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NEVADA. 



the one hundred and twentieth meridian to its 

 intersection with the thirty-ninth parallel of lati- 

 tude, which falls within the water of Lake Tahoe, 

 whence it runs at an obtuse angle to Colorado 

 river on the thirty-fifth parallel. 



Land Grants. The grants of land to the 

 State by the Government aggregate 2,732,884 

 acres. Of this amount there have been approved 

 to the State 2,248.374 acres, leaving due the State 

 a balance of 484,510 acres. Part of this latter 

 amount has been selected. 



Labor Interests. The railway strike in July 

 extended to the roads in this State, and Federal 

 troops were sent to Reno and other points to 

 protect the mail trains. Several strikers were 

 arrested at Carlin and tried for conspiracy to 

 obstruct United States mails and interstate com- 

 merce. The jury could not agree upon a verdict, 

 standing 9 for acquittal and 3 for conviction. 



Political. The Republican State Convention 

 met at Reno, Aug. 25. Besides reaffirming the 

 principles of the party, the resolutions contained 

 the following : 



We indignantly condemn the action of that self- 

 styled Silver party of Nevada as represented in the 

 sixteenth session of the Legislature for passing a pro- 

 posed constitutional amendment authorizing a lottery. 

 We declare the Republican party of Nevada to be 

 unalterably opposed to any lottery whatever. 



A resolution demanding that railroad bonds 

 be foreclosed unless paid when due, and against 

 issuing new bonds, was defeated, and one was 

 adopted in its place declaring that the Govern- 

 ment should enforce its demands " in the best 

 and most advantageous way." 



Following are the nominations : For Governor, 

 A. C. Cleveland ; Lieutenant-Governor, J. F. Em- 

 mett ; Supreme Judge, M. A. Murphy ; Attorney- 

 General, J. D. Torreyson ; Secretary of State, E. 

 D. Vanderleith ; State Comptroller, 0. H. Grey ; 

 State Treasurer, George VV. Richards ; Surveyor 

 General, G. N. Folsom; State Printer, J. E. 

 Eckley ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 O. Ring; University Regents, D. L. Bliss and 

 Dr. J. W. Patterson; Judge of First Judicial 

 District, R. Rising Storey; Judge of Second 

 Judicial District, E. R. Dodge; Congress, A. F. 

 Bar tine. 



The convention of the Silver party met at 

 <'arson, Sept. 5. The resolutions called for en- 

 forcement of the Interstate Commerce act, abo- 

 lition of national banks, Government ownership 

 of telegraph lines and railroads subsidized by 

 Government, restricted immigration, election of 

 United States Senators by direct vote of the 

 people, the redemption of Government bonds 

 ami prohibition of any further issue thereof in 

 time of peace. Further declarations of the plat- 

 form were as follow : 



We deny the right or authority of the Government 

 of the United States to pass any law restricting or 

 abridging the privilege of any citizen to the free coin- 

 age <>f gold and silver into standard money at the 

 legal ratio of 16 to 1 independent of any other nation, 

 and we demand the repeal of all laws denying or 

 abridging that right. 



We assert tli at from 1861 to 1894 inclusive, a period 

 of thirty-four years last past, the Democratic party 

 and the Republican party have made and adminis- 

 tered the laws of this nation; that that period has 

 been charaeti-ri/ed as of uninterrupted bountiful har- 

 vests and bountiful production from all our great 



natural resources, and that our people have made un- 

 paralleled advance in skill, in every branch of manu- 

 facture and artisanship; that the period lias been one 

 of general health, and notwithstanding the civil war, 

 a period of unparalleled prosperity from 1861 down 

 to 1873. In 1873 the Republican party passed laws in 

 restraint of the coinage of money, denying mintage to 

 silver, the money we need in the pocket of every 

 citizen and till of every store. The decadence of 

 silver has been steady, gradual, and unrelenting as 

 the grip of the gold standard of money has closed 

 around our industries and labor, and the prices of 

 every production of labor, by forest, field, mine, and 

 manufacture, have fallen parallel with the decadence 

 of silver, which to-day is worth less than 50 per cent, 

 of its standard coinage value at the legal ratio of 

 tol. 



Three millions of our people are without the com- 

 forts and decencies of life, every industry in our 

 nation is restrained, pinched, and dwarfed by the 

 demonetization of silver to the great injury of every 

 laborer, producer, and tradesman in the nation. 



The volume of money in circulation should be 

 speedily increased and always be fully adequate for 

 the requirements of business. That all money should 

 be a legal tender for debts both public and private. 

 That no money should exist except such as is issued 

 directly by the National Government, and nothing 

 should be money except gold, silver, and Government 

 paper. 



We denounce the criminal suspension of the laws 

 of Congress by the President, such as the purchasing 

 clause of the Sherman Silver Bullion Purchasing act ; 

 the Geary act, providing for the deportation of un- 

 registered Chinese, when its constitutionality has 

 been affirmed by the Supreme Court ; and his neg- 

 lect and refusal to enforce the Antitrust and Inter- 

 state Commerce acts against wealthy offenders. 



Large expenditures are made by the General Gov- 

 ernment in improving the harbors and rivers of the 

 coast States and the agricultural States of the Ohio 

 and Mississippi valleys. Equality and justice de- 

 mand that we call on the General Government for 

 liberal appropriations for storing and conserving at 

 their sources the waters of the streams and rivers of 

 the arid region. 



The nominations were as follow : For Govern- 

 or, John E. Jones ; Lieutenant-Governor. Rein- 

 hold Sadler ; Secretary of State, Eugene Howell ; 

 Comptroller, C. A. Lagrave ; Attorney-General, 

 R. M. Beatty; Treasurer, W. J. Westerfield; 

 Surveyor-General, A. C. Pratt; State Printer, 

 J. G. McCarthy; Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, H. C. Cutting; Regents of the Uni- 

 versity, W. E. F. Deal, H. S. Starratt ; District 

 Judges, A. L. Fitzgerald, Charles E. Mack, A. 



E. Cheney, and G. P. Talbot; for Congress, 



F. G. Newlands ; Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 M. S. Bonnifield. 



The convention of the People's party, at Reno, 

 Sept. 7, adopted a platform that reiterates the 

 demand of the national platform for the free 

 and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at a 

 ratio of 16 to 1 ; demands unconditional repeal 

 of the national bank laws and Government issue 

 of legal tender notes and the system of Govern- 

 ment loans ; declares itself unalterably opposed 

 to the issuance of Government bonds for any 

 purpose whatever ; demands that the General 

 Government authorize the States having arid 

 and swamp lands to employ the idle labor to 

 reclaim them, the Government defraying the 

 expense and levying costs on the lands so im- 

 proved; demands prohibition of Chinese-Japan- 

 ese immigration, and the restriction of immigra- 

 tion from other countries ; condemns the lottery 



