Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-10-06
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.

PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.
| The Republicans of the State of Nevada in
convention assembled again express their 10y
atty to the principals OF the Republican party,
which have made the country great and
prosperous during the last quarter of a cen
tury.
Resolved, That the question of q sufficient
supply OF r circulating medium to maintain a
permanent range of the price of labor and
property is the most important political ques-
ton awaiting solution BY the American people.
Resolved That a diminishing quantity of
money reduces the price of labor aud property
increases the obligation of contract. enriches
the creditor, impoverisheS the debtor. and par
alyses industry and enterprise.
RESOLVED, That the present financial system
of the United States, which increases or dimi D.
ishes the circulating medium at the pleasure of
the manipulators Of the National banks, with.
out regard to the increase of population or the
wants of the people, and which recognizes gold
alone as the standard OF value, and places in
the hands of the Treasury Department all the
revenue of the Government to speculate with
in bonds and loan to National banks without
interest, is subversive of the rights of the peo-
pie, oppressive, unjust. and should be repudi.
ated.
Resolved, That a financial policy whereby
both gold and silver shall form the basis OF
circulation, whether the money used by the
coin, or both as convenience may require, is
imperatively demanded.
Resolved, That the attempt to substitute Ma
tional bank notes, costing the Government mil
lions of dollars annually for free silver, cost
ing nothing. is an outrage upon the people;
that the money ring or trust. which has userped
the sovereign power of the Government to issue
money, and which has fraudulently demone-
tiled silver and seized the revenues of the Gov
eminent for private speculation shocks the
moral sense of the people and destroys respect
for Government and law. We demand thatthi
ring or trust be destroyed and equal rights re-
stored to all people.
Resolved, That we charge that President Gle
veland is the willing tool or agent of a power
full money ring which fsttens the subsidies of
the Government, makes war on silver issues
its paper currency at the expense of the Gov.
eminent, borrows the revenues raised by taxa
ton, and uses them without the payment of
interest, contracts the currency to enhance the
value of bonds, and enriches the usurers while
II depresses the price of labor and property.
RESOLVED, That we favor the nomination of
no man for President who is personally inter
ested in National Banks or the bonded indebt-
edness of the United states. but we demand a
candidate who is free to do justice to all the
R rich. u the country p00' as wen Us the
Resolved, That the trickery of the President
and his advisers by which they prevented a
Beck silver amendment to the Bond purchasing
bill. equals the villainy of the secret and fraud
ulent demonstration of silver in 1873.
II.
Resolved That we are in favor of the protec-
| ton of home industry, and that the laborers of
this country have right to all the work requir-
ed to supply the people of the United States,
and that we are in favor of high wages in this
country, and to that end will protect the wage.
| workers competition with the cheap labor Of
| other lands.
Resolved, That the policy Of the Government
| should be inaugurated and established by the
people through their representatives in both
Houses of Congress. and not by the President or
head, is most active in defending
Resolped, That we charge President Cleve-
land with violating every promise he made in
favor of civil service reform, with Gripping the
mail mail services. with refusing to sign necessary
with using the power OF his Administration to
prevent appropriations for navy and coast de-
tive tariff, with counting the good will OF other
nations at the expense of the citizens of the
United States, and with joining the foreign
| bondholders to demonetize silver and destroy
| the industries of our country, and for the re-
| ductiOn of wages of the Mint employees at Car
son, for closing the Carson Mint when it was not
| only selfesustainiug but a source of revenue to
the Government for its contemptuous vetoe Of
pension bills for the relief of disabled soldiers
and sailors, and for failing to construct the Gov
eminent building at Carson as required.
| ~.
We are in favor of the absolute exclusion of
Chinese, and the restriction of immigration, by
which the present overcharged condition OF
| the labor market Is made worse, and also favor
| legislation by which revision of our natural
ization and land laws may be accomplished.
| v.
We demand, in behalf of our various indus.
tries the retention Of the duties on lead, borax
soda, hides and leather, and to restore the tariff
of 1867 on wool.
RESOLVED. That we recognize the right of la
Dor to organize for its lawful protection.
VII.
RESOLVED, That we favor the submission by
the Legislature to the people of an amendment
to the Constitution giving the legislature the
VIII.
Hwe favor liberal appropriations by Congress
for photographed and Typographical surveys
in this State to the end that the waste waters
may be preserved for the purpose of irrigation.
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istration of Governor C. c. Stevenson, and we
heartily commend the able efforts of Senators
Stewart and Jones and Representative Wood
burn in behalf OF the interests of the people Of
| this State.
We favor the granting to Nevada of all Gov
OF providing means for irrigation and other
improvements.
XII
We favor the reduction OF the Treasury sur
! plus by the payment of pensions to Union sol.
diers their widows and orphans, the improve
ment of rivers and harbors, the building of
defenses for our sea coasts. the erection of pub
lie buildings, the creation of a navy, the pur-
chase of bonds and the repeal of the internal
revenue laws taxing tobacco.
| XII
| 1t is the duty OF the State to maintain free
non-sectarian schools in the rural and sparsely-
settled districts well as in towns and thickly-
settled sections, and that such division of the
| school money should be made as will furnish
the means OF education to all children in the
| State
| XIII.
We are in favor Of re-opening the Carson
Mint for coinage, and raising the wages Of its
employees TO the standard paid by the last Re.
publican Administration.
XIV.
We demand the restoration of the mail ser
vice in this State to the efficiency maintained
by the last Republican Administrator ann
favor the payment of fair wages to ali postal