The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-10-18
NOT ONLY HIS XOUTH

In the last few days we have receiy-
cd over a dozen letters from friends II
Judge Fitzgerald from different parts
of the state thanking this paper for It's
careful, dispassionate story Of how il
happens that the name OF Attorney
General Sweeney appears on the Demo-
cratic ticket in the place whore for
many years the Democrats and Silver
voters had been accustomed to see thai
Of Judge Fitzgerald.
The Democratic party expected 20
see its candidate for associate justice
attacked because of his youth. Mindt0
Of that big cartoon from Buel's able
pen,1 in which the amt igious youngstor
dressed in infants clothing, pulled
u~ltantly at a bottle laleled "Gall,'
they looked through the text books 81
order~to find somrthing to counteract
the awful charge of youth. We remera
Der one of those editorials in which the
effort was made to discount what the
Republican press night say. In the ar
ticle referred to the memory of every
brillian boy the world has ever know
WAS IlFUktu anu Jiiiihf oWNthSy =
name led all the rest. The famous
speech of the younger Pitt, in which ht
refused to p%alliate or deny the afro
cious crime of youth was played up .
a prominent position, and every effor'
was made to show that since Pitt ard
Napoleon and Alexander had borne no
heavy weight of years when they at
tanned high station neither were yeare
necessary 70 Jimmie Sweeney, Nevada
liant boy.
But unfortunately for the oppos
ton, the trend OF events was marshal
ed in different fashion. Instead of til
charge of being a sc~hoolboy the thir
to be faced is the stern denunciatic'
of the old man who has been the pri1
of thousands of voters in this state.
Not Attorney General Sweeney
youth is the question. although the
is many a voter who will pin his faitt
to the gray hairs of Judge Dodge j.
preference of Jimmie's smiling face
But that is a lightsome thing, somethins
that will be outgrown. But how about
Judge Fitzgerald and your treatment o
him9 That is the question that is be
ing Numbered from one end of the stat
to the other. What was the infamous
pactosthat was entered into betweet
theahenchmen of Senator Newlands r.
bring about the undoipg-o of the old ma
who refused to sacrifice his beliefs
order to obtain for himself a p~olitica
oA-ce7 The people of Nevada do no
love & Senator Newlands overmuch, arc
theyswill mot pass lightly by this storp
Of the political death of Judge i7
gerald.
The silver question may and it may
not be dead. Suffice it to say that j.
Nevada there is a fusion party and tina
one eof it's shibboleths is the demana
for sixteen to. one. Whatever may hav
happened to the issue in other statess
andsdespite the skillful evasion of Bry
an, silver is -still, with hundreds of vo.
ters, an issue in Nevada. And these
men, if they be men who have any love
for their convictions, will not forget
in an instant the seorn and kissing that
wassmeted out to Judge Fitzgerald b
the umen who framed up the Democrat
ic ticket.
Sur, ly the day is not dead in News
da when people can doff their hats r.
the man who will abate no iot of his
honor and who refuses to barter AMI
tranIc in his convictions because h
happens to desire political Office. Sue
a man is Judge Fitzgerald, martyr t.
the impatient ambitions of Jam =
Sweeney, candidate for the supreme.
court, and let it also not be forgotten
thatssthe hands that guided the knife.
were the hands of Senator NCwland' g
lieutenanta-Reno Gazette.