The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-06-23
FRANK AND COMPREHENSIVE
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
Summary of the Parsy's Past Achieve
nents AID It's Purposes as TO
Proposed Legislation Con-
ciseiy Set Forth.

ciseiy Set Forth.
rbe text of the platform as adopted
by the committee on resolutions and
approved by .he convention is as fol-
lows:
Once more the Republican party in
National Convention assembled, sub
mits its cause to the people. This
great historic organization that des-
troyed slavery, preserved the Nation,
restored credit, enlarged national do
main. established a sound financial
system, developed the resources and
industries Of the country and gave
to this country her seat of honor in
the councils of the world, now meets
hte new problem of government with
the same courage and capacity with
which it solved the old.
In this, the greatest era of American
advancement the Republican party has
reached it's highest service under the
l. leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. His
administration is an era in American
history In no other period since ma
tional sovereignty was won under
Washington. preserved under Lincoln,
those ideals of government which make
for justice, equality and fair deal
ing among men. The highest aspira-
tions of the American people have
found voice. Their most exalted
servant represents the best aims and
most worthy purposes of his country
men. The American manhood has
been lifted to a nobler sense of duty
and obligation. Conscience and courage
in public station and higher standards
of right and wrong in private life
have become cardinal principles of
politics, capital and labor have been
brought into closer relations of con
lidenee and independence, and the
abuse of wealth. the tyranny of power
and all the evils of privilege and IA
voritism have been put to scorn by
the simple, manly virtues of justice
and fair play.
WHAT PRESIDENT HAS DONE.
The great accomplishments of Presi-
dent Roosevelt have been first and
foremost, brave and impartial en-
forcoment of the laws; the prosecution
of illegal trusts and monopolies; the
exposure and punishment of the evil
doers in the public service the more
effective regulation of the rates and
service of the great transportation
lines; the complete overthrow of the
preferences, rebates, determinations:
the arbitration of labor disputes; the
amelioration of the wage-earners every
where; the conservation of the natu-
raj resources of the country; the for
ward step in the Improvement of the
inland waterways of the country and
always the earnest support and defense
of every wholesome safeguard which
has made more secure the guarantee
of life, liberty and property.
These are the achievements that will
make for Theodore Roosevelt his place
in history. but more than everything
else, the great things which he has
done will be an inspiration to those
who have yet greater things to do.
We declare our adherence to the prn-
ciples thus inaugurated and pledge
their continuance under a Republican
administration of the government
EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Under the guidance of Republican
principles, the American people have
become the richest nation in the whole
world. Our wealth exceeds that IF
England and all of her colonies, and
that of France and Germany combined
When the Republican party was born
the total wealth of the country was
6,o00,000,000. 1t has leaped to
100000, 900 20 in a generation. while
Great Britain has gathered but 500.
u00.000000 in 500 years. The United
States owns one-fourth of the
worlds wealth and makes one-third OF
all manufactured products In thu
great necessities of civilization, such
as coal. the motive power of all ae-
tivity; iron. the chief basis of all
industry; cotton the staple foundation
of all fabrics, wheat. corn and all the
agricultural products that feed man
kind. America Is supremacy is uuuues-
toned And vet her great national
wealth has hardly been touched. We
have vast domain of 5000 600 square
miles literally bursting with latent
treasure still waiting the migic hand
of capital and industry to be convert
ed to the practical uses of mankind,
country rich in soil and climate; in
the embarrassed energy of the rivers
and all the varied products of the field,
the forest and the factory. With
gratitude for God IS bounty, with pride
in the splendid produetiveness of the
past and with confidence in the plenty
and prosperity of the future. the Re
publican party declares for the prin-
ciples that in the development an
enjoyment of the wealth so great and
blessings so benign there shall be an
equal opportunity for all.
THE REVIVAL OF BUSINESS
Nothing demonstrates so clearly the
sound basis upon which our CONNER
cial industrial. agricultural inter
ests are founded, and the necessity for
promoting the present continued wei
fare through the operation Of Republi-
can policies as the recent passage of
the American people through a fnan-
cial disturbance, which, if appearing
in the midst of Democratic rule, or the