Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-10-13
The Dollar psmaaeaue.

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The principal issue and one whic
overshadows all others Is whether "
wish to continue the present form o
government or place ourselves unde
military rule''-Senator Stewart.
The above statement from such
source. is calculated not only to worI
irreparable mischief among those wh'
for any reason do not fully appreciate
the true significance attaching to it
but also to excite the indignation o
those who comprehend it's devilish i'm
port to pitch where patience cease!
to perform the functions SO desira BIZ
in political controversy. In the frs
place, however much of sincerity may
be accorded to many advocates of Tho
Popocratic platform, Senator Stewart
is not one of that number. He is 9
demagogue for dollars; a multi-million.
aire as constituencies as those seen ir
Popocratic visions, and the tone of the
above statement as we'll as the spirit
animating it give unmistakable evil
dence of a sense of impending defeat
and of the malice and venom of a dis
appointed ambition and thwarted greed
This Senator Stewart is the arch con-
spirator, who as late as 1874 approved
the gold standard. He now declares
the passage of the law of 1873 to have
been crime and a conspiracy. when
he knows and his record proves that
he utters words as false as it is possi-
BILE for words to be. June II. 1874, he
said, THE question will never be set
tied until you determine the simple
question whether the laboring man is
entitled to a gold dollar if he earns it.
or whether you are going to cheat him
with something else" He now pro-
poses ''to cheat him with something
else and to do so is willing to lend his
voice to incite riot from one end of the
land to the other
In 1873 Senator Stewart, who had
worked his way into requirement of
rich silver property through
being a high salaried attorney of min
ing corporations, and who according to
the leading journal of Nevada was
endowed by nature with a faculty of
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upon juries as pure and spotless truth"
was not looking to the government to
was a demand elsewhere sufficient to
make silver too valuable for this coun-
try to coin at the ratio of 16 to / and
there was nothing in the prospect that
led Stewart to believe that the price of
silver was to fall When, however, the
price began to fall few years later.
and the product of his mines, or those
in which he was largely interested, be-
gan to increase beyond the dreams OF
his early avarice he saw, or thought he
to him if he could bring the country TO
the silver standard. Animated by that
purpose, he and others similarly sit
uated have continued the crusade for
the unlimited coinage of silver
The means for corruption have been
at their hands in the millions yielded
by their mining property even at the
lower prices of silver He and Senator
Jones have carried the suffrages of
Nevada with it's meagre mining popu-
lation in their pockets. Stewart has
continued to impose "the
sublimest absurdities" upon the people
''as pure and spotless truth" Now at
a time when Dwight l.. Moody, who
has recently been West and seen the
and prejudice which
Stewart and others and their dupes
have succeeded in provoking, invites
his congregations to pray for peace,
Stewart, the paid corporation attorney,
the ''plutocrat," the "oppressor of
labor" the corruptionist, the con-
scienceless incendiary who is acting
the part of greater traitor to his
country than ever plotted secession,
talks about placing ourselves .sunder
rule" as the only alternative
TO placing ourselves under the standard
of Stewards silver mines and the pre-
tense aof law he and his allies would
make supreme court to frame or
interpret.