Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-10-06
full discharge of my public duty.

SCrouSly perverted by my adVerSarieS, |
have to say that have been interested
in two properties that have been sold to
the United States government. One of
these, three thousand acres of land in
Guiding the dam site of the Truckee-
Carson reservoir, being part of Il ranch
of about seven thousand acres on the
Carson river below Dayton, and the
other, the postoffice site near the
Virginia street bridge in Reno.
1t is indicative of the insincerity of
my opponents that they charge me
with having no investments in the
State, and yet at the same time charge
that the government has acquired val
liable properties in this State from me
and that I have profted by them.
AS to the Carson ranch and the dam
site and the postoffice site in Reno,
L was interested to the extent of one
twelfth i'll the corporation owning
them. Both of these properties were
sought by the government. In both
cases the prices offered by the govern
ment were VIGOROUSLY below their real
value and were accepted because | was
anxious that there should be no possib-
le criticism. In both of these cases
L wrote to the Attorney General, the
Secretary OF the Interior and the
Secretary of the Treasury, stating my
interests in the properties and inviting
the closest scrutiny before the trans
actions We're closed, and in all cases
the reply came that the officials were
entirely satisfied with the transactions
and urged that the interests of the
government required them to be closed.
Mr.. Newlands again took up the
national issues and discussed the opposi-
ton to his reform policies President
Roosevelt had encountered from his
own party and the support he had re.
ceived from democrats in the senate and
house. He told of how the famous rate
bill was reported from the senate com
mittee of Interstate commerce, con-
tanning eight republicans and five dem
ocrats, by the solid vote of the demo
Gratis assisted by three republicans.
How Senator Aldrich, the republican
leader OF the senate, characterized the
bill as a democratic measure and placed
it III charge of Senator Tillman, the
ranking democrat on the committee,
and how Tillman had fought the bill
through the senate in face of the opposi-
ton of the republican leaders. He
spoke of other instances in which the
the president had been forced to rely
upon the support Of democrats for the
enactment of his reform measures.
He reverted to his own candidacy
again and showed by the speech of his
opponent at the Winnemucca conven-
ton that he was opposed to Taft and
the reform policies of President Roose-
welt. AS for himself he had always
supported the policies of the president
that tended toward the preservation of
the public domain, the conservation of
of. the water supply and the protection
of the people against the land-grabber
and monopolist. IF the republicans of
Nevada were earnest in their support
of Roosevelt's internal policies they
should support a friend of those policies
instead of their enemy.
In closing, he referred to the ap-
plause that greeted the mention of
Taft's name in the early part of his
speech. He paid an eloquent tribute to
Taft as a man and said that he and
Bryan were the two dearest friends he
had. That both were sincere, able and
clean men, but Of the two he held that
Bryan would make the better president.
If elected, Mr.. Bryan would have a
solid party to support his policies while
Taft would have O divided party. If
the republicans who had applauded
Tafts name we're sincere they should
vote for o United States senator who
would support his reform measures and
not fo one who opposed those policies.
He briefly referred to his work in
securing the passage, of the reclama-