Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-05-19
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 cen
| tury
Resolred, That the question of sufficient
| supply of a circulating medium to maintain
permanent range of the price of labor and
! property is the most important political ques-
ton awaiting solution by the American people.
Resolred 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.
Resolued 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 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-
pie, oppressive, unjust, and should be repudi-
ated.
Resolped. 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 redeemabe in
coin, or BOTH as convenience may require, is
imperatively demanded,
Resotred, 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 for 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
Resolrcd That We charge that President Gle
veland is the willing tool or agent of 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.
ResolUed, 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
people of the Countrywide poor as well as the
rich.
Resotyed, 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 vllainy of the secret and fraud
ulent decentralization of silver in 1873.
II.
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.
Resolved, That the policy of the Government
should be inaugurated and established by the
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.
III.
Resolped, That we charge President Cleve-
land with violating every promise he made in
favor of civil service reform with crippling the
mail services with refusing to sign necessary
bl!ls Tor the improVemento OF rivers and harbors,
with using the power OF his Administration To
prevent appropriations for navy and coast de
lenses, WIN attempting 70 destroy the pr0tee-
otio a. ~" ~ i5 S 49, 49,. MtIl VI 3'.i n
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 sefesustainiug but source OF revenue to
pension bills for the relief of disabled soldiers
and sailors ana for failing to construct the Gov
eminent building at Carson as required
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Chinese and the restriction of Immigration nv
which the present oyercharced condition Of
the labor market is made worse and also favor
legislation by which revision of our natural
izatiOn and land laws may he accomnii, he'd ~
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We demand, in behalf of our various indus
trles' LH9 reteh,loh OF the duues on lead, boraX,
of 1867 on wool WV wi -
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p,, MI. 800.
hesotoeu, !nae we TecogilEe the right OF Ia
DOT 10 oiSapZe LOT lts lawful protection.
VII.
Pesoy,e5 That ya favor tbo Suhr,;ssio,, ~.
Tho 49, io,irn 70 tbo ,,g,'1 f % ~ u!
to the Constitution giving the Legislature the
power to regulate the liquor traffic
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for hvdrographical and topogranhical suTveyS
in this state TO the end that the waste waters
may be preserved Tor the purpose of irrigation.
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wa indorsa tho wise and COMMONWEALTH,
we lnuofse IIle WISE anu conservative admin