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

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purchase each month $500. 600 ounces.
This was decided advance. Of the
party in the direction Of an expansion
OF the money volume, and was natuf-
ally hailed by all silver Republicans
as an earnest Of growing friendiness
OF their party to the cause they had at
heart. 1t inspired them with hope
that, having gone thus far, the next
step OF the party would be, as logically
it should be, to free coinage. Instead
OF making this step, or even for a
moment entertaining the idea Of
making it, the party shamelessly and
ANONYMOUSLY reversed its record,
and in order that no doubt should ex-
list as to It's position, took course I'm
exampled in the history of parties in
this or any other country-formed it
self into the very mainstay of an op-
posing administ ration, which without
an actual majority Of Republicans
could not even by the exercise of
methods most abhorrent to the prin-
ciples Of free government muster
sufficient strength to accomplish it's
nefarious purpose. 1t was, therefore,
in the strict sense Republican votes
that effected the repeal OF the silver
purchase act of 1890. With amazing
want Of consideration for the crying
needs OF the plain people of the coun-
try, and listening only to tho noisy
and interested clamor, and to the
false and fraudulent statements OF
bondholders and money lenders, they
shut off from a rapidly growing coun
try all increase of money.
BY the repeal Of that act the Re.
publican party became above and be-
yond all things else the party of
monetary contraction. To assert that
after the adoption Of such a policy it
ID the same party that it was when
its legislative measures afforded the
country moderate increase in the
quantity Of money is evidence either
that those who SO assert fail to appre-
ciate the supreme Importance of the
monetary issue, or that they are
merely paltering with words. 1 care
not how correct the other policies of
the party may be. We're those poll
cies on the one hand the embodiment
Of human wisdom or on the other the
ultimate Of human folly, their COM
bined. Influence for good or ill could
not approach the sum of this one.
In all other respects than this I
concede that it is the same party.
But to men who appreciate to the
degree that I do, and that believe
the people Of Nevada do, the un-
equalle Importance Of the monetary
issue, this is merely conceding that
after the soul has fled from the NOR
tai frame-after the departure Of that
element which lighted up the eye
with sympathy for human suffering
and filled the heart with gladness at
human happiness--the cadaver con-
tinues to constitute the man. The
statement may not be wholly devoid
of truth but it must be obvious that
it is not the whole truth. Who will
say that i'll the best sense it is the
truth at all?
The Republican committee in its
letter to me, seeks to draw a distlpc-
tion between the Republican party
OF the country and the Republican
party of Nevada as if it we're two and
not one. In one place the COMMITTEES
say:
"There is no room for doubt that the
cause Of silver is gaining ground in
the Republican party" This, Of
course means the Republican party
in it's proper sense. But elsewhere
in the letter they say to me: aBy
what moral process you arrive at