Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-06-27
A PRESIDENTIAL PARADOX.

st. Louis convention. The following
blistering review Of the conventions
proceedings IL from the Bee of June
25th:
Since God made man, man indulg-
ed in politics, politics gave rise to po-
itical organizations, and those organ
izations expressed or throttled the
will Of the people in convention as
sembled, there probably never has
been I'm 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 brazen and offensive exercise of
power-against all fairness, against
all maniness, against all natural in
stincts Of honor-than was so palpa-
bly, displayedand so insolently exercis-
ed at 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
fens'vely, and 30 brutally even, that
some of the gold men themselves pro-
tested.
Talk about boss rule in California
conventions! Why, Mark Hanna rul-
ed that St. Louis Convention in the
interest and for the benefit of the gold
gamblers, as Nero of old ruled the
Senate in Rome.
The arrogant, slave-driver style of
the entire affair was not only often
sive to every one possessing an amer
lean spirit, but it was as well the poor
est kind of poor policy. A man who
knows he has a case in his own hands,
and can throw the victory to himself
at any moment, is generally anxious
that the people shall SEQ 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 the proceedings on
the floor Of the convention. The sill
yer men, representing the real senti-
ments Of the majority of the Amer
lean people-men who have been al
ways loyal to Republican principles.
huu WIN W6TC Ill bI6 III
in honest Republicanism when the
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 as
was showered by the hotel keepers
Of st. Louis upon the negro dele
gates.
And this Convention--so manipu-
lated, 80 controlled, and 30 clutched-
presents VIM. Mckinley to the Amer
loan voter as the bound slave Of the
gold ring.
VIM. Mckinley thus stands TN an
omaly, a paradox, before the Ameri-
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 would in the