The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-08-02
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Champ Clark's Roseate Dreams.

WASHINGTON, August Champ
Clark, having sent his family to
Europe, has nothing to do but dream
day dreams of Democratic victories.
and to tell the press how he is going
to land on top of the landslide as
speaker of the house, vice Uncle Joe
FOR whose scalp the insurgent progress
sives are hunting After the speaker
ship--well, Champ has his dreams
about that Also but he is satisfied to
make public one step in his plans of
political advancement at time.
The trouble with the Democratic
party, declare some of the progressive
Democrats, is that it is not sincere in
its protestations of friendship for the
"plain peepul.' and that its leaders.
and especially perhaps the leaders in
the south are drifting closer and closer
towards the trusts. Senator Bailey.
for instance, made an argument recent.
ly in New York against physical valua.
tion of the railroads Now it NAV or
may not be proper to require a physical
valuation of the railroads; it is easy
to see what a blow that would be to
:" frenzied inance,' and the widows
and orphans who hold railroad stocks
would be paraded before the sympa-
thetic public as the Ultimate victims
while the plutos prudently retired be-
hind veil of crocodile tears and la
mented for the financial undoinp of the
lnnocents on whom they had unloaded
part of their watered stocks. At the
same time. the question of physical
valuation is one which will not down
Bailey and all the other friends of the
interests notwithstanding. Another
southern leader, who is about to retire
to private life. and who is far more
respected by the public at large than
BAILEY is. has been quoted as saying
that in the next campaign the Demo
Gratis would have the support of the
corporations. Why7 Because. natural.
W the Republican party. or at least
the rank and file of it, is drifting ran
idly away from conventional bounds
and is strongly tinctured with the ana
thamatized radicalism which is worry
ing the leaders into an early political
demise.
Deprecating Taft's Achievements.
IT is rumored that the Democratic
campaign win be largely based on the
islation secured from congress bv Presi
dent Taft at the tip of the big stick.
is full Of bugs; that while it is parad
ed as reform legislation it viii not
hold water. The railroad bill will be
condemned as unconstitutional. The
waterways bin will be ridiculed as
pork barrel measure. innocent of value
from conservation standpoint. All
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president from a reluctant congress will
he filed full of holes by the campaign
committees bunderbuss IT will be
freely charged that the reform legisla-
tion enacted by the Republicans was
largely, if not wholly, for political eff
Iect in the coming campaign. OF
course the Republicans will refute
these arguments, both on the stump and
in their literature but the side which
succeeds in maintaining an aggressive
attitude. placing the opposition on the
defensive. will have an advantage
which viii he substantial.
Arbitration Treaties.
immediately following the dedication
of the new building Of the Bureau or
American Republics. where the various
eminent speakers breathed peace and
good will TO all the world. and prophe
sled the substitution of arbitration for
the sword in settlement of information
al disputes the announcement was
made from the office of the Brazilian
embassy in Washington that a general
arbitration treaty had been signed be-
tween Brazil and Hayti. Hardly had
this announcement been made through
the public press before the Brazilian
charge de- affaires in Washington, Sr.
r. de Lima r. Silva, announced that he
had signed with the minister from the
Dominican republic, Sr. Don Emilio G.
Jouhert. q general arbitration treaty be
tween the two countries named.
In this manner the dream of former
Secretary Root Secretary Knox. An
drew Carnegie Congressman Bartholdt,
former President Roosevelt and many
other eminent Americans. is drawing
nearer TO a realization. And one of the
newest of the republics which is al
ready one of the we,'thies' and most
powerful Brazil. is among the foremost
nations 10 hasten the reign of univer-