Mohave County miner., 1898-09-24
The
OPENING
gun.
Democrats Ratlfy Nom.
nations.
Col Wilson is Royalty Re-
ceived in Kingman.

Col. J. F. Wilson, the democratic nom
inee for delegate to congress, arrived in
Kingman Thursday afternoon and was
received by the delegates to the demo
cratic county convention in body Sa.
lutes Of giant powder were fred in bis
honor aud the town given over for a
period Of j,llifcation.
In the evening meeting was held at
Lakes Hall. All the seats in the build.
ing were filled at an early hour and
many people, unable to find room within
sought vantage place on the gallery.
]. NJ. Murphy, chairman Of the county
committee, called the meeting to order
and introduced Col. wilson to the aud
fence which received him with applause.
Mr.. Wilson spoke as follows:
My friends, am here to talk 10 you
tonight upon the issues as they are
framed and as they are joined, and to
express to you my views upon these
things, and to answer the arguments
that have been made and are s,ill being
m ,de by the political enemies OF this
territory, ana beyond it.
Since the issues have been sharply
defined and drawn in Chicago in 1896
when that great Commoner Bryan Was
placed before the country, the money
question has been the principal, the
msjor issue, and It is the major issue to.
day. The question OF the free and un.
limited coinage OF silver lie the principal
Issue, and will never down until II
reaches victory. .. ........ ..........
The other day the Prescott convention
drew the issues, they threw down the
gauntlet, they declared that the wishes
OF the people Of this Territory were and
would continue to he in favor Of the free
and unlimited coinage Of silver at the
ratio OF 10 to l regardless Of what any
other country on earth might think aoon,
1t. They declared that the choice of this
country wac In favor of that issue, and
pledged the representative Of the Democ
racv to carry out that principle and exc
cute IL, il within his power; and, my
friends, IL elected, l intend to do 1t.
To 20 on with promises however, Is not
the pur pose am here for tonight, but TO
'nsider the arguments that are made
Then shall 90 directly to the reasons
WY cur enemy, the goldbng republican
party OF this Territory, Insists that the
free coinage Of silver shonld not be re.
sumed. They have many reasons that they
assign, and am here for the purpose of
answering every one Of them, and show.
Ing that the reasons that they urge are
contradlcted by their own Arguments. |
In the first place, they urge that the free
coinage Of silver, II resum I'd, would drive
the gold out Of the country into foreign
lands, to foreign bankers, and we will be
cast upon free silver or a white meal
basis. This Is their first reason. II that
was trne II would leave us single stand.
ard basis.
Now, we see that the very frst reason
that they urge Is contradicred by the his.
tory Of the Republican party. You re-
member that 10 '73, alter The Civil War,
when this country was upon a paper
basis. upon promise to pay, that prom
iss was based upon specie, that specie to
be double standard OF gold and silver,
at ratio Of 18 to 1. In 1873 an Act for
the coinage was passed it was
called An Act to Regulate the Coinsga,
but In fact It's intent underneath, living
below was the intent secreted under the
nickname Of the regulation Of coin ,ge
was 10 abolish the silver money from
coinage at the American mints, and 40
1emonetize II. The American people
Knew nothing Of IL; II was by stealth and
ndirection that this was done. When It
was discovered that the bullion that was
,arried from the mines to the markets
,ould not find its way into the min,s and
De coined as II was Heretofore and as
Iold was admitted, then 1t was that
prices began to fall and silver went down.
Then it was that the American people
poke through their representatives and
ought to remonetize silver; and then {
hey were told that 1t would drive gold
rom the country, that Il would force II !
o cross the ocean into foreign banks,