The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-10-17
REPUBLICAN ORATORY.
Cleveland and Harrington Praise Fusion Gu
bernat0rial Nominee.

Last evenings Republican meeting at
Armory hall was the first of the cam
paign to be held here and would have
been better attended if it had been adj
yertised earlier. AS 1t was, the Winnie
mucca Brass Band, a number of ladies,
who. alas, cannot vote, and some small
bows formed the majority of the audi
ence which greeted the candidates and
listened to their tale of woe.
F. ]. Button, candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, was chairman of the meeting
and first introduced Simon Bray, candi-
date for State Treasurer. Mr.. Bray
made a short and witty speech, declar-
ing that he accepted the domination un-
der protest and only because be believed
an uncomfortable destiny followed the
name of Simon. He declared that he
has read in the Bible of a certain Simon
the Just who built the i~mpregnable
walls about the city Of Jerusalem some
twentv-tWo hundred years ago, which
were later destroyed by King Nebuchad-
nezzar. and he sees the hand Of destiny
in the temperance OF Simon Bray in
winnemucca at this late date to aid in
building UP the walls of Republicanism,
which. he says, were torn down in this
state ten years ago. He didn't say in
Just how bad repair these walls are at
present nor tell what a mighty task their
rebuilding involves.
A. G. Cleveland, the Gubernatorial cam
didate followed and had evidently been
reading the papers, as he diverged from
his regular stereotyped speech which he
has been delivering by lineal measure
heretofore. He told Of cold audiences
he had met before in Winnemucca and
made a plethoric apology for being on the
ticket at all. He told a few stories, border
ing closely enough on vulgarity to make
the small boys laugh and elected enthu-
siastic applause from a lonely looking
young man In the center of the almost
empty hall He paid a glowing tribute to
the present Republican administration,
a more glowing one to a man he calls
TEDDY Roosevelt, the cowboy from Wy
oming,'' and a most glowing one to him.
self, and recalled, as he has done before
innumerable audiences in every cam
paign of late ~years-his action of walking
out of the St. Louis convention. If Mr..
Clevland's good opinion of himself were
shared in by tie people of Nevada his
election would be a foregone conclusion,
but there are probably some voters who
w A1VI oiIsAat MIN hht clo III
Nevada politics.
Mr.. Cleveland says that In accepting
the nomination he was allowed to name
the candidate for Northumberland
and he chose Frank ]. Button. No fault
can be found with his judgment in this
matter. as Mr.. Button is the strongest
man his party could have named for the
place.
e. S. Harrington, the Congressional cam
didate. is a forcible speaker. very serious
and chock fun of the most convincing
statistics-so convincing. in fact. that no
one who paid attention to his speech,
especially the part of 1t referring 10 the
trusts, could conscienciously vote for him
unless strongly IN favor OF trusts.
: Both Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. harrington
paid tributes of respect to John Sparks,
the fusion candidate for Governor. Mr..
harrington saying he was a sturdy, hon.
est, faithful, reputable citizen, and, IL
ernor. "A statement in which, without
doubt. the majority of the people of Ne
vada concur.
The meeting closed with three cheers
given uproariously by the lonely young
man with the counter-jumper expression
who sat in the center of the hall and
also furnished most of the applause dur
ing the evening.