The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-10-14
TIE PLATFORM.

The Republican party Of Nevada in
State convention assembled reaitirms It's
adherence TO the principles of Republic
canism rs expressed in the national
platform and wrought into the govern
mcnt of the nation from Abraham Lin
colin to Theodore Roosevelt. The history
of Repuhlicanism IL 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, uncompromising independence,
steadlastness in what he believes To be
right aud sound judgement to guide the
the American people in the fullf1llment
OF their destiny the next four 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
monopolistie 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
tratcs his disqualification than that
freely and publicly employed by VIII
liam j. BRYAN, w II. Hearst and other
leading men eonspicnously prominent
in Democratic circles when the enYir-
onments of the Democratic Psesiden-
tial nominee We're subject TO free and I'M
trammeled discussion.
NATIONAL IRRIG ALTON.
We congratulate the people Of the
State Of Nevada upon the passage Of the
national irrigation law which will ul-
timately reclaim the arid lands of the
west, and which will within few years
transform the desert wastes Of Nevada
into fruitful homesteads. We assert
that the attempt 10 usurp the credit OF
this great net for one man is traNesty
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 Tor
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 fulness of our gratitude.
But above all we declare that the ringing
and insistent recommendation OF Theo-
dore Roosevelt that Congress consider
TINS subject WAS responsible Tor the
crystaliZation of all theories and plans
INTO the bill known rs the National lf,
rlgation Law, which was framed ana
agreed TO by all the western Senators ana
congressman, and introduced simult,
aneously in the Senate and llonse ana
which would have failed in the House
had not Theodore Roosevelt finally
brought his great influence to bear
to secure its passage.
lSTHMIAN CANAL.
We rejoice i'm the requirement by the
United States of sufficient Isthmian ter
ritory upon which to eXcavate, con,
struct and operate commerciai caiial
between tho Alta tic and the Paclhc
Oceans entirely regulated anu con,
lrolled by the government ot the ohlted
States and which will greatly promote
the industrial development of all see
tions of the Pacific Coast, and we es-
pccially n gtet that senator Francis =;
Newlands so far forgot the substantial
interests of the State of Nevada as 10
lnterposc his vote in the Senate pf Inc
United States against the ratification oi
the treaty between the United States ana
the Republic of Panama in the VAN a.
tempt to interdict the building oi the
canal.
UNITED STATES SENAToRslIIP.
We congratulate the people of Nevada
upon the awakening of her prosperity
IN field and mine, and that the hour is
struck which closes a quarter ol Il cen
tnry of State depression. That the dawn
has begun ofa new era wherein this com
monwealth is destined to take high rank
In agriculture, the industries and min
ing New leaders are called for TO
represent in Congress this now spirit of
State development. For the Senate oi
theUnited States the Republican party
presents the name of George $. Nixon, as
an able, true and loyal citizen worthy OF
such choice, familiar with and Interested
in the various industries of our state and
who is the first candidate for that
supreme Office presented by n Nevada