Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-09-20
SILVER PLATFORM.

yer platform: ssWe believe III nom
est money, the gold and silver coin
age of the constitution, and clrcu-
lating medium convertible into such
money without loss;" and Immediately
after the election recommended the
repeal OF the Bland act and the utter
demonetization of silver, and used
the entire influence Of his admins
tration to reduce the money of the
world to the single gold standard,
and was defeated by the people IN
1888; and
Whereas, Mr. Harrison in 1883
was elected on the following plat
/! form: ''The Republican party is in
favor Of the use of bosh gold and sil>
| yer as money, and condemns the
policy Of the Democratic admins
| traf!on ii It's efforts to demouetize
silver" and after his election insist
! ed upon. the repeal Of the Bland act
! ana HE substitution therefor of the
celebmtcd @ld3om silver bullion
b.H, hy the terms which pui.i3l was
to be deposited il the tro;.4ery and
| certificates issued therefor; redeem
able IN bullion, not i'll money, which
would have placed silver upon 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 the 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, t.. use silver as money or to
coin silver, as required by the act,
| to provide for the redemption of the
treasury notes issued IN 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
pa ible for the marked pmce of sill
yer ever hereafter to advance. He
would take advantage of the bear
movement Of the conspiracy between
England and tie treasury depart
ment to dePress The price Of silver,
and be combination Of the nations of
the world MAINTAIN for the benefit of
the owners If gold such depressed
price and
Whereas. The administration and
the gold men in the Republican party
IN the DIST congress conspired to con-
solidate the government by deprivlng
the 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 ard deputy marshals, to be
paid out of the treasury of the
United States from a standing ap-
pgopriation This would enabled the
execute 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 representative except those
from the mining states, were bitterly
opposed to the force bill and regarded
is as destructive of free government
and designed to secure negro donl~
nation III the south; and
Whereas, The force bill passed the
house Of representative by only six
majority, and the following so-called
silver Beguhi ms, namely: Hosea
Townsend Of Colorado; II, f. Bartine
Nevada; Binger Hermann, Oregon,
and Thos III. Carte. Montana, had /
tie power to defeat it by severing
themselves from the gold advocates
ana joining wi h the friends of silver,
but they refused to do so, and there
by crea,ed breech between the sill
yer producing states and the great
mass Of silver men in the west and
south, which has ever siuce contrib
uted to prevent the passage of free
coinage bill il the house; and
Whereas, William NJ. Stewart was
the first Republican in the senate to
join hands with the silver men in the
Democratic party in the defeat
of the force bill in the senate and by
his efforts, with the aid Of portion
Of the silver Republicans, rescued the
country from the calamity which that
revolutionary measure wodld have
caused, aud a silver party was created
in the senate sufficiently stroug to
pass through that body in the last
and in the present congress free
coinage bill pure and simple. The
bill which passed in the sd congress
was postponed in the house and is
still pending for action; and
WHEREAS, the Endorsement of the
Harrison policy of the federal inter !
ference III local elections, as exem-
Dllfed in the force bill, would place
he tate of Nevada in opposition to
he friends of silver throughout the
country; therefore, be it
Resolved That the silver party of !