Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-10-15
SILVER PLATFORM.

yer pldIlOFlH w = DGlleN6 III uOll
est money, the gold and silver coin
age of the constitution, and circu-
lating medium convertible into sucl
money withoutloss; and immediately
after the election recommended thu
repeal of the Bland act and the utter
| demonstration 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 1888
was elected on the following plat
! form 1.-THE Republican party is Ill
| favor of the use of both gold and sis
yer as money, and condemns the
policy Of the Democratic admins
!, alton in its efforts to deao4etize
sller;' and after his election insist
ed upon the repeal Of the Bland act
and The Substitution therefor Of the
cele5.atod NluGom silver bullion
| h.li, by tie terms which button was
70 5 deposited ii tile treas ny and
certificates issued therefor; redeem
| able in bullion, not III money, which
| would have placed silver upon a 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
It's passage every beneficial feature
it contained has been thwarted by the
administration Of the government
and the refusal of the treasury de-
partmeat, 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 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
IF acceptance that he is opposed to
independent action on the part of
the United States, but is in favor of
All 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 i'm
possible Tor the marked prlce of sill
yer ever hereafter to advance. =,
would take .dvantage Of the bear
movement ii the conspiracy between
England and the treasury depart
ment to depress the price Of silver,
and he combination If 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 deprivmg
tie 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-
p opriation This would enabled the
executi, have hundreds of thous
ands Of ightical 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 /
and designed to secure negro dohi~ /
nation in the south; and
Whereas, The force bill passed the (
house of representatives by only six
AMI the following so-called +
silver Repuhi ans, namely: Hosea T
Townsend OF Colorado; II, T. Bartine
Nevada; Binger Hermann, Oregon,
and Thos IL. Carter Montana, had
the power to defeat it by severing
themselves from the gold advocates
and joining with the friends of silver,
bat they refused to do SO, and there
by created breech between the sil-
yer producing states and the great
mass of silver men in the west and
south, which hes ever since contrib
uted to prevent the passage of a free
coinage bill in the house; aud
Whereas, William NJ Stewart was
the first Republican i'll the senate to
join hands with the silver men il the
Democratic party in the defeat
oi the force bin in the senate and by
his efforts, with the aid OF portion
Of the silver Republicans, rescued the
country from the calamity which that
measure woald have
aud silver party was created
in the senate sufficiently stroug to
PASS through that body in the last
and in the present congress a free
coinage bill pure and simple. The
bill which passed III 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 in local elections, as exem
DlIfed in the force bill, would place
The tate of Nevada in opposition to
he friends of silver throughout the
country; therefore, De it
Resolved, That the silver party of
Nevala condemns the nolirv of the !