Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-10-07
THE PLATFORM

Resolved, II hepuullcans OF Nevada
in State Convention assembled, recog-
nizing the service of Theodore Roose-
welt, the friend of the west, hereby in
dorse him for president in 1904. The
question OF paramount importance to
the people OF this state is the reclama~
tion of our arid lands and it is to Presi-
dent Roosevelt alone that we must look
for the benefits OF the national irriga-
tion law, and we believe that the people
OF Nevada recognizing this fact, will cast
her vote for him in the next electoral
college and indorse his administration
at the polls the fourth of next Noyem-
Der.
Commemorative The Republicans
OF the state of Nevada, in convention
duly assembled, as their first deliberate
act, 10Y record their deep affection for
the illustrious memory of that wise
stateman, christian gentleman, and ron
s~picnous example of a pure life, William
Mckinley, late president of the United
States.
Party Achievements-We appeal to
the industrial history of the United
States and to present conditions which
are in plain view of every citizen that
neither President Mckinley nor the
Republican party, was or is the tool of
trusts or the creature of influences mi
mical to the common good OF our
country or to the welfare of its people.
The restoration OF Republican supre-
macy was the signal of renewed indus
trial activity and the general employ
ment of American w%orkingmen, trade,
set out upon a new crusade, not TO con-
quer the world but to exchange with it
upon terms ad vantageous to all. From
the position of a debtor nation we have
become the chief creditor nation of the
earth. While these surprising econ
omic conditions were being wrought a
great aud successful war has been under
taken in behalf Of humanity and has
been conducted to a most glorious result.
Without the slightest jar the executive
control of the government passed to the
hands of Theodore Roosevelt. The poll
cies SO s%plendidly begun by President
Mckinley have been continued by him.
The history OF HE present administra-
ton we submit is one to challenge the
admiration of all Americans. Its first
year has witnessed the contamination OF
five great national laws, the inter-
oceanic canal, the establishment under
our ~tutelage of a Cuban republic. the
organization of a civil government in
the Philippine islands, the re-enactment
of the Chinese Exclusion bill, and the
law for the irrigation OF the arid west.
In all these measures We candidly sub
nit that the president has been the
guiding force and the most powerful
factor.
United States Senator-We declare
that the highest interests of Nevada will
be best suhserved bv the election of a
bona tide citizen who, by actual resi-
dence and personal contract with the
people at large is acquainted with the
detailed want of the general public, and
as such citizen VIC submit Judge Thomas
P. Hawley. His personal biography
eliminates the proudest page of our
commemorative history, and the spon-
taneons tributes paid by his political
opponents to his great ability. sterling
character as a nan and citizen, and his
unimpeachable record as a learned and
honest jurist are the best encomiums of
his splendid equipments for the United
States Senate.
Flnance-We favor the largest use of
silver as a money metal in all matters
compatible with the best interests Of our
government and we hereby pledge our
nominee for congress, in the event OF his
election, 10 exercise his best endeavors
to secur the greatest possible use of sill
yer beneficial to the mining states of
this union without .~endangering the e.
nancial safety of our country and as to
the correctness and business of our atti :
tude On the silver question We point
with.pride, apprecistion and satisfaction
to the return OF many voters of this state
to the ranks OF the Republican party.
Trusts-We approve OF the earnest
efforts OF the present national admins
tration to inforce TO the fullest extent
possible the Sherman antitrust law and
we urge the immediate passage by a
congress OF such other legislation as will
most ~effectually restrain all trusts from.
the commission OF acts detrimental to
trade, commerce and the general well
fare.
Rights of Labor = The Republican
party has ever been the friend OF labor
and Its ranks have always been COM
posed chiefly Of wage earners. II stands
for the principle that American work
men should produce in America what
the American people consume and for
the protective principle which has
placed the American workmen upon q
plane u~nequalled in any other country.
We favor labor unions, in all their lawful
aets.and procedures, as being powerful
Observation-Disclosures for the public good,
and we declare ourselves in favor OF an
eight-hour working day, of all public
works where the state, county or muni-
eipa!ity pays for the labor, and in all
mines and smelters, mills and all other
institutions for the reduction or refinieg
Of ores or metals, and pledge our nomi-
nees to the legislature to work for a law
embodying that principle.
Senatorial Election-We earnestly adj
vocate the election of United State Sem