The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-05-13
Governor John Sparks has announc-


Governor John Sparks has announc-
Oh authortatively that under no
circumstances will he be a candidate
for United States Senator. The news
is welcomed by all the Governors
friends in the Republican party who
would always go into campaign
against him with regret. Neyerthe-
less the fight this campaign would
have been waged as hard against Gov
ernor Sparks as. against anyone else
who might be a candidate on the
Democratic ticket for the great office
of Senator. The great issues at stake
override friendship, and battle royal
is scheduled for this campaign to re-
store Nevada to her old-time place in
the Republican party.
The silver issue is dead, no matter
by what term we may call its demise,
whether ''resting in allegiance or any
other roundabout phrase, the corpus
deficit of the Crime of '13 is in its
grave. That issus which rended all
parties in this State ten years ago is
no more, and under the new alling-
ment all that is past is forgotten and
each side is allingning up its follow
ers, old and new, under new
standards in keeping with their diyid-
ed views upon the questions of the
hour. The Democratic party is group
ing about for new issues; the Republi
can party is standing pat upon its
marvellous record of the past eight
years.
We believe Nevada should be in
line with the active and aggressive
spirit of the Twentieth Century which
in back of the leadership of Roosevelt,
than hanging back in the traces of
Progress and trying to justify present
day questions by the uninspired writ
ings of Thomas Jefferson.
The Republican party is putting for
ward for Senator in Nevada young
man of the same type as the man who
will lead the Republican ticket Nation
ally, who has struggled forward by the
force of his courage, daring and high
character TO the forefront, who be
lieves in doing more than talking, and
that eloquence and logic of action is
more forcible than words-and that is
Geo. s. Nixon. He will be the next
Senator from Nevada, and he will
represent us there forcibly, industri-
ously and ably.
His whole career is connected with
this State; here he came when a boy,
here he won his way from the bottom
of the ladder, step by step upward,
married here, raised family here,
spent his money here and lived here.
He wears the sagebrush next his
heart, and has breathed more of the
choice than most of us from
necessity. \ strong, broad
gague virile mind, keen-witted, re-
sourceful and sincere to the core is
rally of the active, living people of this
state in his support that will be in
vincible, simply because he stands for
the things which count for pro-
gresss in party principle and in his
personality.
John Sparks, or any other Demo
cratic candidate for Senator this
campaign, would be handicapped by
his party nationality As man there
are none better than John Sparks
He is a brave, strong and princely
gentleman, high minded, and posses.
sed of the rare faculty of winning the
friendship of all whom he chooses to
know. We again repeat that many
Republicans would have fought him
with roget, but none the less they
would have fought him. And the an
nouncement of his withdrawal is
welcome news.-Gazette.
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