Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-10-20
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.

! convention ass mbled again express their 10y
! atty to the principals of the Republican party
which have made the country great and
prosperous during the last quarter of cen
/ turv
! ReSolucd, That the question of sufficient
| supply OF circulating medium to maintain
| permanent range of the price of labor and
| property is the most important political ques
ton awaiting solution by the Amerit an people.
Resolred, That a diminishing quantity of
money reduces the price of labor and property
increases the obligation of contract, enriches
the creditor, impOverishe 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 manipulators OF the National bank, with
out regard to the increase of population or the
wants OF the people, and which recognizes gold
alone Is 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.
Resolved 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
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-
TIED 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 thatth
ring or trust be destroyed and equal rights re
stored to all people.
Resolrcd, That We charge that President Gle
veland is the willing tool or egent 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 Insurers while
II depresses the price OF labor and property.
ResoEued, That we favor the nomination of
no man Tor 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 Tree to do justice to all the
P Fich Oh 'ne 'oUnry-'ne poor as well as the
Resolred, 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 10 the Bond purchasing
bill, equals the vlllainy OF the secret and fraud
ulent decentralization of silver in 1878.
Resolved, That we are in favor of the protec.
tion of home industry. and that the laborers of
this country have right to all the work requir
Gu W supply tne ptppe Oh the bnltSu states,
and that we are in favor of high wages in this
country and to that end win 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.
Resolred, 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, essarv
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, ana 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
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 nv
which the present overcharged condition OF
the labor market Is made worse and also favor
legislation by which a 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.
Resoleed, That We recognize the right of la |
Dor to organize for its law full protection
VII.
Resolved, That we favor the submission by |
the Legislature to the DeOnlp of IN ont
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
tstratOn of Governor G. 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 purnoSa
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 sea coasts, the erection of 1uh
lie buildings, the creation of a navy, the nur
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 as in towns and thickly
settled sections. and that such division Of Tie
school money should be made as will furnisb
the means OF education to all children in the
State. III 'he
XIII
we are in favor of re-opening the Carson
Mint FOR coinage, and raising the wages of its
emIR,i.oyes to the standard paid by the last Re.
XIV.
I've we !; ue ma the restoration of the mail SER
vice IN THIS state to the efficiency maintained
ny the last Republican Administrator and
iaVor me payment of fair wages to ali postal