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Show NEVADA DEMOCRATS The Democratic State Contention Bits the JL-publlcau I'arly 1'rttlr Hard. THE STATE IS BEING DEPOPULATED. DEPOPU-LATED. Tremendous. Flood In rcnnsTlranla, Oblo and Stir York Mate: INCALCULABLE OAMACE DONE TO CROWING CROPS- A XelhodM 3IinI$ter Combine l'ul- pit Oratory with Horse- raring. 1 Ire. Cy TdeCTWb to the News. A ETA Ilk l'OLITIO. The nrruoeralle Mate Canienllaii Vor A'lrr I lie Itepnbllrana. 1Ik.no, iJepL 12. Tlie democratic folate convention today adopted a platform favorius the enforcing if economy in State aualrs, destroying monopolies aud trusts, fosU-riug the Imlutlnesof thoSU'.uaud developing develop-ing Us returns; declares it the duty of CoUtjrcia to as a law per-Ituallf per-Ituallf excluding Chinese from tub country; declares furfn-eoln- a;e of silver on a legal tender equality villi gold. The following nominallons were made- Governor, Theodore Winters; lieutenant-governor, 1L Ssdler; tec-rttary tec-rttary of btate. J. C Brady; clerk of the supreme court, V. H'joicr; mrveyor-general, T. 17. Revan; superlntendint of public instiuc-tion, instiuc-tion, V. G. Hyde; reenU, Il.il. 0Uorne&nd V. 1Z. F. cal. G. V. Ci--aidjr of J.ureta was nominated for Ccngru; J. II. Jle--Mlllau, ttiprrme jude; Charles May, comirolier; . 11. A. Mason, treasurer; V. C Jve, ettorLey-general. ettorLey-general. The platform also cxnaustively anaigus the republican any, aud diarges it with mionMbllity fur whatever evils has resulted in the conduct of public atlalrs of Nevada tlncu its admlfslou. Tiiu reubli-can reubli-can party, it sayr, in-Uluted a fit-tern fit-tern of busincrs which enriched aud populated California at tliocootof Nevada. It charres tlie republicau partj with creating unocctssaiy tllles, eetablUhing extravagant lees and unprecedented salaries. Of all tlm great mining corporations, but one is a resident of the State. A thousand thou-sand million dollars have been taken out of the mines, and not ten millions mil-lions remain in tbe State. Kvery profitable iuduttry is nionojoltzed and plundered. Nothing is left to the leoiJo but the wretched tieiil- tence called the wages of labor. Land which should have bten cold in small holdings to settlers has been contracted to speculators and tattle kings. Taxes have increased until In many places proicrty Is valueless. Immigration has ceatcd and the .Stale is being depopulated. "The reiubllcan party lias ,so often ex-ixxd ex-ixxd the great ofllce of United States senator for sale, so often cur-nifited cur-nifited the ballot-box, that we have been stigmatized as 'rotten borough,' and become a by wold and reproach, a shame and a stench in the nostrils of tho English-speaking iwople." |