The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-08-26
THE PLATFORM.

The Republican party of Nevada in
State convention assembled reaflirms its
adherence to the principles of Republic
canism as expressed in the national
patform and wrought into the govern
ment of the nation from Abraham Lin
coin 10 Theodore Roosevelt The history
Of Repnblicanism is the party's might
lest platform. Endorsing the nominees
ofthe national convention, we affirm
that no man in public or private life in
this country is more fitted in honesty,
daring, nncompremising independence,
steadiastness in what he believes to be
right and sound judgement to guide the
the American people in the fulltillment
OF their destiny the next ionr years than
Theodore Roosevelt.
We respectfully suggest to the voters
of Nevada that Alton Brooks Parker is
too closely allied with the selfish cor
porate and moneyed institutions of Wall
street and the lawless and predatory
monopolistic trusts of the country to
qualify him for the discharge of the
duties of the Office for which the Demo
cratic party of the United States has
selected him, and that no language
which we can frame more aptly illus
trates his disqualiiicalions than that
freely and publicly employed by Will
liam !. Brvan, W. Il. Hearst and other
leading men eonspicuonsly prominent
i'm Democratic circles when the envir-
onments of the Democratic Presiden-
tlal nominee were subject to free and un-
trammcled discussion.
NATIONAL IRRIGATION.
We congratulate the people of the
State of Nevada upon the passage of the
national irrigation law which will III
timately 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 one man is traVesly
on fact and justice. TO the thousands OF
western citizens who have agitated this
subject. to the western Senators and
Congressman who for twenty-five years
have persistently urged and fought for
iliiEtiiOi islAAioii t'b'i ~ h''N =
who have measured western streams
and threaded the mountains and deserts
To learn the possibilities of storage and
reclamation we give due and generous
credit and the fitness of our gratitude
But above all we declare that the ringing
and insistcnt recommendation OF Theo-
dore Roosevelt that Compress consider
this subject was responsible for the
crystalization of all theories and plans
into the bill known as the National lr-
rigation Law, which was framed and
agreed to by all the western Senators and
congressman, and introduced slniull-
aneously in the Senate and House and
which would have failed in the House
had not Theodore Roosevelt finally
brought his great influence 10 bear
to secure its passage.
.STHMlAN CANAL
We rejoice in the requirement hy the
United States of sufficient lsthmian ter
ritory upon which 10 cxcavate con-
struct and operate II commercial canal
between the Alta tic and the Pacific
Oceans entirely regulated and con-
trolled by the government of the Alnited
States and which will greatly promote
the industrial development of all see.
tions of the Pacific Coast, and we es-
pecially regret that Senator Francis q
Newlands SO iar forgot the substantial
interests of tho State Of Nevada MS tc
interpose his vote in the Senate of tht
United States against the ratification 81