Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-07-14
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS

PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.
convention assembled again express their 10y
atty to the prin ii - OF the Republican party,
which have mad the country SO great and
tt ury. O-0 49,
Resolued That the question of sufficient
supply OF cir ulatinG medium to maintain
permanent range of the prize OF labor and
property Is the most important political ques
| ton awaiting solution by the Ameri. an people
Resolved That diminishing quantity of
money reduces the price OF labor aud property
il, reases the obligation of contract. enrich
the creditor. impoveriSheS the debtor, and par
alyses industry and enterprise.
Resolved, That the present financial system
OF the United states, viii b 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 repudi-
| ated
RESOLVED, 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, and which has fraudulently demone
! tized silver and seized the revenues of the Gov
eminent Tor 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.
Resolucd, That we charge that President Gle
/ veland is the willing tool or agent of a power.
/ full money ring which fatenS 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,
/ tion, 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 prize OF labor and property.
Resolved That we favor the nomination of
no man Tor President who is personally inter
! ested in National Banks or the bonded indebt-
| edneas of the United States, but we demand
| candidate who Is Tree to do Justice to all the
people OF the Countrywide poor as well as the
! rich.
Resolued, That the trickery of the President
and his advisers by which they prevented
vote in the House of Representatives on the
| Be, k silver amendmen Mt TO the Bond purchasing
bill, equals the vllainy OF the secret and fraud
ulent characterization of silver in 1873.
RESOLVED That we are in favor of the protec-
zion of home industry, and that the laborers of
this country have right to all the work requir-
/ ed to supply the peop 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,
Resolped, 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.
Resolred, That we charge President Cleve-
! land with viz lating every promise he made in
| favor of civil service reform, with crippling the
mail services, with refusing 70 sign ne essary
| bills Tor the Improvement OF rivers and harbors,
with using the poWe 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 demonetize silver and destroy
| the industries of our country, and for the re-
du, ton 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 uontemptuous 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 immigratio by
whi,h the present overcharged condition of
the labor market is made worse and also favor
legislation by which revision of our natural
lZatlon 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
ReSolued 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 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
I may be preserved Tor 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 Coy
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
deienses Tor 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 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
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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 oi the mail ser.
vice in this State to the efficiency maintained
} by the last Republican Administration. and
employees, f'''