Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-10-29

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Republicans in Nevada did believing
it at that time to be for the best. Mr..
Nixon spoke with much warmth when
he defined his position with regard to
labor saying:
"No man win face me and say /
have opposed the eight hour law.
| have always favoredi it. | am largely
interested in these camps and every
man in the employ of myself and as
sociates is a union man, works union
hours and received union wages. If
| am elected | will represent labor
as faithfully as the largest and most
powerful mar or set OF men in Ne
vada," and referred to his enormous
interests in almost every county in
this state where the men who worked
for him knew what wages he paid
and would say how he treated them.
He said that he cast his first vote in
Esmeralda county over twenty years
ago when working as a telegraph
operator on the G. & G.. railroad at
Belleville, that to further the pros
perity Of Nevada was the cherished
ambition Of his life and that to elect
him to the great honor of United
States senator would still further
assist him to carry this out. His
speech evoked very hearty applause
from all over the house.
Frank II. Norcross opened his
speech by referring in pleasant terms
to his friend Yerington. He asserted
! t.Auiffpnlu fhnE DaarnVl& VvA,,11 h.
elected and affirmed that from all he
had seen during this campaign he
he would certainly carry Nevada. 1t
vas desirable, nay it was to the best
interests of the state that it should
be represented both in the U. S.
senate and congress by men politi-
cally in sympathy with the president
and not opposed to him. He referred
to Nixon as a friend of twenty years
standing, whose many good qualities
ne supposed he knew only to discover
others during the last two weeks
that be had been campaigning with
him and speaking of what Nixon had
done for Nevada, especially instauced
the reclamation of the tule swamp at
Lovelock, now a magnificent agri-
cultural tract of the most productive
land in America equipped with har-
vesting machines drawn by forty
horses, Coming to this district be
pointed out that Nixon was the first
capitalist to invest money in what
was then known as Granpah but is
now Goldfeld, and told how Ola
mondfield Jack Davis had said that
at the critical point Of his operations
in that camp Nixon was the only
man who came to his assistance aud
placed to his credit the money which
enabled him to save his property.
Mr.. Norcross during his speech
warmed to his subject and proved
himself a brilliant orator Of great
power and the applause when be re-
sumed his seat was deafening.
Then came the grand old man Of
Nevada, Senator w. Nj. Stewart,
who spoke in that rugged f%orcefuI
way so characteristic Of the mar whe
has served his state so faithfully and
so well. He told what the Repub.
lican party had done for Nevada,
gave it irrigation and the tariff law
which made its products Of borax,
hides, wool and lead profitable and
said 'the Republican party gave you
irrigation. | know a certain gentle.
man thinks he did it because he says
SO. | am not going to attack him
He is honest in it and thinks he is it.
| want you to elect these men to con.
gress. To have Nevada members il
harmony with the administration is 8
matter Of the first Importance, t.
my mind.
Concluding with a tribute to the
wonderful mineral wealth of TonopaE
and Golddeld, he resumed his sea-
amidst d~eafening applause. Thu.
ended one of the most enthusiastic
political meetings ever held in Ne
vada, the audience giving three
cheers aud a tiger for Yerington
Norcross and Nixon.
!, DR.. G.. r. Hammond returned t
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