The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-09-28
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.

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Adlai Il. Stevenson for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency of the United States,
by the action of the Democratic, Silver
Republican and Populist parties of the
United States.
We rejoice that the new Democracy of
1896, which was the old Democracy of
| jefferson and is closely allied in faith
and purpose to the Republicanism of
Lincoln, has again been re- asserted in
1900, and that it is receiving the united
support of the reform forces. We declare
| our belief that no reason now exists for
the division of the reform forces into
three independent organizations, and that
unity of organization. as well as unity of
purpose is the demand of the hour.
We believe that the doctrines of the
Chicago and Kansas City platforms cover
all that is neejed in the enforcement of
our traditional principles oil government
and all that is now attainable in the line
of reform, and should satisfy the reason
able expectations of all reformers and
lovers of their country, that the pure and
exalted character, the marked ability and
high patriotism of William Jennings
Bryan, fill every requirement of leader
ship, and that patriotic duty demands the
perfect union into one political organiza-
ton of all the parties now enlisted under
his leadership.
National Platform - We endorse the
party, adopted at Kansas City, and pledge
our support to all of its declarations, and
particularly those relating to the silver
and monetary question, and also inn
perialism and the trusts, the natural Off
spring of the plutocratic policy of the Re-
publican party, which has increased in
boldness and intensity since the demon
citation of silver in 1873, until now, in
1900, it has practically substituted for the
| Declaration of Independence, the methods
| of imperialism in the Administration of
our national government.
| Silver Question-We hold that the Sill
yer question is still one of the important
issues of this campaign, and that it will
never be permanently settled until our
minis are opened to the free and un
limited coinage of gold and silver at the
ratio of sixteen to one, regardless of the
consent of other nations. We congratu-
late the supporters of Bryan and Steven
son in Nevada that they are not sub
jected to the humiliating necessity of
abrogating or modifying any plank in
| their national platform for the accommo-
dation of their Congressional nominee.
The platform as adopted at Kansas City,
| is broad enough for our national and
State candidates, and it contains not a
word, the elimination of which would add
an iota of strength to the local nominees.
| Trusts-We oppose the trusts and COM
industry and levy tribute upon the people,
and we denounce the Republican party
which creates and fosters them. We es-
pecially denounce the scheme of the Re-
publican Administration to create the
greatest of all monopolies, in delegating
to the national banks the exclusive right
to make and issue the peoples money.
Our Flag-We condemn the cowardly
and inconsistent course of the Republl-
can Administration, which plants our
flag of freedom, defiantly in the faces OF
those struggling for liberty in the Philip
pines, yet hauls it down from where it
has honorably and rightfully been for a
third of century, in the Porcupine Min
ing District of Alaska.
The Boers-We extend to the brave
Beers of South Africa, our sympathy and
moral support in their patriotic struggle
for the right of self-government, and we
are unalterably opposed to any alliance,
open or covert, between the U nlted States
and any other nation, which will tend TO
the destruction or Arrangement of human
liberty.
Porto Rico-The Declaration of Inde-
pendence, the Constitution and the Flag
are one and iuseparable. The island of
Porto Rico is part OF the territory of the
United States, and by denying freedom
of trade between that island and the
United States, and placing upon it the
burdens of certain duties, as well as by
denying its people a delegate to Congress,
| the Administration has VIOLATED the
| Constitution, abandoned the fundamental
principles of American liberty, and has
striven to give the lie to the contention
of our fore-fathers that all men are created
equal, that government rests for its sane.
| ton upon the consent of the governed,
and that representation and taxation are
/ inseparable.
| Lotteries and Prize Fighting-We re-
] jeet the proposed constitutional amend
ment removing the prohibition as to lot
teries. We also favor the repeal of the
statute licensing prize lighting in Nevada,
and pledge our legislative nominees to
vote in accordance with the letter and
spirit of both OF the sections of this reso-
luton.
Labor-We believe in the regulation of
the hours of labor by the State, and that a
| shortening Of such hours will tend TO the
material advancement, prosperity and
happiness of those who labor. We there
| fore pledge our candidates for the legisla-
ture to the passage of an eight hour law,
| applicable TO all labor in mines, mills,
snIelters and other works for reducing or
refining ores, and to extend such law 10
other classes of labor TO which 1T is appli-
cable, after hearing and consulting with
the representatives. of such classes, and to
lprovlde by law for adding to the duties
of one of the State officers, without addi-
tional salary, the duty of a commissioner
of Labor, who shall collect all statistics
relating TO labor in this State, and who
shall make recommendations 10 the Leg
isiature from time to time as to appro-
PIRATE legislation.
Water Storage-We believe that water
storage for ard lands should be recog-
nized by the general government as a
part of its internal improvement system,
and that liberal appropriations should be
made for that purpose, and we call atteu-
ton to the specific declaration in this be-
half in the National platform, favoring
an intelligent system of improving the
arid lands OF the West, storing the waters
for the purpose of irrigation, and the
holding of such lands for actual settlers.
We believe that the development of The
republic within the arid regions, by a
proper system of internal improve ment,
will build up an empire based ON equal
citizenship, far surprising the power and
glory of any empire based ON the acqufsi-
ton of distant countries and the subiec-
ton of inferior races.
University and Schools--We recognize
the high efficiency and usefulness OF our
University, and favor legislation which
will advance its aims end purposes. We
also recognize the necessity of maintain
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