The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-02-17
POLITICAL RUMORS
THICK AT CAPITAL
Especial to the Silver State.)

gTesS lS IN session at Ine same Time,
there hardly dull moment in Wash
ington. When someone isn't launch
ing a presidential boom, someone else
is squelching one, knitting or smother
| ing one, as the case may be.
| Being the center Of national political
activity, Washington gets all rumors
that may be flying about the country.
It's immaterial that most of these ru-
mors are not true; they serve as news
while they are hot, and before they
have been thoroughly digested in all
Of their beneficial or sinister potential
tiles, they are replaced by a fresh out
put.
| Fearing, perhaps, that there would
not be enough material for the politi-
cal forecasters to work on this year,
there have been established, mainly
in Washington, large number of po-
lltical news bureaus, and these are
showering the newspaper correspond
ents, as well as the editors through
out the country, with propaganda
about candidates in whose interests
the bureaus are supposed to be work
ing. Very often the candidates are
the ones having the smallest real in
terest in the game, but sometimes they
serve as stalking horses for other in
terests and at the same time help to
make "news' which is consumed in
place of the real article and often be-
ing distinguished from it.
The Oleo People.
/ It looks as If the butter trust had
overstepped its reasonable limit re-
Gently when it made its last raises in
the market quotations. The makers of
oleomargerine promptly saw their OPP
portunity and advanced arguments,
based largely on the price, why
"oleo' should be used instead of but
ter. In consequence there was a large
increase in the sale of the butter sub
stitute. Probably this was due to the
demand by hotel and boarding house
keepers. The public at large is not
yet so accustomed to the use of the ar
tifcial or imitation butter as to buy
it knowingly. although it may be quite
wholesome. Many persons would prob
ably be surprised to learn that they
have been eating oleomargerine, or
" butterine,' for years believing all
the time that they were eating
creamery hutter.''
Morse Well Again.
: The many friends of Banker Morse,
also Convict Morse viii be very highly
pleased to learn that since his release
from prison as Atlanta his health has
so much improved that he is contem-
plating trip to Europe. All his doe
tors. who recently predicted his early
demise, say that he is almost complete
| lv recovered The pardon of Mr..
Morse was brought about largely by
the unremitting efforts of his wife who
to petitions in his behalf, and to create
favorable sentiment in other ways.
1t is intended now to get President
Taft to remove the remaining stigma,
against the exbanker and have him re-
stored to full privileges of citizenship.
Mr.. Gompers and Shakespeare.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, BEING
on examination before Justice Wright
of the District of Columbia, was ques
toned regarding an expression he
printed in the organ of his Fedora
ton, in October, 1907, namely: $50 to
-- with your iniunctions. The Ia
Dor leader explained that the form in
which the expression was printed was
an inadvertence or something like
that; that he meant to have put q
comma where the dash was, and that
the expression was meant as Shakes
pearian quotation. He said he was a
great student of Shakespeare, always
carrying a copy in his pocket.
Collier and the Exposition.
Few men who have ever come to
Washington to plead special cause
have made a stronger impression on
those with whom they came in contact
than Col. ID. c. Collier, president of
the San Diego exposition, which is to
be held in San Diego in 1918. Col. Col
lier knows more members of congress
than most men get to know after hv-
ing in Washington ten years. More
over, they like the big westerner, and
they are anxious to do almost anything
he may ask for the exposition. How
ever, the colonel is asking very little,
as he knows the unique. splendid show
that will be given in San Diego will
prove an irresistible attraction to peo-
pie all over the world. One thing alone,
the great congress of aborigines will
draw like a magnet, for all the world
has always found something irresisti-
bly, attractive in the American Indian.
With Col. Collier there is no subject
so full of poetry, romance and inter
est as San Diego. John Barrett, di.
rector of the Pan American Union,
tells this on Collier:
At a gathering one day those pres
ent were required to tell story or in
some other way help to entertain the
party. When they came to Col. Collier
who by the way is really polished
~acontenr. he remarked: 81 don ;"
think. for the moment, of any new
story that ! can tell you. hut y -
his ewes frightened as if he had h"a
on inspiration. eff you wish, | wonld
Ike to say few words about San
Diego. AS the president of the San
Diego exposition had been talking
about little else than San Diego, it
might be supposed that he was hooted
down. On the contrary everyone call
ed out, "good, tell us some more
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