous, it is against
the operation OF hnman reason, to
expect that because the mere name
OF the party and the individuals com
posing it remain the same tho repre-
sentatives of the commonwealth must
like craven towards continue to SUD
port it.
Far better were it for the people of
Nevada and for the country had the.
Republican party changed its name,
but continued in force the policy it
adopted in 1890 of adding monthly to
the circulation of the country the.
monetary equivalent of 4,5O0,OO0,
ounces of silver.
The great work Of monetary reform
must go on. To desert it would be
treason to our race. In the great
work we must mot expect laid from
foreign nations.
IL we are to have free coinage we
must rely on ourselves. There is not
the slightest difficulty about securing
it if the advocates of silver stand to-
gether. Large numbers ofsilver men
are supporting both the old parties
and perpetuating the very condition
of affairs which above all things they
wish to bring to an end. .
Tho number of silver men in either
party, however great, cannot force the.
leaders to action on this greatest OF.
all questions. With one conspicuous.
noble exception Senator Cameron
Of Pennsylvania all the leaders OF
the Republican party are opposed to
independent American coinage