The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-02
State REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM ADOPTED
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ministration merely abandoned tn
prosecutions begun and activel
pressed by its Republican predeces
sors.
1t declared for a Single presider
tial term" pledged its candidates {
that principle and then renominate
him for a second term.
1t declared for an adequate nav
sufficient to defend American policie
protect u citizens and uphold tt
honor and dignity of the nation.
Then for three years in face of
world war, the Democratic party re
fused to make proper provision TO
the navy and finally yielded onl
when public indignation compelle
reluctant action. The honor an
dignity of the nation was repeated
fiouted and American citizens on Il
high sease were denied protection.
1t declared for a rigid enforcement
of the civil service law" and "a reduc
ton in the number of (~alleged) use
less offices" and kept this pledge b
forthwith increasing the number b
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peace to make room for so-called I'd
serving Democrats"
Horde In Government Employ
The number of persons employed b..
the government in civil employment
when the United States entered tn
war was 465,4S3. There are now ell
ployed, two years after the termina
ton of the war, approximately 10000
or 265, 900 more than in former times
of peace-maintained chiefly for poll
teal purposes, at a cost of neari.
$3.000,00 per day.
1t declared for the exemption froL
tolls of American ships in coast-wis.
trade passing through the Panam.
canal,' and at the behest of Greal
Britain repealed a law to that effec,
passed by the Republican congress.
and approved by a Republican Presi
dent.
1t declared that the constitutional
rights of American citizens shoulO
protect them on our borders and &c
with them throughout the world;
that American citizens residing o.
having property in foreign countries
were entitled to and must be given
full protection" The administration
not only failed to protect the live.
of American citizens but more than
700 were murdered in Mexico and
more than half a billion dollars OF
American capital confiscated or de-
stroyed without redress and fiftJ
thousand American citizens who hat
gone to Mexico to engage in mining
agriculture and other business pur-
suits were told that America coulC
not or would not afford them protec-
ton and advised them to remove
themselves from the country. TO the
shame and humiliation of the Ameri-
can people and the loss of national
prestige.
1t declared for a complete over
throw of corruption and machine rule
in American politics" and then inaug-
urated and maintained a system Oh
caucus control as a substitute fol
popular deliberative government
whereby a sectional minority were
given control of legislative govern
ment.
Violation of Pledges
These and many other fragrant VIC
lations of solemn platform pledges,
too numerous TO mention, would have
been sufficient to have defeated any
party for reelection, had not public
attention been diverted by the war
in Europe. and the false and fraudu-
lent claim has been put forth that the
President had kept us out of war;
Thus was a great nation hoodwinked
into retaining an administration that
had been false to every pledge, except
in the adoption of a tariff law that
was ruinous alike to American CAPT
tai and labor.
The ~stupendous blunder of refusing
to make preparation for the POSSIBLE
ity of the entry of this nation into
the war, for three years preceding
the declaration of war by this nation
cost the lives of thousand of brave
American boys and imposed upon the
nation billions of dollars ofs useless
expense in a frantic effort to make
up loss in time with the profligate ex-
penditures of money, the amounts OF
which stagger the imagination.
Colossal Political Blunder
With the signing of the armistice
came the colossal political blunder of
the world, when the President
spurned the aid and advice of the
great statesmen of both political par
ties and virtually, alone, sought to
bind the American people to a treaty
of peace imposing a superstate upon
America and the world. The refusal
of the President to accept the senate
amendments insuring to the American
people that the constitutional rights
and ~time-honored national policies
would not be surrendered. is COM
parable in stupidity only with the ac-
ton of the recent Democratic V
ton in supinely endorsing the Presi-
Iantsc ;pdafopCihIa nncifiop