The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-10-01
Nixon Can't Change His Spots

in Carson City when Republican candidates get to-
gether eor the purpose of formulating a party platform. as pro
1 vded under a provision of the direct primary law, Al ''insur.
gent platform, according to best information, will be drafted at the
direction OF Senator George S. Nixon, who will control the gathering.
should such "a stand be taken, the object will be to attempt to fool the
voters of Nevada during these lays when Mr.. Nixon is a candidate to
succeed himself as United States Senator.
Therefore the following article printed in Golfers Weekly anent
Mr. Nixons record in Congress as a stand patter "of the first water"
and the closest kind of a follower of Nj. Aldrch, the whip of the
interests in the United States Senate, shows that it would be most
ridiculous for the Senator from Nevada to assume such a position.
I'm the Senate discussion of the new tariff there have been up
ward of a score of votes in which each Senator has been compelled TO
20 OF record for o r against the dut proposed by Mr. Aldrch,.
sIany Of these votes have been on minor mrmportant schedules.
From amo.s them we have selected these eight as being importap.
and representative:
Lumber Iron ore
Cutlery Earthenware
Sugar Cotton
Lead Pig iron
eve print now the names Of these Senators who have voted with
Mr.. Aldtich on every one of these schedules. In each case the duty in
question was dictated by Mr.. Aldrich as chairman of the Finance Com.
mitee. Then when the balloting came to determine whether this duty
should be adopted Mr.. Aldrich always voted first the fact that his
name begins with A was in the beginning one Of the strategic sources
OF his power, and after him dutifully came all the Senators whose
names are printed below. voting in every case, exactly as Nj. Aldrich
voted They have had no ideas on the tariff that Mr.. Aldrich didn't
have first. The communities they represent have no busress inter
csts more to be considered than Mr. Aldrichs dictation A charitable
person might assume, although the assumption would cripple the law
OF averages. that in seven out of the eight schedules the ideas of these
thirty Eight Senators, and the interests of their communities, would
coincide with what Mr.. Aldrich dictates; but eight times out of eight
is, to borrow a phrase from the contemporary classics, going some.
The Senator's who have voted with Mr.. Aldrich on every one of the
schedules arr these:
Brandegee of Connecticut Lodge of Massachusetts,
Briggs of New Jersey Oliver of Pennsylvania
Burnham of New Hampshire Page of Vermont
Burrows of Michigan Penrose of Pennsylvania
Carter of Montana Perkins of California
Dixon of Montana Piles OF washington
Flint of California Root of New York
Gallinger of New Hampshire Scott Of West Virginia
Guggenheim of Colorado Smoot of Utah
Hale of Maine Stephenson of Wisconsin
Hepburn of Idaho Wetmore of Rhode Island
Kean of New Jersey
1.-The following Senator's must be added to the list above. Their
record is exactly the same except that upon some schedule each OF
them was either absent or paired For example, Senator Frye Of
Maine is permanently 'paret' with Senator Tillman of South Caro-
Ina. This merely means that whenever Tnlman is absent. Frye does
not vote) This list is distinguished from the other merely to be
any schedule:
Bradley of Kentucky Elkins of West Virginia
Bulkeley of Connecticut FRYE of Maine
Clark of Wyoming NIXON of Nevada
Crane of Massachusetts, Smith of Michigan
Cullom of Illinois Sutherland of Utah
Depew of New York Warner of Missouri
Dick Of Ohio Warren of Wyoming
Dillingham; of Vermont
"With this faithful band as a nucleus. Aldrieb has been able to
ne an autocrat. Their servihty has made his autocracy possible"