The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-13
HOWL FROM DESERT.
Nevada Democrats Tell OF the
States Wretchedness.
REPUBLICANS ARE 70 BLAME.


RENO. Nov, Sept. l2-The Democratic
stale convention met thiS morning. The
reports of the various committees were
adopted without discussion except that OF
the COMMITTEES on platform. An effort was
made to have the clause demanding con-
stitutional convention stricken out, but it
did not prevail The platform favors en-
forcing economy in state Affairs, destroy
ing monopoiies and trusts. and fostering
the industries of the state and develop
ing its resources. The platform declares II
70 b the duty Of congress- to pass . law
perpstualiy excluding Chinese from the
United States, and declares for free coin.
age Of silver, 70 b legal tender equally With
gold.
The platform makes an exhaustive ar.
fragment Of the national Republican party,
and also declares that the Republican
party has had control Of the state Of Ne
vada ever since its admission, and Is there
fore responsible for whatever evil has re-
suited in the conduct OF public affairs. On
this subject the platform says in part:
The Republican party OF this state beean its
career Of dishonor aud ruin in 1854. when our
wealth and population were more than double
what they are today, and when We had reason
to hope that Nevada would become Que OF the
ersndest, richest aud most populous Of the
great sist-rhood Of stateA Our hopes have been
blasted and over'hrown In the interest Of once
seekers The Republican party Of Nevada has
created unnecessary ofices. has established
extrkvagant fees and unprecedented
salaries. II has enacted laws and instituted
system of business which have enriched and
populated the state OF California at the cost Of
the state Of Nevada. OF the hundreds Of cor
porstions owning mines and mining upon the
great Comstock lode bat one ID > Nevada cor.
thousand millions Of dollars taken out o: these
mines not ten millions remain in the stat.
Every PR ftab Industry has been monopol zed
and plundered until nothing 10 left TO our ps ope
but the wre.ched pittanco called the wages Of
labor.
The state 10 literally the spoil Of monopolies.
The public lands, which shou d have been sold
in small holdings to settlers. have been erasped
BY spectators and cattle kings Our popuia.
should b $1,000 and over By now, has de-
creased to 1000, and our taxable
wealth. which should b . thousand
millions OF dollars, 10 less than twenty mil
lions Taxes have increas d until in many
places property il value ess Immiaration has
ceased anu our state 10 being dep0puls eli. II
has 20 often imported candidates for ofic,. 90
S0A~s
20 often corrupted the ballot box. that We have
b en- stiematiysd - the Rotten Borough" and
have become byword. reproach and steach
In the nostfils of the Knslish speaking people.
At the afternoon session the following
candidates we're nominated by reclamation:
For governor. Theodore Winters: Lieutenant
governor. r. Sadier; di trict judges. A. l. Fitz-
gerald, J. A. Dors y. N. 8. Bonn fred and w. l.
Knox: secretary Of state, J. c. Brady; clerk OF
the supreme court, w. W. Baker: surveyor gem
eral. I. r. Stewart; superintendent Of public in.
struotion. W. g. Hyde: regents. r. II. Osborne
and w. r. +. Dsal
At the evening session Hon. G. w. Cas-
sidy, OF Eureka, was nominated for con-
gress; J. H. Mcmillan, of Humboldt, for
supreme judge; Charles May, of Esmerel-
da, for controller; N. H. A. Mason, of
Lyon, for state treasurer; w. G. Love, of
Exc, for attorney general. After the ap-
pointment Of the state central committee
the CONVENTION adjourned sine die.