Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-10-31
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a very fair audience gathered in
the hotel dining room Saturday plight
70 hear Senator steStaft { sdiscuss the
issues Of the 'day!%HThe meeting was
called to order by Edgar Reinhart
chairman Of the Silver party county
committee, who made a brief address
highly lsudatory Of the Senator's
achievements in the silver fight, and
closed by introducing Mr.. Stewart.
The Senator took the floor amid
applause and SAID he was glad to
meet the people Of Nevada and talk
to them on the issues of the day.
After brief introduction he gave
short sketch Of his early career in the
State and the part he took in the
first Territorial council and the first
Constitutional convention and how
he first became candidate for the
United States Senate in 1865. He
was then elected by the Republicans
and reelected at the close of his
first term. At the expiration of his
second term he retired from the SEN
ate and engaged in the practice of
law i'll an effort to build up his for
tune. which had suffered greatly
through the failure Of mining VEN
lures on American Flat. He return
ed to the State in 1886 and became
candidate Ter the Senate and was
again elected by the Republicans.
No charge was then made by the
party whose candidate he was that he
was not citizen of the State. He
then gave an account of his first
meeting with President Lincoln and
the work he did in the Senate in pre-
pairing and pas sing the mining laws
by which the prospectors and miners
were given the fruits of their labor.
The Senator then took up the charges
circulated against. him by the syndi-
cate composed of Yerington. Coffin.
Woodburn, Cleveland, Chartz and
James Dennis, whom he said we're
trying to break him down before the
people IN order that a gold-bug might
be sent to the Senate of the United
States. He replied to these charges
with considerable spirit and pro.
nounced them without foundation,
He told OF his efforts in behalf Of the
State University. the Carson Mint,
the appropriation to pay the war
claims and ascribed the failure Of the
latter to the lack OF interest taken III
them by our Congressman.
He took up the Chicago convention
and told Of Bryan's masterful effort
and its effect on that body. There
and then, the Senator claimed, was
born the great Silver party OF the
Nation, whose leader was the peerless
Bryan. The Republicans had thrown
of the mask and now stood as the
advocates of the gold standard. He
denied that he had stated that he was
opposed to the Chicago platform and
Democracy. The Chicago conven!
ton had given the people Silver
party and the Democracy OF all but
four States had reaffirmed their al
legiance to that platform.
The Senator again turned his at
tention to the syndicate and claimed
that an organization was formed in
the State two years ago to accom-.
phsh his defeat. He was particu-
larry severe upon Fl. M. Yerington,
whom he said was using the Virginia
and Truckee railroad as defamation
society. He compared freight rates
on the Central Pacific and V. & T.
and showed how the latter railroad
was retarding the development OF
the Western part Of the State. The
syndicate, he claimed, had no candi.
date; the object was to defeat him
and make the State go for goll. He
told how Mr.. Cleveland had bolted
the st. Louis convention and, failing
to get the Silver party nomination for
Governor, had gone to San Francisco
and announced himself as candidate