Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-10-24
HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN
EIToR INDEPENDENT:

- 10 4ulIS CNIuSuL Cltdt from the
high and statesmanike plane Of the
great and lamented Lin coin. the lead
ers of the Republican party have
stadily refrigerated until they have
fallen head and shoulders into the
slums OF political corruption go deep
and rePrehensible as to forever ex.
clude them from taking further part
LII the councils Of the Government.
Steadily as the panther's tread and
cunning as the serpent in allurmg
and creeping upon its prey they have
wormed their way into the temple OF
liberty and appropriated to them
selves the rights and liberties of the
people as grained by the constitution
made mockery of justice and de-
graded to the level of ward politi-
clans some OF the members of the
highest tribunal known to our laws.
BY lavish use Of colossal corruption
fumes filched from the people under
various and alluring pretexts they
have succeeded in placing dummies
in the Presidential Office and surround
ed them with INSCRIPTIONS manipula-
tors whose only recommendation to
place and power is the amount they
contributed to carry the electiCOs and
the influence of corporations, trusts
and combines behind them,
10 impoverish the people and en-
slave labor, to concentrate
capital in the hands of the few at the
expense of the many, and SO control
the distribution Of money, politicians
OF the Sherman contingent, covertly
joined hands with a syndicate of for
eign and domestic bondholders to
strike the coinage Of silver dollars
from our mint laws, deLrecate that
metal and enhance gold, not in the
Interest OF the people whose money
they had taken away, but in the in
terest of bankers and bondholders
and the elevation of their yellow god.
Evidence in abundance is not lacking
to prove that these parasites on the
body polite for almost thirty years
after the secret accomplishment of
their nefarious designs denied in toto
from the stump, by post ers, through
the press and Otherwise that they had
never intended to 1emonitize silver
and pledged themselves in all their
platforms, state and National, to re-.
store the white metal to its place as
it was and had been for m ore than 80
years without let or hindrance in the
financial system of this Government.
But notwithstanding such assur.
ances. after every general election
carried by the Republican party,
from 1873 up, by hook or crook, by
evasion and subterfuge, the issue was
evaded and silver adroitly pushed
further INTO the back ground, until
1896, when evasion and hypocricy
was no longer possible or tenable
then the schemers threw off the mask
in single night ard exultingly pro-
claimed their adhesion to the golden
calf and the instalment OF the yellow
god and by the lavish use Of gigan-
tic corruption fund, gathered for the
purpose, succeeded again i'll hood
winking the people and carried the
election again for the Republican
party, but by Igreatly reduced plu-
rality.
Bimetalists yesterday, monometsl-
lists today. Behind them is the trail
OF the serpent; before them the whirl.
wind. Let those who will, stand from
under for the people still live and the
day OF reckoning is at hand
Unscrupulous echemers! They
have, under various pretenses and at
different times and place and without
sufficient provocatioD, placed the mil.
itary'above the civil authority, ignor.
ed habeas corpus, suppressed or muz.
zled the press, smotbered free speech
o,,l gopf forEI, tho ,o;l;ko,,, o..s.