The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-23
THE PLATFORM.

The Republican party of Nevada IN
State convention assembled reaflirms its
adherence to the principles of Republi-
cansm rs expressed in the national
platform and wrought into the govern
ment of the nation from Abraham Lin
coin 81 Theodore Roosevelt The history
of Republicanism is the pnrty's might
lest platform. Endorsing the nominees
ofthe national convention, we affirm
that no man in public or private life in
this country is more fitted in honesty.
daring. uucampromising independence,
stead dfastncss ia what he believes to be
right and sound iudgomentto to guide the
the American people in the fulliillment
OF their destiny the next four years than
Theodore Roosevelt.
We respectfully suggest 10 the voters
Of Nevada that Alton Brooks Parker Is
too closely allied with the selfish cor
p0rate and moneyed institutions Of Nal
street and the lawless and predatory
monopolistic trusts of the country 10
qualify him for tho discharge Of the
duties Of the Office for which the Demo
cralicparty of the United States has
selected him. and that 10 language
which we can frame more aptly illus
tratcs his disqnaliGcations than that
freely and publicly employed by VII
liam J. Bryan. w. r. Hearst aud other
leading men conspieuously prominent
in Democratic circles when the enVir-
oaments of the Democratic Pfesiden-
tial nominee were subject TO free and un-
trammeled discussion.
NATIONAL IRRIGATION.
We congratulate the people OF The
State'of Nevada upon the passage of the
national irrigation law which will III
timately reclaim the arid lands of the
west, and which will within IA few years
transform the desert wastes of Nevada
into fuitlul homesteads. We assert
that the attempt To usurp the credit ol
this great act for one man is traNesty
on fact and Justice To the thousands of
western citizens who have agitated this
subject, TO the western Senators ana
congressman who for twenty-five yeais
nave persistently urged and fought for
irrigation legislation and to the engineers
who have measured western streams
ana threaded the mountains and deserts
70 learn the possibilities of storage and
reclamation we give due and generous
credit and the fulness of our gratitude.
But above all we declare that the ringing
and insistont recommendation of Theo-
NNfp tnDGnynlt tlaf gi1Pr
thls subject was responsible for the
equalization of all theories and plans
INTO the bill known as tho National lr-
rlgalion Law, which was framed and
agreed to by all the western Senators and
congressman, and introduced sinult-
aheously in the Senate and House and
which would have failed in the House
mai not Theodore Roosevelt finally
Drought his great influence 10 bear
10 secure its passage
!SrlIMIAN CANAL.
We rejoice in the requirement by the
united States of sufficient Isthminn ter
"lory upon which To exeaNate, con-
s'ruct and operate commercial canal
between the Ata,.tic and the Pacific
oceans entirely regulated aud con
lrolied by the government of the United
n'ales and which will greatly promote
.ne industrial development of all sec
ions OF the Pacific Coast, and we es-
pecially regret that Senator Francis G..
Newlands so far forgot the substantial
interests of the State of Nevada as to
,n'9rpose his vote in the Senate of the
United States against the ratification o.