The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-09-22
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bread by the sweat of their brows. may
be briefly summarized as follows:
!. The law prohibiting employers
from compelling their employees to board
at any particular place.
?. The law prohibiting employers
from making contracts with their en-
ployes that the latter shall not join
labor unions, or surrender their MEM
bership therein.
3. The law making eight hours a
legal days work in the service of the
state.
4. The law making eight hours a
legal days work in ell underground
mining employment. and in works for
the treatment of ores and tailings.
5. The law creating labor day-thus
~elevating and Identifying labor as 1t had
never been in this state before. All of
these laws and more were the work of
a single Democratic legislature and a
Democratic governor. the Honorable
John Sparks, our candidate for re-
election In the present campaign.
We further invite the attention of
Nevada's laboring population to the fact
that the Democratic state platform
promises an extension of the eight-hour
day to the utmost possible, within con-
stitutional limitations; while the Re-
publican platform contains merely a
mass of platitudes which mean little or
nothing.
We further call attention to the pail
bable fact that Democratic friendliness
to labor has carried with it nothing of
unfriendliness to capital and the en-
ployers of labor. but that on the con-
trary, the policy of the Democracy of
Nevada. and the country at large, has
always been one of equal and exact jus
tice to all classes alike. with the full
est measure of legal protection to every
interest.
We demand the removal of the county
seat of Esmeralda county to the town
of Goldfeld at the hands of the next
legislature of this state, and we hereby
pledge our legislative candidates to use
their utmost endeavors on behalf of
such removal, which will inure to the
advantage of nine-tenths of the people
of this county.
In view of the great increase of the
population of Esmeralda county, an in
crease which is still going on with al
most unparalleled rapidity, and which
gives every promise of being permanent,
We dtAidAio VI bhC AC4t q -
responding increase of representation in
both the senate and assembly.
The Democratic party of Esmeraida
county recognize the value of railroads
in opening up new districts and in the
general good and advantage resulting
from the building of a railroad into a
new country; yet. while recognizing
these facts. we must take into conside-
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freights and fares on these railroads,
are entitled to some consideration, and
that the rates charged by railroads
should not be so high as to place a
heavy burden upon the people, and re-
tard the development of a community ~
reason of the exorbitant rates charged
for fares and freights.
Therefore, the Democratic party in
convention assembled hereby pledge
their legislative nominees to work for a
bill and have it enacted into a law,
which will reduce the freight and fare
schedules now charged by the railroads
in Nevada, to a figure which will be
ample remuneration for the railroads,
and which will pay them for the capita
people of this state.
fIDdlly, III COIlfnOu With our ltilOW
Democrats all over the country, we re-
joice in the growing popularity of
William ]. Bryan; we hail him as our
next presidential standard bearer with
the keenest satisfaction, not merely be-
cause of his personality, but because his
nomination will prove conclusively that
the Democracy of the nation is thor
oughly united upon those great funda-
mental principles which made the
Democratic party the dominant political
force in our countrys' history for 20
years; and that it leads the van in the
grand march of reform which, under
the changing conditions which confront
us, is absolutely essential for the well
fare and happiness of our country-a
reform which the Republican party
with it's present organization can never
give.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES s.. SPRAGUE,
Chairman.
BEN RosENTHAL,