Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-25
FRIENDS, THE ENEMY.
The Gold-Bug Contingent Given a
Few Rounds by a Colorado
Contributor.
VERY INTERESTING READING

AA<N IN
To The Editor of the Optic.
DENVER, Colo, September pal
though The OpTIC may be able to take
care OF itself through It's exchanges in
.snews from Denver" yet | am led to
think that a few items other than ex-
change clippings from this "16 to ~
storm center may be interesting to
OPTIC readers.
1t cannot be said that politics are
mixed here. Straight silver Is the is
sue and q man (or woman voter) who
walks the streets with a Mckinley
badge on, is not only looked upon with
su~spicion-as working against the in
terest of Colorado-but as working
for ''pie" or money, or is very Ignorant
on the money question.
As TO silver, the day Of argument
has passed here, and it is with much
surprise that we read OF a possibility
that the republican conventio1 which
meets In Las Vegas next Saturday is
likely to adopt a gold platform-when
now, il ever-both from the stand
point of principle, as we'll as '.pie.''
The voice of every convention, poli..
ical, or otherwise, should be for silver.
Any observer car see that there is a
new alignment of parties, and lifelong
republicans are going to vote the demo-
cratic ticket, and the longer their life
as republicans, the more apt they are
to vote for Bryan, particularly if they
helped to hold up the hands of Lin
coin Salmon P. Chase, Blaine, ct al, while
democrats Of the Cleveland kind will
vote for Msjor Mckinley!
And little silver scanned Socorro
county has had a district-not county
gold convention in a silver produc.
ing camp. Thank God it was not
Kingston, Hillsooro, Chloride or Her.
mosa, out Of 16 silver districts to l for
gold. A good proportion, but they
should be all silver. Those Lake Valley
resolutions certainly prove that the
day OF argument is past. When a
convention P) Of Observation-Disclosures
together, and resolve a gold standard
stump speech into a platform, with the
intention, it is presumed, of influencing
the world! The shadow of Walter c.
Hadley is certainly growing less. Poor
gold struck Lake Valley! And the
Arizona republican convention has been
''fxed' for gold! That is the beastly
way the dispatches put it. A clear case
OF "pie" hunger. "Sisters! Sisters!!n
eyclaims Colorado, "It is no won Ter
that you are not admitted into the
of states"
The Denrer' Republican o. this morn
ing, after mentioning the possibility of
what the Las Vegas convention might
10, says:
There will be a fight over the money
and il possible the gold men will
make the convention repudiate the action
AIKEN at Socorro, when a resolution declar-
ng for free coinage was adopted. or
the moving consideration with these
men is to place themselves in a favorable
light before Mckinley. They want to
ontrol the Territorial offices in the event
hat Mckinley is elected. But 1t is a very
mall prize for which to barter away ones
principles. The people of New Mexico are
nst as much interested in securing the
rec coinage of silver as the people of Colo
ado, and sooner or later the republican
arty in that Territory will SO declare. 1t
hoped that New Mexico will be admitted
lto the union this winter, aud in that
lew the republican party should put itself
] a position to advocate the unrestricted
of both silver and gold. There
,re, 1t should in the approaching conven-
on at Las Vegas declare empbatically for
zee coinage and turn down all the office
sekers who are willing to masquerade as
cldites to please Hanna and Mckinley.
Have New Mexico republicans
hanged Ia the short span of one year,
'om free, independent citizens to a
aug of pie-huntiog camp-followersP
his clipping from an evening paper
itself:
Said L. Bradford Prince, ex-governor of
ew Mexico, at tie Oxford. yesterday:
The fgb will be on the platform, the free
liver men standing by the old Socorro
.atform and the prospective office-seek-
8, who have suddenly turned goldiues
wish to endorse the st. Louis platform
the hopes of currying favor with Nc
eat victory for the cause, for l have my
oubts II a stronger free-coinage platform
,uld be written"
ohohlO Oh JOut IuShiiuk
!, q syndicate Of bondholders, who
ant to attach the umbilical cord of
merica to the mother country! Suck
rs, truly!
All the daily papers in Denver carry
ryan and Sewall at the head Of their
and most of the people wear
ryan buttons on their coats. II Col
RADIO and Denver are not republican,
here in the United States is a city or
ate that isp
Colorado saved the presidency to the
party in 1876, and in 1896,
the election is close, the electoral
ote of the "CentenniaP' state may
i've the nation from the grasp OF the |
power" above named, which has al {
lady got the G. o. P. by the throat.
REV. VIM. N. SEARLEs, {