The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-01-04
PRESIDENTIAL Cos
SIP AT CAPITAL
Especial to the Silver State.)

lievlng that Ohio is no longer to be
considered a WESTERN state when it
comes to casting up his fortunes in
political way, thereby making it de-
sirable that man from out Of the re-
| gion west of the Mississippi be select
ed as running mate for the president,
should the latter again be nominated,
still it must be admitted Ohio is cutting
a big figure with both, one might say
with ALL political parties Added force
is given to this remark by the action
of Senator LaFollette, avowed candi-
date for the presidency on the pro-
gressive platform, in Just making his
political declaration from the hustings
to the voters of Ohio. What he has
said may be considered the formal dec
laration of faith by man who is out
for the highest honors his country has
to bestow, and who is accustomed to
get what he goes after if the getting
of it lies within the range of his
abilities.
Senator LaFollette has won the re-
spect of his antagonists. He has quail
fed as fighter whose thrusts draw
the crimson, and while many profess
to believe that his present campaign is
more of a qualifying round for the
/ fight to come four years hence. he is
making a great showing with his pres
ent organization. At any rate, he has
added his testimony to that of other
politicians that Ohio is state which
has almost preponderating Influence
in the final result. That he goes from
Ohio to Michigan, Illinois and Indiana
in no way weakens the strength of this
statement, but rather adds to it, Lat
er in the season the senator from Wis
consin will invade country generally
regarded as more friendly to him,
probably taking in Oklahoma, Kansas,
Nebraska, Iowa, the Dakotas and
Minnesota. President Tafts decision
to follow LaFollette through Ohio only
adds to the feeling Of pleased import
anee that residents of that state may
be supposed to enjoy.
The gathering of strength by the
incipient Roosevelt boom is causing
some dismay among progressive lead
ers. They declare that they are a unit
for LaFollette, and that the diversion
in favor of Roosevelt is a devise of the
enemy to weaken their support, and
that it is without the sanction of the
colonel himself. Senator Bourne. of
Oregon, prime mover in the national
| progressive movement and who is go
ing TO offer himself up as a sacrifice to
the theory that the people are to be
/ trusted to retain in Office those men
who have faithfully guarded their in
terests, and who will disdain TO make
a campaign for reelection because he
thinks it due his constituents that they
should have an opportunity to justify
the faith he has in them, has recently
had an interview with the sage of
Sycamore Hill, and he feels a conf
denee that he is unwilling to put into
words that All well in that quarter.
! Somehow the impression is being cul-
tivated sedulously that this is going
to be Democratic year, and that
the Republicans can't win; at least un-
til they decide to recall the Cincin-
natus Of Oyster Bay from his agrarian
iabors to carry the party standard.
The Republicans who have other can
didates than the colonel in view hoot
at TINS sort of talk and declare that it
is always rampant about the time of
the political moon Just preceding a big
convention. They tell us that the
seemingly disaffeted Republicans will
get together all right Just as soon as a
leader is chosen and wipe the earth
with the free trade hosts, and more
talk of the same kind. Yet we see an
unusual earnestness among candidates
Tor the Democratic nomination, and it
looks is If they could see that the
honor would mean something more
TINS year of grace than to carry the
banner to a noble defeat
Congress is about to reassemble, and
we shall see staged there some of the
iinest kind of presidential politics, the
title OF the first act being billed as
Reform the tariff in the interests of
the public The only difference of
opinion will prove to be who consti-
tutes the "public.''
Waiting on the Senate.
Both of the big Panama expositions
~ California to celebrate the opening
OF the canal in 1915 are waiting on the
aeuon OF the senate with regard to
the form of a resolution inviting for
elgn nations to participate and the
appointment of government commits
SION. At San Diego there is no sign
ontwardy that congress is delaying
matters. Construction work is being
rushed aiang under high pressure, but
I II is undehably true that there is de-
! lay in securing favorable action by
forelgn governments regarding ex-
hihits so long as the United States
government is quibbling over the exact
form that shall be given resolution.
Printing in the United States.
What the printers and publishers of
the country are doing has been made
the subject of a special bulletin by the
census bureau, which finds that these
are %, ,l43 publications in the countr,
with an aggregate circulation Of ~
4dS, 100 copies per issue. OF these ?
SJ2 a1e dailies (exclusive of Sunday),
with I'M aggregate circulation of 2a
@lf,l and 1907 are weeklies, With
IN aggregate circulation of 40,S22 ,965.
y 18th all due respect to the census bu-
reau If it has really established these
facts it has done something no other
gency has ever been able to accom-
al