The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-11-05
The Voters Will Judge Between Them

rAsKE L. ODDIE, Republican nominee for the Governonhip
and E. E. Roberts, Republican nominee for Congress, ire ia
Goldfeld, and doing active campaign work. Last night in
Goldfeld the sack was opened, and great crowds were regaled with
free drinks and cigars at the various saloons in town, while the
candidates occupied the tops of bars, making stump speeches.
1t was noticeable that the candidates devoted more of their
time in attacks upon Charles S. Sprague than in bolstering up their
own candidates.. Mr.. Oddie, who wants to be governor, uttered
at least one gratuitous falsehood in his addresses, when he said that
Mr.. Sprague had advocated the establishment of a bull pen in
Goldfeld during the labor troubles. This, too, from T. L. Odde
one of the foremost antilabor men in the assembly. Mr.. Odde
made a plea for Mr.. Sprague to come there SO that he could tell
Mr.. sprague ito his face that he had advocated the bull pen. Mr.
Oddie knew he was safe-that Mr.. Sprague was in the southern
part of the state.
Mr.. Roberts, from the top of the Goldfeld Hotel bar, declared
that Mr.. spragues paper had attacked the personal life of Mr.
Roberts, and had cast slurs at Mr.. Roberts ON account of the fact
that Mr.. Roberts had at times overinduged in liquor. AT the same
time, he insinuated that MI. Sprague had during the campaign
overindulged in liquor to the point where he was incapactated to
attend to campaign work. Both of which statements we're grahi
tous untruths.
The Goldfeld News, far from having attacked Mr.. Roberts mt
vate life, has hardly mentioned Mr.. Roberts during the campaign
For instance, on October 7h, the News said:
Mr. Roberts is an estimable gentleman and doubt
less of high principles and absolute integrity. 1t is his
misfortune that he is training with the wrong crowd
Was that an attack upon Mr.. Roberts private lfeg The News
later published a communication from a labor union relating tOhe
standing OF Mr.. Roberts IN that union. Was that an attack upon
Mr.. Roberts private lifeg
MI. Roberts said, from the top of the Godfed Hotel bar, on
Thursday night: Mr. Sprague has accused me of drunkenness
Perhaps l have taken a drink at times. SO has Charlie Sprague
But at least I have never been incapacitated so that could mol
appear on the platform. Can Mr.. Sprague say that?"
Mr.. Sprague might well say, and has never said: Il have new
er been removed from an Office of high public trust because OF coll
tinual or periodical 'incapacity.' Can Mr.. Roberts say thatr
Led by the Goldfeld Tribune, the paper that is owned and ..
tied by the Goldfeld Consolidated Mines company, the president
which has made his boast that he will break Charles S. Sprague
and drive him from the political and business life of the commu
nifty, the Nixon press machine and the Nixon candidates re making
a vengeful attack upon Mr.. Sprague. The attack is due IN INT VI"
hand to the hatred of the president of a big local corporation ~
Mr.. Sprague; on the other hand to the unrelentng but clean nI
that the News has waged for the Democratic ticket, from top tons
tom. Mr.. Sprague has made little reply to the attacks upon nn
for the reason that he knew that the voters of Esmeralda coun"
know his record and the animus of those attacks. The hepupna.
machine has failed to find anything in Mr.. Spragues recora w
can be used against him, so it has pursued and is coh'n'Io
the policy Of Matching up unqualified lies, dlstortng slaeH 4
by Mr.. Sprague and calling ex-convicts and discredlteo pr
tcans to write articles and make addresses in an attempt 10 p"N
en- him.
The voters next Tuesday will judge between Charles s. 0p'sa
and the men whose candidates. are financed by George VIZ"
by the Consolidated Mines company.
When the Nixon press, in order to attack the Democratic ,vies
has to resort to using the statements OF eA NhsEGr
as Kepner. it nav be seen what desperate straits TN su oDske
I'd editors are really in. They know that they have got 10 n m
yood' with Nixon to get the money. When the kepner s.aI = rtbr
published so prominently in the Nixon press, are shown 10 D n the
md malicious lies, who can believe anything else tnat Is S"'
Tribune or the Gazetteq
The Tribune of November first again hands a gratui'ooS who
0 the Coloradans. The Colorado men were the prospeo..vvn s and
heir money in Nevada. They have been a most Potent ! the Re
he DEVELOPMENT of the state. And yet, the Nixon press ~ - noti IS