The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-12-07
RATES.
NOW AND THEN.

Some of the readers of the Silver 5 ate
may go back as far In memory as lac
f,mous cam, a.gn CT lao. Wien, af.er o
campaign of unexamp.ed en- husiasm, .
great tidal wave swept TipteS"noe anu
TYLER. too" in o owe TIE r SIT q
that cleo ion was MT generally known Tor
xeeks after tie ba..o i.g. Tee We're
no telegIaphs, few rail. and Int
communication was o ly possible ~
stage coach, rivers and common wagon
trails. Z ght yeas later. wheA "4.ou-h
ard Ready Zacha. Tailor was SEM -
the White House on his m il aiy reco1c
IN Mexico, tie. e had ben some lmJlote
news was stl by methods 50 crude a.
to excite laugh er in tn $ advanced g
Postage COS. so much that General Tay
lor refused to take cut the lie .er INFO. ~
Ing him of his nominal on, not kn9wl Is
what 1t contained, aAd not NIL tdis ha'
been returned to the De4d Letter Once
and another sent. postage prepaid, dlc
the old warrior know whath had hap4e -ed
Newspapers printed so far in-and as In
message unit two weeks after 1t nae
been delive. ed to Cog. ess.
Contrast all tbs with the situation on
the night of November 8, when our las;
Presidential election occurred. On that
memorable evening every telephone sub
scr Der in the Uni ed ia .es could got
election returns by simply tax ag dowr
the rece yer and asking for them. The
Oh. a Telephone Company distributed
the news 20 so. 900 people free of charge.
The polls closed in New York at foclot.
and by I most of the people CT the Un.oi
knew how the United S ates hid vo-ed
for President. A few hou.s later they
knew how eve.y STATE ii the country
had gone. Hundreds of thousands OF
farmers, scattered all over the ~countr3-,
received the news at Their homes by tel
ephoEe. The Chicago office alone notified
5000 of them and ether cites and towns
in proportion. 1t was not necessary as
of old to drive miles to the town hal CT
wat weeks for isolated newspapers, pass
ing travellers or sta ge-eoach arlvers. Ci;-
liens of the rural DIS riots, in eveiy one
OF the forty-five States, remained at home
and the news found them at their h.e'
sides. 1t was a wonderful scene and wei
OF families in millions of farm homes
sitting In Their easy chaL4s quietly smoa-
ing as they awaited Lews Of what If cen
million voters had done at the pcl.s than
day. Mo,her rocked by the fre@ide as
she attended to i.er sewing: the child Ell
play ed over The floor, the girls enter
tanned company. the b Us roasted apples
aLa ne eioea.y n~ighsois DIR, peoI IL &c
exchange condolences or congra ula ioTs
and reads off the bulle lis as they come
hot from the great metropolis by The
Hudson. vile e the main pol teal ba tie
had been fought. With n an hour ii was
known that Grea er New YORK as vel
as the State at large had deciaed for the
President by such mljor.t.es as to fore
tell a landsl de. The otner S a es re ort.
ed later, but it WIS possio.e to know
enough TO 70. e ell the 6 ne al Ie ults blu
little after the usual bed ime in the coun-
try. And these ( rm rs who listen d h q
done much to se.t.e the fate of par is.
Holding the balance of 70 e.. they ha ]
dec ded against a cha &c. and soon elrd
over Their phones that a & eat m ] rity
of the people TOOK the same CIV. /;
was all over before midnight on Tues
day. this regulating the national gos-
rnmen of eighty millions of people and
local governments In forty-ive States,
and next cay these millions OF farmers
were going about their business as II
noth ng had hanpened. This Is the way
We do things in the twentieth century,