The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-07-26
Thursday, July 90, 1900.

With this issue the NEWS nails the
banner of Bryan and Stevenson TO its
masthead and will follow their leader
ship to victory or defeat in the coming
campaign. We are free to admit that
this position has not been taken with
out long and careful consideration.
There are many planks in the Demo-
cratic platform with which we are not
in sympathy. We believe in the policy
OF protection to American industry and
we are not inclined to criticise the poll
Icy of the present Administration in its
conduct of affairs in our new island pos
sessions, which policy We believe was
necessitated by conditions beyond its
control. We cannot but recognize the
Improvement of conditions throughout
the country in the last four years and
we are willing to give credit where il is
due
But whatever may be the paramount
issues in other parts Of the country, in
the State of Nevada the silver issue
overshadows them ALL 1t has been re-
peatedly asserted in Republican and
eastern Democratic papers that the sill
yer question is dead and an effort was
made to bury it in the recent Demo-
cratic national convention, but that eff
fort was not successful. The silver
forces triumphed in that convention,
largely through the efforts and in def
erence to the viii Of the leaders from
the silver mining states, on whom Mr.
Bryan depended for his support against
the gold men of the East.
1t would be the basest ingratitude,
therefore, for State like Nevada.
which gave Bryan s,377 votes in 1895
as against |, $50 for Mckinley, to turn
its back now upon the silver cham
pion' who so ably presented our case
before.the people in the last campaign.
We are not among those who con-
tinually draw down their mouths and
cry that Nevada win never amount to
anything without the revival of the
silver mining industry. We believe
that this State has wonderful resources
OF gold and copper and other valuable
minerals, besides agricultural POSSIBLE
tiles that are hardly yet realized. But
on the other hand, it cannot be denied
that there is no one thing that would
enable us TO forge ahead so rapidly as
the reinstatement OF silver to its old
price level of 81 20 an ounce, which we
believe can be accomplished by wise
legislation.
Self-interest is, after all, the founda-
ton of politics. and the self interest of
the people of Nevada demands the free
coinage of silver, As between Bryan
on strong silver platform and Me
klnley on strong gold platform there
seems to us to be but one choice for all
those citizens OF this State who have
been sincere in there adherence TO the
silver cause for the past eight years.
Next to the silver issue, we believe
that the most vital question in Nevada
politics to-day is imperialism not
Imperialism in the Philippines or in
Porto Rico, but Imperialism in Nevada.
Nowhere is a renewed Declaration of
Independence needed more than it is
in this State to-day. For years we have
allowed one man to nominate our can
didates, elect whom he would, make our
laws and execute them as he has seen
fit. We have heard it repeatedly stated
that it is useless to try to combat the
power OF this man Wallace. We do
not believe it. Such a declaration is
sur upon the intelligence, the honor
and manhood of the citizens of Nevada.
The NEWS bolted the Silver party
State ticket two years ago because it
was nominated in the interests of the
railroad and not OF the people, and this
year we will not support any ticket or
any candidate who has not shown, both
by his utterances and by his record
that he is free from the Southern Pa
eifc's collar.
Before the Chinese oct through with