White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-18
HARMONY FOR
PERSONAL ENDS
ATTORNEY SAM. w. BELFORD
FAILS TO SEE PARTY LOYALTY
IN ATTITUDE OF SENATOR
NEWLANDS.


for some time. has returned to his
home In Reno. Knowing that Mr..
Belford keeps his ear to the ground
and is posted IS to the import OF tia
constantly recurring political rum
bles that emnate from the demo-
cratic camp, and hearing, too, of the
recent conference between Ex-
Governor Dickerson and Senator
Newlands. in the interests of 'har-
mony," and where it is reported Mr..
Dickerson and Mr. Newlands shook
hands for the first time in three
years." and then after an hour and
a quarter left more opposed to each
other than eyer--hearing all this and
having confidence in Mr.. Belford's
veracity and knowledge of the situa-
ton. the News sought an interview
as to the state of affairs in the Me-
vada democracy, as sized up by Mr..
Belford. He said:
The recent political conferences in
Reno in the supposed interest of
party harmony are all right in their
way and they may be productive OF
some ultimate good, but there are
more important things than party
harmony. The people of this coun-
try are no longer interested in the
success of any political party. as
such,, but they are extremely inter-
ested in knowing what the party will
do when it is entrusted with power.
They have the right to know this and
they have the right to insist upon
the performance in good faith of
those things which were agreed to
be done.
Men should have no right to ask
for political preferment because they
are Democrats or Republicans. but
only because they are committed to
definite and known lines of conduct,
and when they are unwilling to abide
by the great distinctive policies to
which their party Is pledged, they
should cease to claim the support Of
| its members.
This is the situation of Senator
Conferences cannot change this re-
suit. What he is seeking b harmony
to advance his own selfish interests,
not for the good of the party. not for
the good of the country, but any
thing that is good for Newlands.
His position in the tariff question
the first great reform to which his
party was committed-was indefen-
sible. 1t revealed him as a merely
skin-deep Democrat to whom the
wool and sugar interests were dearer
than the welfare of his country.
Upon the currency question-his
party's second great reform po-
sition was equally bad and had his
ideas prevailed there would have
been no real currency reform but in
stead of a strong, virile, adequate
system of money control by the gov
eminent. in the place of government
control by money, We should have
had pale. weak, makeshift of re-
form that would have left the old
masters in full control.
what his position will be in the
equally great trust problem remains
to be seen.
But the fact stands out clearly
that the policies for which he labor
ed so zealously were summarily re-
jected by President Wilson and re-
jected for the good of the country
'"rhe storm of opposition at home
has made the distinguished senator
spend a few days in Nevada ON his
way to and from his California home
and If he is so desirous of party har-
mony let me suggest to him that he
may have the harmony, perhaps, II
he will become candidate for sena-
tor from California. his home state.
There is no conference in Reno
or elsewhere. which can bind me to
his support at the primaries.
"As to my own position with
reference to the senatorship, ! can
only say that | will gladly and
earnestly support any good progress
sive Democrat who enters the race
against Newlands.
There may be few office hunt
ing politicians who are crying for
harmony but the great rank and file
of the Democratic party is first. foi
party integrity and next for party