The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-09-17
TAFT MEN AN
SW[R ROOSEVELT

cago attorney, who have camped on
the rraIl of the big Bull Moose, passed
through Winnemucca Sunday evening,
in their special car, attached to
Southern Pacific No. g. Both gentle
men had addressed a mass meeting at
Ogden Saturday evening and were
hurrying to San Francisco, to answer
the speeches of Roosevelt in that city
At Winnemucca the special car was
boarded by II. B. Maxson, Republican
National committeeman, who came
over from Reno ON No. 10, Thomas
Nelson, Republican candidate for
presidential elector, a representative
of the Reno Gazette and a stenog-
rapher.
1t had been intended for the dis
tinguished speakers to address meet
ing at Reno Saturday evening, but
they lost a day, and for that reason
We're obliged to pass through Nevada
without stopping, in order to catch up
with their quarry. Col. Maxson had
a copy of Roosevelt's Reno address,
which was read to the gentlemen,
when Mr.. Harlan dictated the follow
ing reply, which appeared in last
night s Reno uazette:
- have read with a great deal of
interest the speech which Colonel
Roosevelt delivered at Reno yesterday.
! 1t was delicious in one respect, in that
as usual, he claimed the credit for the
/ things which other men have accom-
/ plished. He told the people of Reno
of his sole personal responsibility for
! the wonderful reclamation work which
i is being done. He became sponsor for
/ the pure food law. He showed how
the mantle of Abraham Lincoln had
fallen on him He attacked the BOSSES
and he repeated the stoch speech
which he has been making through
this great country.
Theodore Roosevelt did some
! things while he was president for
which | admire him. But in his
speech of yesterday he claimed the
credit for things in which he had no
part His ideas of conservation today
are based on what Mr.. Taft has ac-
complished and not on what he did
himself when he was president Neitn-
er in conservation nor in reclamation
did Theodore Roosevelt ever put into
xeffect through his own efforts or in
spire in the efforts of others any ra-
/ tional and practicable scheme of reela-
nation or conservation. The men of
this western country know that the
4 conservation ideas of Roosevelt would
have been ruinous to the country, if
enacted into law without change. The
theories which he advanced were the
theories of Pinchot, which have never
been practicable. | do not need to 90
into detail | simply desire to call
your particular attention to the fact
that Roosevelt, on the stumn as a
candidate for third term in the
White house, is appropriating to him
self the ideas of others, and telling
them that what they have accomplish
ed, he inspired or actually did.
A Foe to Pure Food
ellis attitude on the pure food law
is entirely in keeping with his pur-
poses on the stump There is one man
in this country who must be given the
credit for the pure food law. That
man is Doctor Wiley Doctor Wiley
has denounced as absolutely untrue
Roosevelt 5 claims for credit in this
matter and he has denounced in the
most positive language, Theodore
Roosevelt as the greatest enemy of the
pure food law in the United States.
That is a fact which cannot be con-
troverted, a fact which essentially
brands as untrue, and as deliberately
untrue the statements of Roosevelt.
But untrue and deliberate misrep-
resentation is the substantial basis of
the Roosevelt campaign. He told the
men and women of Reno yesterday
what he thought of the reciprocity act.
He did not tell them that the various
thoughts which he has had on reciprc-
ity have been formulated in obedience
to the eXigencies of political situations
and his own ambitions. just exactly
eleven years ago on the very day on
which Roosevelt spoke at Reno, he
raised his hand in the solemn hush of
a limited audience in the nomse of
Anslev' Wilcox on Delaware avenue
in Buffalo and announced that he
would carry out to the letter the
policies of William Mckinley, who
then lay dead in the Milburn house
four squares away.
Zone week previous to that, on the
day of which he was shot, William
Mckinley declared for the maximum
and minimum tariff and for the great
principle of reciprocity as the means
of expanding our commerce. Roosevelt
spent seven and one-half years in the
White house as president and in those
two terms he never wrote or voiced a
word to bring about the fulfi-lment OF
the great desire of the martyred Me
Kinley During the time when Pres
ident Taft had under consideration
the reciprocity pact with Canada
Roosevelt wrote President Taft,approv
ed of his plans, and approved of the
projected reciprocity treaty 1t was
not until he found that the farmers OF
the United States We're opposed te
reciprocity with Canada, until h'
found or decided that he would be 6
candidate for the presidency himself
that he announced his opposition tt
reciprocity. With his ear to the grounC
he brushed aside his promises, hi
pledges, his previous assertion of con
viction to the value of reeiprocit,
with Canada, completely reversed him
self and for the sake of gaining th'
farmer vote stultified himself and de