Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-09-17
NOTABLE SPEECHFULL
OF FDEMOCRATICTRUTH
Doctrines and History of the Party
in the State Of Nevada by
Senator NeWlandS

Newlands, in accepting the nomina-
ton of the Democratic State Conven-
ton at Tonopah for the United States
Senate, for a second term, has uni
versally been pronounced mastery
exposition in brief of the principles
of Democracy. The speech in full
as taken down by stenographic re-
porters at the convention, is as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Chairman and Gent1ement of the
Democratic State Convention.
! l thank my too ardent friends for
their generous and fiattering utter
ances regarding myself l thank this
convention from the bottom of my
heart for the kindness with which my
name has been received. I thank you
for your action in nominating me as
your candidate for the United States
Senate, that selection to be ratified by
the people of Nevada at the polls next
November. 1 believe in the rule of
the people. l do not wish to be rep
resented in any popular contest by
proxy. l wish to apper before the
people of Nevada in my own name, to
receive their suffrage; and though l
may have had some advantage in this
contest by reason of the superior
number of Democratic hold over
Senators, l was only too eager to
submit this question to the suffrage
of the people whom l have so long
served.
AS public servant 1 shall go be-
fore the people giving an account of
! my stewardship. l invite criticism in
every line, in every paragraph of my
record; and 1. shall abide by the re-
suit, whatever it may be.
l have read your platform and | ap-
prove it's principles and it's declara-
ton. It is a clear, strong, ringing
platform; not cowardly and evasive
as the Republican platform is. The
Democratic party has controlled this
State for many years because of the
candOr of it's utterances and because
of it's fidelity to it's pledges. And to-
day, in the face of the universal
movement which has swept almost
all OF the Northern states into the
republican column, Nevada stands
almost alone of all Northern states?
1t is because the Democracy of Ne
vada has stood true to the people of
this State. 1t has taken the lead
in progressive legislation; legislation
not marked by redicalism; legislation
not marked by violent readjustments;
legislation not marked by economic dis
turbance; but legislation marching
firmly, consistently and progressive
ly in the line definite reform.
And today Nevada is known through
out the Union as one of the most
progressive states in that Union.
We have established the referen-
dunn. We have passed an eight-hour
law. We have passed an employers
liability act. We have declared that
the great public corporations are pub
lie servants subject to public regula-
tlon and control, and we have organ
lied an honest and efficient railroad
commission, not for the purpose of
destruction, but for the purpose of
regulation in the interests of the
people.
And we now demand as party that
we supplement this legislation by the
reforms indicated in our platform,
pre-eminent among them being the
Initiative and the recall; the initiative
giving the people themselves the
greatest legislative body of the State
the power to initiate legislation,
the recall giving to the people the
power to dismiss any public serv-