Amador ledger., 1906-09-28
California Republican Platform in
Brief.

/. Asserts that fifty years of repub-
lican rule has been fifty years of glory
and progress for the nation.
=. Declares that every trust has
been we'll and faithfully performed
and that the fifty ninth session of con-
gress was one of the most remarkable
in history of that body.
3. Expresses commentator of pres
ident Roosevelt for his unwavering
support.
4. Especially commends congress
for passage of the rate bill.
5. Commends president and cabinet
advisers for efforts to punish trust
representatives who violate laws.
6. Endorses California delegation in
congress and the economical and pIu-
dent state administration.
Z. Extends thanks for donations
and sympathy brought out by earth
quake and fire..
8. Notes that credit of San Fran
cisco's banking institutions was
sustained without question, despite
the calamity, and attributes fact to
prosperity of country under 1epub-
Iican 1ule.
9 Favors enactment by congress of
measure taking duty from all build
ing material for San Francisco for
three years.
10. Pledges mem bers of Legislature
to assist San francisco by remedial
legislation and appropriation.
IL. Declares for exclusion of Japan
csc and all other kinds of Asiatic
labor. and insists upon continuance
and rigid enforcement of existing
Chinese exclusion and that Asiatic
peope OF insular possession shall not
be permitted to enter United States.
u. Favors adoption of tenement
house law.
ID. Urges passage by legislature
of arbitration laws for settlement of
disputes between capital and labor.
Ia. Favors passage of laws compel
ling sufficient desposits by foreign
insurance companies to protect policy
holders and standard form of policy
that will validate all insurance con-
tracts.
15- Recommends additional federal
Judge for northern district, that in
surance cases may be disposed of
rapidly, for one thing.
l6. Favors passage by legislature of
direct primary election law, pro-
viding for the nomination of all
public officers by the people at
primaries.
II. Insists upon enactment of laws
TO protect fruit-growers and shippers
against rapacity of railroads and upon
an amendment giving them the right
to select routes.
10. Calls upon congressional dele
cation to secure appropI iation for
enlargement for Mare Island plant.
IS. Expresses sympathy with organ
lied labor in its efforts to obtain
universal adoption of eight hour law
on government work.
20. Advocates continuance of work
to improve hygienic and sanitary
condition of diaries and of factories
handling dairy products.
81. favors improvement of naviga-
bility of streams of the state.
%. Pledges legislative nominees TO
cut expenses of the next session to
the minimum.
%. Finally points with pride to the
record of the republican party in
California and appeals confidently to
the voters of the state, particularly
the younger generation, to help keep
it in the republican line.
DR.. Morton, of California, has dis
covered a new anesthetic: cocaine ad-
ministered into the fluid of the spinal
cord, by means of a syringe and prac-
tically. demonstrated his system yes
terday, in Kansas City. You all know
the disadvantage of ether for operat-
ing, the bIevIty of its effect, the
headache and nausea that follows, the
secondary physical Temperance that
lasts sometimes tor three months. And
chloroform, there is the precedent
nervousness, the constant fear of col
Iapes during anesthesia, the sickness
and depression. that inevitably fol-
low recovery. And the anxiety that
the surgeon always feels the nerve
strain until he is finished and the
patient is wheeled away DIR. Nor
toms method is not anasthesia-which
means nerve stupor--but analgesia-
which means, broadly, pain control
Ter. lie does not send the patient to
sleep: he simply, for the time being,
puts the pain nerves out of business.
All kinds of harness from SIS up
P. Piccardos'.