Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-04-14
THE SILVER
COMMITTEE.
IT APPOINTS A COMMIT
TEE ON FUSION TO
MEET THE DEMO-
Gratis.

held in Reno on Thursday last at the
Court House.
AS the Reno papers have pu blished
false and misleading reports of the ses-
sion of the Committee, the APPEAL
gives it fuller space than it would
! otherwise for meeting outside of Car
| son.
| The meeting was called to oru,r by
Mr. Nate Rolf. Nj. Sheeline OF w a>hoe
and John +. Mcdonald OF Storey were
| placed in nomination for the tfice of
permanent Chairman, S. l.. Davis
having resigned. The result. was as
follows: Sheeline, 81; Med onald 10.
Mr.. Sheeliue being confined to his
ed temporary Chairman and Win Nir-
gin Secretary.
A communication from the Demo
cratic State Central Committee lnvlt-
ing a joint conference Of the two COM
mittees relative to the question of fus-
ion was read by the Secretary, The
proposition embodied in the communi-
cation was for the Silver and Demo
cratc parties TO unite in the same pri-
mares, and merge the conventions OF
both parties into one joint convention.
A. Livingston of Ormsby then intro
duced the following: Resolved, that
the question of fusion with the other
opponents of the Gold Trust properly
belongs to the State Conventions, and
d. mlttee 10 dictate terms on which fusion
may be effected.
The following substitute was then
offered by Major Huffaker of Storey:
Whereas: The Silver Party of the
State of Nevada was organized and has
" been maintained for the purpose OF
: supporting that National party that
should unequivocally declare for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
u the ratio of IL to l, independently OF
the action of any other nation, and
IS should nominate a candidate for the
g Office of President of the United States
Whereas: The Democratic Party
= has thus done. and whereas there Is
IS general and cordial invitation to al
e honest and sincere Silver men to unit
with the Democratic Party in the ap
80 preaching campa.gn: and
g. Whereas: The time has thus ar
nj
organization in this State to carry GU
the object of our being: therefore b
and it is hereby
10 Resolved: by the State Central Com
mittee of the Silver Party of the Stat
of Nevada, at a regularly called meet
ing thereof. that it is the sense OF TIL
Committee that we accept the invita
'ee ton of the Democratic Party and unit
~ with them in a Joint call for Stat
80 Contention for the nomination of car
,la didates and with them to combine an
m act as one political organization in til
~. coming campaign.
ac II. H. Beck of Washoe offered tt
asst following as substitute to the sui
Is. stitute:
TO- Resolved, That the State Centr
u" Committee of the Silver Party of tt
State of Nevada at a regularly Gale
meeting thereof, that it is the sense
this Committee that we accept the il
: vitation of the Democratic Part
H. through their State Central Committ
and issue a call for a State Conventic
fit to meet at the same time and pla
, at with them and it. is hereby firth
resolved that the Committee appoint'
inc by the Silver Party is instructed
confer with the State Central Commi
tee Of the Democratic Party when
'Fi- meets on the l4th instant, and the
" and there issue d call for State Co
65c vention.
These resolutions brought on a b
z@ debate between what was desgnat,
by the crowd as the Wallace facti,
and the Sharon faction. The Share
men supported the Beck resolution q,
after a very lively debate it was lost
a vote Of p to 26.
The substitute came next and it w
~ beaten by the same vote.
/! a resolution to table ali the subje
+ matter of fusion resulted in still liveli
debate. The Sharon men charged t
opposition with being there liz the /
terest of Mckinley, and also that
who voted against them were puppe
and tools.
Their attention was called to the ia
that most Of the men who held prOxi
were voting the proxies as instruct
. by their principals.
They charged that Matt Schatzle