Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-05-25
NEVADA SILVER MEN.
THE FIRST GUN IN THE
FALL CAMPAIGN.
Senator Jones i'm Line .--Cars0n
Gets the Convention.

| Keno On w euneSday-
The basis Of representation in the
/! State Convention was fixed as fol-
lows: One delegate for each county
and one delegate for each and every
| 40 votes or fraction thereof cast for
the Weaver and Field Presidential
electors in 1892.
On this basis the representation
| will be as follows:
Churchill, > delegates; Douglas. o.;
Elko, "a; Esmcralda, IL; Eureka, IS;
Humboldt, 10; Lander, II; Lincoln,
y; Lyon, u; Nye, z; Ormsby, II;
Storey, 81; Washoe, %; White Pine,
TO- Total, pol.
THE TEST.
Resolved, That the following test
be usel at the Primary election:
Il am in favor of the free coinage
of gold and silver at the ratio of 1G
to by the United States of America
and will support the nominees of the
Silver party"
The Committees on Delegates sub
united the following:
Resolved, That this Committee
direct the County Central Commit
tees of the Silver party in the several
counties of the State to call primary
elections at the time designated by
this Committee and to district
counties, apportion delegates t. the
State Convention among the districts
of their respective counties, and
supervise the election Of such dele
gates. Add that in counties having
no regularly organized County Cen
trail Committees We recommend that |
members of the Silver party immedi- |
ately take steps to organize County |
Central Committees in their respec> !
tive counties, and that when from /!
any cause no such Conn. tees shall |
be organized that members # the !
State Genital Committee in such |
counties be and are here authorized |
to call primary elections and super
wise the election of such delegates.
The following telegram from Sen
ltors Jones and Stewart was read:
Washington, D. c., May %, 1894
Hon. Geo. S. Nixon, Chrirman
State Central Committee, Silver
Party:-After the financial legislation
IF the past year it is now manifest
hat the supreme political issue, that
which dominates all other issues. is
monetary reform. The free coinage |
# silver, at the ratio Of Is to l, is the
irst step toward procuring the proper
.o,ame of legal tender morey t5 De !
szuea directly by the Govauncas.
Ihe advanced position assumed by /
Nevada has been an invaluable aid in
,irec.ia= the attention. Of this country /
% this paramount issue.
joins f. JONES,
Ww. II. STEWART.
The Committee on Address report
.d the following:
The State Genital Committee of
he Silver party Of Nevada upon TINS,
he first occasion of its assembling b
iucs the election Of 1892, sends its /
reeting to the people Of the coin
lonwealtl and extends t. them its g..
.earty congratulations for the signal |
ictory and glorious results in their :
rst distinctive campaign for free I
oinage. The long train of business {
isasters which the. old parties have I
inflicted upon our whole country by
he demonetizatlon of silver, and the !
etusal for a long period of years, to {
epudlate the crlE,v @; 1878, 20 &c
tore silver to its cons. itut:onal rank 1
S 4 money metal and admit it t. our
hints upon equal terms with gold at /
historical ratio by Congressional Il
gislatIon, as in the past days
the purity of our Government, ar l.
FUSED the independent spirit Of t v
items into ac-iT" corporation, t. :
'ru ''oss Ct lorh,- .sty ties, INC ?
eterminati n that the eleeto.aI vote /
our proud State shall never again t
, cast for candid tas for Presiden- S
id Vice F. esident unless they shall c
, unqualihedly in favor of free coin V
,e, and shall stlnd uron free coin il
&c platform. Over one million Of t
lr fellow-couutrymen united with \
} upon this great issue, carried SIX b
tates and elected twenty-five Presi e
entail Electors, whose votes were
lst for Generals Weaver and Field, |,
lie nominees of the Peoples Party, e
ie only National party in the United Fl
tatss in favor of the free coinage of S
I'D and silver at the ratio Of l6 to / s
patty composed OF earnest, honest a
Id patriotic citizens, whose members e
Congress are always at their posts c
citing for the silver cause, as well r