The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1896-10-30
THE BLACK RANGE,
Friday, October 80, 1896.
LOCAL NEWS.

Lew Kruse is down from Grafton.
Next Tuesday. and the agony will be
over.
j. d. Bone is rusticating up Chloride
creek.
There is considerable snow on the
main range.
Flag day tomorrow. Let old glory
wave from every house top.
A number of prospectors have re-
Gently invaded the Grafton district.
Brick burning at the smelter is COM.
pleted. Other work about the plant is
progressing favorably.
w. NJ. Armour has returned from
his trip to Albuquerque. He says that
politics are rolling high up there.
Mr.. S. D. Felt, treasurer of the Cliff
Mining & Smelling company, went to
Magdalena the early part of the week.
The result of next Tuesdays election
is looked forward to with a great deal
of anxiety by the people of this com.
munity.
The man that votes in the interest
Of the republican party will vote for
gold and against the silver interests of
Sierra county.
Chloride will give the silver demo-
cratic ticket a solid vote on election
day. The people here will vote for
principle not party; they prefer good
men and citizens Of the the silver de-
mOcratic party to good men and oiti-
zens of the goldite republican party.
Mr.. E. J. Westervelt, the affable sta.
tion agent at Engle, arrived here from
Hermosa yesterday evening. MIR.
Westervelt has jusb returned from a
hunting trip oyer the range with Dolph
Reed and II. A. MACEDONIAN. They
killed seven deer on the trip.
John B. PStrie, one Of the old time
republican war horses Of western
Socorro county, Vas in town this morn
ing. Mr.. Petrle is interested in cattle
and mines and believes that the free
coinage of silver would be far more
beneficial to his stock and mining in
Logests than republican gold mOnomet-
silism or a Mckinley tariff, therefore
no is working for the success Of the
silver democratic ticket.
a sheriff's posse of seven or eight
pen looking for the White Oaks stage
robbers, arrived at Fairvlew Wednes-
day afternoon. They had trailed the
robbers into the Cnchillo9 where they
for a time lost the trail which was
subsequently discovered on this side
of the Cuchillos leading in a westerly
direction. The robbers passed through
Monticello Monday night and shot "a
log. Some Of the posse were in Chic
Tide Wednesday afternoon and stated
Lat they were about thirty-six hours
5ehind the bandits.
The issue is at hand. Tuesday next
the voters of Sierra county will, neces-
sarily in voting, either cast their ballots
for GOLD or for SILVER. The money
issue is not to be evaded. The two po-
litical parties, the silver democratic
party and the gold republican party
has each declared in uumistakable Ian
guage as we'll as by deed their respec-
tive positions upon the financial issue,
The republicans have emphatically de-
clared for single gold standard. The
democrats have emphatically declared
for free and unlimited coinage of sill
vel at the ratio of 16 to l.. The free
ooinage of silver means prosperity fol
che common people, gold mOnometal'
lism means oppression. The present
deplorable financial condition of the
people generally Of Sierra county
stands as a living picture of the gigan'
JIG evil of gold moaometallism, a llnan-
Glal policy such as the republican party
las declared for, national and territori'
al and sanctioned by the republican
DartV Of Sierra county,,