Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-11-07
Plato I'M AND RESOLUTIONS
Adopted by the
Silver Party Convention
September 2S, 1892.

To THE CItAIRMAN OF The ELko COUNTY sn.-
vER COM ENTIoN:
We, your Committee on Resolutions and
Platform, b e i" VS. 10 submit the following
declaration oi priuciplOs.
We demand til: free and unlimited COiuane
Of silver ana gold ht tn" present ratio uf 10 to l.
We believe that the time ha now come when
party prCjudices and party names SHOULD be
laid aaide by every citizen of Nevada and a
united and earnest cnurt made rs one man to
rc.establisn tn" Industries OF our State by ell
dorsing the plu form and supporting the
nominees of the Omaha Convention, > nmes Is.
Weaver and James Il fIcld.
We briIeyc tbat the names Democrat and
Republican should not bp allowed to divide
the friends Of free coinage of silver and that
al who think alike should act together regard
less of past purity Dsines and past p.r'y aiilia-
tons.
The crime of 1873. Accommodating silver, has
destroyed the prosperity and nearly ruined
the State OF Nevada. AnG In view OF this, be.
fore the hope of Office hau clouded the minds
uf our citizens he L publ, ali Convention ar
S"mhled at Virginia city on the 3Oth day of
April, 1892, mud the manhood to adopt the
f. flowing resoln ion as the Fundamental creed
vt that party, to-wit:
"REsoLvRD, That the people Of Nevada ar,
in favor of the coinage of silver upon the same
o"uditiois which apply TO The coinage of gOid,
and they are opposed To elevattng any person
to office who IL not known tn be unCcui"ocally
III frv"r -, opening the minis If the Uni ed
states to the free aud Unlimited coinage of
silver"
AUD Oh tho 28th day of last May tho Demo-
cNauc party assembled in convention at Win.
n"iniircn, gave to it's delegates ~ the National
Convention the fO!low.n g instructions:
E!ldcF no cl' clinIStailrrs To vote Tor any man
for the nomination tn the Office Of President
ur Vicc-ProSiucnt OF the United Suites unless
lc Shall be un1uniiti' dly in favor of free coin
nHc a;d snail stand upon a free cOlnuRe plat.
form"
Aud WHEREAS, Both the RODublican md
the J eITocrat.C National Conventions nn,,f.
mated candidates. for President ana Vicr.prtst
don't who arc opposed to free Culuavc and in
fvnr OF the single gold STANDARD We br,ioyo
that TO Democrat or Republican can vntn for
either Harrison or Cleveland with0ut yioinlioy
The principles OF his party AZ declared in The
Virginia Uity and WinnenuIcca Conventions
Tue strength Of the gold monopoly is ropye.
Rehted in London, New York, aud other cnrI-
%InCrninl cities Of the world. That monoboiv
or trust iS reducing the producing sertionS. or
this Countrywide South and tho West In
poverty aud want. The rouih and the West
have n common cnnsc and a common iniucc.
mont tO resist The cnCruachmcnts of Il y bon /,
holding nnd money .loaninR East. Every effort
has been and ~ being made tp separate tn,
Wrht froin the South and bythat means divide
Y" Hivii'is Of oliver and sccurO the triumph OF
'."H monopoly, One of The rec emf sChem, g for
'''h purpose was the infamous "Force Bin. A"
= "a, 10y it, provisions, conferred upon the
.cihl administration the power to control
~ t''Cit"ns, both State and Federal