The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-10
NEVADA SILVER PARTY
Adopts a Platform and Non,inates
Newlands For Congress.

Reno, New, Sept. 9.-The silver party
conv ention reassembled at 10 o'clock
this morning The committee on plat
form and resolutions made their report
The platform endorses the platform of
the national silver party at st. Louis
in 1896 and the financial plank of the
national Democratic party at Chicago
IN 1896
Reafirms devition to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to l by independent action of the
United States. Unalterably opposes
Republican policy of increasing the
banking institutions.
Asserts faith in the loyalty, ability
and wise leadership of William J. Bry-
an and predicts his nomination as the
standard bearer in 1900. 1t favors the
holding of Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines until the American people
have time to consider the best policy
in regard to their final disposition.
1t favors the construction of the Mic
aragua canal. 1t favors the foreclosure
of the mortgage on the Central Pacific
railroad unless the principal and inter
est is paid within one year.
After the adoption of the platform
the convention adjourned to await the
report of the consultation committee
which was in conference with a SINH
lar committee of the Democratic con-
-Yention on fusion.
On being placed in nomination for
congress- the Hon. T. G. Newlands. in
his speech before the convention, said
that the silver question was not dead
issue-that the conditions of the last
campaign still existed, though some
what ameliorated by the bounteous
crop of last year, when famine pre-
vailed elsewhere; that these issues,
though temporarily obscured by the
activity created by war, would be &C
centuated in 1900; that the tariff ques-
ton would not then divide the friends
of silver.
AS to- the senatorship Mr.. Newlands
said that he was indisposed to contest
the seat Of Senator Stewart, that he
had uniformly advocated harmony
among the silver forces and that he
could not consistently inaugurate a
contest in Nevada which would divide
the friends of silver and imperil the
silver organization which had been so
completely formed.
He insisted that the movement
against the legislative jobbers who for
years had been endeavoring to restrict
the volume of money and TO augment
the value of money as compared with
property and products would be char
acteriZed by unity of purpose and firm
resolve and that harmony and fervor
would direct 1t to a successful issue;
that Republican pretensions of a dispo-
sition to secure bimetallism or an en-
1arged use of silver by either interna-
tional or national action would be ex-
posed: that its determination to create
a banking trust with full power over
the volume of currency would be dem
onstrated and that the country would
view with alarm the power of combs
nations of capital caused by falling
prices and the inability of the small
producer or trader to secure the money
or credit necessary to maintain his
enterprise.
He insisted that the fusion of the
silver forces would be more complete
than ever. that the issues would be /
unified and the largest tolerance main 1
tanned as to non-essentials. That the |
hysterical alarm created in the last |
campaign by outcries against commun- /
ism and anarchy could not be again /
aroSsed.
The silver party convention today /
dominated the following ticket;