Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1894 — CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS.

Convention at Sacramento—Woman Suffrage Endorsed —Declares For Free Silver. The California State Republican convention was held at Sacramento, Wednesday, June 10. Morris M. Estee, of Napa, was nominated for Governor on the first ballot. Tho platform Indorses the Nationa platform of 1893 and again indorses the McKinley bill. The repeal of the Federal election law by the Democratic Congresi Is denounced, as is the Democratic Hawaiian policy and the Wilson bill. The silver plank is as follows: f' We favor free and unlimited coinage ol silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 and the making of silver, as well as of gold, legal tender, in payment of all debts both public and private, and we pledge our Congressiona nominees to support the principles contained in this resolution. The immigration plank is sweeping. It demands the cnactinent and strict enforcement of such laws as will actual); and effectually prohibit the Immigration of all foreign laborers, both skilled am unskilled. The woman suffrage plank is as follows: Believing that taxation without repre sentation is against tho principles of tin Government, we favor the extension <» the rights of suffrage to all citizens of th United States, both men and women.