The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22


the possible Presidential candidates. He
understands the wants of the people OF the
West and he is sincere. The action OF the
convention, will tend to strengthen our
Eastern associates and believe the bene-
fetal effects will at once begin to be ap-
parent"
Many other Nevada men expressed them
selves as greatly pleased with the work OF
the bimetallists and Secretary of State
Eugene Howell put it in this light:
I'VE have few people on the coast who
know what they are talking about, and we
also know that the past has taught us a
lesson.
'In 1873, and even little later, San
Francisco was receiving thousands and
thousands of dollars monthly from Nevada
where now it only receives hundreds.
When the wealth of Nevada's silver mines
was pouring into the lap of San Francisco
the East got certain benefits from that out
put through this City being the greatest
commercial center on the coast. When silver
was demonetized this output was cut Off
and the result is that the entire coast feels
the depression and the East with its finan-
cial sympathy, suffers in consequence. The
convention will have good effect and the
political tide is turning"
Senator Ism Allen of Churchill County,
Nevada. gets in line with the rest.
California" said Mr.. Allen, ''by her &C.
ton in the Bimetallic Convention has
placed the State squarely on the free-coin-
age plank. l am particularly delighted
with the idea of establishing Silver leagues
all over the West, and hope the time will
soon come when the East will be sprinkled
with them. That is the easiest way to get
at the bottom of the question and spread
the arguments abroad which will tend to
educate the people up to the Importance
of bimetallism."
DR.. Bergstein, Superintendent of the Ne
vada State Insane Asylum, believed in
combining himself to brief opinion. He
said:
California being gold-producing State,
the East will realize the Importance of a
Bimetallic Convention held in this State,
and it must of necessity awaken Eastern
people to a thorough understanding of its
meaning"
Robert M: Beatty. Attorney General of
Nevada, said:
alt will create an interest that was
never before experienced in this State,
and it will result in carving California at
the next election for the candidate who
declares for silver, no matter upon what
ticket he may be placed.
1.-THE fact that the convention is abso-
lutely non-part'san will prove to the
Eastern States that we have no political
ends to gain other than that of Justice to
aninjured cause.
at is to be hoped that all of the other
parties will come to our way of thinking
and stand squarely on the question OF
bimetallism.'
Sam Davis, editor of the Carson Appeal,
the first newspaper on the coast to suggest
revolt, is not altogether satisfied with the
good intentions of the two old parties.
Among other things touching the issue
be says:
at has always been the policy of the
goldbugs to abandon every other issue
They will hold caucus over the question
of free coinage, and this will probably be
the result.
''Now. suppose the next Congress is
composed of a Democratic House and a
Republican Senate. The Democratic
House will pass free-coinage bill and
send it to the Republican Senate. The
it will never do for the Democrats to save
the country by fathering such a measure
and they will kill it. Following this
action they will cook up another freedom
age bill, couched in little different
language, pass it and send it to the Demo-
cratic House, where it will, in turn, be de-
stroyed, partly because the Democrats viii
not want to have it said that the Republi-
cans saved the country, and partly for re-
venge.
''Thus the Wall-street barrel will be
rolled over the silver men again. and the
two old parties will swear that they have
kept their pledges to the people; that they
passed free7coinage measure and that the
opposition destroyed it. That's the way
they always work things when they have
Wall street to engineer the deal.
''When Napoleon took charge of battle
he always cut the enemy in two and then
wiped out the right and left wing. That's
the way it is done by the moneyed men
of the United States, and the tactics are
generally good"
Last night Chairman George w. Baker,
in an interview, very clearly and con-
cisely disposed of the report that the BIZ
terest of the silver kings.
"The effect of the convention" he said,
Twill be to solidify the free coinage and BIZ
metallic sentiment east of the Rocky Noun
tains. The reason is that report had
gone broadcast or had its origin in the
East, that the silver movement was con-
fined to the silver States. Let us look at
California. Was 1t not up to recent date
one of the strongest gold-producing States
III the Union, and to-day it is pronounced
silver State.
1.-The convention will show that there is
dcep-seated interest among the thinking
people founded on right, rather than any
desire to conserve the interest of the silver
barons. Out of SAT delegates, including
80 from Nevada, the strongest silver State
in the Union, only of them were owners
of silver mines. This should be sufficient to
show that the convention is composed of
business men and all other classes of
thinking men, just as it ought to be from
Maine to California. The real work of or
ganization has begun ana when the
National campaign opens you will see its
results"
When requested to give his opinion of
the Bimetallic Convention that came to a
close last night, ex-Congressman Bartine
of Nevada gave the following signed state
| ment to The CALL:
1t is by far the most important convention
ever held in the State of California. Although
non-partisan in character. and its organiZa.
ton will be upon that basis, ultimately it NAV
and probably will either mold the policy OF
the old parties, or one of them, and falling to
do SO 1t may revolutionize party politics in
| the State. H. f. BARTINE