The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-06-27
hutchinson Reply

las II. Hutchinson was introduced
h, Chairman Sprague to reply to the
.overuor s address. He responded in
tAs following eloquent language:
..on top of Pixies Peak there is a
,..,her station; someone has carved
there on a %settee, placed in a position
-, an unsurpassed view, these words:
.,bove all nations stands Humanity
lad here in Goldfeld, situated in the
n.vilion of the setting sun, and the
,olden star of that pavilion, as spokes-
man for its Chamber of Commerce and
=. citizens. I desire to welcome you,
corernor Denver Dickerson, to II city
and home.
I'VE are pleased to know that the
,ause Of Humanity and Justice is up
pernut in your mind. and that Justice
will be dispensed by you without fear
a, fsror. Because without Justice all
Else i futile.
oWhen we remember, governor, that
At tbe call of the president of this re-
mbie for volunteers in the war with
snaiu. that at Fort Russell you joined
Terey's Rough Riders in Troop d, and
that afterward another Rough Rider
succeeded the gentle Mckinley as presi-
dent. and you as a Rough Rider sue
eeeded the sweet, lovable frontiersman
and Texan, he of the Alamo, as gov
euor. he whose last words were, Il am
not afraid to die, l have done what /
thought was right that in its Rough
Rider, editor and miner, Governor
Denver Diekerson, is to be congratn-
lated, as this republic is to be con
gatulated. that Theodore Roosevelt
sueceeded as commandments of its
army and navy.
Religious prejudice and bitterness
are fading away; so are serious political
prejudice and bitterness. We have La
Toilette Democrats and Joe Folk Re
p~ublicans. We have johnson Republl-
cans of Minnesota, and strange to say,
Kentucky Democrats who vote for Re
publican governors. The man who sue
eeeds in politics nowadays, must be-
leve. preach and act for Humanity.
1.-THE war with Spain, commencing
with the words of Gridley of Georgia
when he reported to Captain Sigsbee,
4 have the honor to report, sir, that
Ouf ship has been blown up, and is
sinking to that other southerner,
Richard Hobson, that bloekaded
cervera's tleet-together with old fight.
ing Joe Wheeler, has removed one-half
Of the Mason-Dixon line south to
Mexico, and the other half north to
Canada. We are a united nation with
no civil war sores, and we have a Con-
federate soldier, Luke Wright of Ten
nessee. in Roosevelt s cabinet as secre-
tary Of war.
$50, governor. you will have a
united people behind you in your honest
endeavors to do right and maintain
law and order, and the peace and dig
nltv of Nevada.
1--WE are just arriving at a period
when we can be heard in the councils
Of state and in the hall of congress
We are proud of the early history OF
the Pacific coast, and we hold to the
thought that the worn and emaclated
pioneers of this country are entitled
to a place in history along side witt
the Pilgrim Fathers. There are Other
ships than the Mayfower, and there are
other rocks thar the Plymouth; in thai
war with Spain I witnessed the DEPART
ure of the battleship Oregon built al
San Francisco by western men ant
western contractors and western money
II made that thirteen thousand miles
around the Horn in record time without
accident, without coaling and Captain
eiark arrived at Santiago just IN time
10 pass the Brooklyn, turn the Color
upside down and Spanish tyranny wa
aflven from the sea.
Some men still like the smile of
Alng, but fortunately they have t
ross the Atlantic to get it. The hea'
Q. the Astor family has sworn allie
slanee to one, a king who recently
found froek coats so thick around hi
'lfone he trembled; but the Asto
q N is ignored and Just n mont'
ago today the combined American fee
VI The Atlantic and the Pacific arrived
- seattle, that one hundred years ag'
me country surrounding was in tn
possession of the Hudson BAY company
ana the head of the Aston family VIII
.sa the foundation for his wealth a
sne mouth of the Columbia, PRACTICAL
v"hed the control from the mouth o
s%e Columbia to Vancouver island, an
@hat ne did not claim was to be a gam
reserve for Prince Rupert and his ger
menianiy friends of England; and on
"ohth ago TODAY there was one millio