The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-09-25


County is ever ready to advocate the en-
actment of laws for the benefit Of our
citizens. The following resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
To the Chairman and Delegates of the
Democratic County Nominating Conven-
tom
Gentlemen
We, your committee on resolutions, beg
leave to report as follows:
We, the representatives of the DEM
ocratic party of Owyhee County, Idaho,
hereby reaffirm our allegiance to the
principles Of Democracy as expounded by
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew jackson, and
William j Bryan, and hereby pledge
our support to the ticket that shall be
decided to be the regular Democratic
ticket of this state
We enthusiastically endorse the candi-
dacy of William J. Bryan and John w.
Kern for President and Vice President of
the United States, respectively, and point
with pride to the past records of our
national candidates, and the many re-
forms first advocated by William J.
Bryan twelve years ago, and which the
majority of the citizens of the United
States, realizing that the country's well
fare demanded that these reforms be en-
acted into law, has forced the Republican
party to purIoin many of the reform
measures first advocated by our Presiden-
tial candidate, and we charge the Repub-
lican party with advocating these reforms
only as means to deceive the voters of
the nation, while not accomplishing or
intending to accomplish any permanent
reform
We have practically been in control Of
the county government during the past
ten years, during which time our tax
levy has been reduced from $50 to 81. 90;
a warrant indebtedness Of $S8, 600 wiped
out, and our bonded debt reduced from
$61 900 to $4S, 800, and we hereby pledge
our candidates, if successful at the polls,
to an equally wise and economical adj
Of county affairs.
specifically pledge our legislative can
didates to vote for direct primary law,
as demanded by the people of the entire
state, and as evidence of the necessity for
such law, we point to the action of the
recent Republican State Convention, at
Boise, whereby the choice of the voters
Of said party for the Congressional nomi-
notion was defeated through the violation
Of instructions placed upon the delegates
to said convention, as engineered by a
political combination.
The financial panic of the past year
has proven that the depositor who may
deposit his funds in bank, has no assur-
ance for the safety thereof, and as mum
cipal, county and state, as well as the
National government, require security
Tor the safety Of public funds, and be-
ieving that each and every depositor is
entitled to equal protection, we pledge
our legislative candidates to work and
vote for State banking law similar to
the bank guaranty law at present in effect
in the State Of Oklahoma.
We are heartily in favor of good roads,
and in order to secure the best roads pos
sible, recommend that the Road Laws be
50 amended as to place the supervision
thereof, and the power of laying out new
roads in the various counties, directly in
the hands of the Board Of County Com
misioners thereof.
We declare ourselves to be in favor of
The provisions of the law relating to the
acquisition Of water rights in so far as the
same relate to persons or corporations
appropriating the public waters of the
State for the purpose of sale, but believe
that the luw seould be so modified as to
permit of the farmer, stockraiser, miner
Or prospector acquiring title to water
right without the unnecessary expense
and delay occasioned by a compliance
with said law as it now exists.
Believing that our state is not thiclxly
enough settled, to make the creation of
herd districts either reasonable or just,
we pledge our legislative candidates to
work for the repeal of an act providing
Tor the creation of herd districts, as pass
ID at the Ninth Session of the State Leg
stature.
We recommend to the next State Legis-
ature the enactment of law making it
for any person, excepting public
to carry flourish or exhibit any
deadly weapon within the limits of any
city town or village of Idaho.
Respectfully Submitted,
]. E. MASTERS,
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