Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1904-07-23
The WESTWARD TIDE OF EMPIRE.

NEW York and Pennsylvania, in the main, dominated the ST
~ Louis convention. 1t will not he 50 for ii 81 eat many lesrs
The middle west will very soon take it's place as the peaceabe die
tator OF the United States. With every census the centre of pop
ulation is moved further and further west; it will soon reach the
Mississippi. When it does, even as the Father of Waters draws
to itself all the streams from the Aneghanies to the Rocky Noun
tains. so the people on It's tributaries will, united, dictate what
the government shall be and those into whose direction the move
ment shall be placed. for surely the tide of empire is making its
way west and twenty years hence the west coast will balance the
hosts east of the Alleghanies and the me- OF the central valley
will hold sway. And that will be good for all for those men will
not have an interest that would not suffer were any handicap
placed upon either the east or the west. As it is the extreme east
is not vet emancipated from its provinciahsm; moreover 1t being
the great financial centre, its hnanciers have al undue influence
over national affairs. A sign of what IS to be w seen when MI
BRYAN, all alone, and backed only by the sentiment OF a few OF
those central States, compelled the eastern delegates to strike from
the platform they had prepared, the clause committing the DEM
ocratic party to the exclusive gold standard. The first cry was
Eliminate that and we cannot carry New York.
The answer was: eliminate that or take your chances among
the free thinking men of the west, y and the west won. This all
happened in a city which is just now celebrating the Louisiana
purchase. Putting the two facts together, they are significant
A hundred years ago the east. generally, including Mr.. Jefersons
own state, looked with distrust upon the purchase OF a great
wilderness beyond the Mississippi.
But the gathered splendors of the development of that wilder
ness are on exhibition, a palpable proof of the progress and the
power of that century just closed, and the people who are the
representatives of that progress and power, met the men OF the
east, face to face, and on whatever they offered a united front
against. the east, won the day. New Englands voice was almost
lost in that convention, New England that has so often dictated
national conventions; New York and Pennsylvania won their
chief points, but eve while doing it, the truth was clear that
their power was passing, and that in a few years more all the
concessions that will be granted will be what the great national
center comedies to its wings -Goodwins Weekly.
THE Tonopah Mine asks if the Jumbo mine at Goldheld is not
l the lost Breytogle. 1t is not. That crazy Dntchman from
Reese river had neither mine nor mind.
The occurrence which caused all the talk about him was tins:
A certain prospecting party was following southwark the course
of the An1arpoza wash. For three days or SO Breyfogle tra1led
ALONG after them. One of the party laid i'll wait and escorted Mr..
Rrey foele into their camp, when they learned that ali he wanted
a a chance to get in on extensions One OF them gave Mr.
b a small nugget of California gold, saying that it came from
a:.t c-ncS hot red butte ont here - rSV1OS OF COuISS,
never found that purely imaginative locality.
The details spread QUO by our contemporaries mforlnants az
interestingly readable, but nonsense. Goldheld district IS on the
map itself and needs no rot like Breyfogle ghosts-Harrman
Herald.