The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-02-29
DELEGATES NAMED
BY COP. COMMITTEE


vada Republicans will attend the Re
publican National convention. This
was decided upon at meeting of the
states central committee held in Reno
Saturday, at which thirty mem
bers of the committee were present.
The Delegates
The delegates are Hugh II. Brown
of Nye, William McGill of White Pine,
H. G.. Humphrey of Washoe, Samuel
Platt of Ormsby, George b. Williams
of Churchill, and Mel Badt of Eiao.
The Republicans named Mrs. It. r.
Moran, wife of Judge Moran, as an al
ternate. The other alternates are, w.
A. Keddie of Churchill, William Eas-
ton of Eureka, H. U. Castle of Elko,
J. F. Bradley of Esmeralda, and Peter
Buol of Clark.
The state central committee was
called to order by Chairman George l..
Sanford and almost Immediately re-
solved itself into a state convention.
Resolutions Adopted
A resolutions committee, composed
of Hugh Brown of Tonopah, A. E. Kim
ball of Elko, and George A. Montrose
of Gardnerville, reported the following
resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
"The Republican state central com
mittee, in convention assembled, here
by declares:
"That throughout the Republican
party there is an increasing optimism
regarding the outcome of the next
Presidential election, coupled with a
manifest determination to nominate
the best possible candidate and to sup
port him with an undivided allegiance
Throughout the country there is
an increasing realization that the fur
ther progress of the war, together with
its ultimate termination, will give rise
to vital problems of domestic industry
and foreign policy, whose correct So
luton calls for the application of the
constructive, progressive and positive
principles of the Republican party.
No campaign since the close of the
Civil war, has been fraught with such
critical Importance to the country.
"The Republican party never has
failed the nation in a crisis The great
est possible encouragement is now be-
ing manifested by all who desire to
see the affairs of the nation taken out
of the hands of a party which, time
and again, has shown in every possible
manner its absolute and helpless in
competency as an organization WELD
ing legislative and executive power
It's economic heresies are particularly
and specially hurtful to the business of
the country The abnormal conditions
created by war trade have alone pre-
served the only economic argument for
presenting a Democratic nominee to
the American electorate. Except for
the war, our country today would be
industrially stagnant.
"We condemn the Democratic ad-
ministration, now in power, for its in
competency in handling the question Of
the merchant marine; for its wanton
extravaganza in the face of its solemn
pledges of business economy and ad-
ministrative retrenchment; for fla
grant class legislation; for the self
confessed fiscal ineapacity that arises
! from the imposition of war taxes upon
country at peace; for its demagogic
Misrepresentation of remedies for the
high cost of living in the face of the
Republican party's frank and candid
declaration as to the truth of the status
underlying such conditions; for its
chaotic Mexican policy; for its insin-
cerity and its disregard for the civil
service; for inefficiency in the selec-
tion of public officials; for its trans
parent concealment of conditions in
the treasury department; for its mis-
handling of tariff legislation, and for
its many abject failures at home and
abroad.
"We lay at the door of the Demo
cratic party the temporary decline of
American prestige in the family of ma
tions.
"We recognize the gravity of the
times and realize that the party must
make the greatest fight in its history.
This We stand ready to do.
''To the national organization and
to the nominees of the Chicago con
vention, we pledge our undivided 10y
atty" ("