PLATFORMS-STATE-Continued.

NORTH CAROLINA.

We favor the use of gold and silver as standard money and the restoration of silver to its function and dignity as a money metal. We are opposed to the retiring of the greenbacks, the money of the people, the money favored by Lincoln. We are opposed to the issue of interest-bearing bonds in time of peace.

NORTH DAKOTA,

The Republicans of North Dakota, in convention assembled, renew their devotion to the doctrine of protection. The Republicans of North Dakota are undying in their demands for honest money. We are unalterably opposed to any scheme that will give to the country a depreciated or debased currency. We favor the use of silver as currency, but to the extent only and under such restrictions that its parity with gold can be maintained. We are therefore opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver until it can be arranged by international agreement.

OHIO.

We contend for honest money, a currency of gold, silver, and paper, with which to measure our exchange that shall be as sound as the Government itself and as untarnished as its honor and to that end we favor bimetallism, and demand the use of both gold and silver as a standard money, either in accordance with a ratio to be fixed by an international agreement, if that can be obtained, or under such restrictions and such provisions to be determined by legislation as will secure the maintenance of the parities of values of the two metals, so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of gold, silver, or paper, shall at all times be equal.

PENNSYLVANIA.

Faithful to its record, believing that the people are entitled to the use of the best money and anxious to restore and preserve the industrial and commercial prosperity of the Union, the Republican party favors international bimetallism, and until that can be established upon a secure basis opposes the coinage of silver except upon Government account, and demands the maintenance of the existing gold standard of value.

RHODE ISLAND.

The only platform was a resolution presented by the Providence Board of Trade, as follows;

PLATFORMS-STATE-Continued.

"Resolved, That the Providence Board of Trade ask all citizens to urge the selection of delegates to the political conventions of both great parties who will advocate clear and distinct utterances in favor of the maintenance of the present gold standard of value."

SOUTH CAROLINA.

We stand with our party in the restoration of its demand for "both gold and silver as standard money." We believe that legislation should secure and maintain the parity of values of the two metals to the end that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the American dollar, silver, gold, and paper, shall be the same any and every where. We believe that bimetallism alone can secure the result.

SOUTH CAROLINA (“LILY WHITES”).

We are in favor of maintaining the present monetary standard until some satisfactory ratio between the hard-money metals can be reached by international agreement.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

The resolutions adopted declared for a protective tariff; reaffirmed the Minneapolis financial plank until the St. Louis convention adopts a later statement. Previous to choosing delegates a resolution was adopted requiring all nominees to go upon the floor and declare for McKinley and sound money, and not only to vote but to work to accomplish this end.

TENNESSEE.

We are unalterably opposed to any scheme that will give to this country a depreciated and debased currency. We favor the use of silver as currency, but to the extent only that its parity with gold will be maintained, and in consequence are opposed to a free and unlimited and independent coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. We believe that every American dollar should be an honest 100-cent dollar, always and everywhere.

TEXAS (BLACK AND TAN).

We reaffirm the historic adherence of the Republican party to sound finance. We demand an honest dollar of greatest purchasing power for every class alike; the largest issue of gold, silver, and paper compatible with security and the requirements of trade, all of equal value, interchangeable one for the other, every dollar resting on gold as money of final redemption. The Republicans of Texas declare this to be in their deliberate judgment the only basis for a large and liberal circulation of money and for the main tenance of universal confidence.

PLATFORMS-STATE-Continued.

TEXAS ("LILY WHITES").

We favor bimetallism, the use of gold and silver coin as money of Intual redemption. We favor the immediate calling of an intervational monetary and reciprocity conference for the adoption of an international agreement, with such reciprocal clauses as to trade be tween countries that ratify the action of the conference as will force every country, through self-interest, to adopt the basis thus established.

UTAH.

W hold that a tariff as a revenue has failed to restore prosperity, so a protective tariff, as long as the money of the country is held, ounce for ounce, 100 per cent. higher than the money of the Orient and of Spanish America, is impotent to save our farmers and manufacturers against a competition which they are helpless to meet, and we repudiate the belief that protection ithout bimetallism can restore prosperity. The situation makes it clear that bimetallism and protection must be accepted as constituting the vital, indivisible principle; that not only the progress but the safety of the industries of our country and the toilers who carry on these industries make the acceptance of this principle imperative, protection by a tariff to equalize the wages of our country and those paid abroad, and bimetallism to take from gold its sent application, and to equalize the money of this country and that of silver-standard nations. We cordially indorse the stand taken in the National Legislature by Western Senators and Representatives in behalf of holding bimetallism and protection together as one. We ask our delegates to St. Louis to do their utmost to secure in the National Republican platform a full acknowledgment of the imperative need of a return to real bimetallism, and a promise of its swift adoption without regard to other nations by opening our mints to the free coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1.

VERMONT.

The continued agitation for the free coinage of silver retards the return of confidence and prosperity, stands in the way of beneficial legislation, and is, in every respect, harmful to the best interests of the whole country. To the choice of the National Convention we pledge our heartiest support. promising to keep Vermont where. without a shadow of a turning, she has always stood-in the front rank of the Republican States.

PLATFORMS-STATE-Continued.

VIRGINIA.

The Republican Party of Virginia, in convention assembled, reaffirms its allegiance to the principles of the party to which it belongs, as enunciated in the national platform.

WASHINGTON.

Resolved, That we favor the maintenance of the present gold standard, and are opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. We are, however, favorable to an international agreement looking to the general use of both metals as money at a fixed ratio, and commend the efforts in that behalf of the last Republican administration.

WEST VIRGINIA.

In the resolutions are clauses denouncing the issue of bonds, deploring the Treasury deficit, declaring for protection and sound money, demanding internal improvements, indorsing the course of the West Virginia delegation in Congress, favoring the restoration of American shipping, rigid immigration laws, liberal pensions, and the recognition of Cuban belligerent rights.

WISCONSIN.

The Republicans of Wisconsin are unyielding in their demand for honest money. We are unalterably opposed to any scheme that will give to this country a depreciated or debased currency, but to the extent only and under such restrictions that its parity with gold can be maintained.

WYOMING.

We reaffirm allegiance to the principles of bimetallism as enunciated in the Republican State platform adopted at Casper in 1894; we commend the record of our Senators and Representatives in Congress in maintaining these principles, and we instruct our delegates to the St. Louis Convention to take like action when the financial plank of the platform of their convention is being made.

PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING, 1890.

No. 286.

POPULAR VOTE(See Elections, No. 139.)

No. 287.

POPULIST VOTE.

At the election of 1892 the Populist candidate, Weaver, received 1,041,028 votes, but they were not all Populist votes. In Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, North Dakota, and Wyoming the Democrats ran no electoral tickets. With a few exceptions they also voted for the Populist electors in Nevada, and in Nebraska and in Oregon the Populist vote was largely Democratic. On the other hand, in Alabama the Populist vote was largely Republican, and in Florida there was no Republican ticket.

In the States above named in which alone it cut any figure the Populist vote was as follows:

How much of this vote was really Populist and how much more fusion is a matter of speculation. In 1888 the Democratic vote in Colorado was 37,567; in 1890 Idaho had given 7,948 Democratic votes for governor; in Kansas the Democratic Presidential vote in 1888 was 102,745; in Nebraska it was 80,552 against 24,943 in 1892; in Nevada it was 5,326 in 1888 and 714 in 1892; in North Dakota the election of 1894 showed that the Democrats and Populists were about equally divided; in Wyoming in 1894 the Democrats cast 6,965 votes.

In 1892 Weaver obtained the electoral votes of four States, Colorado giving him her 4 votes, Idaho 3, Kansas 10, and Nevada 3. In addition he obtained 1 vote in North Dakota and 1 in Oregon. Every one of these votes was the result of a fusion. In no case was a Populist vote earned by a purely Populist ticket.