Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-09-25
THE REpuBLl CAN PLATFORM
A RINGING DECLARATION OF
PRINCIPLES.


The Potter Investigation Con-
demned-State Legislation to
Regulate Fares and Freights
Demsnded-The Doctrine OF R0-
tation in Office Indorsed-The
System Of Deputyship Con-
demned-The Net Proceeds Of
Mines to be Taxed Equally With
Other Property-The LabOrer to
Have q Just and Equal Place
With the Capitalist-Any Cor
rupt Interference in Politics
Conference.-The.
Following is the declaration of
principles adopted by the Republic
can State Convention which met at
Eureka last week:
Resolved, Phst we re-affirm the principles
of, and renew our allegiance to the party
which preserved the Union, freed the slaves,
and maintained the essential doctrine: that
this is nation and not . confederacy bound
together with ropes Of sand. and that both
State and National Governments should give
ample and complete protection to its citizens,
both at home and abroad that against the as
sault of traitors aad rebels the Republican
party has preserved these governments, and
the Republicans Of Nevada now demand that
every qualified elector in every State-in
every State, South and North, Democrats or
Republican, black or white, shall be per.
mitted, undisturbed by force and unawed bv
prescribed by law, and that every vote so cast
shall be honestly counted, and that every per.
son chosen by such votes to any office shall be
freely indicted into 1t, and effectively sup
ported in the discharge Of its duties. That
the permanent pacification of the Southern
section of the Union, and complete protec-
tiou Of all its citizens, in their civil, politi-
cal, personal and property rights. is the duty
to which the Republican party stands sacredly
pledged. In order to redeem this pledge, 1t
placed the recent amendments In the Consti.
tuition. and upon the righteous basis of said
amendments it will go forward In the work
Of pacifcation. until peace shall come through
right doing, and contentment through justice.
That the evident purpose Of the Democratic
party, II 1t should come into full power, to
pay hundreds of millions of suspended war
claims Of disloyal men, already presented to
Congress or awaiting favorable moment for
presentation. makes It doubly important, now
that the Senate is soon to pass under Demo-
cratic domination, that the House of Repre-.
sentatives chosen in the coming election
should be under Republican control.
Resolved. That the validity of the presi-
Dental term was definitely and finally settled
by the forty.fourth Congress, and that the at
tempt Swallowed forth by the Potter resolutions
to disturb the title by which President Hayes
and Wee President Wheeler hold their seats
Is revolutionary and dangerous in the ex-
IRENE, Characteristic as it is of the underly-
ing motives of the rebel Democracy, call
for our unqualified disapproyal and denuncia-
ton.
Resolved. That it Is the duty OF Congress to
perfect with all possible expedition such
legislation as will secure to the country the
benefit of an honest and fair adjustment Of
freights and fares on all railroads whose con-
struction is the result of land grants, subsi-
dies. loans and other governm ent aid and as
sistance.
Resolved, That the Republican party favors
and demands at the hands Of the State Legis-
lature legislation having in view the regula-
ton and equalization of treights and fares on
all railroads within this State.
Resolved. That il their shameless disregard
Of our avowed principles, the Democratic
party of this State in their unxnistakable pur-
pose to nominate the prese mt incumbent Of
the gubernatorial office for third term, have
brought upon themselves the deserved dis
trust, not only of every Republican, but Of
the more honorable and consistent members
of their own party.
Resolved. That we believe In the doctrine
Of rotation in Office, and that so believing
we are opposed to the nomination Of candi-
dates to Office under the State government for
third term.
Resolved, That we hail with joy the re-
monetization Of silver as a step toward cur
emancipation from the grasp Of the corrupt
| money rings of Europe and America, and We
ask Congress to complete the measure Of our
redemption by according to silver unrestrain-
ed coinage.
Resolved. That in the legislation Of the
forty-hfth Congress nothing more fully COM
mands our appreciation than the efforts of our
Senators and Representatives in securing the
reconciliation Of silver and the dual stand
ard in the coinage of the country.
Resolved, That there should be retrench-
ment in the public service; that men elected
to Office should be qualified by education, in
telligence and business habits to perform the
duties Of their respective Offices, and that tho
system Of deputyships and clerkships at pres
ent existing in the interest Of State officers
should be abolished at once and forever.
Resolved. That the public lands sre the
property of the people. and therefore they
| should be reserved for actual settlers, aided
in their settlement by the Government and
protected in their possessions by just laws.
Resolved. That we recognize the wisdom OF
| the trainers OF our constitution in providing
| for the taxation Of the proceeds of the mines: