The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-09-10
TIE R[POB]CANI|GkE1
NOMINATED AT THE
REGULAR REPUBLICAN STATE
CONVENTION
HELD AT
WIl1enDCgl, AUGUST \, 1904
To be Voted For at the General
Election
TueSd0y, November \, 1904
For United States Senator,
HON. GEORGE S. NIXON,
OF Humboldt County.
For Member Of Congress
HON. JAMES A YERING1ON,
OF Ormsby County.
For Suprems Judge,
HON. FRANK n. NORCROSS,
OF Washo~ County.
For P~-es,rentiai Electors
HON. JAMES BUTLER,
o. Nye County.
HON.. c.. A. AHEfN N,
or Storey County
HON. w. J. PLUMB,
OfElko County.
For Regents of State University
Long Tom
HON. OSCAR J. SIN TIL,
OF Washoe Coz MY.
Short Term
HON. r.. F. STAR7ETT,
OtEiko County.
THE PLATFORM

The Republican party OF Nevada In
state convent n assembled reafirms its
adherence TO the principles of Repubii
canlsm as expressed in the national plat
form and wrought into the government
of the nation from Abraham Lincoln I"
Theod re Roosevelt. The history OF Re-
publicsnism Is the party's mightlest plat
form. Endorsing the nominees of the ma
tional conventions. we affirm that no man
in public or private life in this country
is more lifted in honesty, daring. unc"m-
pr missing independence. steadfastness II,
what he believes 10 lie right and SCUM"
judgment to guide the American people
in the f%ulhllment OF their destiny the
next four years than Theodore Roose
Welt, the statesman in peace. he hero il
war, the western.,' always. and the Re
publican nor ,nee tor President OF TN
CnIled States.
We respectfully su.Eest TO the voter
of Nevada tina; Alton hooks PasHr u
too closely allied WIN me selfish corpc'
rate and moneyed Institutions of Wal.
su eel and The iawless and PREDATORY MT
nopolistic trusts OF the country 10 quail
ify him for the discharge of the duties Il
the office for which the Democratic part,
of the United States has selected hi-i.
and that no language which we can
frame more APPLY illustrates his disauai-
ifications than that freely and publicly
employed by William J.. Bryan. ". AZ
Hearst and other leading men conspic-
uously prominent In Democratic circles
when The environments of the Democrat
ic presidential nominee We're subject 10
free and discussion.
NATIONAL IRRIGATION.
We congratulate the pc pie of the state
of Nevada Ipon the passage Of the ma
tional irrigation law which will ultimate
ly reclaim the arid lands OF the west. ana
which VIII within a rev years transform
the desert wasie- of Nevada Into fruitfui
homesteads. We assert il'at the attempi
to lisurp the credit of ihis great act foi
one man Il a travesty ~ fact and Justice
To the thousands of We stern citizens VIII"
have agitated this subject. to the western
senators and congressman who for twen
ty-ive years have peis.stently urged ana
fought for irrigation legislation. and L"
the engineers VIII have measured west
ern streams and threaded the mountains
and deserts 10 learn the possibilities oi
storage and reclamation we give due AMI
generous credit and the fuliiess Of oui
gratitude. But above all we declare :h,l
the ringing and ins.stent recommenda
tion of rheod re Roosevelt that congress
consider this subject was responsible TO
the specialization % all theories and
plans into the bill known az 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 anu
which would have failed in the house had
not Theodore Roosevelt finally brougn,
his great Influence 10 bear TO secure Its
passage.
ISTHMIAN CANAL.
We rejoice In the requirement by the
United States OF sufficient Isthmian ter
ritory upon which TO excavate. construct
and operate "a commercial canal bet weer
the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans en-
tirely regulated and controlled by the
which viii greatly promote the rial
development of all sections Of the Pacific
coast, and we especially regret that Sem
ator Francis u. Newlands so far forgot
the substantial interests OF the state OF
Nevada as to interpose his vote in thu
senate of the United States against the
ratification of the treaty between the
United States and the republic Of Pan