Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-12-13
THE SILVER PLATFORM.

The silver wing Of the Republi
can State Convention unanimous
! ly adopted inc Glowing plaCiorm:
/ The cC-ccEtion endorses and
adopts the platform Of the Repub-
ncas State Convention. held at Va
citv on the 80 Of April last. as fol-
lows;
J Resolved, That We condemn the
Republican patty Of the Eastern
states ana the admini-trati1n os
President Harrison, insofar AS they
have failed TO ac omplish the COM
Elete remoDe ization of silver, and
TO enact laws providing for the
free and unrestricted Coinage or
that metal.
Resolved. That the festor4tion
OF silver TO the place 1t coupled
previous TO the passage o, the
Mint Act OF 1878, is essential to
the prosperity OF the country and
paramount TO all other political
. consid erat1ons. The Legislation
which robbed silver of its money
/ functions and denied to the owner
of silver bullion the right to lave
the same coined into money upon
! the some terms and conditions
which apply TO the C. image of gold
reduced the money of ultimat te re-
! demption or rayment, about oRe-
! half. and enabled the owners OF
money and obligations payahle In
money TO monopoiize th7 coin OF
! the commercial orld,
| Resolved, That the people OF
/ Nevada are in favor Of the COIN
age of silver upon the same con-
ditions which apply to the coipage
OF gold, and they are opposed tc
! elevating any person TO Office who
! is not known to be unequIvocally
in favor If opening the Minis of
! the United States to the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver.
In vies Of tn unsatisfactory at
titude of President Harrison to the
! paramount issue Of the remoneti-
zation of silver, Il is convention
will make no nominations TO Pres
| idential electors and the State Cen
trail Committee to be appointed by
this Convention shall have no au-
thority to put in nomination cleo
| tors
The Convention cordially en-
dorses the vigor Gus efforts VI our
Senators and Representatives tys
secure the free and unlimited COIN
age of silver, and the educational
work that they have done in pre-
senting the true issue between the
money powers and the hCndhold-
ers and laborers and producers OF
wealth
And we fav"r tn continuation
of agitation and contention for the
free and unirmited coinage OF su-
yer at the present ratio of 16 to 1,
for their own benefit and for tho
neuedt Of the people Al large
miners, farmers. laboIer5 and me
chanics.
The citizens OF Nevada, repre-
sentatives OF the various silver
leagues irrespective of past party
affiliations, in convention assembl-
ed, do set f rth the following dec
laratiun of principles:
F. st. We demand the full re-
mon tizatian of silver and the free
and unlimited coinage thereof, at
the present ratio of l6 to
Second. We are ra'Iirally and
unalterably opposed tc the Nation
Il Republican and Democratic par
ties on the question Of the rec
coinage of silver and We denOunce
the acti n of their recent nah nal
conventions as inimieal 10 the ma
terlal interests of the people e the
United states and especially to
those Of Nevada and all the othor
mining st tes and ter,lt rie,, aud
we therefore repuiiatr the Il mi
nees of their convention.
Third. W. -" sc the nominees
o. this convep-iou tor Presidential
electors t, support no -0al for
President or VIre-PTesill"ru f the
United STATES who j. not uuCCIiy-
Ocally i'm lnvrr of free coinage as
deti ed hy this convention. We
reaeave t. the silver leagues of
Nevada. i Convention aa- enblcd,
the right of directing id P,esi-
Dental electors for whom to cast
their votes, should coutingencics
require GEO. s NIXON.
Chairman State Committee Of sSn
yer p.~ty.
ii. L. FLA&NERY, Secretary.