The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1914-10-14
REPUBLICAN inconsistencies
Come Around Again and Make
Usual Campaign Pledges

The Honorable Samuel II. Platt
came to town Saturday evening. 1t
may be very properly mentioned
herein that Sam lived up to the adj
vance notices sent out beforehand by
the Republican press bureaus. He
was at one and the same time the
whole So cards in the Knockers
deck. He was a royal flush, a
straight and few other things
the ne plus ultra of the Knockers
tribe His diatrbe stamped him as
man of boundless energy, all Civ
en over to knocking. Truth to tell.
Sam is the very essence of knockery.
slug boiled down for babbiting the
Republican mud singing machine.
Sam is really the cleverest simon
pure knocker seen in these parts
for many day. Like the wood
pecker that lives in the halcyon air
hereabouts, Sam s business is knock
ing and his best friends are fear
some that he will knock and knock
throughout the present campaign
until his knocker gets sore.
The political meeting at which
Sam outranked his fellows, like the
North star outranks its constella=
ton, was huge success-for the
Democrats II was the clayerest bit
Of Democratic politics performed
here this campaign, for it clinched
Democratic favor and impelled man
after man from neutral camps into
the fold of the party progress.
Sam held in his hand an elephant
gun, used by the &. o. p, but his
ammunition was undersize. Not
only could Sam not injure the DEM
ocartic donkey with his weapon; he
couldn't have disturbed the fur on
an English hare. Sam, while not
altogether a weakling, proved a
jokelet he wasn't even fair sized
joke. His adductions caused any
thing but mental dizziness. He did
not sway great and attentive au-
dience. He didn't even interest it.
The republicans held forth at the
Temple theater Saturday night and
were greeted by fair sized though
not over enth l.siastie audience.
The meeting was presided over by
Mayor Sherman whose remarks in
introducing the various candidates
had the merit of brevity. The first
speaker was George Springmeyer,
the backsliding Progressive, who is
willing to accept Republican votes
ON the strength of his mud-slinging
campaign. He repeated few of
the knocks which he got out of his
system on the occasion of his previ
Gus address In Fallon, and asked the
republican voters to kindly desert
their regular party nominee and
vote for the wandering sheep so
lately returned to the fold.
/ The next speaker was Mr.. J. F.
Abel. candidate for superintendent
of Public instruction. Mr.. Abel re-
Trained from indulging in the
knocking tactics of some of his col
leagues on the Republican ticket
and his well prepared remarks on
general school subjects met with
favor. Mr.. Abel paid high tribute
to the schools of Churchill County
when he said that in our public
schools the states best work is
done Notwithstanding the fact that
Churchill County has less money per
pupil than any other county. Mr..
Abel was followed by Mr. McMil-
Ian, candidate for treasurer who re-
ferred to his record as State Treas
urer during the past four years and
made an appeal for support on the
strength of his record
The next speaker was Sam Platt.
the mental mendicant and moral
runt candidate for the senate, who
in an extended address sought to
discredit his opponent. Honorable
Francis G. Newlands. Mr.. Platt S
speech was replete with insinuations
and inuendos rejecting on the char
acter of his opponent and he sought
by perversion of facts to convey the
impression that Mr.. Newlands has
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