Three Brave Men Leave Republican Convention Over Gold Standard
The Silver State applauds A Cleveland Enoch Strother and another Nevada delegate for following principle over party after the convention adopted a gold standard plank. It contrasts them with three who stayed, calling them traitors and lauding Cleveland and supporters of silver for choosing the cause over the gold power.
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Cleveland
Enoch Strother
Nevada
Teller
West
Benedict Arnold
A. ©. Cleveland
Mr. Strother
A Proposal for a Silver Paper in San Francisco
A reader laments the lack of a strong pro silver newspaper in San Francisco calling out the San Francisco Chronicle and The Call for betraying silver ideals. The writer urges starting a fearless Pacific coast paper with 100000 circulation within a year and insists on news honesty and political independence. He cites Mike de Young and gold interests as reasons to challenge existing papers and defend justice.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Mike de Young
Gold Trust
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
United States
Spreckels Critique Reflects on Political Motives
Opinion questions John D. Spreckels as merely inheriting wealth. The writer accuses him of exploiting the public to gain political influence while showing contempt for common people. A sharp, partisan critique underscores concerns about elitist influence in politics.
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John D. Spreckels
Wyoming in Line on McKinley Silver Issue
A Cheyenne writer interviews Republican businessmen about McKinley and a gold platform at St Louis. He notes Wyoming voters and business leaders leaning to the silver cause, seeing a convention adoption of gold and a Chicago nominee as pivotal for silver. He says influential commercial figures are joining silver forces, blurring party lines.
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Wyoming
McKinley
St. Louis
Chicago
Sheridan
Napoleon
Ohio
Nevada paper blasts silver coinage argument as silly
The Reno Gazette ridicules a writer who argued against free coinage of silver, noting Mexico’s half dollar would be worth 50 cents if silver price were fixed. It asserts American silver remains valued at par in Europe and rebuts the piece as partisan rhetoric.
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Reno Gazette
Nevada
Europe
The Battle Is On as Silverites Rally Behind Teller
The piece argues Republicans back McKinley and the gold standard while Western delegates bend to him. It predicts Teller’s nomination by silver allies and a southern running mate, foreseeing McKinley’s defeat in Nevada and a possible retirement.
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McKinley
Teller
Friends of Silver
Hanna
Nevada
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