The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-09-17
81 HAWKINS (OMMthlS
ON ISSUES Ut (AnPAIGN

"The political pot is sure bilin
from the corner store symposium sat
urday night but as tar as getting
any real light on vital issues to us
farmers is concerned, we seem to he
gropln' round in the darkness quite as
much as ever. Gettin Teddy koose-
velt into the campaign doesn t seem to
have done anything except to confuse.
Roosevelt ana his supporters are con
tending that they are the only outfit
able TO do anything at all to better
conditions, while Taft and his man
ayers are protesting against any
swapping of horses in the middle of
the stream, especially at this time
when the country is enJoyinr an un-
precedented wave of prosperity, while
wilson and his crowd are setting by
with a handful of bricks and when
there is any iull in the exchange of
missiles between Roosevelt and Tat,
( they toss in few to keep the scrap
/ agoin', knowing that the more tightin
/ the Republicans do, the better the
chance of Democratic success.
Well, with all your argufyin ,
can I you get at any decision as to
which is the best man, interjeeted
Mrs. ST. Bet we women could settle
it in ten minutes.
/ you could if it was beauty show,
/ but it aint, retorted 81. Now in the
; first place Jake Beeheimer argues that
( it wan until five or six months ago
I that Roosevelt climbed on the pro
gressive Republican wagon, and that
I previous to that time-when he WASH I
hnuting animals in Atrlea--he acted
openly with the reactionaries; and that
4 when he did proclaim his so-called dee
laration of principles, he immediate
\ ly forgot 'em and lured Tart into a
campaign OF personal abuse without
an equal since the Civil war. lie went
on to say that Taft s failure was III
not being a self.adviser; that every
Z time Roosevelt put over ANYTHING II
got in all the newspapers, while Iaft
Just went ahead with his presidential
knittin and didn't keep any high
priced press agents on his payroll.
Taft is prosecuting the trusts more
than Teddy ever did, and some of em
contended that what Teddy meant by
good trusts and bad trusts, is that
the good trusts are the ones that sup
port Teddy and the bad trusts are
those that don t. The Standard Oil
lis now bein' accused of contributing
to one of Teddy's previous cam
paigns, and both sides are trying to
prove their case by laying everything
on people who are dead or out of the
country.
"But what's all this got to do with
the high cost of living, the tariff and
the regulating of the railroads and the
other things that we are really inter
ested in, interrupted Mrs. 81.
'.Nothin a all, y replied ~ Every
thing Of real consequence has been
sidetracked for what may be terme'
minor personal issues. None OF th'
political speakers are jumping on tht
railroads this year and 1T seems to ms
that the politicians have about reaf a
.el the same conclusion that most
their constituents have-that
tailroads are Just regulated enough
.net tao much. There is grave danger OF
ll,illing the goose that lays the golden
ogs In this scrapping against the
railroads. If il gets to q point Whert
money won 4 invest in the railroaas
then the growth Of the country VII
oct mighty sudden and disastrous
cheek. SO the politicians are hnaihs
, other issues whenever they stop ions
| enough from abusin each other
osTf the politicians want TO d'
Something of real benefit let them pass
, law grub stalking the farmer hv
: erybody else that has got some seaeu'' an
to promote can get it financed pu' TN