Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1898-11-01

That is the issue, and / cannot con-
ceiye of worse blow that can be struck
than now at this tine to withdraw the
Senator, who has always upheld the flag
aud fought valanily in the peoples
cause. may say further that in all the
varied interests of Nevada, no matter
what they were, he has watched them
closely-I may say that | never saw him
neglect any of his duties. !, as his col
league, knowing thai il IS my duty to say
to the people of this country and through
this meeting to the people OF Nevada
tkat they never could nave a more faith
ful representative than WIa. NJ Stewart
in the Senate. But ,shom do our op-
ponents offer? Have not The people Of
this State some right 10 say who they
want to elect to the high Office of Sen
ator Of the United States Senate? Have
the people OF this State no right TO a
choice? Let me ask the leading Repub-
lican papers who their candidate is, who
have they named, whom do they want to
send to the Senateg Is this secret
dodge to elect some members of the Leg
islaiure on the strength of The opposition
10 Stewart and then come in and elect
Senator without consultation with the
people II this was an honest deal thsy
would come out ana name their man.
Have they named anybody? 1 have moi
heard OF him. They do not dare to
name the man, and The people in this
State have a right to know who is to
represent them in Washington.
do not think that they viii feel hon
ored by the election OF the great poet,
Mr.. Cleveland. I understand that he
will devote his entire energies to rivaline
the great poets Of the world in writing
poetry.
nov l cannot imagine. as | said before.
q worse blow that could be struck tn,
silver cause than the defeat at this time
Of Senator Stewart for reelection to MS
seat Ii would be published by all the
gold standard papers IN the East that
he silver cause was dying, and | know
many friends of silver would be greatly
discouraged.
I believe, fellow citizens, that there
eiil be another great contest on this
question, and I believe we can win in
1900 if no backward steps are taken now.
In travelling through the East, I never
found a silver man who was tired of the
; l.er cause not one.
/ believe that William Jennings Bryan
8ill be endorsed unanimously by the
convention in 1860. and that there viii
be no opposition. lApplause.l
The great fight of the toilers against
those who control the money of the
world viii be vagea and won in 1909
say it without any desire 70 applaud
myself that the great fght for silver
started in Nevada tapplausel, and has
been kept up ouremittingly ever since.
Whenever there was an opportunity to
do anything, it was done.
/ never found my colleague Senator
Stewart. wanting He was always on
deck with star on breast and shoulder.
and went in the fght for the interests of
Nevada. l see some orators going over
the state'teliing you how it was that our
votes were sought on the tariff; that we
might have swipped our votes for free
coinage Of silver.
/ have been a member OF the Finance
Committee for about q years and when
the tariff bill was before it I found that
the bill was made up Of high schedules
on everything raised and produced in
the East, aud as the West was approach
ed there was no protection at all. There
were six Democrats aud six Republicans
and myself on that committee. My vote
made the seventh vote either for or
against the bill. ] have always been
proteoiionist, and have always believed
that il was the duty Of 4 country to de-
velop and foster its industries and pro-
teot its laborers from alien competition
by high tariffs. When the bill was nm
der consideration l was urged by the
committee from one side or another to
vote for this or another to vote for this
and oppose that. said was a prote.
tionist: that / would not discuss the
tariff question as to whether it is wrong
or benefaction. I have my own opin-
ion. but will moi discuss it IN this COM
inittee. If Il is a wrong Nevada and the
Wertern States insist upon getting their
share Of the plunder; il it is benefae-
ton we insist upon participating. That
is all there is of it. Hence, there was
put on the bill everything that / could
think Of which is produced in this State.
duties on wool, hides, lead, cattle,
borax. fruits-all went through. MA
colleague did everything he could to
assist in bringing about that result.
/ do not know of single explicit
charge that has been made against Sen
ator Stewart. In fact they are diaphan-
Gus. They consist Of dubious language
without stating anything. When they
talk about 'railroad charges | laugh l
came here before the railroad was built
II YOU could have such times as you had
when silver was S1z9 90 ounce and all
the miners had work on the lode, we
could afford to bring everything in on
mules and have money in our pocket.
There is no difficulty about fares and
freights when We have the mines in