The Ely miner., 1896-10-14
MORE HOT SHOT.
Demo-pop Falicies Exposed--Republican
Platform Expounded.

The Inter Ocean said recently, "the
Democratic campaign has degenerated
into a warfare Of Misrepresentation"
All the free silver arguments have
been successfully refuted, again and
again, by the greatest statesmen and
orators of both the Democratic and
Republican parties. The party Of
free coinage of silver at 16 to is
apparently aware that it has not a
leg to stand on, and are thus early in
the campaign resorting to misstate-
mentS, misrepresentation, perverted
quotations, presumptious and illogical
assertions OF glaring inconsistency:
and also'to scandalous treatment of
every Republican who stands and
speaks his convictions. And while l
realize that every such Republican is
quite likely to have his share OF abuse
at their hands, | feel that it is the
duty of every Republican to openly
and continuously fight for his home,
his neighbor, his fellow workman, his
city, and the industry upon which all
of us depend. And to fight against
the gigantic conspiracy of the averi-
cous silver mine owners, the dis
gruntled Democrats, and sore-head
Populists, to defraud the laboring
maneand enrich the silver mine owner
for such is the free coinage of silver
at rs to at this time.
FREE COINAGE WOULD .BRING HARD
TIMES.
Mr. Hartman, in his recent speech
at Ely, admitted, in effect, free coin
age would result in few years OF
business depression and hard times.
Other advocates of free coinage admit
the same. Recently on the train
coming from Duluth, this was also
admitted to the writer by a strong
advocate of free coinage. With a
keen recollection Of the hard times
and no work of '93 and with the ex-
perience and full knowledge that not
one family in one hundred can have
the comforts and necessities of living
when the man of the family is idle
mere than a few weeks: / ask how
can the miners and business men vote
for Bryan? / am confident they will
not. Senator d. Caffery of Louisiana
said in January, before the senate:
''If bill for free coinage of silver
at 16 to were to pass, creditors, to
avoid being paid in debased money,
would crowd and crush for payment
as the people do for exit in theatre
on an alarm of fire. Credit and con-
tidence, the twin divinities of pros
perity, would depart, from us. All
business would be paralyzed, labor
unemployed, and despair would hang
her black pail in millions of homes,
only to be lifted when reason resumed
her sway. 1t took France fifty years
to entirely recover from the John
Law fiasco."
Bob Ingersoll said in speech at
Chicago last week that free coinage
of silver would drive all of the 60O,-
100000 dollars of gold out Of the
country and bring us to silver basis
with all it's evils, and further "Every
man that had debt would try to
collect it in gold before the law (of
free coinage) caught him. Every one.
Business would stop. No money,
panic would come and bankruptcy
almost universal, and that is what
these gentlemen call prosperity of
free coinage" The above, and the
oft repeated quotations from Blaine,
Sherman, Carlisle and others, confirm
the opinion expressed ia former
article.
And now, / want to ask voters in
all kindness and justice, do you wish
to vote for Bryan, free coinage and a
few years of hard times, just because
of blind faith in the final outcome
OF an experiment in finance? Or, will
you vote for an immediate return to
work as you had previous to three
months ago; and to the continuance
of prosperity which followed the
elections of two years ago, when over
whelming Republican majorities
throughout the country gave express
sion of confidence in, the Republican
party? Will you vote for Mckinley
and the return to the good times OF
the period of ten years previous to '92
when we had the same bimetalllc
monetary system which the Repub-
lican party advocates today? know
you will.
The expression "fools and knaves"