The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-31
SENATOR FLANIGAN's REPLY

Senate Newlands having propoandet
certain questions to Senator Flanagan
the latter eategorieally answers same
as follows:
l.. / have never travelled on a South
ern Pacific pass, and you know it.
have uniformly returned passes Offered
TO ME as q stoekman. Have you refused
passes sent to you because you were a
congressman and q senatori During
how many of your sixteen years ser
vice at Washington have you pail
farei
,. l neither voted nor fought
against the eight hour law. | was NOS
a member OF the legislature when Ii
was passed, and you know it.
l voted in a previous legislature, along
with Democratic senators, against a
proposed defective eight-hour law be
aus it included sheep and cattle
men, farm hands, teamsters and others
to whom /. was inapplieable. At the
same time l declared myself in favor
OF an eight hour law for miners, mill
men, smelter hands and all skilled me
ehanies, and ali workers for day wages
How is it with you, Senatori DO
you give the benefits OF an ~eight-houT
law TO your valet, your butler, or any
of your hunkiesi And did you not
bring these servants with you from
England on labor contracts, in violation
% the emigration laWsl
3. l employ union labor at the high
est rates. l have encouraged and not
refused my employees the right 10
organize.
l have never tyrannized over a
sheepman or small or large men Of any
business, or ever ordered anybody
to contribute toward any Of my polit-
zeal schemes, and all intimations to
the contrary are hes.
4. / never offered Barney Moran
$3.50 a month to further nay candidacy.
he would resent as an insult any prop
osiuon TO him from anybody to sell his
influence in politics TOR money. Ii you
doubt this, Just try him, and see how
soon you viii make acquaintance with
his hst.
! did say to him that ii, in the inter
est Of party harmony, he would with
draw as a candidate for district attor
ney l would eeure him employment as
q lawyer IN = Of my companies.
take care OF my friends; you drop
yours after eletlian, 10 .you Roti
). / never attacked Roosevelt, ana
never denounced Taft, either publicly
or privately, 81 Reno or Winnemueea
or anywhere else, and never voted IL
table any relief bah Tor wax veterans
and never stood for immense stoe.
ranges, contrary 10 The Roosevelt pol
icies and the interests Of the ranch
men, and yoar intimau0ns 10 the con
trary are hes, pure and simple.
/ say your intlmations to the con
trary, Tor though the yellow dodger'
Of questions which year henehmen ar
circulating is anonymous, ! happen 4
know thai the publisher Of the Demo
cratic paper 10 whom yoa first oHers
it refused to publish or print on Ii
ground that il was false and contemp'
IDLE. / have avoided m~ud-shnging j
this campaign, and have not mentions
you at al until provoked by your stats
ment that / was defeated SIX years az
IL WasAoe county for the senate b,
cause Of my eight-hoar-law record
was defeated, or rather counted out, q
that election, by nine votes, not b,
cause of anything l had done or lei
undOne, but because you bought loo
votes of laborers temporarily employee
in Washoe county on railroad work, q
$40 each, to vote against me.
p. l. FLANAGAN.