fidence and financial health. It expresses abhorrence of the crimes committed by defaulting ex-State officials and criticises Governor Holcomb for alleged neglect in allowing such crimes. It also charges the Governor with attempting to array class against class and with discrediting the State in the Eastern press. Sympathy with Cuba is expressed.

FREE SILVER REPUBLICANS. September 1, 1897. The platform adopted by the Silver Republicans declared loyalty to the money of the Constitution, and favored free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at 16 to 1. FREE SILVER DEMOCRATS. September 1, 1897. The platform adopted indorsed the Chicago platform; denounced the attempt made to secure the retirement of greenbacks; deplored the delay in settling the Hawaiian question, and extended sympathy to the striking coal miners.

POPULISTS.

September 1, 1897. The platform reaffirmed the principles of the National platform adopted at St. Louis in 1896. It reiterated the loyalty of the party to the free coinage of silver at a ratio 16 to 1. The money plank was:

"We pledge the people that there shall be no faltering until private corporations are stripped of the privilege of issuing money and until all our currency, whether coin or paper, shall be issued by the Government and shall all be standard money of the United States."

The platform congratulated William J. Bryan, "who, though defeated, is still triumphant; who, having neither rank nor riches, is still the most popular citizen in the Republic."

Regarding prosperity the platform said: "We are thankful to Providence rather than to any man for the measure of prosperity with which our State has been blessed, and we attribute the rise in wheat to foreign scarcity rather than suppose it to be the result of dear sugar or an increased tariff on straw."

It favored the independence of Cuba, and condemned the Republican party "for having failed to carry out the specific pledge of their National platform on this question."

It viewed with alarm the settled policy of the present National Administration to retire greenback currency and issue gold interest-bearing bonds; it denounced such a course as a betrayal of the interest of the people; commended the striking coal miners in their fight; condemned the examples of "government by injunction": congratulated Nebraska on her splendid crops and on the "great exposition soon to be held at Omaha"; commended the administration of Governor Holcomb; commended the action of the Legislature in reducing appropriations half dollars; pledged the efforts of the party to secure reduced freight rates: pledged the power of the party to endeavor to rescue the Supreme Court from partisanship, and denounced as un-American the attempt of organized wealth to banish able men from educational institutions because of personal views on social or economic Destions.

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REPUBLICAN.

May 9, 1896.-The platform favored the restoration of the currency to the basis existing prior to 1873, with the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1: recommended the displacement of Nevada's Senators and Representatives as non-residents and favored tariff protection.

September 11, 1896.- "We pledge anew our faith at the altar of protection to American industries and appeal to the history of our country to sus tain us in declaring that the protective tariff principle has been the very keystone in every arch of prosperity which has spanned the boundaries of our Nation, that in every instance of its displacement from our revenue system havoc and ruin have been a certain result. We denounce the threatened Democratic and Populist free trade alliance with England and the cheap labor countries of Europe and Asia as a contemplated federation against well-paid American labor. We insist that many of the languishing industries of Nevada can be revived only by returning to the great Republican doctrine of Protection and to the accomplishment of that result we earnestly invite the cooperation of all earnest citizens.

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"We declare that the free coinage of silver by international agreement would satisfactorily adjust the monetary relations between the precious metals. As a feasible measure to lead to an international agreement for the free coinage of silver, the promotion of which the National Republican party is firmly pledged by its platform, we declare ourselves in favor of the free coinage of the silver product of American mines, at the ratio of 16 to 1, and of accompanying legislation imposing a prohibitive duty upon foreign silver bullion and coins, and a discriminating tariff schedule against all imports from gold standard countries, until an agreement shall be effected between the great commercial nations providing for the free coinage of the precious metals, or until it shall be practicably demonstrated that the volume of coined silver of American production can no longer be increased and maintained in circulation upon an equality in business transactions with our other forms of National currency."

Other planks declared in favor of a nonsectarian system of public instruction; demanded that no one should be elected a United States Senator or Representative in Congress from Nevada, and that no person should be given a Federal appointment in the State, except such person elected or appointed is an actual resident thereof; demanded that there should be the most thorough enforcement of the "Purity of Election Law"; favored the exclusion of immigrant paupers and criminals; also equal settlement of international differences.

DEMOCRATIC.

June 10, 1896. - The platform indorsed the Administration of President Cleveland in everything except its financial policy; commended its course upon the tariff question and the Monroe Doctrine; favored "Home Rule" everywhere, and insisted that it should prevail in Nevada:

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opposed for public office in the State every person not an actual resident, and whose interests are not identified with the commonwealth; denounced all cieties, secret or otherwise, organized for the purpose of interfering with the rights or privileges of any religious sect or denomination; favored the election of United States Senators by popular vote. The money plank reads: "We most emphatically declare for the free and unlimited coinage and use of silver and gold as money at the established ratio of 16 to 1, without asking permission or waiting for the co-operation of any foreign Government, each to be receivable for all public dues and to be a full legal tender in payment for all debts, public and private. This result, we are confident, can only be secured through the direct instrumentality of the National Democratic party. Metallic money has ever been a cardinal principal of the Democracy, and with the Democracy rests the only hope for the restoration of silver to its former position in the currency volume of the Nation, from which it was displaced by a Republican Congress and President in 1873."

NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
REPUBLICAN.

March 31, 1896. - "The Republicans of New-Hampshire congratulate their fellow-citizens of all parties on the near approach of an opportunity to rescue their country from the misrule of the Democratic party, which for three years has by its incompetence and wickedness paralyzed their productive industries and crippled their mercantile and commercial enterprise, destroyed much of the value of their property, deprived them of profitable employment and spread among them disappointment, privation and distress; which has added constantly and rapidly to the National debt, impaired the National credit, cast suspicion on the National currency and sullied the National reputation at home and abroad; which has profited none of our people, except sheriffs, assignees and the favored speculators in Government bonds, and which, though rebuked by the voters in 1894 and 1895 with an emphasis never equalled, doggedly refuses to be corrected by its chastisement and persists in using the power it retains to perpetuate and intensify the misery and disgrace it has brought upon us.

"To the end that this great deliverance may be fully accomplished, and our Nation may be restored to the honor, glory and material prosperity to which it attained under a Republican policy, and continue the wonderful development which was brought to a stop by the incoming of President Cleveland and his Congress, we demand of the National Convention soon to assemble at St. Louis the nomination of candidates whose election will mean the speedy repeal of the infamous and ruinous Democratic tariff and the substitution therefor of one based on the principles of the McKinley act for the protection of our domestic industries, the promotion of reciprocal trade with other countries, and the procurement of abundant revenues as far as is possible at the expense of foreigners who market their merchandise in competition with our own

productions; the enactment of currency laws that will provide a circulation medium in gold, silver and paper, which will always be interchangeable at its face value because each and every dollar of it is of the same purchasing power as a gold dollar; liberal appropriations for an adequate Navy and coast and harbor defence and internal improvement; fair, generous treatment of the Union veteran; a foreign policy characterized by sturdy Americanism, including the assertion of the Monroe Doctrine, and the moral and material support of the Cuban patriots if they have not already achieved their independence; and an immediate return to all policies in which the Republican party has so successfully illustrated the soundness of its principles and to the methods by which it has demonstrated its ability, and application of those principles in the administration of the Government."

September 3, 1896.-The platform in part read: "We accept and indorse the platform of the National Republican party because, among other reasons, it stands for honest money, of which every dollar, at all times, shall be as good as gold; because it stands for reciprocity; because it stands for a vigorous and dignified foreign policy, and for the protection of American citizens and American property everywhere, at all hazards, and at any cost; because it stands for a generous recognition of the veterans of the Union Army and for a reform in the administration of pensions; because it stands for a strict enforcement of our immigration laws, and because it stands for all wise and legitimate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance, and on this subject is consistent with the settled legislative policy of the Republican party of this State.

"We unite with all patriotic citizens in denouncing the so-called Democratic National platform for its position upon almost every question vitally affecting the interest of the people and the stability of the Republic; for its approval of government by mob rather than by law; for its cowardly assault upon our courts; for its proposition to pack the Supreme Bench of the United States for its partisan purposes; for its seditious attempts to promote sectional jealousies; for its treasonable purpose to incite social war and provoke contests between classes; for its sympathy with Anarchism; for its undertaking to repudiate public and private debts: for its avowed intention to uproot and overturn our existing monetary system, under which, prior to the Chicago Convention, every dollar, whether gold, silver or paper, bearing the stamp of the United States Government, worth one dollar in gold in every market in the world, and in place thereof to substitute money based on silver monometallism, depreciated and unstable, the purchasing value of which will destroy our industries, endanger every business enterprise and lessen the value of wages of labor."

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May 20, 1896.-The platform contained these planks, declaring "that under present conditions there can be but one standard of value, and that every kind of currency should rest upon a gold basis so long as gold is the standard recognized by the great commercial nations of the world, and we heartily commend the action of President Cleveland in so firmly maintaining our public credit and faith in the face of formidable opposition.

"That we favor a system of tariff taxation so adjusted as to produce the necessary revenues to meet the present expenses of honest government, with the least possible burden upon the people, and afford such incidental protection as will meet the requirements of American capital and labor.

"That the Monroe Doctrine embodies our idea of National self-defence, and should be vigorously maintained.

"That the civil and religious rights of all our people, as guaranteed them under the Constitution, should be sedulously guarded, and that no proscription on aсcount of religious opinions should be countenanced or tolerated."

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"We, the Democracy of New-Hampshire, in delegate convention assembled, recognizing the action of the National Convention held in Chicago the seventh day of July last as authority for party action on all political subjects therein stated, hereby adopt the platform of said convention and pledge ourselves to the carnest support of William J. Bryan and Arthur Sewall, candidates for President and Vice-President."

Other planks demanded a "well regulated license law, based upon the principle of local option," and denounced the Republican State administration. A reso lution indorsing the Cleveland Administration greeted with cheers and hisses, but was rejected by only 21 votes in the affirmative. Judge Bingham and other gold Democrats bolted the convention.

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NEW-JERSEY. REPUBLICAN.

April 16, 1896. - "The Republicans of New-Jersey affirm their adherence to the Republican policy of protection to American labor. Such a tariff should be imposed upon imports as will afford adequate income for the expenses of the GoVernment, avoid increase of the National debt, revive American industries, restore American wages and re-establish the Na tional prosperity on a sound and stable basis.

"The reciprocity policy adopted by a Republican Administration and destroyed by the Democratic party should be restored.

"We believe that the Monroe Doctrine should be maintained, and that no exten sion of monarchical institutions should be permitted on this continent on any pre

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"The honor of the American flag and the influence of the Nation in its relations with other people must be vigorously and fearlessly maintained. In our diplomacy there should be more of the virile force and emphasis which command respect. Our Navy should be enlarged so that it may be made an effective factor in any controversies which may arise, and ur harbors and seacoasts (especially the

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exposed seacoasts of our own should be protected by an adequate system of defences.

"Recalling the struggles and the suffering of our forefathers to secure liberty and independence, we believe that the practical sympathy of this Nation should be extended to all peoples who have been driven, by oppression and wrong, to take up arms in behalf of the right of selfgovernment.

"The welfare of the country demands that our immigration laws should be amended so as to prevent the admission of all persons whose presence here endangers the social order and disastrously affects the interests of the workingmen.

"We have always given protection to our shipbuilders. In late years we have neglected to protect our ship-owners. We believe the time has come to return to the policy of Washington and Hamilton, which, by discriminating duties in favor of American bottoms, secured 90 per cent of our carrying trade to American ships. and which, if now restored, would again revive our shipping and cause American freights to be paid to Americans.

"The standard value in this country and in the other principal commercial nations of the world is gold. Wages and prices have been made and fixed in accordance with this standard, and the welfare of the people demands that it should be maintained. We regard the agitation of the free coinage of silver as a serious obstacle to our country's prosperity."

August 27, 1896.- "The Republicans of New-Jersey reaffirm their devotion to the principles and policy which have controlled the party since it came into existence. We indorse and approve in its entirety the platform adopted by the National Convention at St. Louis, and we especially declare our adherence to the principles of protection to American industries and the preservation of the integrity of our currency. We believe that the debasement of the currency by the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 would work irreparable injury to every class of our citizens. It means a practical repudiation of public and private debts and the destruction of public confidence. abandonment of enterprises, and a general stagnation of business. It means idle factories, low wages and financial ruin and distress, especially and first of all to the great mass of our people who belong to the wage-earning class. It is to the interest of every voter, and it is the duty of every believer in personal and National honor, to oppose by voice and vote this political and financial heresy. We are unalterably opposed to the proposition to destroy the protection we now enjoy under the Supreme Court of the United States. the most honored and in the last resort the most necessary institution, and the proposition to restrain the arm of the National Executive from the repression of lawless violence, and we call upon all voters of the State, of whatever political party, to aid in repelling the most violent assault that has ever been made upon the interests of the people and the honor of the Nation.

"We extend a cordial welcome to those of our citizens who, while still identified with the Democratic party, intend to vote for McKinley and Hobart. We acknowl

edge their assistance, their unselfish patriotism and confidently believe their action will not only merit the approval of their conscience, but that the future will show the wisdom of the same.

SOUND MONEY DEMOCRATS. August 26, 1896.-The platform reaffirmed the policy and principles adopted by the convention on May 7, 1896, and added:

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May 7, 1896. - Money-"We are in favor of a firm, unvarying maintenance of the present gold standard. We are opposed to the free coinage of silver at any ratio and to the compulsory purchase of silver bullion by the Government. We believe that the interests of the people demand that the earnings of trade, agri-culture, manufacture and commerce, and especially the wages of labor, should be paid in money of the greatest intrinsic value and of the highest standard adopted by the civilized nations of the world. We are, therefore, unalterably opposed to all devices and schemes for the debasement of our currency."

Bond Issues-"We believe that the Federal Government should. be divorced from the business of banking; we, therefore, demand the repeal of all laws authorizing the issue or reissue of legaltender or Treasury notes by the Government; they should form no part of the currency of the people. We favor the enactment by Congress of such legislation as will insure a banking currency ample in volume for all the needs of business. absolutely secure in every contingency and at all times redeemable in gold."

Tariff "We are opposed to any effort to alter materially the present just and conservative tariff: 1. Because such tariff is sufficient to provide adequate revenue for an economically administered Government. 2. Because it is ample to protect American workingmen from the competition of foreign labor. 3. Because an attempt to alter the present tariff would tend to unsettle the business of the country."

The platform favored liberal expenditures for coast defence and the Navy; indorsed President Cleveland and his stand on the Monroe Doctrine, and advocated recognizing the Cubans as belligerents.

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September 9. 1896. -The platform in dorsed the candidates and the platform adopted by the National Convention at Chicago, insisting that the latter "thoroughly Democratic and purely American, and with its enforcement we firmly believe that relief will come to the toiling masses and will advance the general prosperity of our country"; opposed combines and trusts; demanded that the tax laws of the State be amended so as to provide for equal taxation for property not used for religious, charitable or educational purposes; favored the abolition of grade-crossings, and denounced the interference of any employer of labor, private or corporate, to coerce or intimidate the voter in the free exercise of the right of suffrage.

"Since the Democratic party of NewJersey announced these sound principles, an attempt has been made to commit the Democratic party of the Nation to the policy of free, unlimited coinage of legal-tender silver dollars at the legal ratio of 16 to 1, and to make such silver dollars the money in which shall be paid all debts, public and private, present and future. Such dollars would be worth about half such coinage ratio. We reject the proposed repudiation and spoliation.

"We condemn the assault upon and the threatened degradation of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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"We.condemn the approval of mob violence, contained in the censure Democratic Administration for suppressing mob violence.

"We condemn all appeals to sectional prejudice and passion, and all attempts to excite and array any part of the people against others.

"The principles announced by the Chicago Convention and advocated by the candidates that convention nominated are not the principles of the Democratic party. Such principles, carried into effect, would dishonor and revolutionize the Government. We refuse to support either the platform or the nominees of that convention.

"We approve the call for a convention to nominate Democratic candidates for President and Vice-President who adhere to and will represent the traditional and time-honored principles of the Democratic party."

SILVERITES.

July 6, 1896.-- "Resolved, That this convention demands the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, without the concerted action of other countries

"Resolved, That we denounce the attempt to retire the greenbacks and Treasury notes, together with silver, and in their place to substitute interest-bearing bonds to the amount of over $500,000,000, upon which to base a National bank currency, as class legislation of the most infamous nature.

"Resolved, That we denounce the establishment by Congress of the National banking system as an unwarranted and unpatriotic usurpation of authority of the Constitution and the privileges of the people delegated to their Government alone, The bimetallists of New Jersey are of all parties, and in order to unify and make potent our effort we therefore pledge our untiring efforts and support to the election of any candidate whose reputation is a guarantee, if elected to the Presidency, to carry out the principles herein involved. Believing in the sovereignty of the common people, and that all men are created free and equal, we extend our sympathy to the Cubans in their heroic efforts for freedom."

POPULISTS.

May 30, 1896. The platform reaffirmed the National platform of 1892 and called upon the National Convention to insert a plank in the platform of 1896 favoring the "initiative and referendum," the system of legislation which is initiated by the people, acted upon by legislators and then referred back to the people for their approval or rejection.

SOCIALIST-LABOR.

August 1, 1896. The platform affirmed that of the National Convention and added a solemn warning to all Socialists to avoid the Republican, Democratic and Populist parties, with their snares of protection, free trade, free silver and gold standard.

PROHIBITION.

May 6, 1896. -The platform adopted was a sweeping document. After acknowledging allegiance to God and enmity toward rum, it declared the traffic in intoxicating drinks "the prime evil of the day," demanded its total suppression by law, to the end that men may not be led into temptation, and that this "great promoter of unhappiness and poverty may cease to oppress our people. After expressing confidence in the stability of the Prohibition party, the platform declared for women's suffrage and civil service for all branches of the Government, The Democratic party of New-Jersey was arraigned because of its flagrant advocacy of the liquor traffic, and the Republican party because of its continued duplicity to the temperance people. Church members who vote in favor of any party which recognizes, advocates or upholds the license system are jointly held responsible for the evil results of the liquor traffic with those who are directly engaged in the business. The platform concluded by declaring for the referendum.

NEW-MEXICO. DEMOCRATIC.

June 15, 1896.- The platform favored free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 and an income tax, and indorsed Richard P. Bland for the Presidency.

NEW-YORK.

REPUBLICAN.

March 24, 1896.- "The Republicans of New-York, in convention assembled, again declare their firm and unyielding adherence to the doctrine of protection to American industries, protection to the products of the American farm, and protection to American labor. We are in favor of a tariff which, while providing an income sufficient to meet the expenses of government honestly and economically administered, at the same time secures home labor and home capital from unequal foreign competition. We believe in a reciprocity with other nations which shall give our producers and manufacturers an opportunity to dispose of their surplus products and to obtain articles we desire from those countries on the most advantageous terms.

"The agitation for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 seriously disturbs all industrial interests, and calls for a clear statement of the Republican party's attitude upon this question, to the end that the trade of this country at home and abroad may again be placed

upon a sound and stable foundation. We recognize in the movement for the free coinage of silver an attempt to degrade the long-established standard of our monetary system, and hence a blow to publie and private credit at once costly to the National Government and harmful to our domestic and foreign commerce. Until there is a prospect of international agreement as to silver coinage, and while gold remains the standard of the United States and of the civilized world, the Republican party of New-York declares itself in favor of the firm and honorable maintenance of that standard.

"We believe in a business administration of the Government by business men on business principles, for the benefit of the suffering business interests of this great people. For nearly four years the material progress of the Nation has been blocked; all branches of trade have suffered, and the workmen have been deprived of reasonable and living wages by the utter lack of business common sense among our Democratic rulers. It is the duty and privilege of the Republican party to promptly mend this unhappy state of affairs by nominating and electing a business man for the Presidency, and we ask the aid of thoughtful Republicans everywhere in this great and meritorious work. On this platform we present Governor Levi Parsons Morton as New-York's Republican candidate for President. He is in every way fit for the high honor, and he is pecullarly the man for the hour. He has been a business man with business men. He would prove a business President for the good of all interests of the people. He has been Representative in Congress, Minister to France, Vice-President of the United States, Governor of New-York, and each of these positions he has filled with an ability which has never been surpassed, with lasting credit to himself and great benefit to his State and to his country. His grasp of public affairs was never so clear and comprehensive as it is to-day, and his ability to labor earnestly for the welfare of the Nation was never so distinctly marked as now. Governor Morton's long and varied public career offers proof positive that he is a sincere and earnest Republican, and that fidelity to the principles of his party is with him a second nature. He stands for honesty in public office. There is no shadow of doubt as to the high esteem in which he is held at home. Two years since he polled over 156,000 more votes than the most popular Democrat in the State, receiving by far the greatest majority ever given a Republican candidate for Governor. Governor Morton's long and honorable public service, his spotless character, his great executive ability, his devotion to his party and its principles, eminently fit him for the Presidency, and entitle him to our hearty and enthusiastic support. Therefore we instruct our dele gates to the St. Louis Convention to present him as our candidate for President. and urge upon them to use every honorable means to secure his nomination."

August 25, 1896. The principal features of the platform were:

Silver. "The allied Democratie and Populist parties say that their success