Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-10-14
SILVER PLATFORM


est money, the gold and silver coin
age of the constitution, and circu
lating medium convertible into sue
money withoutloss;" and immedlatel
after the election recommended tn
repeal of the Bland act and the ute
| demonetization of silver, and use,
the entire influence Of his admins
tration to reduce the money of tn
world to the single gold standard
and was defeated by the people il
1888; and
| Whe.o..s, Mr. Harrison il 1885,
was elected on the following plat
form: THE Republican party is il
favor of the use OF both gold and sill
yer as money, and condemns tbs
policy Of the Democratic admins
tration il It's efforts to demonetize
silver; and after his election insist
ed upon the repeal Of the Bland act
and the substitution therefor Of the
celebrated Window silver bullion
bill, By the terms which bullion was
to be deposited in the treasury and
| certificates issued therefor; redeem
able in bullion, not in money, which
would have placed silver upona like
footing with wheat, corn-or any other
commodity deposited and warehouse
receipts issued thereon. The COM
promise act of 1890 was extorted
from him to save she tariff, and since
its passage every beneficial feature
it contained has been thwarted by the
administration of the government
and the refusal Of the treasury de,
partment, by direction of the presi-
dent, IT, use silver as money or to
coin silver, as required by the act,
to provide for the redemption the
treasury ncees issued III the purchase
of bullion; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Harrison has repu-
dated the platform Of his party made
at Minneapolis, which was sufficiently
radical for gold to satisfy the gold
press, and now declares in his letter
of acceptance that he is opposed to
independent action on the part of
the United States, but is in favor of
an international conference, provided
the ratio can be 50 changed as to
make the commercial value of the
silver dollar equal to the commercial
value of the gold dollar, which it inn
possible for the marked price of sill
Yer ever hereafter to advance. He
would take advantage Of the 'bear"
movement Of tAe conspiracy between
England and the treasury depart
meut to depress the price If silver,
and he combination Of the nations of
the world maintain for the benefit Of
the owners Of gold such depressed
price and
Whereas, the administration and
the gold men in the Republican party
III the DIST congress conspired to con-
solidate the government by deprivlng
tile people of free ballot by the
passage Of the odious force bill, which
provides for the appointment of an
unlimited number of supervisors of
election and deputy marshals, to be
paid out of the treasury of the
United States from standing ap-
preparation. This would enabled the
executive to have hundreds of thous-
ands of political workers at the polls,
with power Of supervision of the re
turns of elections throughout the
United States; and
Whereas, All the silver men in the
house Of representatives except those
from the mining states, were bitterly
to the force bill and regarded |
is as destructive Of free government
aud designed to secure negro doIni-
nation III the south; and
Whereas, The force bill passed the
house of representatives by only six
and the following so-called
silver Republicans, namely: Hosea
Townsend o. Colorado; H, F. Bartine
Nevada; Binger Hermann, Oregon,
and Thos II. Carter Montana, had
the power to defeat it by severing
themselves from the gold advocates
and joining with the friends of silver,
but they refused to do SO, and there
by created breech between the sill
yer producing states and the great
mass Of silver men III the west and
south, which has ever since contrib
uted to prevent the passage of free
coinage bill in the house; and
Whereas, William M. Stewart was
he first Republican in the senate to
oin hands with the silver men in the
Democratic party in the defeat
If the force bill in the senate and by
lis efforts, with the aid of a portion
# the silver Republicans, rescued the
country from the calamity which that
evolutionary measure would have
aused, aud silver party was created
n the senate sufficiently stroug to
'ass through that body in the last
nd in the present congress a free
oinage bill pure and simple. The
ill which passed III the sd congress s
Fas postponed in the house and is '
till pending for action; and
WHEREAS, the Endorsement of the 9
HARRISON policy of the federal inter :
erence i'll local elections, as exem-
lifted in the force bill, would place
he State of Nevada in opposition to
he friends of silver throughout the 9
ountry; therefore, be it >
Resolved, That the silver party of
Ieyada condemns the nolicv of the s