The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-10-12
sir FRANCIS" IN
ROLE OF COMMON[R

The Nixon opera house was fairly
well filled last evening, on the occas-
ION of the Democratic rally The chairs
on the lower floor were from one-half
to two-thirds filed with a representa-.
tive audience of Democrats, Republi
cans and Bull Moosers, with a sprinkl.
ing of ladies, attracted by the an.
nouncement that Senator Newlands
would be the principal speaker of the
evening Sam Belford was not pres
ent. The funeral dirge played by the
band as the opening selection was not
at all inappropriate to the occasion.
The stage was draped with the Ma
tionai colors, while from a point in
the center of the curtain, at the TOP.
woodrow Wilson and Governor Mar
shall looked benignly down upon the
assemblage. Ranged along the foot
lights were portraits of Pat McCarran,
Key Pittman and Clay Tallman. Upon
viewing the scene, man near the
door perhaps not inaptly exclaimed
Jack full on kings. -
L. A. Brandon acted as chairman of
the meeting and Chris Wolf, j. A. Cal
lahan, c. b. Welshons and County
Treasurer Hoenstine occupied seats on
the platform. Upon an invitation by
the chairman, Judge Ducker and Coun-
ty Clerk Davey came forward and
took seats on the stage. Judge Sam
Bonnifield was also called upon, but
failed to responed.
| The whole proceeding was more like
funeral than political rally. An
AR of gloom pervaded the room, and
while the speaker was given a limited
amount of applause, it lacked ginger,
as did his speech. Senator Newlands
can hardly be accused of being an or.
ator, but he is withal pleasing speak
er, and were he talking on a subject
he believed in would make good i'm
preston. But his heart was evidently
not in his words, and the speech was
delivered in a perfunctory manner,
without force.
| The amusing feature of the evening
was the attempt of "Sir Francis to
hold himself and Prof. Wilson up to
the audience as great commoners, the
associates of Bryan. In keeping with
this eonceit the speaker walked down
from the hotel to the opera house be-
fore the meeting, which is probably
the longest walk he has taken since
his last campaign. The absence of a
reception committee was notice
able. His address consisted of
the old Democratic generalities,
more or less glittering. and lasted
for one and half hours. OF this
time the first so minutes was devoted
to eriticizing Roosevelt and Taft and
eulogizing Bryan. He termed the Bull
Mooser military man, great, am
bilious dictator, likened unto Napol-
con or Julius Caesar, while Bryan
was the just. humane and kindly man,
devoid of egotism and selfshness.
Taft was good, honest, courageous
man, but unfortunately of aristocratic
instincts, who believed that the peo-
pie were unfit to govern themselves
Twenty minutes was devoted to Will
son, and the remaining 20 minutes to
Pittman and Tallman. Gov. Mar
shall's name was not mentioned dur
ing the evening.
Senator Newlands began his address
by the statement that the government
had left the hands of the people, and
for some years had been in the hands
of the interests, and that it was now
the mission of the Democratic party to
bring the government back to the
people. At the present time the gross
annual revenues of the government
are one billion dollars, of which amount
90 per cent is raised by taxation on
what we eat, drink and wear, and the
remaining four per cent comes from
the corporation tax. Three hundred
millions are annually collected from
the people as customs duties, and in
this manner the people are paying not
only the dollar the goods cost in for
eign markets, but tax of so cents as
well. This tax had enabled the trusts
to stifle home competition, with the
result that they are today taxing the
American people so per cent on ten
times the amount of the imports, or
three billion dollars worth of manu-
factured articles. Under the benef-
cent Democratic administration, which
will begin next March, all this win be
changed The burden of taxation will
be taken off the poor and placed on
the wealth of the country, where it
belongs, in the shape of an income tax.
Constructive Democracy"
Senator Newlands declared that the
sherman antitrust law had never been
properly enforced by any administra-
tion since its passage, but qualified
tual SLtItUltnb ny that
President Taft had accomplished more
in this direction than all other presi-
dents combined He pointed to the
fact that, while the oil, sugar and
tobacco trusts had been ordered dis
solved by the Supreme Court of the
United States, the divided companies
were today stronger than they were
under the union. The speaker had
frequently referred to a constructive
Democracy. but he failed to state
what the policy of that hitherto un-
known party would have been in the
premises.
Wilson, the "Commoner. r."
Towards the end of the address tn
speaker took up Woodrow Wilson
whom he declared to be man OF the
neople and who had democratizeo
Princeton university. He explained the
o~ofessor's perfidious treatment OF
rol uarvey and Henry Watters0n by