The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-08-17
THE PLATFORM

The Republican party of Nevada in
state convention assembled reaffirms its
adherence to the principles of Republi-
canism as expressed in the national plat
form and wrought into the government
of the nation from Abraham Lincoln to
Theodore Roosevelt. The history of Re-
publicanism is the party's mightiest plat
form. Endorsing the nominees of the ma
tionaI convention, we affirm that no man
in public or private life in this country
is more fitted in honesty, daring, uncom-
promising independence, steadfastness in
what he believes TO be right and sound
Judgment TO guide the American people
in the fulfllment of their destiny the
next four years than Theodore Roose-
war, the westerner always. and the Re-
publican nominee for President of the
United States.
We respectfully suggest to the voters
of Nevada that Alton Brooks Parker is
too closely allied VIA the selfish corpc-
rate and moneyed Institutions of Wall
street and the lawless and predatory mo-
nopolistic trusts of the country TO quail
ify him for the discharge of the duties of
the office for which the Democratic party
of the United States has selected him.,
and that no language which we can
frame more aptly illustrates his disqual-
ihcations than that freely and publicly
employed by William j.. Bryan, w. II.
Hearst and other leading men conspic-
uously prominent in Democratic circles
when the environments of the Democrat
ic presidential nomine were subject to
free and untrammeled discussion.
NATIONAL IRRIGATION.
We congratulate the pc pie of the state
of Nevada upon the passage of the ma
tional irrigation law which will ltimate
ly reclaim the arid lands of the west. and
which will within a few years transform
the desert wastes of Nevada into fruitful
homesteads. We assert that the attempt
to usurp the credit of this great act for
enc man is a travesty on fact and justice.
To the thousands of western citizens who
have agitated this subject, to the western
senator's and congressman who for twen-
ty-five years have persistently urged and
fought for irrigation legislation, and to
the engineers who nave measured west
ern streams and threaded the mountains
and deserts to learn the possibilities OF
storage and reclamation We give due and
credit and the fullness of our
gratitude. But above all we declare that
the ringing and insistent recommended !
ton of Theodore Roosevelt that congress
this subject was responsible for
the crystalization OF all theories and
plans into the bill known as the Ma
tional Irrigation Law, which was framed
and agreed to by all the western senator's
and congressman n introduced stimuli
taneously in the senate and house and
which would a failed in the house had
not Theodore Roosevelt finally brought
his great influence to bear to secure its
passage.
ISTHMIAN CANAL.
We rejoice in the requirement by the
United States of sufficient Isthmian ter
'itory upon which to ~excavate, construct
ma operate a commercial canal between
he Atlantic and the Pacific oceans en-
government Of the United States and
will greatly promote the Industrial
development of all sections of the Pacific
and we especially regret that Sen
ltor Francis Ii. Newlands so far forgot
he substantial interests of the state of
Nevada as to interpose his vote In the
senate of the United States against the
of the treaty between the
United States and the republic of Pan
ina in the vain attempt to interdict the
building of he canal.
UNITED STATES SENATORSHIP.
We congratulate the people of Nevada
Ipon the awakening Of her prosperity In
and mine, and that the hour is
truck which closes a quarter of a CEN !
ury of state depression. That the dawn I
as begun of a new era wherein this
commonwealth is destined to take high
ank in agriculture, the industries and I
mining. New leaders are called for to
In congress this new spirit of