The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-02
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
platform and wrought into the govern
ment of the nation from Abraham Lin
coin To Theodore Roosevelt. The history
of fRepublicanism Is the party's might
lest platform. Endorsing the nominees
ofthe national convention, we afiirm
that no man in public or private life in
this country Is more fitted in honesty,
daring. uncompromising independence,
stead dfastness in what he believes to be
right and sound judgementto to guide the
the American people in the fullhliment
of their destiny the next -four years than
Theodore Roosevelt.
We respectfully suggestito 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 Estates has
selected him. and that no language
which we can frame more aptly illus
trates his disqualifications than that
freely and publicly employed 10y Will
liam J. Bryan, w. II. Hearst aud other
leading men conspicuously prominent
in Democratic circles when the envir-
onments of the Democratic Presiden-
Il to nfI
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 few years
transform the desert wastes of Nevada
into fruitful homesteads. We assert
that the attempt to usurp the credit oi
this great act for, zone man Is traVesty
on fact and justice. To the thousands oil
western citizens who have agitated this
subject. to the western Senators ana
Congressman who for twenty-five yeais
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 fulness of our gratitude.
But above all we declare that the ringing
and insistcnt recommendation of Theo-
dore Roosevelt that Congress 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 simnlt-
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.
lSTHMIAN CANAL.
We rejoice in the requirement by the
United States of sufficient lsthmian ter
ritory upon which to excavate, con-
struct and operate commercial canal
between the Atla,tic and the Pacific
Oceans entirely regulated and con
trolled by the government of the United
States and which will greatly promote
the industrial development of all Sec
tions of the Pacific Coast, and we es-
pecially regret that Senator Francis &.
Newlands SO far forgot the substantial
interests of the State of Nevada as 60
interpose his vote in the Senate of the
United States against the ratification of