The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-09-05

political party in this country to one
who was once trusted public official
of high rank. No one seems to ques-
ton the justice of the castigation, but
a few have expressed the opinion that
Mr.. Stewart comes too near being
political corpse to merit any notice
whatever. This would be eminently
true were it not for the circumstance
that he has suddenly loomed up as the
leader of the party which SO frequently
denounced him as a political traitor"
of the deepest dye, and which party he
has just as frequently denounced as
mere machine for the registry of the
s'gold conspirators."
Without descending to meaningless,
ranting, demagogy, the platform puts
itself fairly in line with the just de-
mands of labor. 1t could not have done
otherwise for the Democratic party,
regardless of all platform utterances, is
essentially the party of the people, of
whom the laboring elements constitute
the great bulk. The chief aim of the
National Democracy is to bring back
the government to those foundation
principles of equality, which during
all the early days of the Republic con-
stituted its true glory and greatness.
The concluding plank, which deals
with the State government, is worthy
of the most careful consideration. 1t
invites attention to the splendid record
made by our State administrations
since the Republican party lost it's pre-
dominance, and does this for the pur-
pose of meeting the false cry that capi
tai and vested interests generally will
be insecure unless the Republican
party is in control of the State govern
ment. The truth is that while the
Democratic party is not like its OPP
ponents, the creature of the capitalistic
classes, it has never yet aimed an un-
just blow at capital, and would protect
alike both the rich and the poor. But
it makes eternal war upon that policy
which shapes all our National legisla-
tion to the primary advantage of GER
tain capitalistic classes, leaving labor
in all its forms to pick up whatever
crumbs it incidentally may-that is
such as the favored classes may volun-
tarily dole out.
So far as this State is concerned the
interests of both capital and labor will
be best safeguarded by the Democratic
and Silver parties, because the policy
of these two parties is a policy of West
ern industrial development. Let any
Philadelphia capitalist who has in
vested in Nevada mining properties
ask himself how the policy of the Re
publican party is of advantage to his
investment, and if he doesn't have an
inward tussle in finding the advantage,
then he must be one of those lawyers
from the city of brotherly love who are
popularly supposed to represent su-
perlative type of ingenuity. The con-
dition of our mining industry has a
most important, almost vital bearing
upon all other business in the State,
and therefore affects the value of all
investments.
The Democratic and Silver parties of
this State are not composed of anar-
chists and hobos. They comprise a
large percentage of the very best ele-
ments of our people. In their councils
we find men of brains, and men of
wealth, and men who have both brains
and wealth-men who are and have
been closely identified with it's most
important interests, who love the State
and its people just little better than
they love any other State or any other
people. Such are the men who have
framed and adopted these two plat
forms, and they may be relied upon to
give Nevada a government, that will
mete out equal and exact Justice to all
who cast their lots with us in the grand
work of developing our mines, build
ing up our cities and converting our
sagebrush plains and valleys into smil-
ing, productive farms.
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