Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-09-15
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 aintain
permanent range of the price of labor and
property is the most important political ques-
ton awaiting solution by the American people.
ResoIoed, That diminishing quantity of
money reduces the price OF labor and property
! increases the obligation of contract. enriches
the creditor, impOverishes the debtor, and par
alyses industry and enterprise
Resolved, That the present financial system
of the United states, which increases or dimn-
| 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 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-
a ase ot'' $50 v - 49, anu ''''''N - pun
Resolrcd, That a financial policy whereby
both gold and silver shall form the basis OF
circulation, whether the money used by the
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/ coin, or both, as convenience may require, is
| mperatively demanded.
| ResoiUed, 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 or trust be destroyed and equal rights re-
| stored to all people.
! Resolvcd, 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 al 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
/ il depresses the price of labor and property.
| ResolUed, That we favor the nomination of
no man Tor President who is personally inter
/ ested in National Banks or the bonded indebt-
ednees of the United states, but We demand
candidate VINO is tree to do justice TO all the
people of the Countrywide poor well the
| rich.
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
|
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 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.
Resolved, That the policy of the Government
should be inaugurated and established by the
people through their representatives in both
the money trust, OF which he, either as agent or
head, is most active in defending
| III.
ResoEred, 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 necessary
bills Tor 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 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 it 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 falling 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 a 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.
Reso9ced 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
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 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.
IT is the duty of the State to maintain free
non-sectarian schools in the rural and sparsely-
settled districts as 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.
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 Inaintainod
by the last Republican Administrator. and
iayor the payment of fair wages TO, all postal