The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-10-01
THE PLATFORM

The Republican party OF Nevada in
state convention assembled reaflrms Its
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-
publicanism is the party's mightiest plat
form. Endorsing the nominees OF the ma.
tional convention, we affirm hat no man
in public or private life In this country
is more fitted in honesty. daring. uncom-
promising independence. steadfastness in
what he believes to be right and sound
judgment to guide the Americas people
in the fulfilment of their destiny the
next four years than Theodore Roose-
Welt. the statesman In peace. ne hero In
war. the westerne- Always. ana the Re-
publican non NEE for President of the
United States.
We resi- ectfully suggest TO the voters
Of Nevada that Alton 5rooks Parker is
too closely a,ied wi-n the selfish corp {
rate and moneyed Institutions of Wall
street and the lawless and predatory mo-
nopoiistic 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 hill.
and that no language which we can
frame more aptly illustrates his disqual.
ilcations than that freely and publicly
employed by William J. Bryan, w. h
Hearst and other leading men conspic-
nousiy prominent In Democratic circles
when the environments of the Democrat
ic presidential nominee were subject to
free and untrammeled discussion.
NATIONAL IRRIGATION.
We congratulate the people or the state
Of Nevada upon the passage OF the na-
tional irrigation law which will ultimate
ly reclaim the arid lands or the west. and
which will within a few years transform
the desert waste= of Nevada into fruitful
homesteads. We assert that the attempt
to usurp the credit of this great act FOL
one man is a travesty IT fact and justice.
TO the thousands OF western citizens who
have agitated this subject. to the western
senator's and congressman who for twen-
ty-hve 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 ;hat
the ringing and insistent recommends
ton 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 senator's
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 10 bear to secure Its
passage.
ISTIIMIAN 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
development of all sections of the Pacific
! coast. and we especially regret that Sen