Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-17
A CAUSTIC LETTER.
James l.. Butler Gives His Views
Straight from the Shoulder.

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Attorney C. F. Reynolds of this
city of the Republican county COM 5
mittee, has received the following 5
pointed letter from James L. Butler, {
the father of Tonopah, dated Bishop,
Inyo county, California, December
g, 1904:
l believe you have two good erug
stores in your town. Have they no
remedy for a chronic ~bellyacher? 1t
seems to me that is one of the things
most needed there now.
l take all the papers of both the
great camps, and out Of the five pa
pers published, The BONANZA is the
only out and out Republican.
| am o looking over The Miner
OF Saturday, December Sd, 1904, at
the would-be political stabs. One
might think that the campaign was
vet on, instead of having been decided
in the most positive manner possible,
bringing to our lines (Republican)
nearly one-fourth of the good Demo
cratic votes of the United States.
With no disgrace to those Democrats,
but all honor and respect, we well
come them; they could not stand the
Democratic timber, they could see a
man in the person Of President
Roosevelt, though a Republican.
They have the spirit Of A~mericanism
so strong that manhood appeals to
them instead of fear; such voters are
the makers of a good country at all
times.
In the item | read. the number Of
mentions made of the past campaign
was astonishing and were next to in
! suits to the Roosevelt voters Of the
late election though those votes were
> cast by hundreds of thousands OF
= Democrats as well as Republicans.
: This looks bad to me, for a party tc
slur part Of his own family, The
{ Miner man says ''the true Democrat
is not discouraged, on the contrary
he is already at work" They mus
do better work than they have beef
c doing or waste their fragrance Il
the desert air, the same as the cactu
- and rougher elements do.
. He says ''the tariff is certainly !
Is the hands of its friends but wha
- about the people who have to pa
y the tax instead of spending it?'
nc l say, look on the political map
=, it stands today, the people that pa
~ it, or at least the greater part OF i
are the people who voted for Roos
Is welt. If a tax question was involve
GU why was such a tremendous vo
IL cast that way, in this ~enlightenC
'sS age, where all are posted by the
80 reading and intelligence, and the FRI
'e- speeches that were made by Il
Az abelst men on both sides of tho que
VI tion2 Answer.
He says further: mo one expec
tor Mr. Cortelyou to publish a list of |
! OF campaign contributionsl' or cour
the not, nor will the people in Tonop
the do so either, regardless Of their /
at litical views.
ted II the Democrats did not spend
sti- much as the Republicans, there
ted one if not two reasons: One, p
the sibly their not having it, and I
ear other, that the large monied a
old, business men, who belong to
ces. Democratic party felt more firm
der a prosperous, careful admir-
tration and threw their financial
huence that way, rather than ia
o' chances in a party with no plato
~ other than a bundle Of complai
"s and threats.
A great deal is said about Gene
Den Ol COlOI duOi VIC ooiiC ""o .
"u0 about General jackson Of \
'"' Orleans, but Us history has unfol'
noi' itself to the world, it reads all ri
uo now. If Colorado is so bad how /
that Cripple Creek made suct
two grand showing in October, only a
and hours before election-a marvel
That record for October. Just once in
but history of the camp has it been
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