Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-10-11
SILVER PLATFORM.

I
elected IN 1884 on the following sill
yer platform: "We believe in hon
est money, the gold and silver coin
age of the constitution, and circu-
lating medium convertible into sucl
money withoutloss;" and immediately
after the election recommended The
repeal of the Bland act and the uttel
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
1883; and
Whereas, Mr. Harrison in 1855
was elected on the following plat
form: 'The Republican party is in
/ favor Of the use of both gold and sis
yer as money, and condemns the
| policy Of the Democratic admins
tration Ill its efforts to demonetize
| silver" ana after his election insist
ed upon the repeal Of the Bland act
! and the substitution therefor of the
| cele bratcd Window silver bullion
| ILL, by the terms which bullion was
| to be deposited in the treasury and
| certificates issued therefor; redeem
able in bullion, not IL money, which
would have placed silver upona like
footing with wheat, cornaor 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, 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.. 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 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 the 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
Ill 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
number of supervisors of
election and deputy marshals, to be
paid out of the treasury of tho
United States from standing ap-
This would enabled the 4
executive to have hundreds of thous- {
lnds Of political workers at the polls,
with power of supervision of the re-
-urns of elections throughout the |
United States; and 4
Whereas, All the silver men in the I
house Of representatives except those
rom the mining states, were bitterly l
opposed to the force bill and regarded |
5 as destructive of free government t
md designed to secure negro dolni> a
nation in the south; and
Whereas, The force bill passed the c
house of representatives by only six i
aud the following so-called a
ilver Republicans, namely: Hosea
Townsend of Colorado; H, F. Bartine Q
Nevada; Binger Hermann, Oregon, 5
md Thos III. 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
tut they refused to do so, and there 81
~ created breech between the sill b
-er producing states and the great e
mass Of silver men in the west and
outh, which he's ever since contrib IL
tied to prevent the passage of a. free a
oinage bill in the house; and Of
Whereas, William M. Stewart was p
he first Republican in the senate to r.
DIN hands with the silver men in the III
Democratic party in the defeat II
f the force bill in the senate and by d'
is efforts, with the aid of portion tt
the silver Republicans, rescued the OF
ountry from the calamity which that l.
evolutionary measure would have &C
aused, aud a silver party was created 81
! the senate sufficiently stroug to
ass through that body in the last fr
nd in the present congress a free at
oinage bill pure and simple. The K
Ill which passed in the sd congress st
as postponed in the house and is We
i'll pending for action; and RI:
WHEREAS, the Endorsement of the al
arrlson policy of the federal inter al
renee in local elections, as exem- 10
lfied in the force bill, would place an
lie State of Nevada in opposition to !,
"a friau6c of ciluor throurbo1t Tho OF