Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-10-25
SILVER PLATFORM


vention assembled at Winnemucca
Nevada, declares as follows:
Whereas, Mr.. Cleveland wa
elected III 1884 on the following sill
yer platform: s'We believe in hon
est money, the gold and silver coin
age Of the constitution, and a circu
lating medium convertible into sucl
money withoutloss;" and immedlatel,
/ | after the election recommended tn
repeal of the Bland act and tue ute
demonstration of silver, and useC
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 1885
was elected on the following plat
form: 'The Republican party is in
favor Of the use of bo.h gold and sis
yer as money, and condemns the
policy of the Democratic admins
tration III its 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 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, to 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
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 so 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 for the marked price of sill
yer ever hereafter to advance. He
would take advantage of the "bear'
movement of the conspiracy between
Eng and and the 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. of gold such depressed
price and
Whereas, the administration and
the gold men in the Republican party
i'll the DIST congress conspired to con-
solidate the government by depriving
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 l
election and deputy marshals, to be '
oaid gut of the treasury of the s
United States from a standing APP {
This would enabled the {
to have hundred of thous- {
rnds of political workers at the polls, t
With power of supervision of the re G
urns of elections throughout the i
Cnited States; and l
Whereas, All the silver men in the Q
house of representatives except those /
rom the mining states, were bitterly Il
opposed to the force bill and regarded b
5 as destructive of free government t
nd designed to secure negro donu- a
lation in the south; and P
Whereas, The force bill passed the C
louise of representatives. by only six II
majority, and the following so-called a
liver. Republicans, namely: Hosea
townsend of Colorado; Fl, F. Bartine o
Nevada; Binger Hermann, Oregon, S
nd Thos ii. Carter Montana, had C;
he power to defeat it by severing
themselves. from the gold advocates a
nd joining with the friends of silver, a.
ut they refused to do so, and there ST
y created a breech between the sill b
er producing states and the great Ell
lass of silver men in the west and
outh, which hes ever since contrib ia
ted to prevent the passage of free al
oinage bill in the house; and Of
Whereas, William M. Stewart was pl
lie first Republican in the senate to "a
Din hands with the silver men in the nj
'emocratic party in the defeat in
the force bill in the senate and by de
is efforts, with the aid of portion tn
the silver Republicans, rescued the of
'untry from the calamity which that Ii
evolutionary measure would have CO
used, aud silver party was created st
the senate sufficiently stroug to
ISIS through that body in the last fir
I'd in the lpresent congress a free at
image billlpure and simple. The R.
II which passed in the SD congress st.
as postponed in the house and is We
Ill pending for action: and ris
WHEREAS, the Endorsement of the an
arrlson policy of the federal inter an
renee in local elections, as exem- Iol
n