Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-09-18
SILVER PLATFORM

| yer platform: I'VE DelleVe IN non
est money, the gold and silver coin
age of the constitution, and circu-
lating medium convertible into sucl
money without loss;" and Immediately
after the election recommended the
repeal of the Bland act and the utter
decentralization 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,N Mr. Harrison in 1885
wa elected on the following plat
forlr "The Republican party is in
| fave or of the use of both gold and sill
yer as money, and condemns the
policy of the Democratic admins
tration in its efforts to demonetize
silver" and after his election insist
ed upon the repeal of the Bland act
and The substitution therefor of Me
/ celebrated Window silver balliGa
bill, by the terms which bullion was
to be deposited in Tie 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
i 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-
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. ia ison has repu-
dated the PLATFORM q 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 I'M
possible for the marked price of sill
yer ever hereafter to advance. He
would take advantage of the bear
movement of tie conspiracy between
England 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
iii 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 and deputy marshals, to be
paid out of the treasury of the
United States from a standing ap-
p opriation. This would enabled the
executive to 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 tie silver men In the I
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 doni>
nation in the south; and
Whereas, The force bill passed the
house of representatives by only six
majority, and the following so-called
silver Republicans, namely: Hosea
Townsend Of Colorado; II, +. bartine
Nevada; Binger Hermann, Oregon,
and Thos II. Carter Montana, had
the power to defeat it by severing
themselves from the gold advocates
and joining with the friends of silver,
but they refused to do SO, and there
BY created breech between the sill
yer producing states aud the great
mass of silver men in the west and
south, which hes ever since contrib
lted to prevent the passage of a free
coinage bill III the house; and
Whereas, William NJ Stewart was
he first Republican in the senate to
Gin hands with the silver men in the
Democratic party in the defeat
# the force bill in the senate and by {
is efforts, with the aid of a portion t
t the silver Republicans, rescued the
ountry from the calamity which that
evolutionary measure would have {
aused, aud a silver party was created :
4 the senate sufficiently strong to
ass through that body in the last I
nd in the present congress a free a
oinage bill pure and simple. The /
i'll which passed in the 52d congress s
as postponed in the house and is Y
ill pending for action; and r
WHEREAS, the Endorsement of the q
harrison policy Of the federal inter a a
renee in local elections, as exem- L
lifted in the force bill, would place a
lie tate of Nevada in opposition TO
lie friends of silver throughout the u
therefore, be it 81 81
PapolvaJ That tba Silvar Dartxy IF u