Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-06-23
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 SO great aud
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; Rssolued, That the question of a sufficient
supply OF circulating medium to maintain q
permanent range OF the price OF labor and
property Is the most important political queS-
ton awaiting solution by the American people.
Rcsolred, That diminishing quantity of
money reduces the price of labor and property
increases the obligation of contract, enrches
the creditor, impoverishes the debtor, and par
alyses industry and enterprise.
Resolved, That the present financial system
OF the United States which increases or dimin-
ishes the circulating medium at the pleasure of
+ the menipulators 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.
Reso'red, That a financial policy whereby
both gold and silver shall form the basis OF
circulation, whether the money used by the
people be coin or in certificates redeemable in
F.. coin, or both, as convenience may require is
! lmperauvely demanded
Resolyed, 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 toissue
4 money, and which has fraudulently demone
! TIED 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 thatths
/ ring or trust be destroyed and equal rights re-
/ stored to all people
Resolved, That we charge that President Gle
{ 20 is @ vi tn or of
+ full money ring which fattens the subsidies of
/ the Government makes war on silver, issues
lis paper currency at the expense of the Gov
eminent, bOrrows the revenues raised by taxa
non, and uses them without the payment of
/ interest contracts the currency to enhance the
value OF bonds and enriches the usurers while
IL depreSSes the price OF labor and property.
Reso!red 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
People PEEP OF the Countrywide poor as well as the
Resolved, That the trickery of the President
and his advisers by which they prevented
vote in the House OF Representatives the
Beck silver amendment to the Bond purchasing
bill equals the villainy of the secret and fraud
ulent demonstration of silver in 1873
Ii.
Resolped, That we are in favor of the protec-
ton of home industry, and that the laborerS OF
Wis NtuuNIN nave III W dlI lIlt NOTh
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.
Resolred, 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 as agent or
head, is most active in defending.
Resolved, That we charge President Cleve-
land with violating every promise he made in
favor of civil service reform, with Gripping the
mail services, with refusing to sign ne, essary
| bills for the improvement of rivers and harbors
with using the power OF his Administration to
prevent appropriations for a 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 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 il was not
! only seltesG>tainiug 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
] ln4otLOh UN HLlCL d revision OF our natural
1zation 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
! Resolred, That we recognize the right of la
| Dor to organize for its lawful protection.
VII.
Resolred, That we favor the submission by
the Legislature to the people of an amendment
70 tne tonstituuon giving the Legislature the
power to regulate the liquor traffic,
| VIII.
We favor liberal appropriations by Congress
| for Typographical 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
ourn IN behalf OF the interests of the people OF
| this State.
We favor the granting u Nevada of all Gov
eminent land within the State for the purpose
OF providing means for irrigation and other
| improvements.
NJ.
We favor the reduction of the Treasury sur-
plus by the payment of pensions TO Union SOL
diers, their widows and orphans the improye
ment OF rivers and harbors the building of
detenSes for our sea coasts, the erection of pub
nc 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
hon-sectarlan schools in the rural and snArsely-
settled districts as well as in towns and thickIy
setted sections, and that such division of the
school money should be made as will fnrnish
the means OF education TO all children in the
State " 0
XIII.
We are in favor of re-opening the Carson
MINI Tor coinage and raising the wages of its
publican Administration. -''
! XIV
we demand the restoration of the mail SER
vice "a this state to the efficiency maintained
by the last Republican Administration and
favor The payment of fair wages 10 all postal