Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1896-06-21

lican Convention began mt 1880 thi
morning, with Il prayer by the Rev
John Scott (coiored) Of Jacksonville
Florida Owing to the great con
fusion no word Of the prayer coulc
DO heard, and then when Senate,
elect Foraker Of Ohio began reading
the platform. the noise still contln
ucd.
The following is the money plank
The Republican party is unrc
servedly for sound money. 1t caus
ed the enactment ola law providingfol
the resumption of specie payments II
1879. Since then every dollar has been
rs good us gold. Wcare unalterably
opposed to every measure calculated
to debase orr currency or impair the
credit OF our country. We are, there
fore opposed to the free coinage of
silver except by international agree
ment with the leading commercial
nations Of tho world, which We
pledge ourselves to promote and I'M
til such agreement a be obtained.
the existing gold standard must be
preserved. All our silver and paper
currency must be maintained Mt
parity with gold, and we favor all
measures designed To maintain in
violably the obligations of the United
States and all orr money, whether
coin or paper, at the present standard
tho standard of the most enlightened
nations of the earth"
Following is the protest OF the silver
men:
-ln announcing the purpose us
serted i'll this paper it is due To our
constituents and to ourselves that
there shall be apublic showing Of
v~indicatory facts. The sole au-
thorized expression OF the national
Republican faith from June o, 1892,
until the present date has been the
platform adopted in the National
Convention Mt Minneapolis. Neither
the utterances OF State Conventions
nor the attitude Of individuals could
change tho tenor Of that platform CT
abate the ~sanctity Of its binding force.
Every delegate TO this convention was
elected rs its adherent and its advo-
cate. True, one Of its most important
paragraphs has been subjected to
such Il divergence of construction AS
to make it's language unsatisfactory
during the intervening time, and dam
gerous il continued III the future, but
OF the intention contained within that
language there never has been a
doubt.
1T is the rightful province Of this
convention to revise the party tcncts
and To announce anew the party
purpose. The majority OF this con-
v%cntion, i'll exercise of such authority
has o-day made an official enuncia-
ton of Republican laws and gospel.
With much of the platform We agrcc,
believing that i'll Ihany essential
particulars it compasscs the needs
of humanity, afirms the maintcn-
hnce OF right and proposes q just
remedy for wrong. But it declares
one element in principle, not only in
direct c~cntravention Of tho expression
of the party faith i'll 1892, but in
radical opposition to our sole III
conviction. We recogllizc that in
all matters of mere method it is but
Just and helpful that the minority
shall yield to the Will OF tho majority.
lest We have chaos i'll the party and
in the Government.
"But rs no announcement by ma
Joritics can change opposition kmowl-
edge or belief sincerely entertained.
so it cannot oblige the minoritics To
abandon or disavow their principles.
Assurcdly rs it is requisite for peace
and progress that the minOritics
shall yield to the maioritics in mat
tcrs Of mere mcthed. Just so surely
il IL necessary for that Ramu poaco
and progress that miuoritics shall
not Weld in the matters Of funda.
mcntai truth. The Republican plat
form of 1892 affirmed that the Amer
lean people from tradition aud in
tercst favored bimctallism and de-
mandcd the use OF both gold aud sill.
yer rs standard money. This wus nc
copied 10y us as - declaration III be-
half Of the principle upon which rests
the intcrcStf OF every citizen md The
safety Of the United States
Elm such terms the platform wa
then satisfactory to the believers in
bimctnllism in orr party. now and
then our party. Because OF c1uiyo'
cil construction aud evasion, has j,
slncc been demonstrated to DO in
sufficient. Tho platform adopted
says: AS tho declaration Of 1870.
has been by u majority Of the part,
construed to justify u single golt
standard for II monetary basis, aut
ms tho recent trend Of the oilicia
power Of the party has been in thai
direction. we can but assume thai
the money plank OF the new platform
being much more favorable To per
pctuate gold monomotnllism. will bC
dctcrmirCdly used i'll behalf Of tina.
idea.
The Republican party las won ii
power aud rcnown by pursuing IL,
purposes couragcou5ly and relentless
l!. II ia, therefore. only in accord