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NEVADA. 



preme Judge, a ballot was taken, William H. 

 Beatty, R. H. Taylor, of Virginia City, and 

 George M. Sabin, of Eureka County, being the 

 competitors; and, after an animated struggle 

 protracted to seventy-one ballots, William H. 

 Beatty was declared the Republican nominee, 

 the vote of the last ballot having stood : Beatty, 

 55; Sabin, 33; Taylor, 13 ; the entire number 

 of the votes cast being 101. 



For Presidential electors, were nominated: 

 R. H. Taylor, by acclamation ; A. E. Morton of 

 Esmeralda County, and O. H. Grey, of White 

 Pine County, by ballot. 



The following platform was reported from 

 the committee on resolutions, and unanimous- 

 ly adopted by the Convention : 



Resolved^ That the platform of principles adopted 

 by the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 

 June, deserves and receives the approval and hearty 

 endorsement of all Republicans of Nevada. 



Resolved, That the hordes of Chinese that are com- 

 ing in upon cur shores to cat out our substance are 

 destroying our country, impoverishing our mines, 

 miners, and laborers, debauching our youth, and mak- 

 ing both men and women lower in the scale of hu- 

 manity. This evil must and shall be stopped, and to 

 this we pledge the entire strength of the Republi- 

 can party. In the language of our great leader, we 

 regard the immigration of Asiatics to the United States 

 as little less than a servile invasion. Should the com- 

 missioners now in negotiation with the Chinese Gov- 

 ernment fail to secure by the 1st of next January such 

 a modifi cation of the Burlingame Treaty as will prac- 

 tically put an end to the influx of Chinese to this 

 country, we demand that the treaty then be promptly 

 annulled, and such laws enacted as will relieve us at 

 once and for ever of the Asiatic scourge now menac- 

 ing the well-being of the republic. 



Resolved, That we most heartily endorse the general 

 financial policy of the Republican party, which, in 

 spite of every opposition on the part of the Democracy, 

 has led to the resumption of specie payments, the rais- 

 ing of our national credit to a height never before 

 known, and the restoration of national prosperity. 

 But we also demand the complete restoration of silver 

 coin to its former position by the side of gold, and, for 

 the purpose of attaining that end, we hold it to be the 

 duty of the General Government, through the author- 

 ization of Congress, to coin into standard dollars or 

 other legal-tender currency, at the cost of coinage and 

 for the benefit of the producer, the entire silver prod- 

 uct of the country, and relieve the mining industry 

 from the loss attending the shipment to, and sale of 

 silver bullion in, foreign markets. As mining for the 

 precious metals is the leading industry of Nevada, we 

 are inflexibly opposed to the Dill reported by the Com- 

 mittee on Mines and Mining, and now "before the 

 House of Representatives, prohibiting the following ot 

 fissure veins or deposits beyond vertical lines of sur- 

 face boundaries, and we urge our Representatives in 

 both Houses of Congress to continue their efforts for 

 its defeat. Such a restriction would work disaster to 

 the labors of the prospector, and seriously retard the 

 development of the mineral riches of the West, and 

 we cordially endorse the action of our Representative, 

 the Hon. R. M. Daggett, in this behalf. 



Resolved, That the Republican party claims it to be 

 the right and duty of the State and Territorial Legis- 

 latures to regulate and restrict the charges of railroads 

 exclusively within their respective boundaries, and 

 that it is no less the constitutional right than positive 

 duty of Congress to regulate tariffs and restrict the 

 charges of inter-State railroads. 



Resolved, That while we congratulate the country 

 on the successful resumption of specie payments, and 

 the splendid financial condition of the republic, we 

 are in favor of restricting the issuance of national and 



State legal-tender notes to denominations of not less 

 than five dollars, thus creating an increased home de- 

 mand as a circulating medium for the precious metals 

 which our mines are annually yielding. 



Resolved, That General James A. Garfield and 

 Chester A. Arthur, by their services to the country, 

 by their devotion to principles, and by their unspotted 

 reputation as men and as citizens, are deserving of 

 the united and earnest support of all the loyal people 

 of the United States for President and Vicc-President. 

 We rejoice in their nomination, and pledge to them 

 the electoral vote of Nevada at the ensuing electic 

 by an overwhelming majority. 



The Democrats in their State Conventioi 

 nominated for the above-mentioned offices th< 

 following ticket: For Supreme Court Judge, 

 Charles H. Belknap ; for Congressman, Geoi 

 W. Cassidy ; for Presidential elector for 

 State at large, Ogden Hiles. 



The result of the election on November 

 was most favorable to the Democratic party, it 

 candidates for Supreme Court Judge, Con- 

 gressman, Presidential electors, and nearly __ 

 the others, having been elected to the offices 

 for which they had been nominated. The Re- 

 publicans acknowledged in their newspapers 

 this great defeat of their party, ascribing it to 

 apathy or undue confidence of victory among 

 its adherents, to want of organization, and to 

 defective management of party interests during 

 the campaign. 



The charitable, reformatory, and penal insti- 

 tutions of Nevada appear to continue undei 

 good management, and answer the puq 

 intended. The insane patients are still kept at 

 Stockton, in the neighboring State of Califor- 

 nia, in the private establishment of Drs. Lang- 

 ton and Clark. As this method costs the State 

 a yearly sum of about fifty thousand dollars, the 

 press in Nevada, with scarcely an exception, 

 earnestly urge the building of an insane asy- 

 lum within the State ; which measure the small 

 dissenting portion of the people admits to be 

 desirable, but objects to it as inexpedient at 

 this time, on account of the great outlay of 

 money wliich the erection and first establish- 

 ment of such an institution would necessarily 

 entail on the State, and which the present un- 

 propitious condition of her finances renders her 

 unable to bear without greatly aggravating the 

 burden of the already overburdened tax-payers. 



The education of youth in Nevada seems to 

 be healthy and prosperous. 



The rate per capita allowed for children of 

 school age, in 1879, was six dollars; about the 

 same amount will be allowed for each of them 

 in the following year. 



A new railway line, entirely within the lim- 

 its of the State, after many years' hard work 

 and great expense, has been completed and 

 put in operation in 1880. It goes under the 

 name of "The Nevada Central Railroad, 1 ' ex- 

 tending from Battle Mountain to the city of 

 Austin, and passing through portions of Lan- 

 der and Nye Counties. It is confidently pre- 

 dicted that its working will prove most bene- 

 ficial to the people of the said counties, and 

 chiefly to the city of Austin. 



