The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-11-05
THE LESS HE SAYS
THE BETTER FOR HIM

In his National speech last Wednes-
day evening Key Pittman had the fol
lowing to say in regard to his Alaska
record:
81 see in your midst, even now, one
of these lowest of corrupt political
tools | know that he has been attack
ing my character and reputation.
know that he is attempting to create
the impression that in 1899, in Alaska,
| was a desperate character. l have
been informd by several present that
he has attempted to obtain puriured
affidavits against my standing in
Alaska, and that he has been promised
protection against prosecution.
81 know this man met Senator Nix
on In Winnemucca few days ago. I
know that he was after money. He
Dragged that he got it. The Iact that
was the head of Arctic Brother
hood in Nome during the winter of
1900, society that represents the in
telligence and manhood of Alaska, and
numbers among its membership some
of the most illustrious of our country.
1.-THE fact that | have in my pos
session letters and kilograms from men
whose standing is admitted; the fact
that my friends have sent me from
Alaska, that beautiful banner that
hangs on the wall is sufficient to
brand that man as the head slanderer
and liar that he is.
~ was defending the people of
Alaska against the gang of organized
ROBBERS known as "The Spoilers" when
that man was acting as stool pigeon
for the opposition. There are dozens
present that know what I say is true.
All true Alaskans favor my election,
if / am elected Alaska and not Gug
genheim's will have a friend in the
United States Senate
Reno Gazette's Answer.
In its issue of last evening the
Reno Gazette makes the following an
swer to Mr.. Pittman's charges:
"Governor Diekerson hade his last
grandstand play from his sinking
political ship when he tried to play
the heroic by denouncing Assessor Me-
Terney, of Eureka, and Assessor Le
maire, of Lander, in order to draw at
tention to his buncombe claim that he
raised he s. p. railroad assessment.
"Pittman, at Winnemucca last
night, tried to emulate his chief by
a similar grandstand play in the at
titude of injured innocence.
According to his present CON-
plant Senator Nixon is employing men
to assail his character. His mix
50 miserable putrid political vii
lifcations are sneakingly insinuating
and whispering. Dastardly hes and
ISLANDERS are poured into the ears of
the voters
"Then Mr.. Pittman goes on to pose
as hero about some incident at
Nome in which he declares that he
was defending the people of Alaska
against the gang of organized robbers
known as the Spoilers and asserting
that all the Alaskan people in Neva-
da who knew about the affair have
been bought with corrupt money to
spread and lie aobut it.
"Now we say to Mr.. Pittman that
the less he says about that Alaskan af-
fair the better. Neither Senator Nix
on. nor Senator Nixon's friends, nor
anyone by any authority from them or
from the Republican organization, has
used, circulated, or caused to be used
ANYTHING in connection threwith, nor
regarding certain other incidents of
similar nature not so foreign to the
state of Nevada. The Republican
campaign has been conducted on clean
lines, fighting issues and citing politi-
cal and legislative records and not go
ing into criminal records or mud
singing to win out. Mr.. Pittman has
been driven into an embarrassing hole
by his railroad record and if it was
not for the fact that his campaign now
has become joke, more specific at
tention might be paid to his recent
rantings.
"Possibly he could tell us who is
pasting the labels He Can't Buy 1t,
in every odd corner over the state, and
on the pictures of his opponent wher-
ever it can be done without observa-
a