Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-07-05
4 FREslDkxrlAL PARADOX.

C. X. McClatchy. editor OF the Sac,
ramento Bee. was u delegate to the
st. Louis convention. The following
blistsring review OF the conventions
proceedings IL from the Bee OF June
25th:
Since God made man, man indulge
I'D in politics, politics gare rise to pc.
litical organizations, and those organ.
izations expressed or throttled the
will OF the people in convention Us.
aembled, there probably neve has
been un occasion in which the iron
hand of the majority has grasped the
throat Of the minority with quite the
same desperate clutch OF the garrote
as was displayed at the recent Re-
publican National Convention held at
st. Louis. History does not record,
nor could Imagination conceive, a
more brnzen and offensive exercise Of
power-against all fairness, against
all manliness, against I'LL natural in.
stincts OF houor-than was so palpa-
bly, d~isplayedand so insolently e~xercis-
ed ut that convention.
1t was seemingly not enough that
gold and greed had combined to
choke the voice OF the masses, and
to give full and free scope to the vo-
ciferative utterances OF the classes.
but the choking must be done 50 Of
fensIeIy. and SO brutaliy ev.n. that
soGe q the gold men Themselves pro
tested
Talk about bcsS rule In California
coaezSo1s, Why. Marx Hannz rul-
81 TIKI ST. Louis Convention in the
interest and Tor th~ benefit of the gold
gamblers Nero Of old ruled the
Ssaste IN Rome.
The arrogant, slave-diver style OF
he entire affair vas not only often
siye to every one possessing an amer.
lean spirit. but it was as we'll the poor
est kind of poor policy. A man who
knows he has a case In his own hands
and 4 throw the victory to himself
at any moment, is generally anxious
that the people shall see that he has
given the other side ample opportun-
ity to be heard before he proceeds
finally to end its existence. Even
Judge Lynch permitted his victim to
argue before the rope was placed
around his neck.
Not so generous were the gold-bugs
at ST. Louis, acting through the guild
ing spirit Of Mark Hanna. In the
Committee on Platform they silenced
the silver men, and would listen to
nothing. Not for an instant would
they release their clutch, but they
forced the gold infamy through that
body with an indecent haste which
would cause Chris. Buckley to have
blushed in his palmiest days. The
same insolent, arrogant, throttling
style was used in thu proceedings on
the floor Of the convention. The sill
yer representing the real seBti.
ments OF the majority Of the Amer
lean people who have been al
ways loyal to Republican principles,
md who were all the stauncher in
in honest Republicanism when tho
Republican Party was about to de-
part from the true faith to become
idolaters to the God OF Gold--these
men were treated in that convention
with the same degree OF contempt rs
was showered by the hotel keepers
OF st. Louis upon the negro dele
gates.
And this Conyention-so manipu-
lated, go controlled, and so clutched-
presents VIM. Mckinley to the Amer
lean voter as the bound slave Of the
gold ring.
WIN. Mckinley thus stands an an
omaly. II paradox, before the Amer.
can people. With one voice he pro-
claims for the United States before
all the world, and with another for all
the world before the United States.
In one hand he offers protection to
American industries, and IN the other
presents n policy which wonld in the
end make OF the country one vast vale
OF bankruptcy. With one tongue he
proclaims the ability OF the United
States to maintain itsel. against NIL
it's enemies and with another declares
that it cannot conduct its own financ-
es without consulting tho gold gamb-
lers Of Europe.
And the question is: What will the
people do?
What can tho people dor
Are the other parties to be throttled
alec?
Are they to be also ambidextrous-
to feed us food with ono hand. while
they cndoavor to insert poison with
the other?
In tho present crisis, the people will
turn 10 That party which offers to
them true Protection in every vital
principle-the protection OF their in
dustrics from the invasion or foreign
mado goods, and the projection OF their
homes ftom tho invasion or toreigns
made homes aud their wages from
slavery to the gold gamblers and per-
petual robbery at their hands.
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