The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-10-03

est court of our state.
There is also a third candidate in
the field. / have not the honor of his
acquaintance, but if political fortune
should exalt him to the bench, 1 pray
that he may be learned in the law,
honest in his convictions and that his
every decision may be washed in his
conscience.
But there is an issue far more i'm
portant to the people of Nevada and to
myself, and / shall enlist my energies
In it's support. And in approaching
that subject, Mr.. Chairman, may / not
say at the outset that our American
political life has gained a great deal in
having for the candidates of the two
great political parties for the presiden-
CIV two such men as William Howard
Taft and William Jennings Bryan.
Well, it is the Democrats who need
light in this campaign, gentlemen (as
the lights go out). daughter and ap-
plause).
Now and henceforth the first requi-
site qualifications of such candidates
will be clean manhood and q pure fire.
side, and that much all of their fellow
citizens concede to Mr.. Bryan and to
Mr.. Taft. Both are admitted to be
great Americans, both high-minded
gentlemen VITA an irreproachable char
acter and an irresistible charm Of
manner. Their home life is typical of
our American firesides.
But | submit to you that that is not
enough. The American people are be-
ginning to regard the great office of
the presidency as a grave responsible
.fxy ~. Ia ,rnnACad r~pnn fhaf arfrzan
whose training and experience in gov
ernmental affairs logically equip him
for the specific tasks of that exalted
position; and when it comes to the
affairs of government. why should We
employ different rules than in selecting
one of two persons seeking Employment
from us! Would we not seek to ascer-
tain which one was best fitted for the
particular dutya
BY your leave, just one more point
and / have finished-and it is more
than a party q~uestion-it is an Amer
lean question.
On the 4th of next March, four
justices of the United States supreme
court will have passed the retiring age
and the next president of the United
States will appoint four new justices,
and probably five-a majority of the
court. 1t is almost an unprecedented
condition. From such appointment
there is no appeal, review nor reversal,
except through the intervention of that
gray and grim old arRiter called Death.
The American people might still well
refuse to trust Nj. Bryan with the APP
pointment of a majority of the mem
bers of this court. A leader Of the
New York Democracy, speaking in Mad
ison Square Garden in the campaign
of 1896, a week after Mr.. Bryan had
spoken there, said: "He defended the
most revolutionary plank of the plat
form, of overthrowing the integrity of
the supreme court, proposing to amend
the constitution, not by the method pre-.
scribed by that instrument, but
proposing to pack the court
to reorganize it so that it would
eourt-to reorganize it so that it would
pronounce constitutional those laws
which the constitution condemns "a
proposal to make the courts of law
instruments of l~awlessness, to violate
that sacred pact between the states on
which he security of this government
rests
Give George s. Nixon a Republican
colleague in the United States senate,
and let two Nevadans represent
nevada. (~Applaase).