The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-17
RECORDS OF Two
CANDIDATES COMPARED

Clarence Dunn Van Duzer. IT'S sad,
if true! And doubly sad that a Dem
~ocratic senate did not proceed then and
there to squelch the obstreperous
F1anigan's voice and vote. Think OF
It'll The mournful, serrled and detected
lines of miners and mill men ali doome |
to an early death, appearing before the
senate, and Flanigan's voice, perhaps
in %rancorous accents laundering, 81
will do nothing for you'll While all
about were Democratic senators in
their seats, with plying tears stream
ing from their cheeks, wetting the
carpet, cowed by that voice so they
dared not wriggle. Would it not make
a wooden Indian blow up with indig-
nation!
Only it did not happen.
We regret, inconsolably, that the
thrilling picture must be shattered, but
cruel truth will so have it. 1t happens
that the record shows that nobody ap.
peared before the senate in the bills
behalf, for the chief reason. we mag
inc that according to the rules of the
senate persons other than duly elected
Legislators have to appear before com
mittee, except in rare instances, where
by vote of either house the legislative
body goes into committee Of the
whole and an invitation is extended to
the parties in interest to appear in the
august presence Of the whole senate
or assembly. Tue senate journal fails
to show that this was done. hence we
sorrowful army of broken-down miners
and mill men must have appeared be-
! fore~the committee on mines and min
ing, composed of two Democrats and
one Republican, none of whom was
Flanagan, and that they, like Pharaoh
of old, in hardness of heart needed
not the cry of those in ~death-doomel
bondage.
Senator Flanagan, in his Ely letter,
states that he voted against the bill
on the recommendation of the com
mittee that it should not pass. and the
further reason that the members OF
that committee stated that the bill IN
the .orm presented. was defective.
1t is not begging the question to de-
clare that as the eight hour law bad NJ
10 that time never been an issue in the
state. had not been discussed by tn,
nc was not openly debated IN
the senate. and Senator Flanagan not
having been engaged in either mining
or milling. that he. ms most any othe'
man under similar circumstances would
nave done, would most naturally fol-
low by his vote whatever recommends
ton the committee in charge of the
bill made.
Senator Flanagan in mis- Ely letter
states emphaticaliy that if the recon-
mendation of the committee had
been favorable to the passage of the
bill he would have voted for it. He
says:
| am a believer in the principle
that eight hours should constitute
a day s labor for skilled labor.
am and nave been for many years
a large employer Of labor in this
state. The skilled labor in the CON-
Germs in which ! am interested
work union hours at union pay. On
my farm and ranges 1 think no
employee Of mine has ever had
reason to complain that | have
ever treated him unfairly or un-
Justly in the character of his
labor or pay.
That is a pretty satisfying state
ment. Moreover, it is backed by his
record. When a man 8 acts harmonic
with his professions there ism much
doubt as to where he stands.
Senator Flanagan, through the va
rious companies which he has incorpo-
rated in Nevada, is possibly the larg-
est employer Of labor engaged in indus
trial pursuits, other than mining, in
the state. In these enterprises hun
dreds Of men are employed and the
strong attachment of his employees for
him Is the best criterion Of his atti-
tude toward labor. Labor has no better
friend than the man who creates new
opportunities for employment and il
Just to those who work for him. That
is one Patrick L. Flanigan's record.
NEWLANDS' LABOR RECORD
And now we come to Senator New
lands labor record. Here at last we