The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-06-04
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION
GROVER CLEVELAND NOT IN 1T.
A Strong Silver Platform Adopted
Nominations Made.

A strong Silver Platform Adopted
Nominations Made.
From the Silver State of the 9th
we take the following proceedings of
the Democratic State Convention
The convention was called to or
der at 2 p. M. The Committee on
Credential made their report which
was adopted. About two-thirds of
members elected were present, the
balance sent proxies. The Commit
tee ON Permanent Organization aud
order of business submitted their
report. The temporary officers we're
made permanent officers of the con-
vention.
There was quite an animated dis
cussion on the motion to strike out
of the report of the Committee on
Order of Business the order nomin-
ating three Presidential electors. III.
Harris, Chas. A. La Grave, Clayton
Belknap and G. w. Cassidy favoring
the motion; Major J. HI. Dennis,
General Clarke, Col. Milt Elstner and
others opposing. On a vote being
taken the motion was carried by
large majority. The State Central
Committee was given power in their
discretion to fill the vacancy. This
means that if the national party
shall fail to adopt clean cut free
Coinage platform and nominate solid
free coinage candidates, the party in
this State will put no electoral ticket
in the field. It being intimated that
those favoring the motion were
disrupting the party in the interest
OF The silver leagues, Mr.. Cassidy
made telling speech; claiming that
free coinage was of paramount inter
est, and the party ought to join any
combination OF any other respectable
class of our citizens to secure that
object, and cited the example of the
great, tried and true apostle of De-
mocracy, Allen G. Thurman, who,
while United States Senator, stump
ed his State for even a fusion ticket
against the doctrines of both the
Democratic and Republican parties,
on, the financial question of that day.
He claimed that it was not undemo-
cratic for the convention to refuse To
support the nominees of the Chicago
conveption, if that convention should
be. So andemocratic as to refuse to
indorse the full reconciliation of
silver, and the restoration of the
silver dollar, one of the coins of the
constitution and of the fathers of our
Republic, to the place it occupied
with the gold dollar from the found
alton of the Government up to 1873.
He said: "If the Democratic party
does not give us free coinage plat
form and free coinage national nom
inees, am not in it for the ticket
This sentiment was cheered to the
echo.
The Committee on Platform and
Resolutions reported the following
PLATFORM:
The Democratic party of the State
OF Nevada, IN delegate convention
assembled at Winnemucca, MAY 26,
1892, declares its fealty to Democratic
principles and its unalterable devo-
ton TO bi-metallism and the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
We. the accredited representative
of the Democracy of Nevada ,denounce
the demOnetization act of 1873, and ar.
raign its authors and maintainers.
their aiders, abettors in Europe and
America, as enemies of the public
veal, co-workers in the crime of leg
islation for the favored classes to the
detriment of the toiling masses.
We denounce the decentralization
OF silver as having no parallel in the
wickedness of it's conception, or i'm
the atrocity of its contamination.
except in the methods used by a
class OF big and little politicians, tie
pnpetts of the gold bug oligarchy, to
defeat the restoration of it's use as