Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-09-22
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.


PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.
The Republicans of the State of Nevada in
4 convention assembled again express their 10y
atty to the principals of the Republican party,
which have made the country so great and
prosperous during the last quarter of cen
tury.
Resolved, That the question of a sufficient
supply OF 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 diminishing quantity of
money reduces the price of labor and property
| increases the obligation OF contract, enrlches
the creditor, impovershes the debtor, and par
6lyses industry and enterprise.
ResoEred, That the present financial system
of the United States, which increases or dimin
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 the standard OF value. and place. 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 repudl-
! ated.
Resolved, That financial policy whereby
both gold and silver shall form the basis OF
circulation, whether the money used by the
!
| coin, or both, convenience may require, is
! imperatively demanded.
Resolued, 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
monee, and which has fraudulently .demone-
tiZed 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 that this
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 fattens 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 Insurers while
it depresses the price OF labor and property.
Resoloed, 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
candidate who is free to do justice to all the
people of the Countrywide poor as well as the
| rich.
Resolced, That the trickery OF the President
and his advisers by which they prevented
| vote in the House of Representatives on the
| 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
rion of home industry, and that the laborers of
| this country have right to ali the work Tequir
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.
ReSolUed, 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
the money trust, of which he, either agent or
head, is most active in defending.
Resolped, That we charge President Cleve-
land with violating every promise he made i'll
favor of civil service reform, with gripping the
mail services with refusing to sign necessary
bills for the improvement OF rivers and harbors.
with using the power of his Administration to
prevent appropriations for navy and coast de-
| lenses, with attempting to destroy the protec-
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 demonetze 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 il was not
only selfesustainiug but 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
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.
| VI.
Resolped, That we recognize the right of la
Dor to organize for its lawful protection.
| VII.
| ResoEred That we favor the submission by
the Legislature to the people of an amendment
| to the Constitution giving the Legislature the
| power to regulate the liquor traffic.
| VIII.
| We 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.
TX.
We indorse the wise and conservative admin
| 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
eminent land within the State for the purpose
Of providing means for irrigation and other
| improvements.
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 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 thiekly-
settled sections, and that such a 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 Administration, and
favor the payment OF fair wages to all postal
employees. f'"'