The Washington times., 1911-07-07
|NEWLANDS DOOMED
I FOR PRESIDENCY ON
| THE PACIFIC COAST
California Democrats Or.
ganize to Boost Nevada
Senator. .s:
HE IS FAVORABLE
TO ALL SECTIONS
Has Accomplished Much in Long
Career As a States
man.
By JUDSoN C. wELLIvER.

4
push, as a Presidential candidate Sem
ator Francis Griffith NewIands of Ne
| vada.
! No man in public life presents a mora
! remarkable array of qualifications en-
dtling him to consideration In such a
| connection. Born in old Natchez m
lSB. he was barely too young to see
service in the civil war. Reared in
Mississippi, he was educated at Yale. .
entering the class of 1867, though he
did not finish the course there. He
| took his law course in what is now
George Washington University, Wash
ington, and Immediately thereafter went
| TO San Francisco to practice. In 1859 he
moved to Nevada, and thence in a few
years came to Congress, serving ten
years in the House, and being now IN
his secOndo term in the Senate.
To the claim Of cosmopolitanism.
| which rests on his Southern nativity
and associations, his New England
education, his Pacific coast career, his
long service for Nevada and the nation
In Congress, he adds an Intimate par
ticfpation in large business affairs both
East and West.
Commands Wealth.
Of the California bonanza kings of
finance and politics, Senator Newlands
has long served as managing trustee OF
the immense Sharon estate. In that ca
recity he has been executor Of great
interests in California. Nevada, Wash
! ington, and other parts Of the country.
Yet despite his command Of great
wealth, no man of the millionaire class
in public life has been so notoriousIy
free from the suspicion of making i'm
proper use of money IN politics. About
the only objection ever raised against
him in Nevada Is that he doesn't
loosen right 1t is true; he doesn't; he
doesn't believe in it.
Advocates Primary.
Newlands had been an advocate Of
the primary system on the ground that
it would give the people a chance to get
what they wanted. He stood by his
doctrine, refused to attempt compe-
tition with the ancient arts Of the finan-
cier in politics-and won with such a
majority that the Legislature gave him
a unanimous vote for Senator.
The Nevada and California people
who are taking up Senator Newlands as
a candidate do not propose to put him
smallest state. They purpose to pre-
sent him as the choice Of the Pacific
and mountain West, and claim that he
Idaho. Montana, and the Southwestern
Territories-or States, II by that time
they shall be such.
This is not all. California is pressing
to the leadership in the movement be-
cause Of it's obliEations to Newlands for
his services to San Francisco after the
earthquake and fire. Perhaps no man
| in the State did more to sustain the con-
] a l. -
the Golden Gate during that trying per-
| iod.
Position In South.
| To the South, Newlands will look a.
| much the Southerner as woodrow Will
son or Champ Clark. To the far West
he is known as the author Of the great
reclamation code, the persistent advo-
| cate Of all progressive measures, and
the liberal, public spirited capitalist and
builder. The East knows him as safe,
sane, successful capitalist. The whole
country knows him as a publictst who
has been always a few years ahead Of
his times and contemporaries, and whose
| judgments have always been vind1cated
| b. .he course of events
| During his service in the House, the
Nevadan was on the Ways and Means
| Committee, taking important part in
! framing two tariff acts He was on
Irrigation. and there did the great piece
! of work which earned him the gratitude
| of the whole mountain west.
Work For Reclamation.
| In 1894 Mr.. Newlands developed his
! plan for reclamation Of arid lands and
conservation of water. He first pre-
sented it in IAN address to the people
! of Nevada" proposing what was prac-
ticaIly the present national reclamation
policy. Later he worked this into bill,
which finally passed. with his name at
tached, and established the great work
| of reclamation.
| A Democrat by nativity. Inheritance
and instinct. Mr.. Newlands also Is able
| to be a nationalist. He Is not one OF
| those who fear to have Congress under
| take a great task In Federal control or
l MANAGEMENT, lest there may be In
| frfngement on the rights Of the States.
| He never hesitated about the railroad
regulation measures; he was always
ahead of the procession. pulling ahead,
| instead of in the rear, ominouSly shak-
ing a head filled with misgivings about
| constitutional phases. He has intro
| duced measures looking to Federal in
| CORPORATION of all interstate railroads,
| and has had the satisfaction Of hearing
no less redoubtable a conservative then
Aldrich admit that it was the only and
/ the lneVltaDle SOIuIlOn.
Is An Independent.
He recently presented a bill for the
creation of the Interstate Trade Com
mission. designed to do, in the realm
of industry the work of the Interstate
Commerce Commission in the field OF
| finance.
He is a real independent; independent
| enough to be the earnest advocate OF
all the progressive proposals laid down
| by the National Republican Progressive
League in its platform. He favored
| tariff commission legislation. and con-
| sistently advocates gradual reduction
| of the tariff to the point at which COM
bination, monopoly and extortion shall
| be impossible.
| Indeed, 1t is as a possible legstee Of
the Bryan strength in a convention
| torn by faction and unable to concen-
trate a two-thirds vote on any other
candidate, that Newlands Is especially
urged He would be altogether agree
! able to the Nebraskan.
| For himself, Senator Newlands smiles
! good turedly but a bit deprecatingly,
when asked about the activities OF his
Western supporters. He has no iliu-
| tha ,,oaeih4ftfu ~ Dronf-