Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-07-01
PLUNGE THE COUNTRY INTO A MONEY PANIC
AND EXPLODE THE FREE TRADE THEORY

Frank l. Reber one Of the demo /
cratic war horses o. the state places
himself squarely on record in favor
Of protection and against the policies
enunciated by Senator Key Pittman
in the following editorial taken from
the National Miner, under the cap.
ton, take Your Medicine"
During the campaign last fall,
and in fact in every national cam.
paign for the past fifteen years. the
fight between the two great national
parties has been on the tariff ques-
ton, the republican party represent.
ing protection and the democratic
party free trade. The people, in their
wisdom decided at each election. I'M
til last fall, that the republican party
with it's tariff protection was the
proper party to conduct the affairs
of the national government The
campaign being conducted by the
newspapers and magazines during
the past several years against the
trusts has made the people restless
and of the belief that a change was
needed, and with the presidential
election of last fall this belief com
bined with the bolt of Theodore
Roosevelt, swept the democratic
party into control, not only of the
house and senate, but the office of
president as well
In this state the fight was cen
tered on the United States senator
ship. between Massey and Pittman,
and the latter was elected by the
vote from Elko county The issue
was clearly defined by the two can
) didates during their speeches at this
! place during the campaign, and even
though the republican candidate, Mas
sey, hal been a resident of this coun-
J ty for years and had the confidence
of the people, they voted for Pittman
and free trade. Now that Senator
Pittman is living up to his cam
paign promises, and is standing
with the administration on the free
trade question, these same people,
prominent democrats. who worked
and voted for him, are bowling over
| the fact that he is doing the very
thing he was elected to do, and are
sending him petitions to vote ON the
tariff question what they denied
Massey the right to do.
I'VE worked for the election OF
Senator Massey and gainst the cleo
ton of Senator Pittman, believing
that the good of the country demand
ed the continuation of the protective
tariff that has been the means o.
building up the greatest and grand
est country on the face Of the globe
We have no cause to change ou
i belief and the present duh timet
and unrest of the whole country i
due to nothing but the avowed in
tention of the present administra
= ton to put into force the free trad
doctrines. We believe that it vii
mean hard times for the whole eouT
try during the present ADMINISTERS
a ton and that the unrest will cor
tinue until the democrats are out {
power.
But, believing as we do we ais
20 believe that as the people voted fc
the application of free trade in pu
ting the opponents of that policy int
complete control, that the democrat
party should apply the free trad
te measures and give them fair trii
in order to prove to the people thu
A this is not the solution of the grei
= problem that confronts us today.
1--WE are also firmly of the bell
that it is not the solution and TIL
& the people will see their mistal
and at the next election vote Il
republican party back into pow
again. Practically this same THU
occurred when Grover Cleveland WI
elected and 1t is histroy how Il
{ country was plunged into pam
when the democrats attempted
put free trade principles into opeI
+. ton. That was twenty years as
and history is repeating itself, al
we predict that republican ian
>r slide win occur in 1915 The sc
ereign people are peculiar peor
40 in that they are never satisfied al
~ need taste of the bitter to hri
them to their senses.
=, Free sugar, free wool free mea
~ free lead will work mighty hai
IN ship on the good people of the fl
90 state of Nevada, but the democrs
" should stand up and take their me