The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-15
DIRECT VOTE FOR
U. 5. SENATOR

As the voters of Nevada this election
will vote direct for United States SEN
ator, they will cast their ballots for
either 4. L. Flanagan, kepubncan nom
NEE, or francis IT, NewIands, Demo
cratic nonulnee, Tor senator.
Inc parry principles winch they
represent are wei understood. +. l..
ianlgan represents the continuation oI
the policies OF Roosevelt through a
congress elected and pledged to carry
out those policies, politically harmonl-
GUS with illiam Ii. Taft, Roosevelt
chosen successor and beyond question
the next president OF the United States
Francis Il. Newlands represents Bry
anism (whatever that opportunist' s po-
htical creed may now mean) and If
elected would be caucus obstruction
ist to the carrying out of the policies Of
Mr.. Taft.
With Taft as president, Flanagan
would be in line to secure administra
tive favors for the state, while New
lands would be outside that party
fence and reckoned as an obstruction
ist. The Nevada cattleman who has
seen hungry, stray steer gazing long
ingly over the fence at the herd at the
crib may have a mental picture of a
Nevadan Democratic senator lowing
pitifully for favors for his state AL
that favors for Nevada that Newlands
has secured, either as member Of
congress or as United States senator
turing tho sixteen years Nevada has
honured him as its representative, when
stacked up require microscope to as
sumo visible proportions in comparison
with the $4,000 and travelling ex-
penses he has drawn meanwhile.
When P. L. Flanagan says that he
can do as much for Nevada in the SEN
ate as Newlands, he is stating fact.
With the Republican party in power, os
it is now and still will be during the
next four years at least, Flanagan can
do more. Representing this state as 4
Nevadan, he will in other ways have u
standing which Newlands, with the
knowledge in Washington that he is
only Millionaire who has pre-empted s
political residence in the state to get to
the senate, can never have.
1t is time the people awakened to ths
question of alien representation, for it
is the highest issue in Nevada today.
Why should Nevada s highest political
Office be held by an alienf Granting
that Newlands is statesman greater
than Hamilton, jefferson, Clay, Web
ster, Jackson, Blaine, Cleveland Roose-
welt or Bryan, one and sevrally or COM
bined; let us be represented by typ
ical Nevadan even if he can only
answer to his name at roll call.
But fortunately there are men in
Nevada of genius and ability. P. L.
Flanagan is one and not the least. He
hasn't had sixteen years training in
congress as Newlands has to fit him to
make smooth, specious arguments, but
he can express himself in forcible En-
glish.
He is a man of culture and has
spelled the hard letters of success from
poverty upwards to become the leading
citizen of the largest city in the state.
His name is synonymous with public
spirited enterprise and no shadow Of
taint ever touched his reputation for
honesty and honor.
Flanagan is a sterling man whose
faults are those of strong, upright
character, that are not ashamed
of the light or needful of apology
In his life no man can find anything
that may not be told from the house
tops.
That Flanagan will be chosen by tho
people of Nevada is as certain as that
Taft will be the next president; and
that is an event equivalent to our
foreknowledge that the sun will rise
in the east tomorrow morning.