The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-10-31
LOCAL CANDIDATES AND ISSUES

HE aoLpr1E1D NEWS hs, reframd from using its columns to discuss
purely local political questions, as the great majority IF its subscribers
as very : can an nav Msn pS' nasera "t tns s,e - ~ nav he naTaonsS for
saying a few words m LEGAL candidates and issues.
The present campaign in Goldfeld and Nevada has been conducted ON the
Republican side with sch maIignHy as we have never seen anywhere else
in the country. Every guse of dectncy has been discarded, and basdess
and lies have been uttered and reiterated and spread broadcast with
shameless poflgacy, and everyt trick and subnrfuge has been escorted to for
the purpose of defeating opponents So Tar las this zone hat the people who
were it first ready to listen, finally became nauseteda and then made mad, as
abuses multiplied day to day. and now a actor hs set in that will defeat
he very purposes they had in view.
papeaS ~a~. -. ~ s sm ."rtsmr. TsSs heir candidate for uni+sS States
senator, Patrick L. Flanagan, for instance Irrespective of the fact that his
opponent Senator Newhnds, las never uttered thu name of his opponent IN a
public speech, or directly or indirectly referred 70 him diuespsctfuuy, Fant
gan,s speeches have been devoted to personal buse Of Senator Newlands and
fuk0me praise # himself He has not the breadth of mind to grasp public
questions and in % instance has he endeavored to discuss the national issues
of hi campaign, simply devoting his speeches to mudsnngng at Senator
Nevlands. ON he me hand, and self adulation on the other. He has descended
to the tactics II the demasogue y trying = crease ple0oee against Nevaaas
enm snator in calling him N "aristocrat" a blue stocking" an 'aien
.sS,na.o M elsewhere because Of his sigma public service declaring that
they rightly belonged tic others. A few days a go he, or m mt for him, had
through the nails thousands OF letters addressed to voters, puporting to
from senator Newlands, calling Oh them % vote AGAINST Flanagan because
he vas a Catholic, thc intention being of course to cause the Catholics to
rally to Flanagan Two weeks ago Senator Newlands I'M % Goldheld to adj
dress a meeting He vas taken i'll; his voice left him, and he vas confined to
his bed as a result Of a break down after a severe campaign. Fianigan's
papers Immediately took advantage Of this to spread the report That Newlands
found such strong feeling against him in aoldheid hat he was afraid to meet
the people, and feiened sickness to avoid a scene A few days after, Sen
ator Newlands returned and received sue al ovation at his meeting as had
never before been rendered to any man in this state. This is thu answer that
the big, fammindsd people of Nevada CAV t0 such depicabie methods of cam
paigning.
The local. campaign has beene especially vhiOnc Three men en- III Demo-
cratic ticket were picked ut for defeat A local daily Democratic newspaper
joined the Republicans in their fight on these men, Notwithstanding that at
least W CT them had beer the candidates IF this same newspaper before the
primaries. The reason given for turning upon II of them afsr his nominal
ton was that he ''had led to them. in some political DEAL and 10 reason was
assigned for fghting the other, whcmt IN paper ant it's editor, personally, had
for to get him on the Democratic ticket. The local daily Republican
paper Joined in III chase, an these three Democratic candidates, Rosenthal
Tor ommssioner ingalls, for sheriff, and Swallow for district attorney, have
been subjected to every known form of vnifcation So shameessy unfair
and abusive have these papers been that they are creating sentiment in behalf
IF those who were made the victims of the cabal These papers have little or
ncthng to say in favor of the Republican candidates are to be the benef-
Charles of h defeat of the three Democrat in question:, because perhaps
there is little Of good to be said that cannot be said of then Democratic op
porents. No ne knows the Republican candidate against Rosnthal fer COM
missioner He is IN unknown quantity. Everyone who knows the Republican
candidate for sheriff against ingalls, knows that he is in n sense thu ma or
officer that ingalls, is He vas tried years ago, but was net given a re-
nomination by his party, the Republicans themselves endorsing ingalls, after his
nomination by the Democrats. ingalls, nae been sheriff Of Esmeralda county
fer years previous, and the Republicans kne what kind of sheriff he was
when they endorsed him, out now that h Republicans themselves want a
chance at thu feed trough, ingalls, is a vertabe rascal and prohgAe with the
peoples money.
The chief iSue raised against Swallow for district attorney is, that he
las not landed Thomas Hickey the president OF the defunct State Bank 4
trust Company, behind tn bars Hickey is under indictment in this county
He is also under indictment tins several other counties IF the state, put because
Of the defective banking laws a conviction has not been possible in a single
county and the Supreme Court mas stepped n to enjoin certain further proceed
ins looking 10 Rickeys conviction, AM the hands Of District Attorney Swal
low m other district attorneys are tied But this makes 10 difference with
the msndacious opposition press which keeps OF hammering Swallow for not
hayinxR Hickey in the pcntenuary, whereas it was only a comparatively few
months ago that these same papers were declaring that the Hickey banks were