Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-06-30
REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM OF THE WINNIE
MUCcA CONVENTION.

| isepuOncan party, which nave made thii
country so great and prosperous during the
last quarter Of a century.
ii.
Resolved, That the question Of suffi,
cient supply Of circulating medium tc
maintain a permanent range of the price
Of labor and property is the most impor.
tant political question awaiting solution
by the American people.
That a diminishing quantity Of money
reduces the price Of labor an1 property,
enrches the creditor, impoverishes the
debtor, and paralyzes industry and enter.
prise.
That the present financial system Of the
United States, which increases or dimin-
ishes the circulating medium at the pleas.
| ure OF the manipuatofs of the national
banks, without regard to the increase of
population or the wants of the people, and
which recognizes gold alone as the stand
ard 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 the national banks
without interest, is subsersiye Of the
people, oppressive, unjust and should be
| repudiated.
That q financial policy whereby both
| gold an silver shall form the basis Of cir
culatiorl, whether the money used by the
| people be coin, or coin certificates redeem
| able in coin or both, as convenience may
require, is iiOperatively demanded.
That the attempt to substitute national
bank notes, costing the Government mil
lions Of dollars annually, for free silver,
| costing nothing, is an outrage upon the
people; that the money ring or trust,
which has usurped the sovereign power ct
the Government to issue money. and which
has fraudulently demonetized silver and
seized the revenues of the Government for
private speculation, shocks the moral sense
of the people and destroys respect for gov
ernment and law. We demand that this
ring or trust be destroyed, and equal rights
be restored to all the people.
We charge that President Cleveland Is
the willing tool or agent of a powerful
money ring, which fattens on the subsi-
dies of the Government, makes war ON sill
yer, issues its paper currency at the ex-
pense Of the Government, borrows the
revenues raised by taxation and rises them
without the payment of interest, contracts
the currency to enhance the value of
bonds, and enriches usurers, while it de-
presses the price Of labor and property.
That we favor the nomination of no
man for President who is personally inter
ested in national banks or the bonded in
debtedness of the United States, but we
demand a candidate who is free to do JUS
tice to all the people of the countryside
poor as well as the rich.
That the trick of the President and his
advisers by which they prevented vote in
the House Of Representatives on the Beck
silver amendment to the Bond Purchase
bill, equals the villainy of the secret and
fraudulent demonstration Of silver in
1873.
Resolved, That we are in favor of the
protection Of home industry, and that the
laborers of this country have a right to all
the work required to supply the people Of
the United States, and that we are in ia
vor of high wages, and to that end will
protect the wage workers from competi-
tion with the cheap labor OF other lands.
".
Resolved, That the policy of the Gov
ernment should be inaugurated and estab-
lished by the people through their repre-
sentatives in both Houses of Congress, and
not by the President or money trust, Of
which he, either as agent or head, Is most
active in defending.
V.
We charge President Cleveland with
| violating every promise he made in favor of
| civil service reform, with crippling the
mail service, with refusing to sign neces.
sary bills for the improvement OF rivers ami
| harbors, with using the power of his ad-
| ministration to prevent appropriations for
navy and coast defenses, with attempting
| to destroy the protective tariff, with court
| ing the good viii Of other nations at the
expense Of the citizens of the United
States, and with joining the foreign bond.
holders to demonetize silver and destroy
the industries of his own country, and for
the reduction of the wages of the Mint
employees at Carson, for closing the Carson
Mint when it was not only self-sustaining
but source Of revenue to the Govern
ment, for his contemptuous vetoes of bills
for the relief of disabled soldiers and sail
ors, and for failing to construct the Gov
ernment building at Carson as required by
law.
VI
We favor the reduction of the Treasury
surplus by the payment of pensions II
| Union soldiers, their widows and orphans
the improvement of rivers and harbors
the building of defenses for the sea coast
the erection of public buildings, the crea
ton of a navy, tue purchase Of bonds AM
the repeal of the internal revenue law
taxing tobacco.
It is the duty of this State to maintain
free, non-sectarian schools in the rural an
sparsely settled districts, as well as i
towns and thickly populated sections, an
that such division Of the school none,
shall be made as will furnish the mean
of education to all children of the State.
VIII.
We are in favor OF reopening the Carso
Mint for coinage and raising the wage
of its employees to the standard paid b
the last administration.
! TX.
We demand the restoration of the ma
service in this State to the efficienc
maintained by the last Republican admin
istration, and favor the payment of fa
, wages to all postal employees.
, Y.
We are in favor of the absolute excl,
sion of Chinese, and Of the restriction
immigration by which the overchaIg ge
[ condition of the labor market is mad
, worse, and we fovor legislation by whic
! a revision of our naturalization and Ian
laws may be accomplished.
: XI.
, We demand in behalf of our various il
dustries the retention of the duties on lea
: borax, soda, hides and leather. and to T
store the tax of 1867 on wool.
XII.
!. Resolved, That we recognize the rigl
! Of labor to organize for its lawful prote
! tion.
$ Kill
: We favor tie granting to Nevada of a
S Government land within the State for Il
!. | tplrpose Of providing means for irrigatie
: and other improvements.