The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-09-17
ODDIE TO make
GRANDSTAND
CAMPAIGN

According to a especial tc the III
printed this morning, Tasker L.
eddie, Republican nominee for COVER
nor, is about to start on a campaign of
the state by automobile. The Especial"
says: "He will travel alone,
cooking his meals out on the desert or
elsewhere when hunger or the notion
happens 10 strike him, but his election
campaign will be more spectacular than
was his campaign for nomination when
he "went it alone"
Oddie started out ON the last cam
paign as an insurgent with hardly a
dollar in his pocket. He freely stated
here in Goldfeld just about the time
he commenced his campaign that he
was unable at that time to meet even
the most trifing obligation against him
and he said further on that occasion
hat he was "against the Republican
machine and, pointing 30 his automo-
bile, remarked that that was his only
"machine.' In other words he put
himself down as an insurgent Republi-
can going before the people in good
faith, but without money. He con
tinued on his way by automobile and
little was heard of him until the ina
chine" newspapers began to publish
stories about his "cooking his meals
out on the DESERT as he went from one
place to another. 1t was about that
time that the machine turned Mas
sey down for eddie. 1t was a fine play
to the galleries-this business of Oddie
cooking his meals out on the desert as
he event it alone
Then eddie gained more space in the
Reno Gazette, the machine organ, and
one afternoon the paper printed an In
terview with eddie wherein the latter
abused George Springmeyer for oppos-
ing Hugh Brown for the Republican
nomination for encouragement. Brown
was the Organization" candidate and
here came eddie, the "insurgent' can
didate for governor, and he rushed into
print in a machine newspaper to
try to defeat Springmeyer, who, taking
Oddie at his word, was going over the
state praising his independence and
that assistance be given him.
Oddie was called down by Spring
meyer's friends for the interview
Springmeyer in the Gazette. He
simply replied, 1.-The interview was
badly garbled."
But to return to the grandstand play
of "eooking the observation-disclosures
on-the-desert.' The Tribune says that
same play is to be made again, but
it will be "more spectacular thar when
he went it alone BEFORE Evidently,
then, Oddie in his sawed-off automobile,
is to have the services of a press agent
and the machine newspapers, for how
else can he make his g%randstand play
more spectacular, aside from eating
more meals on the desertf But the de-
sert is going to be mighty cold during
the campaign, and eating and sleeping
the open will not be what 1T is crack.
ed up to be. Perhaps Nixon VIII accom-
pany Oddie. He would like to appear
broke, too, this campaign. But that Is
hardly probable as he would freeze the
proposition into a stiff, sure enough.
This travelling by automobile, eat
ing alone on the desert, may be a
spectacular play on Oddie's part 10 I'M
press the people with his poverty out
if anyone thinks hat campaigning oy
automobile is cheap and a sure sign OF
poverty, let him ask Frank Douglass
for instance. Douglass would IKE 10
see the color of the money he spen, on
gasoline alone. And by the way, VINO Is