Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-10-24
PLATF0;.M And R-S0lUTIOHS
Adopted by the
Silver Party Convention
September %, 1902.
10 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ELKo COUNTY Sill
YER CONVENTIONS:

TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ELKo COUNTY SILL
YER CONVENTIONS:
We, your Committee on Resolutions md
Platform, big le We 30 submit the following
declaration 81 principles.
We demand tn. free aud unlimited coinage
at silver and gold ut the present I'll ito Of 10 to
We believe that the uIue ha- now come when
party preJudices and party names should lie
laid aAide by every citizen Of Nevada and
ylnited and earnest effort made Que Iuun to
Fo.estnDIiRh the industries of our State by ell
dorsing the platform and supporting the
nominees OF the Omaha COnveI. ton, umes H.
Weaver and James &. Field.
We believe that the names Democrat and
Republican should not be allowed to divide
The friends of free coinage of silver and thai
81 who think alike should act together regard.
LEGS 81 past party names and past p.riy afnlia.
siOnS.
The crime OF 1878 demonetizing silver, has
destroyed the prosperity and nearly ruined
shc State of Nevada and in view OF this. be.
fore the hope of Office had clouded the minds
nf OR citizens the R'publi, an Convention ar
sembied at Virginia 0ity on the 3Oth daS of
hpril, 1892, mud the manhood to adopt the
allowing resolu icn as the Fundamental creed
OF that party, to-wit:
"REsoIvFD, Thst the people of Nevada arc
ia favor Of the coinage of silver upon the same
Sonalttous which apply to The coinage of goIG
sid they are opposed W elcvating any person
to Office who is not known t. be unequivocaliy
en- thNur q opening the mints " tho Unitei
StatcS to the free aud unlimited coinage of
silver"
And on the 2Sth day of last May the Demo-
Ss'ic party assembled in convention at Win
nelhucch, gave to It's dele gates t1 the National
Cnuyohiloh the following tustruaticu
"UDdcS no circumstances to vote for any nnn
TOR the nomination t. the Office of prpsids,t
ny Sice-PFcsiiont Oi the United Safes uniess
he shall be unquaIih dly III favor OF free coin,
ege aud shall stand upon free coinage mint
firm. P
And WHEREAS, Both the Republican md
tho en'uoIhi,c National Conventions ,,nu,t.
- eel cand dates for President and Vice Iresi
Gen who are opposed to free coluspp and A.,
tarUr Of the single gold standard We Ieliov"
shat no Democrat " Republican can vote Ear
aithor Harrison or Cleveland without yio,ntirs
the principles OF his party as declared I'm ihSS
virginia 1ity and Winncmuccu Conventions
Sne strength OF the gold monopoly is rpnro.
sontcd in London, Now York, and other com
ncrcial cities Of tho world. That ,nUnoryly
oS trust In reducing the producing sections Ur
hls Countrywide South and the West TO
poverty and want The Sontn ana the West
nave common cause and common induce.
nlent to resist the epcruachments OF II q lipn-.
holding aud money. lOaDing East Every EFFORT
rms been aud Ia being made to sspRratc .iIla
Vest from the South 9nd by that means divide
TOO friends of silver aud secure the triumph OF
SSid monopoly. One of the roc EN- sCliemis II, 4
Mht PURPOSE was she infamous Force nill -
NniCht bS IT. provo lOnp, conferred, uppn the
sedoisl administration tue power to control
RIHA rtcSsDns, both SLllu and Federal