The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-10-28
REPUBLICAN ORATORY.
Judge tiawiey and Other Candidates Address
meeiing IN Winnemucca.

campaign held the boards at Armory
hall last night and drew a fairly large
audience. Eight of the candidates on the
State ticket were billed to be seen and
heard and the inducement was sufficient
to attract a fairly large audience.
The few self-constituted leaders, who
have taken the contract to deliver this
county over to the Republicans and who
are all comparatively recent g. o. D. con-
verts, occupied front seats with their
lieutenants and directed the applause.
The high privates, comprising the little
band of sincere men who nave always
been Republicans, occupied seats further
back and helped furnish the noise when
the leaders gave the cue. A few ladies
were present and the remainder of the
audience was composed of opposition
voters, who were in the great majority.
There was plenty of noise, every mention
of the words flag prosperity and
Roosevelt being the signal for the out
bursts. 1t is astonishing how much en-
thusiasm the average Republican can re-
lieve himself of when these words are
pronounced by a speaker of the right po-
litical faith, no mater how nonsensicaI
the argument he is making. This party
spirit is what holds the Republican party
together so we'll and wins them victories
at times when they would otherwise be
hopelessly swamped. 1t would be a good
thing If the Democrats were to heed their
example and profit by it.
But we started in to write of last
nights love feast and it's about time to
come to the point.
The meeting was presided over by F..
+ Ruftpn Rannhlican nominee for Tiau-
tenant-Governor. who was given "the
great pleasure of having the honor of in
PRODUCING the various speakers in turn.
To hear him tell 1t he must have been
the most pleased man in the house and
the most honored when the seance was
over. However. he bore up we'll under
the ordeal and made al excellent presid-
ing officer.
The first speaker was w. w. Booth,
candidate for State Printer. who made a
humorous little speech. He gave assur-
ance that IL elected there would be no
complaint found with the management
of the State printing office.
w. q. Douglass, nominee for Secretary
of State, was next introduced and 1t was
noticed that he had the good sense TO
omit any mention of his claim, which he
II HhpAth ~ iiiRIidrlLlliB III Ottit IltitN
and which is utterly without foundation.
that his candidacy had been endorsed by
the labor unions of the State. 1t is well
that he should not make such a claim in
the stronghold of his opponent, Mr..
Howell. as such an assertion would not
have washed here.
Following Douglass came Orvis Ring
candidate for State Superintend-
- ~ DubItc Instruction and Milo q
Mcmillan. who aspires to the State Con-
troilership. Each made a few remarks,
promising TO perform their official duties
faithfully II elected.
Then came the star actor OF the even
ing. Patsy Bowler pronounced Bolivar
BY the irreverent), whose name Is priTt-
ed on the State ticket as a candidate for
Supreme Judge. Of course, no one. In
Guiding Patsy himself. believes, the people
will be so foolish as to place him on the
Supreme Bench. but being. a candidate
gives him a chance to make speeches and
the JOY OF doing so is reward enough for
Patsy. Last nights speech was probably
the effort of his life. He held the amused
attention OF his audience for an hour and
uttered somewhere near 100000 words
without expressing an idea or doing Sc
TlOuS liiguIN 10 his Ntitt " ~ ictS
pair oil Lord Dundreary wniskers he
possesses, though the latter came near
being blown from their moorings several
times by the w~hirlwinds of oratory which
issued from his talking apparatus. 40
suln up he amused the crowd, maze a ri
dieulous speech from a political stand
point and maae votes for the rusion SIDE.
A more i-nconsequential. irrelevant, il
logical oratorical rhapsody IL seldom falls
to the lot of man to hear. Patsy was
raised on the shady side of some of our
moun1ains-in their SHADOW he expressed
IL, which is the same ~thing-and has
studied law and practiced II with more
or less credit to himself for a very lolg
time; has been mixed up in all kinds of
trouble and litigation. After celebrating
on ms own rare qualifications Tor some
time he declared he would say nothing
,of them and leave his friends to judge of
his ntness. Such modest self-abnegation
and depreciation of his own merits is no
doubt greatly appreciated by his said
friends. lie handed out all the old.
hackneyed, stereoptyped Republican
hasheesh dreams about prosperity, and
Sherman laws, and the h~fe-savieg eff
fects OF protection and mildly waved
the bloody shirt and the Dundfeary
whiskers and told the cadence that the
shortage OF freight cars and the fact OF
the westbound passenger trains being
lale these days were due to the Dingiey
act. lie praised Cleveland's first admin
i~stration because OF the Republican SEN
ate of that time and credited the Re
publican party with every benefit this
country has received In a century, While
he harked back to a Democratic adminis-