Los Angeles herald., 1890-09-13
THE ROTTEN BOROUGH
What Republican Rule Did
for Nevada.
The Sage Brush States Rapid
Decadence.
Bright Hopes Blasted by Corrupt
Political Machinery.
The Democratic State Convention Justly
Demands the Overthrow of the
Party in Power.
Associated Press Dispatches. |

RENO, New, Sept 2.-The Democratic
state convention met this morning. The
reports of the various committees were
adopted without discussion, except that
of the committee on platform. An effort
was made to have the clause demanding
a constitutional committee stricken out,
but it did not prevail. The platform
favors enforcing economy in state affairs,
destroying monopolies and trusts, and
fostering the industries of the state and
developing its resources. 1t declares
that it is the duty of congress to pass
law perpetually excluding Chinese from
the United States; and declares for the
free coinage of silver to be legal tender
equally with gold.
The platform also makes an exhaust
i've arraignment of the national Repub-
lican party, and declares that the
Republican party has had control of the
state of Nevada ever since its admission,
and is therefore responsible for whatever
evil has resulted in the conduct OF public
affairs.
On this subject the platform says in
part: "The Republican party of this
state began its career of dishonor in
1864. when our wealth and population
were more than double what they are
today, and when we had reason to hope
that Nevada would become one OF the
grandest, richest and most popnlous of
the great sisterhood of states. Our
hopes have been blasted and over
thrown. In the interest Of ice-seekers
the Republican party of Nevada has
created unnecessary offices, established
extravagant fees and unprecedented sal
aries.
1t has enacted laws and instituted a
system of business which enriched and
populated the state OF California at the
cost of the state of Nevada.
Of the hundreds of corporations own
ing mines and mining upon the great
| Comstock lode, but one is Nevada cor
poration; the rest are nonresident. Of
a thousand million dollars taken out OF
the mines, not ten million remains in
the state. Every profitable industry is
monopolized and plundered until moth
ing is left to our people but wretched
pittance. called the wages of labor. The
state is literally the spoil of monopolies.
Public lands which should have been
sold in small holdings to settlers, have
been contracted by spectators and cat
tie kings. Our population which
was 80 900 in 1864, and which should have
been 500, 900 now, has decreased to 49,
O0O and our taxable wealth, which
should be one thousand million dollars,
is less than seventy millions. Taxes
have increased until in many places
property is valueless. immigration has
ceased. and the state is being depopu-
lated. 1t has so often imported candi-
dates for office into the state so often
exposed the great Office of senator for
sale; so often corrupted the ballot box,
that we have been stigmatized as the
''rotten borough" and have become
by-word and reproach and stencil in the
nostrils OF the English speaking people"
The following candidates were nomi-
mated this afternoon by acclamation:
For governor, Theodore Winters;
leutenant-governor, R. Sadler; district
judges, A. l.. Fitzgerald, j. A.
Dorsey, M. S. Bonnifred and
w. L. Knox; secretary of state, j..
G. Brady; clerk OF the supreme court,
W. w. Booker; surveyor-general, L. N.
Stewart; superintendent of public in
struction, w. G. Hyde; regents, r. I'll.
Osborn, w. E. L. Deal.
The convention adjourned till this
evening.
At the evening session Hon. E. W.
Cassidy, of Eureka, was nominated for
congress J. Ii. Mcmillan, of Humboldt,
supreme Judge; Charles May, of Es-
meralda, comptroller; N. H. A. Mason.
of Lyon, state treasurer; w. G. Love, Of
Elko, attorney general.
After appointing state central COM
mittee, the convention adjourned sine
| die