The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-10-17
NEWLANDS OR FLANAGAN?

- HAT KIND # a mar will Nevada send back to the United States
w senate?
w It is a fact which the people of Nevada contemplate with much
atnfactio and pride, that in his ten yearsin the lower house OF congress and in
his six years in he United States senate, never has the finger OF reproach been
senator Newlands is a clean man, o.. lofty ideals He is a student Of national
questions and public policies He is a statesman OF the I'D school honest
pnriotic and Jealous in his comtry's behalf He regards his high Office as a
responsibility, and gives to his work at the national capital the best that
ever could say Of him as is said Of so many of his onfpres in The senate, that he
is a representative Of this or that special interest in the senate If Hearst
had com to Nevada, he could not have produced any letters entanging Senator
Newlands with criminal corporations If he could have done So, he would not
hav Cancelled his datesto speak in Nevada-the only state where his party hs a
chance to make any kind OF a showing. And if he had come here he probably
would not have sprung any letters or George s Nixon, Republican senator from
this state Tor Hearst is not out to defsa.t tn Republican party.
in the senate. Although in the minority and opposed to the president in politics
recognizing in him a exponent of the puret and highest satemanship has sum-
irrigation, interior waterways. etc, upon which the senator from Nevada is re-
garded as al expert n high authority. Senator Newlands has been kept in
congress SO long that h has become very influential both with the chief execu
tive of he nation, and with all the members both in the lower and upper house.
It is # SUE men thu United States enateis in need
Now, who is it that asphss to di1ace Newlands N the United States senate
One Patrick L. Flanagan. a sheep grower OIL thu government lands If this state
the state senate # Nevada. whicht term vas enough to rare him to private nfe
although a candidate Tor reelection Among MS other distinguished services
~ ys' wrs defeated H bach so his people Tor reelection, and they
promptly turned him down, and the next session If the legislature as promptly
passed the eight hour law which he had opposed.
Flanagan is a sheep raiser He began life as a sheep herder, a fact not dis
creditable to him. but not necessarily qualifying him for tn United States
senatOrship. Later al a sheep raiser n snseps shipper "a a iarss soie NJ na
friendnness for the Southern Pacific to which railroad he las been able to be o.
wasF Flanagan and Senator Nixon who demanded at the state Republican conven-
ton at winnemucca. thai tn convention refuse to endorse Taft for the presi
UIa OWUUdd az GS h0G04e4S .'oAS0 ~NF1~NoA VA ov0aI a0
loyal to Roosevelt and wanted Taft as Roosevet's choice an when they gath
cred at tn Winnemucca onvention it was with the full intention of endorsing
Taft and sending a n instructed delegation to Chicago for him. But what hap
pened? Flanagan was on thu ground to defeat Taft. Taft, the friend and sue
cessor of Roosevelt the railroad batter, was TO b. slaughtered by the railroad in
terests Of III country if possible and Flanagan. now candidate for United States
senator. had received his Instructions Senator orehouse N Lewis H. Rogers
If Goldfeld lea. h fight for an instructed Taft delegation Flanagan lead the
opposition We quote from a press account o the proceedings:
.Mr. Flanagan started ut by the declaration, Taft is i'm
possble!'
Then came the dduge:
Il have b~n OF he ground in Ohio" he continued, and I know
the negro voes against him, the labor vote likewise.
dorseT Taft, tut to send an uninstructed delegation to- Chicago
Mr. Flanagan resumed quickly n sadi in conclusion We will
make III mistake Of om lives if W re- instruct thisd delegation to vote for
Taft h cannot De elected if he is nominated"
SenatorM orehouse, who of all the leaders OF the Republican party is
of the most arEghed, spoke strongly in avor of the Taft resolu
tin, but In Flanagan declarations and thu letter # instructions from
Senator Nixon had done n work ant the Taft resolution vas defeated.
the great national head Of the Republican party will be William Howard
Taft OF Ohio
And now the Republican campaign managers assuming the election of Taft
are beseaching the people of Nevada to send a senator F1anigan) from this estate,
sswho will be in harmony with thu administration and Its reform policy" We
smrmise Flanagan the sheep raiser, public land grabber, special friend If the
railroad interests would law great influence with Taft and a Taft admhmstra-
tbu. after his actions at he winnemucca conventioni He would ave about as
nuch influence at the White house as has Senator Nixon, especially nce the
naticna troops episode in Goldfeld-
Flanagan opposed Taft At tho Winnemucca convention, because 10 vas op
posed to the Roosevelt Taft policies; hut ow he wants to go to The United States