The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-10-19
QUELQUEFoIs.
What Means the Cry?

What means the cry of Nevada for
Nevadans? There surely was time
when it was not Nevada for Nevadans.
The writer's watchword for an average
lifetime has been Nevada for Nevadans,
but in lonely utterance the sound made
fioated away upon Nevada's air and
died without corresponding spurmur
in response What has ca 2sed the
change from silence to lofty proclama-
ton of Nevada for Nevadans? Is it
more fitting now than it was when it
was deemed political crime, punish
able by political ostracism, to say Ne
vada for Nevadans?
Is Nevada upon its feet, and has it
ceased to wallow in a slough of de-
pendence, where it has been third of
a century, thar it now speaks, Nevada
for Negadans, in round, manly tones?
If it is upon its feet, by whose aid has
it been given an upright position and
caused to know its strength? 1t was
not By the aid of Bill Stewart, J. 2.
Jones, Charley Wallace or the gang
who have aided them to hold the State
in bondage to their use. 1t was Ne
vada's men who have done this thing,
and Hon. Francis G. Newlands is fore
most among them in the work. His
environment has given opportunity
others do not possess, and he has i'm
proved it to the advantage of the State.
When the work of Francis q. New
lands and the work of other men in
the State for the States emancipation
from the slavery that Stewart, Jones,
Wallace and those who aided them had
resulted in an accomplished fact, true
to the cunning there is in them, Stew
art and Wallace took up as a refrain,
Nevada for Nevadans, and, shyster-
like, they have sought to turn New
lands work against him by accusing
him of not being Nevadan.
The scheme of using Newlands'
work against him was brought forward
and made known two years ago by
Stewart and Wallace, and it has been
given active use thus far in the pres
ent campaign. 1t is strange that Fran
els G. Newlands is not a Nevadan,
when he has been in the State and
Unidentified with its interests SO long
that he cannot enter congress without
taking into its foul halls upon his per-
son the purifying odor of its sagebrush
and the free air of its mountains.
There has been a change since Dir.
! Newlands became a citizen of Nevada.
The chief cause of the change has been
the confidence given by him to the
people, through investments made in
property within the State. These in
vestments have been largely used as a
means to discredit his earnest work
for the benefit of the people.
He interested himself in irrigation by
providing means to secure the cultiva-
ton of more land and he has done
much to accomplish work that must
be done before the State will be clothed
in green fields which will make it
known in the future in the remotest
parts of the earth as the most produc-
tive commonwealth there is upon it.
He made other investments that aided
in creating confidence in the future,
most of which investments have been
sought to be made subjects of ridicule
by his opponents, the cause of such
low down methods is explained by the
fact that his life and work in the State
has been in direct opposition to the
criminal proceedings of those who are
seeking to destroy him that his good
offices in the interest of the people may
cease.
1t has been an offense, the gang who
have ruled and ruined the State has
deemed objectionable in a man, when
he took an honest interest In it's well
fare. #. G. Newlands is one of these
offenders in chief and is for that rea-
son entitled, upon every rule that has
governed the work of these men, to
their enmity and personal ill will re-
speeding all he does to create better
future for the people.
AS full grown oak stands giving
shelter and protection in its boughs to
the birds of the air against the attacks
of skunks and other blood letting Uur-
0ae,sts in the decayed under growth, so
stands Newlands among these decayed
men and their methods giving the peo-
pie shelter and protection through the
enterprises he is fostering against their
predatory attacks and dishonest pro-
pensities. The only man of wealth
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