Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-08-11
REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM OF THE WINNIE.
MUccl CONVENTION.

1
,
The Republicans Of the State OF Ne
vada, in convention assembled, again ex
press their loyalty to the principles Of th,
Republican party, which have made thi,
country so great and prosperous during the
last quarter Of a century.
ii.
| Resolved. That the question Of sufH.
cient supply OF circulating medium Ia
maintain a permanent range Of the price
Of labor and property Is the most impor.
tant political question awaiting solution
by the American people.
That diminishing quantity of money
reduces the price of labor and property,
enrches the creditor, impoverishes the
debtor, and paralyzes industry and enter
prize.
That the present financial svssen OF the
| United States, which iDcreases or dimih-
ishes the circulating medium at the pleas
ure OF the manipulatofs of the national
banks, without regard to the increase Of
population or the wants OF the people, and
which recognizes gold alone as the stand.
ard OF value, and places in the hands Of
the Treasury Department all the revenae
OF the Government to speculate with in
bonds and loan to the national banks
without interest, is subseisive OF the
people. oppressive, unjust and should be
repudiated.
That 9 financial policy whereby both
| god an silver shall 3orm 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 nsurped the sovereign power Of
the Government 10 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 q powerful
money ring, which fattens on the subsi-
dies OF the Government, makes war on sill
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 Presi lent who Is personally inter
ested in national banks or the bonded in
debtedness Of the United States, but we
demand candidate who is free to do JUS
tice to all the people of the country the
poor as well as the rich.
That the trick of the President and his
advisers by which they prevented a vote in
the House of Representatives on the Beck
silver amendment to the Bond Purchase
bill, equals the villainy Of the secret and
fraudulent demonstration Of silver in
1873.
Resolved, That we are in favor Of the
protection Of home industry, and that the
laborers of this country haye.a right to all
the work required to supply the people of
the United States. and that we are in ia
vor of high wages, and to that end will
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-
lished by the people through their repre-
sentatives in both Houses Of Congress, and
not by the President or money trust, Of
which he, either as agent or head, is most
active in defending.
We charge President Cleveland with
violating every promise he made in favor of
civil service reform, with crippling the
mail service, with refusing to sign neces.
sary bills for the improvement OF rivers and
harbors, with using the power of his ad-
ministration to prevent appropriations for
navy and coast defenses, with attempting
to destroy the protective tariff, with court
ing the good will of other nations at the
expense of the citizens Of the United
States, and with joining the foreign bond
holders to demonetize silver and destroy
the industries OF his own country, and for
the reduction of the wages of the Mint
| employees at Carson, for closing the Carson
Mint when it was not only self-sustsining
but a source of revenue to the Govern.
ment, for his contemptuous vetoes of bills
| for the relief of disabled soldiers and sail
ors, and for failing TO construct the Gov
| ernment building at Carson as required by
law.
vi.
We favor the reduction of the Treasury
| surplus by the payment of pensions TO
| Union soldiers, their widows and orphans,
the improvement of rivers and harbors,
the building of defenses for the sea coast,
the erection of public buildings, the crea-
tion of navy, the purchase Of bonds and
the repeal of the internal revenue laws
taxing tobacco.
It is the duty Of this State to maintain
free, non-sectarian schools in the rural and
sparsely settled districts, as we'll as in
towns and thickly populated sections. and
that such division of the school money
shall be made as will furnish the means
of education to all children Of the State.
VIII.
We are in favor Of reopening the Carson
Mint for coinage and raising the wagei
of its employees to the standard paid BY
the last administration.
TX.
We demand the restoration of the mai
service 10 this State to the efficiency
maintained by the last Republican admin
istration, and favor the payment of fai
wages to all postal employees.
Y.
We are in favor OF the absolute exclu
sion of Chinese, and of the restriction o
immigration by which the overcharget
condition of the labor market is mad
worse, and we favor legislation by whicl
revision of our naturalization and lanS
laws may be accomplished.
XI.
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