Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-08-11
oFpIRLICAN STATE PLATFORM
STRONG, CLEAR AND CONCISE
commends the Administration of President
pooseveIt, Makes Many Recommendations
Vital to Interest of Party in Idaho


purpose or protection, but never re-
pealed or loaded with embarrassing re-
strictions to the Inconvenience or det
riment OF the settler, recognizing that
as In the past, so in the future must the
greatness and growth of our state de-
pend upon the homemakers who came
in the exercise of their own free choice
to select their homes from the lands
the title of which is vested in the gov
eminent, but the equity of which is in
the present and prospective citizens
of the state.
Eleventh-We recognize in the irri-
cation plan and laws enacted for the
purpose of carrying out the same, the
greatest wisdom on the part of the
government looking to the reclamation
of the arid lands within our state and
we recognize that this great movement
originated with a republican admins
tration. that the law was enacted by a
republican congress and that the credit
therefore is due solely to the republi-
can party and we ask the people of the
state to express their approval and APP
probation Of this great policy of recla-
nation at the ballot box We recognize
the active and efficient work of the rec
lamation department of the present ma
tional republican administration and
we call the attention Of the people of
the state of Idaho to the fact that the
largest single appropriation ever made
for a public purpose west of the Mis-
souri river was made by the Roosevelt
administration for the reclamation of
the arid lands within this state.
Twelfth-We favor such liberal laws
rules and regulations governing the
right to the use of the public domain
for pasturage as will result in har-
monious adjustment OF such rights be-
tween the owners of different classes
OF stock grazing thereon, and that such
resources should be handled only in
the interest of preserving the perma-
nent value Of such lands to those who
should hereafter make their homes
thereon. and We recognize the wisdom
of the existing two mile limit law rela-
tive to the use OF the public lands TOT
such purposes AZ declared IN our last
state platform. And we reafnrm the
declarations Of our last platfor nlnpon
questions involving the rights of CAPT.
tai and labor. +,Et
y Thirtenth-We fully indorse ana
commend the course of our republican
representatives in congress, Senator w.
B. Hepburn and Congressman Burton
L. French. and we extend the thanks
Of the republican party to them for
their eficient services to the citizens
Of the state Of Idaho and point with
pride to their records while serving
their constituency at the national cap
ital. 48b&3N }f5h lFf as t{k8 EEt fff
Fourteenth-we believe in the enact
ment and enforcement Of such laws as
will absolutely prevent the existence
within our state or any other state OF
such combinations of capital or such
business combinations as are calculated
to or do result in the prevention Or dis
couragement Of fair competition In
business. and we believe that the mer-
ger of transportation lines or any en-
terprise representing the public utili-
ties of life should be prohibited by the
enactment and enforcement of laws
adequate to that end, and we commend
the energetic enforcement of the exist
ing laws by the national administra :
ton against trusts and illegal combi-
nations.
Fifteenth-We believe that the peo-
pie are justified in looking upon any
threatened accession of the democratic
party to power as a menace to the
prosperity. happiness and welfare OF
the people, having in mind the expert
ence Of the last democratic national ad-
ministration which brought disaster tc
the people individually and collectively
and desolation to the country az large
which reduced the material wealth Oh
the people to the degree OF bankruptcy
Sixteenth-We believe that all inter-
est earned by state and county monis
while carried in the balances in the
state or county treasures, belongs 10
the state and counties and we recon-
mend the passage of law which VIII
secure to the state and the several
counties all such interest