The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-10-22

What REPUBLICAN VICTORY MEAS.
The Republicans are making desperate
sentative in Congress. The leaders lave
evidently received Instructions from
Washington to make extraordinary eff
forts in that direction, and they are ODE
diently following these Instructions. The
local Republican leaders, as do their
party associates in the East, realize the
ir.pcssibilIty of electing their State tick
ct and also that the chances are nearly
If not quite as remote for securing a joint
ballot majority in the next Legislature.
So they are concentrating their work
against the fusion candidate for Congress
man and State Senator'S, hoping to secure
a few of the latter as a starter for w.
M. Stewart in 1904.
No greater misfortune could befall the
State of Nevada than the election of a
Republican Congressman at the present
time. The Hill bill, which practically re-
moves the last remnant of bimetallism
from our currency system, has passed
the House and is now pending in the
Senate. That body failed to act upon it
at the last session, fearing the conse-
quences in the present Congressional cam
paign, but should a Republican majority
ha act,ra1 for tho 1nufa~ Hnrco in tho noW
Congress the goldites in the Ssnat will
take courage and the bill will be passed
without a shadow of doubt. The passage
OF that bill would mean the transposition
of silver from the list of precious to that
o. bar metals, used in mechanics and in
the lower branches of the arts and sci
ences. 1t is admitted. or, rather, it is
boosted by the goldites that its total de-
struction as a money metal would reduce
its value to fifteen or twenty cents per
ounce. Even at its present price. the
white metal can be profitably extracted
from some of the high-grade silver mines
in the State, While in most of the gold
mines it adds materially to the aggrega-
gate valuation of their products. In fact.
many of the gold mine owners estimate
the silver extracted with the gold as the
profit over the expense of mining and
milling, and that without such addition
their mines could only be worked at a
loss. So it will be seen that the enact
ment of the Hill bill into law would
rich mines now being worked in Nevada
but also many of the gold mines which
carry a considerable percentage of the
less valuable metal.
These are facts which cannot be de-
MED. and they should be remembered by
every Nevadan when he casts his vote for
Congressman and legislators who will
elect a United States Senator at the next
session of the Legislature. They should
didates but of principle, and a principle,
which involves the vital interest of
the mining industry, gold as well as
silver. in the State of Nevada.
The election of a Republican Congress
man in this STATE at the present time
would mean the endorsement of the Hill
bill by the people of a silver-producing
commonwealth. and the election Of that
single member would furnish stronger ar
gument for the goldites in the Senate
han the returning of an additional dozen
of Republicans from any of the Eastern.
Middle or Middle West States. But we
are confident that a large majority of the
voters of Nevada are too intelligent and
too mindful of their own interests to place
such a weapon in the hands of their en-
emies. They will give Clarence D.. Van
Duzer such an overwhelming majority.
an dalso the fusion legislative tickets. as
Mil at least convince the oddities of the