Mohave County miner., 1895-06-08
Sound Sauer Sense.

presidential election was l2,OS8, ,526. IL was divided as follows: Cleveland, B.. l6..374; Harrison, 5,565, ,662; Weaver, l,055, ,424. Cleveland and Harrison each received more than five times as many votes as Weaver, the populist candidate. The populist platform was the only one that declared unequivocally for the free coinage of gold and silver at the establish ed American ratio, and 1t is presumable that the ticket received the vote of all who, at that time, considered the silver question paramount to all others, and were willing to ignore all other issues for it's success. The popalist platform more. oyer contained other blanks relative to real or fancied grievances. which nnques. tionably secured the votes of thousands who were either indifferent upon the cur. rency question or regarded it Of minor importance compared with the issues Tn. volved in the election. With these facts before us, what folly, then, it is to expect to effect bimetallism through that issue alone, and by thlrd party which prior to the next national election will not have an opportunity to score even local sue cess upon the pages of it's history.
 The only way to secure bimetallism is through one of the two great national par. ties which, three yeass ago, boiled more than eleven-twelftns of the vote of the country, and whose strength was SO near ly divided that less than five per cent, off and on, would have turned the scale between them.
 The policy of the silver men who regard the question as of paramount importance is plain and unmistakable. It IS to de- clare with all possible emphasis that they will cast their votes for whichever of the two old parties that will declare unequvo cally in favor of the free and unlimited minting of both metals at the present ratio, and will nominate candidates of known sympathy with the principle to carry it out. This will be bid which is certain not to bo ignored. and much less re]ected, by one or the other of them, and then, with the prestige of party with more than 5,000,0o0 votes for starter, the com mbined strength of the silser.pro- ducing states and the pronounced bimet- sllists elsewhere can then come in, not only with the hope but the absolute cer. tainty of success.
 By following and encouraging the lead. CTS of the so-called Simetallic party move ment the long suffering people of the sil- yer states are pursuing a course which is certain to lead to distressiul disaster and humiliating defeat--the more humiliating because they will realize when it is too late that they rejected the only avenue to success to follow blind and tortuous trail which leads into the barren wilder. ness of blasted hopes and repentsnt folly. It has ,een more than whispered that monometsllic gold is at the back of this bimetsllic movement. Be that as it may, Wall street could not place it's corruption fund to better advantage than when it will be used to the Encouragement of the adoption of the free coinage principles by the two parties that possess the power to carry 1t 10 success.
 The situation is simply this: The re- publican or democratic party will, one of them, elect the next president. Both want to win. The leaders recognize the strength of the bimetallic feeling and the importance of the support of the silver people, in addition to their regular party vote. The party which secures 1t will as- suredly win. Why not, then, instead of menaciDg the power which can pull us through, propitiate: Let the people of the silver states and bimetallic men every where proclaim that their united support will go to the party which will assure them free and unlimited coinage of both metals, if successful. Don't fol. low leaders who threaten to divide the silver vote fl either of the old parties should adopt the bimetallic principle. No third party can effect one purpose. Let us all go with the one that can and will.--Mining Industry.