Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-09-29
REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM or THE WINNIE.
MUCcA CONVENTION.

press their loyalty TO the principles of th
Republican party, which have made thi
country so great and prosperous during tn
last quarter Of a century.
ii.
Resolved, That the question of a suffi
| cient supply of circulating medium /
| maintain permanent range Of the pric
OF labor and property is the most impor
tant political question awaiting solution
by the American people.
That diminishing quantity Of none,
reduces the price of labor and property
| enriches the creditor, impoverishes tn,
debtor. aud paralyzes industry and enter
prize.
That the present financial system OF tn,
United States, which increases or dimin
ishes the circulating medium at the pleas
ure OF the manipulators OF the nationa
banks, without regard to the increase Of
population or the wants Of the people, anC
which recognizes gold alone as the stand
ard OF value, and places in the hands o
the Treasury Department all the revenu,
OF the Government to speculate with II
bonds and loan to the national bank
without interest, is subsersive of ths
people, oppressive, unjust and should bs
repudiated.
That a financial policy whereby both
gold an silver shall form the basis of cir
culation, whether the money used by the
people be coin, or coin certificates redeem.
able in coin or both, as convenience may
require, is imperatively demanded.
That the attempt to substitute national
bank notes, costing the Government mil.
lions of dollars annually, for free silver,
costing nothing, is an outrage upon the
people; that the money ring or trust,
which has usurped the sovereign power oi
the Government TO issue money, and which
has fraudulently demonetized silver and
seized the revenues Of the Government for
private speculation, shocks the moral sense
of the people and destroys respect for gov
ernment and law. We demand that this
ring or trust be destroyed, and equal rights
be restored to all the people.
We charge that President Cleveland is
the willing tool or agent of a powerful
money ring, which fattens ON the subsi-
dies of the Government, makes war on sil-
yer, issues its paper currency at the ex-
pense Of the Government, borrows the
revenues raised by taxation and rses them
without the payment Of interest, contracts
the currency to enhance the value Of
bonds, and enriches usurers, while it de.
presses the price of labor and property.
That we favor the nomination of no
man for President who is personally inter
ested in national banks or the bonded in
debtedness of the United States, but we
demand a candidate who is free to do jus
tice to all the people Of the countryside
poor as well as the rich.
That the trick Of the President and his
advisers by which they prevented vote in
the House Of Representatives on the Beck
silver amendment to the Bond Purchase
bill, equals the villainy Of the secret and
fraudulent demonetization Of silver in
1873.
Resolved, That we are in favor of the
protection Of home industry, and that the
laborers of this country have !. right to al
the work required to supply the people ol
the United States, and that we are in ia
vor of high wages, and to that end viii
protect the wage workers from competi
tion with the cheap labor OF other lands.
".
Resolved, That the policy of the Gov
ernment should be inaugurated and estab
sentatives in both Houses of Congress, anC
not by the President or money trust, O
which he, either as agent or head, is mos
active in defending.
V.
We charge President Cleveland will
violating every promise he made in favor o
civil service reform, with crippling tn
mail service, with refusing to sign neces
sary bills for the improvement Of rivers an,
harbors, with using the power of his ad
ministration to prevent appropriations fol
navy and coast defenses, with attempting
to destroy the protective tariff, with court
ing the good will of other nations at tn
expense of the citizens Of the Unite,
States, and with joining the foreign bond
holders to demonetize silver and destro,
the industries of his own country, and 70
the reduction of the wages of the Min
employees at Carson, for closing the CarsoI
Mint when it was not only self-sustainin
but a source of revenue to the Govern
| ment, for his contemptuous vetoes of bill
for the relief of disabled soldiers and sail
ors, and for failing to construct the Gov
ernment building at Carson as required b
law.
We favor the reduction Of the Treasur
| surplus by the payment of pensions
| Union soldiers, their widows and orphans
| the improvement of rivers and harbor
| the building Of defenses for the sea coas'
the erection of public buildings, the ere.
| tion Of navy, tue purchase of bonds an
the repeal of the internal revenue Law
taxing tobacco.
It is the duty of this State to maintai
free, non-sectarian schools in the rural ar
sparsely settled districts, as well as
towns and thickly populated sections, al
that such division Of the school monC
shall be made as will furnish the meal
Of education to all children of the State.
VIII.
We are in favor OF reopening the Cars
Mint for coinage and raising the wag
of its employees t. the standard paid
the last administration.
TX.
| We demand the restoration Of the mi
service in this State to the eflicien
maintained by the last Republican admi
istration, and favor the payment Of Fl
wages to all postal employees.
Y.
We are in favor of the absolute excl
sion of Chinese, and of the restriction
immigration by which the overchai &
condition of the labor market is ma
worse, and we favor legislation by viii
revision of our naturalization and la
laws may be accomplished.
XI.
We demand in behalf of our various
dustries the retention of the duties on les
borax, soda. hides and leather, and to
store the tax Of 1867 on wool.
XII.
Resolved, That we recognize the RIG
of labor to organize for its lawful prot
tion.
XIII.
We favor tie granting to Nevada Of
Government land within the State for
purpose of providing means for irrigati
and other improvements.