The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-09-23
THE PLATFORM

The Republican party of Nevada In
state convention assembled reafirms III
adherence to the principles of Republi
canlsm as expressed In the national plat
form and wrought INTO the government
of the nation from Abraham Lincoln to
Theodore Roosevelt. The history OF Re-
publicsnism is the party's mightiest plat
form. Endorsing the nominees Of the ns-
tionai convention. we afirm that 10 man
is more fitted In honesty. daring. uncom-
promising independence. steadfastness In
what he believes to lie right and sound
Judgment to guide the American people
IN the fuihllment OF their destiny the
next four years than Theodore Roose-
Welt. the statesman In peace. ne nero In
war. the westerne- Always. ana the Re-
publican non NEE for President OF the
United States.
We respectfully s..sest 20 the vsters
Of Nevada hat Alton crooks Parx.r ie
too closely allied WIN the selfish col pc.
rate and moneyed institutions Of Wall
street the lawless and predatory mo-
nopolistic trusts Of the country to quail.
ify him for the discharge OF the duties OF
the office for which the Democratic party
of the United States has selected him.
and that no language which we cali
frame more aptly illustrates his disqual.
iacations than that freely n publicly
employed by William J. Bryan. w. X.
Hearst and other leading men conspic-
when the nvironment of the Democrat
ic presidential nominee were subject to
free and untrammeled discussion.
NATIONAL IRRIGATION.
We congratulate the PEI pie OF the state
Of Nevada p o the passage of the ma
tional irrigation law which will ultimate
ly reclaim the arid lands or the west. and
which will within a FEW years transform
the desert wastes of Nevada into fruitful
homesteads. We assert that the attempt
to usurp the credit of this great act fol-
one man is a travesty ~ fact and justice.
TO the thousands OF western citizens who
have agitated this subject, to the western
senators and congressman who for twen-
ty-ive years have persistently urged and
fought for irrigation legislation. and to
he engineers who have measured west
ern streams and threaded the mountains
and deserts to learn the possibilities of
storage and reclamation we give due and
generous credit and the fullness of our
gratitude. But above all we declare that
the ringing and insistent recommended
tion of Theodore Roosevelt that congress
consider this subject was responsible for
the capitalization OF all theories and
plans into the bill known as the Ma
tional Irrigation Law. which was framed
and agreed to by all the western senators
and congressman and introduced stimuli
taneously 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 It's
passage.
ISTHMIAN CANAL.
We rejoice In the requirement by the
United States OF SUFFICIENT Isthmian ter
ritory Upon which to ~excavate. construct
and operate Ia commercial canal between
the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans en-
tirely regulated and controlled by the
government Of the United States and
which will greatly promote the Industrial
of all sections OF the Pacific
IN we especially regret that SEM
Francis u. Newlands so far Forgot
the substantial interests of the state of
as to i~nterpose his vote In the
senate Of the United States against the
ratification of the treaty between the
States and the republic OF Pan
anna in the val attempt to interdict tn,
building OF he canal.
UNITED STATES SENATORSHIP.
We congratulate the people Of Nevada
upon the awakening IT her prosperity In
Held and mine. and that the hour is
struck which closes a quarter OF q cen.
,ury of state oppression. That the dawn
has begun ut I new era wheretn this
II destined to take high !