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Evening Chronicle.
VIRGINIA CITY, NEV.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1890

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

Full Organization -- Reports of Committees -- Last Evening's Session -- Today's Proceedings -- Platform Promulgated -- Nominations, Etc.

At 8 o'clock last evening pursuant to adjournment the convention was called to order by the temporary chairman, Hon. Thomas Wren.

The report of the committees on Credentials, Permanent Organization and Order of Business, and Platform and Resolutions were read and adopted, the temporary officers being all declared permanent, and the convention being now in full working order, Chairman Wren made a speech of considerable length.

THE PLATFORM.

The following declaration of faith and principles was then read by Patrick Bowler of Esmeralda:

The record of the Republican party is its best platform.

No political party in human history has taken such advanced positions for the equality of races, none has so wedded the administration of authority to the needs of business, none has so managed the affairs of a State as to encourage the development and settlement of a continent, none has so elevated a nation and contributed to the comfort and happiness of man, none has so honestly and economically carried on the routine duties of office.

In all things it has been the direct opposite of the Democratic party. Grand in its ambitions and impulses, firm and resolute in its consistentcy, strong in its devotion to principle, it is now, as it has been from its birth, the representative of all that is best and noblest in its own country and hope and promise of a better future for the human race.

Its battles for human rights, its preservation of the Union, its abolition of slavery, its protection to labour, its elevation of manufacturers, its upholding of the national credit, its efforts in behalf of honest financial methods, its homestead system and its devotion to popular education have made for it the greatest record of any political organization this or any other country ever had.

The names of its heroes are legion, and the deeds of Fremont, Lincoln, Grant and Garfield will shine like electric lights on the pages of history.

The Republicans of Nevada, in convention assembled heartily indorse the acts of the Fifty first Congress, which has made greater advances in correct and needed legislation than any since the war.

The crime of filibustering, so often resorted to by the Democratic party for the purpose of defeating legislation and locking the wheels of government, has been done away with by the genius of Reed, McKinley and their associates, and the offenders taught that Congressmen are paid by the people for making good laws and not bad politics.

It has, by a strictly party vote, placed the silver question on a basis that will lead naturally to free coinage and disarm all opposition among financiers.

It has taken up the work of a readjustment of the tariff in a patriotic and business-like way, such as will protect the interests of labor and at the same time encourage capital to enterprises that will furnish it with employment at good wages.

New States, which were denied their rights before, have been admitted to the Union, and the grip of Tammany Hall upon the Presidency broken up and made to obey the laws of honest commerce.

Efforts are being made to prevent or punish frauds and intimidations in elections.

A navy has been provided for and suitable pensions granted to prevent suffering among the sick and wounded heroes of the war.

Provision is being made for the reclamation of the arid regions, where the Republican policy of free homes and free schools can be extended.

Unearned land grants are being restored to the public domain and the land thrown open to settlement, and in all things the pledges of the National platform are being amply redeemed.

We indorse the Administration of President Harrison and commend his conservative course as striking in contrast with his predecessor in office.

During the former Administration silver and wheat touched the lowest price ever known, and farmers burned their corn for fuel. Trusts were stimulated, finances disarranged, strikes prevailed, the mail service was demoralized and business found itself oppressed instead of being encouraged by the methods of the Government, whose whole business should be to benefit the country.

Today silver, wheat, lead and all the products of labor are rapidly rising, and while the Democratic officials may perhaps be innocent of intentionally destroying our prosperity they are culpable for the results of blunders as they would be for crimes. Under Harrison Chinese and contract labor are kept out of the country. American laborers and mechanics protected, agriculture is encouraged by a department intelligently conducted for its benefit, and the laws administered in a wise, firm and patriotic manner. In presenting its ticket to the voters of Nevada, the Republican party pledges its nominees to retrenchment wherever it is possible in county and State expenditures.

We pledge our nominees to a system of State improvements which shall save the water now running to waste and devise means to secure its use in the irrigation of the fertile lands now lying idle.

We indorse the measure introduced by Senator Stewart proposing to cede the lands within our lines to the State for the purpose of aiding to improve our water storage and irrigating systems, and we appeal to Congress and the President to grant the much-needed aid.

We indorse the course of our Senators and Representative in Congress, and commend their efforts to establish on a better basis the use of silver as money, and reaffirm our uncompromising demand for the free coinage of both gold and silver and their equal station in our national currency.

WHEREAS, The practice of letting mail contracts in this State to non-residents thereof, who seek and obtain such contracts only for the purpose of sub-letting the same, has resulted in an inferior and impaired mail service;

Resolved, That our delegation in Congress be requested to procure, if possible, the enactment of a law to prevent such abuses in the future.

We are in favor of the improvement of the wages of American labor by restricting immigration from foreign countries, a thorough revision of our naturalization and land laws, the construction of naval and coast defenses, the fostering of free schools and popular education, the enforcement of a free ballot and a fair court, cherishing the defenders of our country, the protection of every citizen in his rights at home and abroad, the fostering of a policy that will extend our commerce, the settling of all foreign complications by arbitration, and liberal appropriations, by Congress for construction of water reservoirs and a system of irrigation.

Resolved, That we are in favor of the Australian system of ballot.

Resolved, That as at the coming election the question as to whether or not a Constitutional Convention will be held is to be submitted to the people, that we earnestly invite a calm and thorough discussion of the question during the campaign.

Resolved, That it is the policy of the Republican party of Nevada to secure all sage and possible retrenchments in public affairs, and especially in dispensing with unncessary officers and useless deputies in adjusting salaries upon a basis of service performed, decreasing the per diem and mileage and shortening the session and lessening the number of members of the Legislature, in the reduction of taxation and and in consolidating county officers and diminishing county expenses, and to this end we pledge the nominees this convention and earnestly ask that the nominees of the several county conventions be likewise obligated.