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NEVADA. 



or invasion of the rights of person or of property, to 

 redress grievances, is needless and at war with free 

 institutions. By legislation fostering and favoring 

 the great moneyed corporations, such as national 

 banks, railroad, steamship, telegraphic, and manu- 

 facturing companies, the Republican party has per- 

 verted the Government from its true object of pro- 

 tecting the people, and made it the instrument of 

 plundering them. It has concentrated vast wealth 

 in the hands of a few, while the toiling millions who 

 created that wealth are struggling in poverty and 

 enforced idleness ; and it has enabled monopolies to 

 devour so great a portion of the earnings as to take 

 from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. 



9. The Democracy of Nevada congratulate the 

 country upon the acceptance, by the present Admin- 

 istration, of the constitutional and pacific policy of lo- 

 cal and self-go vernmeut in the States South, so long 

 advocated b> the Democratic party, resulting in peace 

 and harmony to that section of the Union. 



10. The Democracy demand the Legislature to 

 pass additional enactments to enable stockholders to 

 visit and examine mining property in which they 

 are interested. 



The Democracy declare that honesty, capacity, 

 devotion to the truest principles of government, 

 and the faithful observance of pledges, constitute of 

 themselves the highest title to its renewed confi- 

 dence, and further, .there is no resemblance in prin- 

 ciple between the case of the Governor of a State, 

 with little patronage, and with powers limited by 

 the strict provisions of the Constitution, and that of 

 a President of the United States, by virtue of his 

 office Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, 

 and the head of 100,000 officeholders, striving to 

 perpetuate a personal and tyrannical rule by the 

 unscrupulous use of all means at his command. 

 The career of the late President of the United States 

 furnishes the most complete proof of the danger of 

 a third Presidential term, which we warn against, 

 a-id peek to avoid in the future ; that of the present 

 Governor of Nevada presents the strongest evidence 

 "f the wisdom of our action in discarding, in its ap- 

 plication to State affairs, a doctrine long repudiated 

 by the Republican party, and now filched by it for 

 the present occasion. 



Finally, the Democratic party of Nevada, by its 

 Convention assembled, takes occasion to especially 

 commend Governor L. R. Bradley for preventing, by 

 liis veto, an unjust modification of the revenue laws 

 now in force taxing the proceeds of the mines, show- 

 ing himself by his fearless vindication of the peo- 

 ple's rights worthy of the full confidence of the good 

 and true men of all parties in this State. 



On the second day of the session a delegate in- 

 troduced the following series of charges against 

 the Republican partv, which were adopted by 

 the Convention amid enthusiastic applause : 



The Democracy of Nevada denounces with indig- 

 nation the insincerity and hypocrisy of the Republi- 

 can partv, and contrasts its professions with its ac- 

 ms. For fifteen years the pliant tool of corpora- 

 ris and the willing instrument used to consummate 

 licir wrongs, with foxy craftiness, it affects opposi- 

 ;ion to corporate abuses, relying upon the oppressive 

 of corporate power and the corrupt use of cor- 

 ition money at the polls, and never succeeding 

 pt by their infamous instrumentalities. With 

 Washing effrontery it, pretends to deprecnte the 

 [corporations in elections. Having 

 cd the public domain of hundred* of millions of 

 land and etvon it to the railroad monopo- 

 -nsing its rapacity when it no longer 

 a-1 power, it now prates about reserving the public 

 ids for actual settlers, having made the extortions 

 os practiced by railroad companies possible, 

 1 ax, njf at all times, and for ten vears, opposed 

 uad defeated nil attempts to correct them. Now that 



the power is passing into other hands it pretends to 

 be in favor of regulating freights and fares. Having 

 adopted the treaty which invites and encourages the 

 paupers of Asia to come to the United States, and 

 having for fifteen years refused to modify or revoke 

 that treaty, it now demands the exclusion of Chinese 

 from the country. Creating the system of deputies 

 and multiplying officials whenever possible, it now 

 affects a desire to abolish the system. Fresh from a 

 perfidious attempt to relieve foreign mining corpora- 

 tions from contributing their just part to the public 

 revenues, it proclaims again its violated promises and 

 nominates for places of high trust men who voted 

 for and favored the passage of the Bullion Tax bill. 

 Denouncing pledge-breaking as disgraceful and dis- 

 honorable, it selects as its standard-bearers men who 

 are notorious for broken pledges and violated in- 

 structions. Always on the side of monopoly, ever 

 acting in the interest of capital, supported by every 

 bondholder, bank, railroad corporation and ring in 

 the land, it audaciously declares that labor recog- 

 nizes the Republican party as its exponent ; and 

 finally to complete the ghastly farce, having impov- 

 erished and plundered the South, incited the ani- 

 mosities of race, inflamed the hates of sections, kept 

 alive the passions of war and trampled upon the 

 rights of the States, like a grinning hyena, it prom- 

 ises to go forward with the work of pacification. 

 Having reorganized the Supreme Court at the dicta- 

 tion of corrupt rings, demonetized silver in the in- 

 terest of capital, contracted the currency and imposed 

 enormous taxes in the interest of bondholders, de- 

 stroyed our commerce, paralyzed the industries of 

 the country and filled the land with poverty and dis- 

 tress, inducted into the Presidential office a man who 

 was never elected, peculated, swindled, defrauded 

 and embezzled until dishonor has been brought upon 

 the American name and contempt upon elective gov- 

 ernment, with a cheek of brass it refers with pride 

 to the result. 



The election was held on November 5th. 

 The Republican candidates were chosen to all 

 of the offices, except those of Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor and Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, to which Messrs. Adams and Sessions, the 

 Democratic nominees, were respectively elect- 

 ed. The aggregate number of votes polled in 

 the State for Governor was 18,999, of which 

 Mr. Hinkhead received 9,747, Mr. Bradley 

 9,252. The Legislature was divided as follows : 

 Senate Republicans 18, Democrats 7; House 

 of Representatives Republicans 44, Demo- 

 crats 5. 



The Legislature met on. January 9, 1879, 

 when the new Governor was formally installed 

 in office and delivered his inaugural address. 



The material interests of Nevada appear to 

 be flourishing, the Governor bearing witness 

 to "the almost universal health and great busi- 

 ness prosperity with which God has blessed the 

 people of our State." 



The present condition of the finances also is 

 most gratifying; especially if compared with 

 what it was in 1871, when Governor Bradley 

 first assumed the administration of the Execu- 

 tive Department. He contrasts the two pe- 

 riods with each other in the following words : 

 " Then the State was loaded down by a debt 

 of over $700,000 ; State warrants were hawked 

 about the streets at from 60 to 65 cents on the 

 dollar; there was no money in the Treasury; 

 heavy defalcations had brought disgrace upon 

 at least two departments of the State govern- 



