Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-09-13
The Democratic Nominee for United States Senator From
Nevada Gives Voters Food for Thought

| fought by the trusts, special interests
| and privileged classes, because the
| adoption of such reforms would elm
mate the agents of special interests,
the political boss and corruptionist,
as factors in politics, destroy the
! power of the privileged classes and
secure to the people the most direct
and fullest control over their gov
| eminent.
We mean to say this, that without
the accomplishment of those acts it
will be impossible for the people of
this country to secure and maintain
I control of this government.
And the main issue is still the
issue Of justice and right. 1t is the
| issue of whether or not the people
of this country shall be given the
free voice in the control of their gov
eminent that the constitution guar
anteed to them and that the found
ers of our government intended.
When l say that to you, l mean to
say that that issue is not only in
volved in the nation, but it is in
volved in the State, and 1t is involved
In every town, village and city
throughout this broad country of
ours.
For such reasons, those who be-
| lieve in the rule of justice and right
can be depended upon to enact and
enforce such reforms, if entrusted
| with governmental power.
If this reasoning be true, then
those who have been fighting for
such reforms have been fighting for
the people and for the rule of Justice
and right. and they should be given
the fullest power by the people, so
that in the end that great fight shall
be rewarded by the greatest of vic
tories.
False ProtestatiOns.
Unfortunately, those who are most
bitter in their antagonism to such re-
forms and the rule of the people, are
generally loudest in their false pro-
+ testations of friendship and support:
and year after year many sincere
and intelligent voters have thus been
lured into the net of the special in
terests and unwittingly made the
/ tools of torture for themselves and
. their fellow men.
Such receptions cannot long pre-
vail. The people are investigating
for themselves, and will know the
truth. They cannot be blinded as TO
the real issues by sham battles over
insignificant matters. They will no
longer submit, through party pride,
TO be blindly led into the snares of
the privileged classes. They will re-
sent in no uncertain manner the Of
torts OF the political bosses, the
briEers and the corruptionists, to in
suit their honesty and independence
as American citizens.
ANY party to succeed in the com.
ing campaign, must deal in facts and
notnng but facts, and those facts
must SHOW that such party stands
for the rule of all of the people. and
wee be to the party that fails to
show a sincere support of those leg
lslatlVe reforms so essential to such
rule.
The Republican Convention.
Such was the issue in the primar-
les, and in the two remarkable con-
yentlcns of the two great parties.
Such was the issue during the re-
cent years in our national Congress.
and such. Of a necessity, must be the
issue in the coming campaign.
me rank and file of the Republi-
can party recognized the issue in
thelr own party, and demanded the
selection of their Presidential nomi-
nee by direct primary preferential
vote. TIE result is known to all the
world. The choice of a vast major
ity OF the Republican party was for
one man, whilst the choice of the
special interests was for another.
Inc convention assembled 1t i'm
nledlately became apparent that the
republican party was under the cen
trol or the special interests, and that
Its nominations and its poIicies
would be dominated by such sDeciaI
interests. Justice and right had mo
place at that convention. The rule
or privilege and might alone was
recognized. There was not even n
pretehned ebert to arrive at the JUS
tce OF the various contests, AMI the
right of free discussion was smotb-
ered under the ruthless wheels of
the steam roller.
The wishes Of the Republican vot-
ers were ignored, AMI their recon-
nendations as to party policies were
treated with all the contempt that
those who maintained the rule of
privilege AMI might have for the
masses, even though they be of their
own party. On every hand. activeIv
participating in crushing and humil-
iatfng the mass of Republican voters.
Diihu 10 all honor or reason, deaf to
an voices save the selfish grow1 of
the trusts and the whining pleas Of
their candidate, feelingless save az IN
fear, lest their conspiracy against the
people should fail, swarmed the
agents Of predatory wealth. the trust,
serving United States Senator's. the
greedy horde of Office holders and
their vile retinue OF spies, bullies
and bribers.
Taft Trust Candidate.
Why they we're fighting so desner-
ately for the nomination of one MANI
Was II because he had proven that
| he stands for the same thing thew
stand for?
Was II because he had vetoed the
! farmers free list bill?