Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-06-02
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 so great and
prosperous during the last quarter OF a CEN
turY.
Resolved, That the question of sufficient
| supply of a 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
| ayses industry and enterprise.
ResolUed, That the present financial system
| of the United States, which increases or dimin-
ishes the circulating medium at the pleasure OF
| the manipuators 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 PEG
pie oppressive, unjust, and should be repudl-
ated
Resolued, That 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
| 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, aud 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 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 usurerS while
it 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
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| Resolved, That the trickery 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 purchasing
BILL equals the villainy of the secret and fraud
ulent demonstration of silver in 1878.
| 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.
Resolced, That the policy of the Government
4 hi had
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 cripplng 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 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 demonetZe silver and destroy
the industries of our country and for the re-
ductOn 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.
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We are in favor of the absolute exclusion of
Chinese, and the restriction of immigration, by
which the present oyercharged condition of
the labor market is made worse and also favor
| legislation by which a 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.
ResoIosd, 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.
SWe 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.
XI.
| 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 as well 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.
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 Admin istration. and
] favor the payment of fair wages to all posts