Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-10-08
HOWGEORGENIXON
LOOKS TO BLYTHE

Sih bly lhe, III tHt oatuiuay E'eh
ing Post pays his respects to Senator
Nixon in the current issue. Blythe
has been holding the mirror up to ma
ture in Washington for over year
and has done more to show the peo-
pie OF the country what heir repres-
cntativos ut Washington are than any
man In Washington journalistic cir
clcs Ills articles are 50 Cleanly cut
and satirical. so tiiled with lumor.
that the stng is not visible, though
IL is there all right. The Nixon hi
ography Is reprinted in ull:
A Golden Silence
1t may be that another telegraph
operator became Il United States Sen
ator. | do not know. although do
know of telegraph operators wno rose
to diZzy heights Of fame. There was
one who became Postmastetr-Gen-
eral. and one who accumulated many
tons OF money in the iron business
and established great reputation by
giving away Il pound OF it, now and
theu. first making sure his name was
embossed on every dollar and that
said name should be cut in enduring
letters above the doors. windows and
on the corniccs of the resultant build
ings.
The fact is muatcrial, ana shall be
pursued NO further. 1t is merely one
of those bits of intimate personal his
tory We all love To read, II paragraph
ical rafting OF the skeleton, SO to
speak; set down to show how muci
one knows OF the subject AT hand: Il
little trick of the Biosraphers' Union,
imparting pleasant authoritative
ness When you begin story about
II grand opera star by saying: Mad
anne Tutti. the great diva, always
smokes long black cigar before
breakfast; or slapdash into your tale
with the assertion: "Chauncey NJ. De
pew likes tarragon vinegar on his ice
cream. why that proves Il lot.
Wherefore. George ). Nixon, Sen
ator from Nevada. used to be- a tele-
grapa OperatOr-and there you are.
Now, far be 1t from-far be 1t from
to detract u jot or title from Senator
Nixon's celebration in this regard.
II he is the only telegraph operator
who rose to be United States Senator
all well and good. Ii not, kindcst re-
CARDS to the others. Lille in these
days of mailing things to the North
Pole and mailing rival explorers else
where, Is too full of excitement to
waste time verifying. Laying that
record aside. If the record is wholly
the Senator'S or if somebody made
the dash before him. there is one
place where he Is supreme, one
place where he stands alone.
During those dire days-as the ed
lorial writers said-when the Senate
was discussing the tariff, those eigh-
ty-ninc dire days, to be eXact-and
everybody In the Senate was so fren-
zied, and everybody out side the Sen
ate, especially in the Great Corn Belt
was so calm, there We're ten million
words spilled beneath that glass cei.
ing. ten million long, short and me
dunn words. ten milnon plain. fancy
decorated and undeCorated words. Let
me make II plain. The statesmen
talked ten million words of tariff talk
10 you get that? Spilled that mucf
language. And Of the ten milliol
about two million were spilled by Sen
ator LaFollettc. and various othel
amounts by various other senators
grading down by easy stages, to Geo
>. Nixon. Senator from Nevada. He
spilled exactly one hundred and forty
eight.
Nison's Shining Example
That is the great accomplishment
Beat it-tie tiff you can Their
they stand, on page 1894 of tie Con
ereSsional Record. this brave it'll