The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-08-19
THE PLATFORM.

The Republican party Of Nevada in
State convention assembled reatlirms its
adherence 10 the principles of Republic
canism rs expressed in the national
platform and wrought into the govern
ment Of the nation from Abraham Lin
coin 10 Theodore Roosevelt The history
Of Republicanism is the party'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, uncompromising Independence,
steadlastness in what he believes to be
right and sound judgement to guide the
the American people in the fullfllment
Of their destiny the next four years than
Theodore Roosevelt.
We respectfully suggest to the voters
of Nevada that Alton Brooks Parker is
too closely allied with the selfish cor
porate aud moneyed institutions of Wall
street aud the lawless and predatory
monopolistic trusts Of the country To
qualify him for the discharge Of the
duties of the Office for which the Demo-
cratic PARTY of the United States has
selected him, aud that no language
which we can frame more aptly Illus
trates his dsquai6cations than that
freely and publicly employed by Will
liam J. BRYAN, w. Il. Hearst and other
leading men conspicnonsly prominent
in Democratic circles when the envir-
onments of the Democratic Presiden-
NJ gttl,fa4t a trna and
trammeled discussion.
NATIONAL IRRIGATION.
We congratulate the people of the
State of Nevada upon the passage of the
national irrigation law which will ul-
timately reclaim the arid lands of the
west, and which will within few years
transform the desert wastes of Nevada
into fruitful homesteads. We assert
that the attempt To usurp the credit oil
this great act for one man is travesty
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 years
have persistently urged and fought for
irrigation legislation and TO the engineers
who have measured western streams
and threaded the mountains and deserts
TO 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
ana inslsteut recommendation of fheo-
dofe Roosevelt that Congress consider
TINS subject was responsible for the
crystaization of all theories and plans
INTO the bill known a. the National ir-
figation Law, which was framed and
agreed to by all the western Senators and
congressman. and introduced simuli
aheonsly In rhe Senate and House and
which would have failed IN the House
had not Theodore Roosevelt finally
brought his great influence To bear
10 secure its passage.
.STHMIAN CANAL.
We rejoice in the requirement hy the
United States of sufficient Isthmian ter
rltory upon which 10 eXctNate, con-
slruct and operate II commercial canal
between the AtlaAtic and the Pacific
Oceans entirely regulated and con
trolled by the government of the United
States and which will greatly promote
The industrial development of all sec
uons of the Pacific Coast, and we es-
peclally regret that senator Francis G.
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