The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-10-19
LAST NIGHTS DEM
OCRATIC RALLY

Nixon opera house last evening ON the
issues of the campaign. Seated on the
stage were the usual band of county
officials and candidates, with the addi-
tion of Attorney General Baker and
Railroad Commissioner Shaughnessy
who happened to be in town in con
nection with the WelsFargo tax suit
Attorney Brandon presided at the
gathering and took occasion, in intro
ducing the speaker, to refer to the
fact that there had been but three
Democratic candidates for the as
sembly on the primary ballot, to-wit,
Scott, Welshons and himself, although
there had number since come out as
Independent Democrats, including La
Point, Hatch, Cole, Juett and the man
! from Mazuma, whose name he did not
recall That the three candidates who
stood for the primaries had a right to
and expected the votes of all Demo
Gratis in the county.
! During Brandon s burst of oratorv
Pittman carefully studied his audience
with the praeticed eye of the lawyer
/ looking over his jury, but later de-
velopments indicated that he had fail
/ ed to correctly guage the crowd He
started off by peddling small bouquets
/ to the Socialists, Progressives and
stand -patters in succession, but did not
succeed in warming them up. He then
switched and drew an alluring picture
of how, had it not been for that wick
/ ed and corrupt commerce court, the
valleys of Humboldt county might long
| ago have been settled with thousands
/ of farmers and the population of Win
nemucca increased from its present s.
| 900 or 10000 to 10000 or 10000. Even
this boost failed to score, to the
speakers IS evident chagrin. But being
a stranger, how was he to know that
the average Humboldt county Demo
crat believes that there are enough
people here now, and that to increase
the population might bring in lot
of Republicans, thus jeopardizing his
birthright to the offices9
i While Mr.. Pittman is rated as a
skillful lawyer, he evidently missed
/ his calling. As an actor, treading the
boards in "legit,'' he would fairly
shine. Nothing daunted with his fail
ure to stir up his audience, he per
severed, ringing in one change and
then others in rapid succession, mean
while striding up and down in front
of the stage, with gestieulations vary
ing from standing at his full height,
with outstretehed arms, to semi
erouching position, assumed by the
villain when about to grab the unsus-
pectnp heroine Beginning his speech
at S:30, finally, at $50, after an hour
of the hardest kind of work, he stun
bled on to the recall of the judiciary,
and was greeted with a hearty round
of applause. This so excited the
speaker that he grabbed a glass of
water, carelessly left standing on the
table, and cooled his parched throat,
exclaiming, "Guess | have at last
struck the Keynote - For the remain
ing 20 minutes of the address, which
closed at $780, the shedding was con-
siderably easier.
The statement, "You all know in
your hearts that Woodrow Wilson will
be the next president of the United
States,'' electrified the hungry faith
full in the audience, and their counte-
nances fairly beamed, as visions of
rich patronage passed before their
enraptured gaze. The bunch on the
stage smiled indulgently, exchanging
significant chances, which seemed to
say, Gwen attend to all of that at
the proper time.
Mr.. Pittman began his address with
the statement that the Republican
party, originally the genuine party of
reform, had been captured and taken
over by a coterie of men who had
skillfullv shifted the burden of tax
alton to the backs of the people, at
the same time shutting out foreign
competition, which allowed them to
fatten off the necessities of the peo-
Pile All this would be reversed by
the coming Democratic administration.
81 noticed today continued the
speaker, "a pail of gloom hanging
over your community, as though the
voters were being intimidated and
coereed. - At this time the speaker
did not pursue this thought further,
but changed to Bryan and the Baltl-
more convention, and from those
topics to the steel and wool biiis,
passed at the last session OF congress.
senators LaFollette, Cummins, Pom
dexter and Works, who voted with the
Democrats on these measures he
characterized as stanch Progressives,
who were the true friends OF the peo-
lnle He omitted to state, however,
that these Senators represented con.
stituencies who had no steel or wool
, TO sell, but touch the Wisconsin beer,
the Iowa canned vegetable industry,
Washington lumber or California elt.
, rms fruits. and this same bunch or
patriots would let out roar that woulo
raise the dome on the capitol building.
! Ua referred to the Senators who up
beld the veto of President Taft on
these measures, as stand-pat, reae,
! tionary, privilege-hunting, predatory
senators. = bracketing Crane OF Mas
sachrsetts, Galliuger of Vermont i,en
rose of Pennsylvania, Root of New
York. Guggenhem of Colorado, an
Massey of Nevada.
, According to the speaker, the sane nn
, Influences we're responsible for the ae- l,,
MI of the farmers free list bill,
vMcb would have reduced the cost OF
earm machinery, miners tools and ey, e,
ervtbing made of iron and steel lie
i, evidently overlooked the fact that