Amador ledger., 1900-09-14
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS.
The Text of the Platform Adopted by the
Republican State Convention

Republican State Convention.
The Republican party of California,
by its convention, hereby indorses the
platform adopted by the Republican
National Convention at Philadelphia
as enunciating a declaration of princi-
pies, the wisdom of which has been
demonstrated by the successful home
and foreign policy of the present ad-
and which, under con-
tinued Republican control, promises a
national future even more brilliant in
achievement than the past.
We pledge our loyal support to the
wise and upright statesman, William
Mckinley, who amid new and perplex-
ing problems has consistently pursued
a policy which has made him the very
exempliiication of the highest type of
American craftsmanship and earned
for him and the country that he loves
and serves world wide respect and
honor.
With such leader, associated with
that typical young American, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, whose courage in
war and brilliant political record in
peace have given him place in the
hearts of our people, we may well look
forward to glorious victory in Novem-
Der and continued national prosperity
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We indorse and approve the able,
fearless and economical manner in
which the State government has been
conducted by our Governor, Henry L.
Gage, and commend our Senators and
Representatives in Congress for the
faithful performance of their trusts.
We recognize the Importance to this
coast and to the country of the con-
struction of the Nicaragua canal and
Government ownership and control,
and pledge our party's earnest and
continued efforts to secure the early
commencement and completion of the
work.
We favor the conservation of all
available waters for the reclamation
and irrigation of arid lands and liberal
appropriations by Congress for that
purpose, supplemented by the cooper
alton of the States interested. Such
policy to be initiated by the collabora-
tion of the Federal and State govern
ments in a thorough investigation of
our water supply and the best methods
of utilizing the same.
We indorse the action that has been
taken to secure as a permanent posses
sion of the whole people the great for
ests situated in our mountain range,
and earnestly recommend that Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress
support by their votes and influence
the esta blishment of national reserva-
tions in order that these forests may
be saved from destruction and our
water supply preserved.
We favor such legislation as will pre-
vent the acquisition of lands chiefly
for petroleum, asphaltum and
other minerals, under the guise of lieu
land and forest reserve exchange selec-
tions, and we request our Senators and
Representatives in Congress to use all
honorable means to prevent fraud in
that way and secure such legislation us
will protect the miners of the State
from oppression and blackmail.
We demand the prevention Of the
of cheap alien labor. the
and pe-enactment of the
present Chinese exclusion laws and APP
legislation prohibiting the
of Japanese and other
contract laborers.
We favor the adoption of the pro-
posed constitutional amendment pro-
viding for the regulation of primary
elections and the enactment of such
laws as will make it effective and insure
fair primaries.
We favor appropriate legislation for
the permanent improvement of our
roads and highways.
We fully recognize the Importance of
the great work that the State Uuiver-
sity is doing toward the intellectual
and industrial development of the
State. We recognize also that the
demands upon it in both these direc-
tions have SO outgrown its income as
to seriously threaten its usefulness.
We therefore pledge our party to an
increase of the revenue of the State
University through the coming Legis-
lature sufficient to maintain it's effic-
ieucy.
We congratulate our State and its
people upon the semi-centennial of it's
admission to the Union, and rejoice
that the policy of our Government is
making California the gateway and
center of Oriental trade, developing
our resources, creating markets for
our products and portending for our
State future more glorious than its
golden past.
Confident in the justice of Our cause,
in the wisdom of our doctrine. in the
ability and patriotism of our candi-
dates, we submit the foregoing decla-
ration of our political faith to the
voters of California for their approval
at the polls.
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Excelsior Parlor, N. S. G. W., made