The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-16
THE PLATFORM.

The Republican party of Nevada in
state convention assembled reafiirms its
adherence to the principles of Republi-
canism as expressed in the national
platform and wrought into the govern
Incnt of the nation from Abraham Lin
eoln to Theodore Roosevelt. The history
of Rcpublieansm is the party's might
lest platform. Endorsing the nominees
of the national convention, we affirm
that no man in public or private life in
this country is more fitted i'm honesty,
daring, uneompromising independence,
steadfastness in what he believes 10 be
right and sound judgement TO guide the
the American people in the fnlldllment
of their destiny the next four years than
Theodore Roosevelt.
We respectfully suggest 10 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 lnwless 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, aud that no language
which We can frame more aptly Illus
trates his disqualificalions than that
freely aud publicly employed by Will
liam !. Bryan. w. Il. Hearst aud other
leading men couspicuously prominent
in Democratic circles when the enyir-
onments OF the Democratic Presiden-
tial nominee were subject to free and un-
trammeled 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 viii within few years
transform the desert wastes of Nevada
into fruitful homesteads. We assert
that the attempt 10 nsurp the credit oi
this great act for one man is travesty
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 yoais
have persistently urged and fought for
irrigation legislation and to the engineers
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 funess of our gratitude.
But above all we declare that the ringing
and insistcnt recommendation of Theo-
.dore Roosevelt that Congress consider
.lhls subject was responsible for the
crystalization of all theories and plans
INTO the bill known a. the National lr-
rlgation Law, which was framed and
agreed TO by all the western Senators and
congressman, and introduced simult-
aneously in the Senate and House and
which would have failed in the House
had not Theodore Roosevelt finally
brought his great influence to bear
to secure its passage
.STHMTAN CANAL.
We rejoice in the requirement by the
United States of sufficient Isthmian ter
fltory upon which 10 eNcavate, CON
struct and operate n commercial canal
between the Atla'ti and the Pacific
Oceans entirely regulated and con
tfolled by the government of the United
States and which will greatly promote
tho industrial development of all sec
tons of the Pacific Coast, and we es-
ptcially regret that Senator Francis q.
Newlands SO far forgot the substantial
interests of tho State of Nevada as to
ihterpose his vote in the Senate of the
l nlted States against the ratification of