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NEVADA. 



lie works in the Indian possessions, and to the 

 extraordinary redemption of the colonial debts. 

 During the summer, the Atcheenese in Sumatra 

 again became troublesome, and it was found 

 necessary to send reinforcements from Java. 

 Fighting was continued during the year, leav- 

 ing the Dutch the masters of the situation at 

 the close. 



NEVADA. The Republican party of this 

 State met in convention at Eureka on the 18th 

 of September, 1878, and made the following 

 nominations : for Governor, John Henry Hink- 

 head ; for Lieutenant-Go vernor, H. R. Mighels ; 

 for Secretary of State, Jasper Babcock; for 

 State Treasurer, L. L. Crockett; for Comp- 

 troller, J. F. Hallock; for Attorney-General, 

 M. A. Murphy ; for Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, J. D. Hammond; for Surveyor- 

 General, A. J. Hatch; for Chief Justice, 

 Thomas F. Hawley ; for Clerk of the Supreme 

 Court, Charles F. Bicknell; for Congressman, 

 R. M. Daggett. The following platform was 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That we reaffirm the principles of, and 

 renew our allegiance to, the party wjiich preserved 

 the Union, freed the slave, and maintained the es- 

 sential doctrine that this is a nation, and not a con- 

 federacy bound together with ropes of sand, and that 

 both State and National Governments should give 

 ample and competent protection to its citizens, both 

 at nome and abroad ; that against the assaults of 

 traitors and rebels, the Kepublican party has pre- 

 s.erved these Governments, and the Republicans of 

 Nevada now demand tbat every qualified elector in 

 every State, South and North Democrat and Re- 

 publican, black or white shall be permitted, undis- 

 turbed by force and unawed by fear, to vote at all 

 elections at the places prescribed by law, and that 

 every vote so cast shall be honestly counted, and 

 that every person chosen by such votes to any office 

 shall be freely inducted into it and effectively sup- 

 ported in the discharge of its duties ; tbat the per- 

 manent pacification of the Southern section of the 

 Union, and complete protection of all its citizens in 

 their civil, political, personal, and property rights, 

 is the duty to which the Republican party stands sa- 

 credly pledged, and in order to redeem this pledge 

 it placed the recent amendments in the Constitu- 

 tion, and upon the righteous basis of said amend- 

 ments it will go forward in the work of pacification 

 until peace shall come through right doing and con- 

 tentment through justice ; that the evident purpose 

 of the Democratic party, if it should come into full 

 power, to pay hundreds of millions of suspended 

 war claims of disloyal men, already presented to 

 Congress or awaiting a favorable moment for pres- 

 entation, makes it doubly important, now that the 

 Senate is soon to pass under Democratic domina- 

 tion, that the House of Representatives to be chosen 

 in the coming election should be under Republican 

 control. 



Resolved, That the validity of the Presidential 

 term was definitely and finally settled by the Forty - 

 r UI J \ Con re88 i and that the attempt shadowed 



'rtn by the Potter resolutions to disturb the title by 

 which President Hayes and Vice-President Wheeler 

 hold their seats is revolutionary and dangerous in 



no extreme, and, characteristic as it is of the under- 

 lying motives of the rebel Democracy, call for our 

 unqualified disapproval and denunciation. 

 Resolved, That it is the duty of Congress to perfect 



r ith all possible expedition such legislation as will 

 secure to the country the benefit of an honest and 

 fair adjustment of freights and fares on all railroads 



whose construction is the result of land grants, sub- 

 sidies, loans, and other Government aid or assist- 

 ance. 



Resolved, That the Republican party favors and 

 demands at the hands of the State legislation having 

 in view the regulation and equalization of freights 

 and fares on the railroads within this State. 



Resolved, That in their shameless disregard of an 

 avowed principle, the Democratic party of this State, 

 in their unmistakable purpose to nominate the 

 present incumbent of the Gubernatorial office for a 

 third term, have brought upon themselves the de- 

 served distrust, not only of every Republican, but 

 of the more honorable and consistent members of 

 their own party. 



Resolved, That we believe in the doctrine of rota- 

 tion in office, and that, so believing, we are opposed 

 to the nomination of candidates to office under the 

 State government for a third term. 



Resolved, That we hail with joy the remonetization 

 of silver as a step toward our emancipation from the 

 grasp of the currupt money rings of Europe and 

 America, and we ask Congress to complete the mea- 

 sure of our redemption by according to silver unre- 

 strained coinage. 



Resolved, That in the legislation of the Forty-fifth 

 Congress, nothing more fully commands our appro- 

 bation than the efforts of our Senators and Repre- 

 sentative in securing the remonetization of silver and 

 the dual standard in the coinage of the country. 



Resolved, That there should be retrenchment in the 

 public service ; that men elected to office should be 

 qualified by education, intelligence, and business 

 habits to perform the duties of their respective of- 

 fices ; and that the system of deputyships and clerk- 

 ships at present existing in the interest of State offi- 

 cers should be abolished at once and for ever. 



Resolved, That public lands are the property of the 

 people, and therefore they should be reserved for 

 actual settlers, aided in their settlement by the Gov- 

 ernment and protected in their possessions by just 

 laws. 



Resolved, That we recognize the wisdom of the 

 framers of our Constitution in providing for the 

 taxation of the proceeds of the mines ; that all taxes 

 should be equal and uniform ; that the present sys- 

 tem of taxation is as just and fair as any that can be 

 devised, and should be preserved; that the mining 

 corporations doing business in this State pay no 

 more than their just proportion of taxes, while the 

 railroad property situated within this State pays 

 much less than its just proportion ; that no more 

 taxes should be raised any one year than are neces- 

 sary to defray the actual and necessary expenses of 

 the State during the same period, when economical- 

 ly and honestly administered ; that the prestnt rate 

 of assessment of property should be decreased so as 

 to produce only such a sum as is absolutely required 

 to pay the expenses of the State, at the same time 

 having due regard to the surplus of funds already in 

 the Treasury. 



Resolved, That the Republican party of the State 

 of Nevada is opposed to and protests against any re- 

 peal, modification, or change of the law taxing the 

 net proceeds of mines, commonly known as the bul- 

 lion tax law. 



Resolved, That we refer with pride to the record of 

 the Republican party in Congress, where, in spite of 

 the assaults of a malignant and unscrupulous opposi- 

 tion, not one stain of "dishonor rests, and not one act 

 has been brought to light which reflects anything 

 but renown upon the representatives of our organi- 

 zation and its principles. 



Resolved, That labor in itself recognizes the Re- 

 publican party as its exponent; demands emanci- 

 pation from oppression, and elevation to its proper 

 dignity, a just and equal place with capital, and that 

 both are alike necessary to the well-being of society. 



Resolved, That the General Government should 

 immediately take such steps as to absolutely stop 



