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

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In the tight. They are honorable and
fearless men who pursue their path
OF duty with strict regrad to principle
and with an eye single to the good
OF their country. They can neither
be bribed with executive patronage.
; nor daunted by Misrepresentation.
Why should not stand in the senate
by the side Of men who stood by my
state and its people in a great crisis,
when the party which the Republicans
OF Nevada, myself among them, have
for years, with vote and voice, SUD-
ported, turned against usH It would
appear that instead of counseling and
acting with those who stand by the
interest Of our people, it is better for
us to counsel and vote with those who
strike down our industries, infiictinR
a serious blow upon the industries
and commerce Of the country at
large. 1t will not do to assert that a
new party which is in the right.
should be ignored because it lacks
strength at the beginning of it's ca
reer, and that strong party, which
Ii in the wrong, should be sustained
by silver votes which are always
counted against the silver cause. I
am one OF those who believe that if a
party has proper principles--if it has
the right side of a great question. it
cannot long be kept small in nun.
bers.
1t Is not question of whether the
third party .is or is not party of in
tiuence in congress. Parties have in
ttuence there as elsewhere, according
to the number of their votes. Let the
advocates Of silver of whatever party
stand out from their old parties for
even one campaign, upon a platform
OF free silver OF, at least upon a plat
form OF which free silver is a promi-
nent feature. and they will have no
difficulty in carrying the country on
that issue. 1t is trifiing with u great
question to say that party which is
favorable to our cause should be ig
nored merely because it has not
sprung in full maturity into life, as
Minerva sprang from the head of
JoVe. 1t is easier to find such occur
FENCES recorded in classical fables
than in modern journals.
The letter Of the Republican com
mittee says that "The Populists rep
resent everything that is wild and
visionary in American politics" Well
according to gold standard ethics, the
most wild and visionary, even of
these, because the most Immediately
dangerous to the supremacy Of the
gold standard, is the issue of free
silver coinage. However visionary
may be the other ideas of the Peoples
party, who doubts that had the men,
bers OF that party during the debate
OF the Sherman law, declared them.
selves in favor of repeal, they would
have been hailed, at least Cor the
time, as true patriots and statesmen
OF the first order. The gold standard
advocates very we'll know that no
measure involving fundamental
principle, can, among an intelligent
and rejecting people such as ours, re.
ceive a laage measure OF popular sup
port, until it shall have been long
discussed. They know that free
coinage has been discussed for more
than half generation, and that the
people, while not ready to vote on
other measures Of the Populists, are
ready and willing to vote on silver.
1t is therefore more Immediately be.
cause OF the Populists' devotion to the
silver cause than for any other reas-
on, that they are stigmatized, The
beneiciaries of the corrupt gold
standard attempt, by ieer and obiur.
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