The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-10-11
Following is the Platform Adopted BY
the Republican State Convention
Which Assembled in Tonopah, SEP
TENDER 4, 1906:

state convention assembled. submits
the glorious history Of party achieve
ment of the administration of Thee
dore Roosevelt as marking the highesl
success OF American government. Iron
a debtor nation-the heritage left by
the last Democratic administration
the United Staes in a decade of Il.
publican control, has passed to frs
place among the creditor nations of th
earth. The music of prolific lndustr
fills the air. The wage-earner walk
the earth now as one to be recone,
with in the division Of prosperity. Jus
tice has sm4tten the highest, as well d.
the meanest offender. Graft has bee.
purged from the conduct of public IA
fairs. Laws of supreme moment &
mankind have been passed. The Pa
anna canal has been made possible
The arid west Will be reclaimed BY
government aid. The trusts have bee.
curbed by stringent laws; the raj
roads shorn of discriminating abuses
Above all there has been infused int
the conduct of public affairs a neS
standard of civic probity, the excin
plar of which is Roosevelt. These ar
the signal results of a decade of Re
publican ism, which we submit to tn,
voters of Nevada with confidence a
to their answer at the polls.
STATE GOVERNMENT.
The contrast between the admins
success of the Republican part.
in national affairs and the humiliating
of Democratic inefficiency
Nevada calls for a change in the pc
litical control of the state. With off
Gals habitually absent from the cap
itol, the executive departments of ths
in Democratic hands are cor
with only ~haphazard regard t
the public business. Such absenteeisu
is notorious, and coupled with thu
complete non-attendance of the Demo
member of congress from hi'
in Washington, condemns thai
party as unworthy the further trus,
of the people. We are entering upoi
a golden era Of development and tn.
necessity is urgent to vest the powers
of state into competent hands. w.
each and every nominee of thii
convention for any Office to at all times
not justihably excused therefron
at his post OF duty, ready AM
prepared to c~heerfully perform all pub
lie services required of HIM by law d
by a proper regard for the c~onvenien'
dispatch of official duties.
COMMENTATORS.
We indorse and commend the cours'
of Honorable George S. Nixon in til
senate of the United States upon tn
great public que stions before this con
gress. Ills strong support of Roose
welt and his vote upon the railroad al
ti-rebate law and other measures vita
to the welfare of the people, togethe
With his business-liko attention to tn
interests of Nevada is a source of sat
isfaction to his party and congratula
tion to his state.
MINES AND MINING.
The great mineral wealth of Nevad
is a treasury of fottune belonging I
rich and poor alike. Every proteetio
and encouragement should be give
the mining industry that may be a'
complished by legislation. We favo
the passage of a law extending th
right of eminent domain for mimi
purposes to apply to locations mad
upon unfenctd and un.mproved land
held in private ownership, the mineral
within which are reserved by the gov
eminent, that purchase may be mad
of the surface thereof by a locate
aft proper appraisement; and we col
denim the v~etoing of such a law thre
years since by a Democratic GOV
ernor of Nevada after it's passage by a
overwhelming vote of the Legislature
We favor conservative legis alton ten,
ing to reduce the abuses Of an exec
sive number of locations by n
more common locators, and favor a u
duction in the time permitted for I'll
marking Of poudaries as tending I
pre- vent confusion of title and litig'
ton.
We further favor the passage OF
law to render the officers and pr
motors of stock companies liable fl
the reasonable correctness Of advc
Using statements and prospectus
designed to induce the public to pu
chase shares.
CAPITAL AND LABOR.