The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-03-18
MANAGER WANTED
BY REPUBLICANS
(From f. j. DYER.)
Especial to Silver State)


WASHINGTON, Mar. 1s.--s Wanted
A capable political manager by tne
Republican party to take charge of,
and make all preparations for the next
presidential campaign Must have ex-
perience, yet be without entangling al
liances. Small salary large RESPONSE
bilities, and probably a cabinet posi-
tion for the right man, but he must be
prepared to be made the goat if the
election goes the wrong way. Come
prepared to go to work at once.o
This is about the kind of a "want
adj the leaders of the Republican
party would like to put out, if they
should go about the selection of
campaign manager in that way. The
party is in need of a manager. The
man at present holding that position,
Postmaster General Hitchcock, is
reasonably busy attending to the
duties of his office, and the election of
president of the United States is a
job big enough to justify the most
capable man in the country in giving
his entire attention to it. Besides,
last time it was Republican year.
All signs seem to indicate that next
time it will be Democratic year. To
snatch victory from conditions which
will prevail then will reflect the high
est credit on the man who runs the
campaign. To lose will hardly cover
him with obloquy.
Frankly speaking, there is a dirth
of men big enough to fill the position
which will be vacant as soon as Post
master General Hitchcock relinquishes
it. 1t is rumored that he is most
anxious to let go, but that men of
capacity, experience and the other
qualities imperative in that position
can hardly be found. Ex-senator Car
ter has been mentioned, but he is un-
derstood not to want it. There seem
to be no other nominations, but the
right man exists-the thing is to find
him.
His Aversion for Lemons.
Francis Burton Harrison, the youth
full millionaire who represents part of
the City of New York in congress,
has great many pushcart men and
owners of fruit stands and saloons in
his district Possibly it is because of
this fact that he is violently, almost
ferociously, opposed to the tariff on
lemons OF course being a Democrat
probably has something to do with it,
but he might also have deep aver
sion to the tariff on steel, or wooden
goods, or glassware, and be just as
good a Democrat. Most of his millions
were made in California which is
very much in favor of a tariff on
lemons, but Mr.. Harrison is now
largely supported by the pushcart
men, the grocers, and the saloon men,
1t is related that Congressman Harri-
son, who is a member of the ways and
means committee, listened almost
docilely to the discussions on the tar
iff while the Payne bill was being put
into its final shape until the word
lemons was mentioned, when he sprang
to his feet and delivered an impas-
stoned oration against affording any
protection to lemons at all. "What
has Harrison got against lemons?"
asked one member. "Oh, I guess,
answered the other party, "someone
must have handed him one some
time. -
The Anecdotal Fever.
The demand for Washington anec-
dotes seems to have stimulated the
manufacture of alleged authentic
storyettes about statesmen by writers
who have never been in the nation s
capital. The danger of trying to fake
in such cases is illustrated by an anec-
dote which was seen recently in a
western paper credited to that vague
/" Exchange which seems froeordain-
ed to bear so many burdens from
which Others shirk The funny man
on this Exchange printed an anec-
dote in which figured Congressman
Bartlett, of Nevada, who is not
lame duck even though he will not
come back to the next congress, for the
simple reason that he preferred to go
back and practice law rather than
serve any longer in congress, ruin his
health in Washington's climate and
neglect the opportunities now present
ing themselves to make competence
for his family. Mr.. Bartlett was re
ferred to in the anecdote as ga tall,
tawnv haired man. Now, Bartlett
NAV. bv a stretch of the Imagination,
be termed "tawnny-haired, although
his hair, what there it of it, is rather
soft chestnut color; but tall? Why,
Bartlett must weigh 100 pounds when
he is in good condition, and he stands
about five feet five tall in his boots.
i But he's live wire, and as full of
\ energy as catamount is full of fight
The Generals Retort.
/ Talking about the Mexican rebellion
-''If YOU have to go to the front, | ii
get behind you, said Assistant At
torney General Oscar Lawler to Gen
/ eral Marshall, who is the biggest and
broadcast man in the army.
"No legal squabbles for me, re-
torted General Marshall. eff it comes
to the worst II turn my back toward
the enemy, and with you behind me
I'll defy them -
WANTED-Position by experienced