The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-08-27
THE PLATFORM

The Republican party of Nevada in
state convention assembled reaffirms its
adherence to the principles of Republi-
canism as expressed in the national plat
form and wrought into the government
of the nation from Abraham Lincoln TO
Theodvr re Roosevelt. The history OF Re-
publicanism is the party's mightiest plat
form. Endorsing the nominees of the ma
lional convention, we affirm that no man
IN public or private life in this country
is more fitted in honesty. daring, uncom-
Or. missing independence, steadfastness In
what he believes 10 he right and SOUND
Judgment to guide the American people
an the fulnllment of their destiny the
next four years than Theodore Roose-
welt. the statesman in peace. he hero in
war, the westerner always. and the Re-
publican nominee for President of the
United States.
We respectfully suggest to the v'ters
Of Nevada that Alton Brooks Parker Is
TOO closely allied wl'n me ssiish corpc-
rate and moneyed institutions OF WAN
street and the lawless and predatory mt'-
~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 ni-i'
and hat no language which we can
frame more aptly illustrates his disduai-
ifications than that freely and publicly
employed by William J. Bryan. w. X.
Hearst and other leading men conspic-
uously 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 pc pie of the state
of Nevada Upon the passage of the ma
tional irrigation law which will ultimate
~ reclaim the arid lands of the west. and
which Will within d Few years transform
the desert wasJe= of Nevada into fruitful
homesteads. We assert that the attempt
10 usurp the credit of This great act for
ne man Is a travesty IN fact and justice.
To the thousands of we stern citizens who
have agitated this subject. to the western
senators and congressman who for TWEEN
ty-five years have persistently urged and
fought for irrigation legislation. and to
the engineers who have measured west
ern streams and threaded the mountains
1stA W $1,000 Na>
storage and reclamation we give due and
generous credit and the fuilness of our
gratitude. But above all we declare :ha,
the ringing and ins.stent recommended
ton of Theod re Roosevelt hat 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
. IA o~.na1 - bAt al sha rynCfArr annot ro
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 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 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 Sem
ator Francis u. Newlands so far forgot
the substantial interests of the state OF
Nevada as to interpose his vote in the
senate of the United States against the
ratification of the treaty between the
United States and the republic of Pan
anna In the VAL attempt to interdict the
building of he canal.
UNITED STATES SENATORSHTP.
We congratulate the people OF Nevada
upon the awakening 4 her prosperity in
field and mine. and that the hour is
struck which closes a quarter of a CEN
fury of state depression. That the daw n
has begun of a new era wherein this
commonwealth is destined to take high
rank in agriculture. the industries and
mining. New leaders are called for to
represent In congress this new spirit OF