The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-04-13
figuring COST OF
PRESENT CAMP PAICN
Especial to the Silver state.)

No one save the managers them
selves, probably not even the candi-
dates, can answer that question. But
the amount of money required is
very large. Every year it grows
larger.
Reference is made, naturally, to a
presidential campaign. just now the
preliminary skrimish for the nomina-
tion by both parties is on, and the
money is flying merrily. And there is
plenty of it, too. Most of the cam
gpaign funds were financed in Wall
street. TIL Harmon people, the Roose-
welt boomers, the Wilson enthusiasts,
the Taft stand -patters, the Underwood
shouters-all of them are credited
with canvassing Big Business for
financial help Some of them may de-
my it, but the evidence has been fair
lily conclusive Some of the trust mag
mates are openly roofing for one Of
the leading candidates The LaFol-
lette people got considerable money
from little coterie of rich men who
hope to become pubic benefactors, in
cidentally securing controlling in
fluence on governmental policies.
There are some other potential candi-
dates, scarcely in the running as yet,
who are not in need of any particular
campaign fund and who need not be
considered now.
But, you say, one has been over
looked. Oh, Champ Clark? Well, it
seems just now that Champ Clark is
very much in the limelght. But the
movement for Champ Clark is more of
a spontaneous movement than any of
the others mentioned. In the nrst
place he has never had regular fund,
and until former Senator Dubois, of
Idaho, took hold, he did not have any
regular campaign manager. He occu-
ipied peculiarly advantageous posi-
tion because of the prominence he had
attained as the leader in the house of
his party, The ADVERTISING he has had
as such has been of inestimable ad-
vantage and outweighs by far any
quantity of money that could be
thrown into the fight of any other
candidate who was less liked by the
public. Camp Clark announced early
in the fight that he woud have none of
the trust IS money nor tainted money
of any kind, and it has been the won
der of the other political camps how
he has been able to carry on his fight
without money
But this is not intended to be any
eulogy of Clark. At the same time it
may be well to keep your eye on the
man from Missouri.
I While it looks as if the two leaders
had distanced the competitors in the
race for the nomination, one in each
party, it should be remembered that
there is time for many changes. Take
Col. Roosevelt, for example. He has
hardly begun to fight yet. The reeep-
tion he has been getting on his speak
in tour should be a strong indication
that he still has a warm place in the
affection of the people. Politicians
may desert him on the first indication
of his political weakness, but the
people are more loyal.
The Taft people are very confident,
but the Roosevelt managers announce
that they will make contest for dele
gates all along the line and it will be
no walk-over, from present Indications
China's Awakening.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen has formally turn
ed over the reins. government to his
successor. The foreign powers are pre-
, pairing to loan China all the money it
needs to reorganize the government
and put things on a practical basis.
Some disorder still exists, but there
, is every indication that the govern
ment will be able to suppress the ban
dts and outlaws, and preserve peace,
while effecting the great changes con-
, templated in political, commercial
and sociological conditions in their re-
, public.
With the development of the vast
and but partly understood resources
of China, there will be need for many
, millions of dollars of foreign capital
to build railways, establish steamship
lines, install telegraph and telephone
systems, open and develop mines and
to do all the things which should be
done to bring to light the resources
and the wealth of great country.
The course already pursued by the en-
lightened men who have control of
China s destinies indicate that for
egn capital will be fully protected
and that there is field in China for
!, exposition which cannot prove other
than very tempting and remunerative.
A Fascinating Country
Well was China called the "F1ow-
cry Kingdom 1t is and ever has
been one of the most wonderful and
fascinating lands under the sun. It's
customs have been so strange, its arts
and crafts so different and interesting,
everything about il so unlike the re-
mainder of the world, that there has
ever seemed to be an air of mystery
and romance about the nation that
could build great wall thousands of
miles long to keep at bay the savage
hordes that threatened it. 1t is to
China that President ID. G. Collier of
the San Diego exposition has turned
for some of the features which are to
be leading attractions in the big show
of 1915, in the southern California
city. A special envoy is now on his
way to the Celestial kingdom. He is
empowered by President Collier to
seek among the porcelain pagoda, the
sacred environs of the Forbidden CITY
tn ecurio shops of Conton, the bronze
workers and the carvers of jade and
Lnther semi- -nrecinns stnnas-everv.