White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-23
SPRAGUE ON
WAY To DEFEAT
DEhOCRATIC ASPIRANT FOR
CONGRESS- HAS ABUSE HABIT
LOSING VOTES EVERY DAY.

"~Sprague Assails Nixon in His
Old Home-that is the heading in a
Democratic paper of an account of a
Democratic political meeting in Win
nemucca.
If that had appeared in the col
umns of a Republican paper there
would be many who might have
thought that il was an attempt to IN
do the Democratic candidate for con-
gress, for it is readily apparent TO
everybody that methods such as are
attributed 10 Mr.. Sprague will lose
votes not only for him but also for
every man who is associated with
him on the Democratic ticket.
There in the very opera house which
was given to the people of Winnie
mucca by the man he assails this
man Sprague is charged by his own
party paper with having attacked
Senator Nixon and TO have attempted
to show that Senator Nixon is an
enemy of Nevada.
Mr.. Sprague came TO Nevada a few
years ago. That is lot to his dis
credit; rather was il a sign of good
judgment, for there are many others
who several years ago came to the
conclusion that Nevada was the state
of opportunity and they too made this
state their home. Only when a nan
who has been a resident of this state
for a comparatively short time at
tempts TO further his own ends by
trying to pull down those about him
does he become a legitimate target
for public criticism.
Mr.. Sprague engaged in the news
paper business and after trying to
enlist the support of certain large in
terests in his field, which attempts
were unsuccessful, he became, in
public, the avowed enemy of capital
and posed as the tribune of the
people," There are men who burn
with a sincere love for the man who
tolls, men who are ready to give their
hearts blood for the cause of the
laboring men. Such a mar was
John Mitchell, who for years stood be-
tween the coal barons and the poor
operatives. But shall we say that
Charles Sprague was of that type,
when even while he was publicly at
lacking certain large interests was
secretly trying to obtain aid from
lnem TOT 1lulSeil
Out there in the little town of Win
nemucca, where George Nixon started
his tiny bank many years ago, and
where he ripened into manhood and
so ordered his life that practically
every man who came in contact with
him admired and respected him, this
Democratic candidate for congress
has seen fit to "assail' the man who
heads the Republican ticket. He has
tried to make his hearers believe that
Senator Nixon cares nothing for Ne
vada, that he is a tool of this and
that. that he is a monstrous creature
who is sucking the lifeblood from the
very state that has been so kind to
him, the state in which all his hopes
have come to fine fruition, the state
which has been his home for nearly
thirty years and which will continue
TO be his home until he passes down
the last long corridor.
1t won't do. Mr.. Sprague. You
can't win hat way. nor can any
other mar on your ticket. You can't
make the people of Nevada believe
that Senator Nixon has not the
ability TO represent this state, nor can
you fool them into thinking hal he
has betrayed and will continue to be-
tray the interests of Nevada. They
know George Nixon many. many