The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-29
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

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tons were adopted:
The republicans of the state OF
North aDakota in delegate convention
assembled and confidently addressing
themselves to the people Of this state
unanimously endorse the platform OF
,he national republican party adopted
at Chicago on June %, 1904, and readi
~ adhere to and express our firm
loyalty to the economic principles
therein contained.
The achievements of the republican
party during it's many years of admin
istration and the broad policies of both
national and international character
~inaugurated and carried out by it we
deem worthy OF the highest admira-
tion and applause of our fellow citi-
n and with it the unparalleled
prosperity of the internal government
Affairs Of olr people adds ltStre to
the personal character ut our chief
executive, President Roosevelt, and
we pledge to him our cordial support
ln the campaign of 1904.
The republican party of the state Of
North Dakota readily endorses the &C.
1na of its representatives in the SEN
ate and congress. It feels that It has
every Isl to be proud Of their abfli-
", independence and courage In look
ing after the necessary and needed
economic legislation for the interests
II the people at large, as we'll as the
interests Of the people of this state,
and recommend to them and their sue
lessons to those high and exalted po-
sstfons a like zeal and character look
ing to the public welfare of all our
people. We heartily approve of the
Efforts made by Senator McCumber to
secure the enactment of what is
known as the Federal Grain Inspection
Law.
The people Of the state have every
reason to be proud of it's development
and progressive advancement in ma
teTial wealth and the prosperity Of its
people. We recognize the earnest and
honest efforts OF its officials from its
chief executive to the other state Of
-fcials in their several state depart
nents. We express gratitude for
their service in the past and pledge to
the voters of our party and the people
at large of this state the same econ
omy Of public affairs under its admin
Etratdon.
We are heartily in favor of intensi-
fed farming and therefore approve the
efforts made to secure the investment
in feasible irrigation works of as large
a proportion as possible of the money
North Dakota has furnished to this
fund. We approve the action of Gov
ernor White in appointing a temporary
state engineer, and recommend That
such an office be created. We further
commend the generosity and public
spirit of the citizens who agree to adj
vance the funds necessary to sustain
this department until the legislature
meets, and we recommend that the
legislature take steps to have these
citizens reimbursed for whatever
funds they have advanced for this pur-
pose.
We commend the democracy for
their generous expressions of approval
of the patriotic work Of Lincoln. Grant,
Mckinley and other great republican
leaders who are dead. but we seriously
object to the policy in%augurated at st.
Louis whereby the democratic national
convention sought to deprive the adj
ministration of President Roosevelt OF
any credit for its work in the passage
Of the Hansbrough irrigation law. This
legislation was enacted in 1892, under
a republican president, and by a repub-
ican senate and house of representa-
tives, the bill having been drawn, in
Produced, and managed by Mr.. Hans
brough in the senate, and when it
reached the house of representatives,
VI. Mondell (rep.) Of Wyoming, took
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Jaw. There is no statute law appllca'
bic to such a theft as was perpetrated
by the democracy at st. Louis, but the
moral obligation to protect the republic
can national administration from the
political craftsmen rests upon every
republican in the land, and particular
~ upon this convention.
The republican party Of this state
D., hes heretofore declared itself in favor
,of the enforcement not only of the
prohibition law Of this state but o.
all Of its criminal laws and still ad
here's to and maintains the same prin
e1ple.