The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-12-21
REPUBLICANS LOOK
|. Ing FOR HARMONY
(Speciei to the Silver State.)

the Republican national committee
has held its session and decided about
the convention, the country is breath
ing easier. Seemingly no one knew
what dangerous and unexpected de-
velopments might occur when all of
the big men comprising the committee
got together and exchanged conf
dences about the chances of the party
for success in the next campaign. 1t
proved to be pretty tame meeting
after all, and the most alarming thing
about it was the specter of Bwana
Tumbo which many of the committee
men thought they could discern in the
background, behind a pillar or among
the shadows of the corridors
Seeking Harmony.
The Republican leaders are indus
triously seeking harmony, and that
most eminent of all pacifers, Senator
Crane, of Massachusetts, is passing
the soothing syrup around very indus
triously He has not been able to ad-
minister much of it to the insurgents
but the latter would welcome some
physician who could heal the rents in
their own ranks. The Democratic in
surgents are not entirely of one mind
either, and they are anxious that some
one should help them to make peace
with honor with the various factions
of their party, although they would
scorn to admit that they are even
looking askance at the olive branch
Perhaps, as the Gridiron wits had it.,
anyone who bears the olive branch
nowadays is goose and not dove
1t seems little early in the season to
look for harmony.
A Remuneration.
Senator Newlands, who has been
mentioned a good deal as a possible
candidate for the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination, announced recently
that he had no desire to become can
didate; that what he was really anx-
ious for was that congress should take
up legislative program and saw wood
until it should succeed in putting
through some real, useful legislation
Perhaps the nomination of Senator
Newiands was somewhat unlikely, but
the statesman from Nevada is a real
sts esman, and he has made a record in
congress which hardly needs any fur
ther establishment. He could 90 in
to the convention and get very flat
/ tering complimentary vote and per-
haps win the nomination, in case of a
deadlock, but he is averse to PLAYING
politics of that kind
Exposition Legislation.
Not only the Pacific coast, but the
whole country is interested in the Pan.
ANA expositions to be held in Califor-
MIA in 1915. Congress has before it a
resolution asking the president to ex-
tend to the nations of Latin America
invitations to attend and exhibit at
the Panama California international
exposition to be held in San Diego in
1915. There is another resolution pro-
viding for the appointment of gov
ernment exposition commission These
matters came up recently before the
senate committee on international ex-
/ positions, of which Senator Root is
/ chairman, and action was deferred un-
til January There are some matters on
which the exposition officials are to
be asked to reach an agreement, and
then it is expected that the senate will
pass the resolutions and send them
back to the house, which has already
passed one of them and will accept
any suggestions the senate will prob
ably make. Meanwhile it is pleasing
to learn that the San Diego exposition
is making excellent progress in the
work of preparing the parklike setting
and in constructing the buildings
which will grace it.
A Farmer at Heart.
Speaker Champ Clark is a farmer at
heart, no matter what may be his vo-
cation. How he ever escaped the lure
of the farm is a mystery, for there is
nothing which is so sure to arouse his
interest as the mention of some agri-
= n Rnf 1or
the speaker was talking with two gen.
tlemen from southern California about
the land of the orange, the lemon and
eternal harvest time. The Califor-
mans, DR.. ]. Allen Osmun and Frede-
rick A. Hazard, happened to be grow
ers of walnuts, the kind sold every
where as English walnuts and which
are grown hardly at all in England.
The speaker became attentive at once
"Do you think we could grow those
in Missouri he asked. Dr. Osmun
replied that from what he knew of
the climate of Missouri he believed
that the English walnut could be
grown there, as it can be grown in
most of the states south of the Ohio
river. The department of agriculture
has devoted a good deal of attention
to nut growing, and reports successful
efforts to grow different varieties of
soft shelled walnuts as far north as
Maryland
Must Create Demand.
Experts say that the California wal
nut is the finest in the world, and it is
reasonable to expect that just as good
nuts can be grown in Georgia, Florida.
Texas, Louisiana and dozen other
states. That there is a demand for
walnuts may be judged from the fact
that the government collects duties
amounting to about $1,000,000 a year
on them. If the consuming public in
this country knew that the home pro.
duct is better than the foreign, pos
sibly the importations would de-
crease, but even the dealers know
little better. 1t is the jobber who
knows, and his concern is solely to
handle the goods which yield him the