The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-09-19
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

The Republicans of Humboldt coun-
ty, Nevada, represented by delegates
in convention assembled welcome the
opportunity to declare heir gratifi-
cation at the nomination ct the Ma
tional convention of the Honorable
/ Charles f. Hughes for President and
the Honorable Charles w. Fairbanks
for Vice-President of the United
States, and to pledge their united sup
port to those eminent and superior
standard bearers.
We likewise congratulate those who
constituted the recent Republican
State convention at Reno, on their
wisdom in the selection of those able
and worthy candidates by them nom
mated at that convention and we as
sure those candidates of our concert
ed. earnest and cheerful support to
the end that they be elected to the
offices for which they have been res
pectively nominated, offering that
support with an abiding belief that
our efforts to assist in bringing about
their election will not be fruitless.
Although the government of Hum
boldt county has not become more in
tricate or complex, the cost of admin
istering it has gradually increased
and that without proportionate or any
increase in efficiency. We believe
that the same sound principles of
good business judgment, economy
and efficiency that characterize the
conducting of any well-organized bus
mess institution, should be applied to
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be it county, state or Federal, and we
pledge our candidates. if elected, to
the principle of greatest economy
consistent with highest efficiency in
our county government.
Ore, wool and farm products must
be hauled to market, merchandise of
all kinds must be conveyed from the
railroads to the ranches and mines,
people must go from place to place
remote from the railroads throughout
this county. Good roads are therefore
essential to the prosperity of the
county. Vast sums or the peoples
money have been spent on the roads
of this county, but the condition of
the roads testify that that e%xpendi-
ture of the county's money has served
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ployment for some faithful voters for
the party in power in the court house.
We pledge our candidates, if elected
to frugality and utmost care in road
building, to the end that every dollar
spent on the roads of the county will
build a full dollars worth of perma-
nent road.
We believe that the state does not
need more laws as badly as it needs
plain, clear, concise and fair laws,
and if the members of the assembly
nominated by the Republican party
are elected, we pledge them to the
principle of good laws rather than
more laws.
We condemn in no uncertain terms
the disposition of the recent Demo
cratic legislatures to create new com
missions, additional offices and I'M
necessary positions all with the very
apparent purpose of ministering to
the wants of that horde of Democrats
who make politics a profession rather
than seek a livelihood in the manifold
legitimate pursuits and vocations that
interest and employ honest men and
women, and we pledge u legislative
candidates to a policy of abolition of
useless offices and conservation OF
the states money.
At this dawn of the era of woman's
usefulness in the civic and political
life of this state, the Republican par
ty of this county welcomes her and
expresses it's qualification that she
has acquired the suffrage to which
she has long been justly entitled and
we applaud the manly stand taken by
the Hon. Charles Z. Hughes in favor
of nationwide suffrage.
And in conclusion we heartily COM
mend and pledge this conventions
earnest support to the platforms
adopted at the national and state con-
ventions.