White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-25
Woodnan Stars
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MAN Is SMOKED OUT
IN ATTEMPT TO CONVINCE ELY
AUDIENCE THAT PLATT DEALS
In PERSONALITIES.

OF close snaYlng. and mafNel Oh iHl-
maculation, tried to cook up Ken
lucky feud last Wednesday night at
the Knights of Pythias hall to make
good with Senator Francis c. New
lands. a pampered arstocrat. who
had presented him with political
berth worth $1,000 a year with an
anchor in Carson for the next four
years, in addition to job as messen-
ger for senate committee Of which
lNewlands is chairman, thus increas-
ing Woodburns financial standing to
the extent of s120 month.
The federal officials mission to
Ely was not to extol the virtues of his
llordship, whom he designated as be-
ing warm hearted and true to his
friends, but to denounce the cam
paign methods of Sam Platt, the OPP
ponent of the Laird of Chevy Chase.
AS charter member of the conclave
of the anvil association. Woodburn
was a distinct success, but otherwise
uio hiSt puoiie appear aheS IA ehS
great copper camp was as devoid of
frills as grab bag. where the pack
ages are all prizes.
The address of the brigadier in
the army of intellectually. who did
the main spiel, possessed all the
qualifications of soap bubble. The
harder you blow it and the more you
inflated it the quicker its bursts.
Woodburn had grouch,a constant
and fostering crouch, and his language
in the circumstances played yaria-
tions on the chromatic scale of de-
nuneiation that would make one
think he was a piccolo player per-
forming some cadenza on that caus-
tic and somewhat condemnatory
carol Down Where the Maledic-
tions Crow
The speaker swayed and toddled
and wobbled and bobbled and tried
to conceal the fact that his trip was
not inspired by malice. Never in the
history of local politics has there
been such a combination of politics,
persiiage. platitude and parsimony
mixed in one salad. The report that
he is friend of Platt's reminds one
that Julius Caesar had friend
named Brutus
Mr.. Woodburn accused Plat of
Withholding the truth with respect
to the stewardship of Nevada's sem
iior senator. and that he was the only
candidate on either of the state tick
.ets that had upbraided and abused
his opponent. while those who heard
the forensic efforts of Mr.. Platt knew
that he did not deal in personalities.
He insinuated that the republican
candidate had conducted mud
Singing campaign, and that he
ignored the main issue to villify New
lands
At this stage of proceedings the
audience shut their eyes. counted
twelve, turned around, multiplied the
days OF the week by seven, substract-
ed sixteen and wondered what was
coming next. Woodburn then chirp-
ed about the attack against New
lands for his vote on the famous rate
bill, asserting that Platt only told
half the truth. He ignored every
charge with the exception of the ac-
cusation that the senator was align.
ed with eleven railroad apostles
against the clause which provides for
the elimination of the long and short
haul clause, by which the people of
this state had been robbed of mil
Ions of dollars in freight charges.
In offering an alibi for his vote on
this proposition, Mr. Woodburn said
that Newlands refused to assume
responsibility for voting for the elm
ination of this charge because he
feared that In some way II might in
terfere with the perogative of the
Interstate Commerce commission. "
Newlands was perfectly willing that
Nevada should continue to endure
this outrageous robbery than to take
chance on the Commerce court,
which was created under the provis-
ions of the bill
Woodburn continued to chase the
hapless anathemas about the room.
Piatt was accused by the speaker of
charging Newlands with not be-
Ing friendly to boys born in
Nevada. The statement was contra
dicted through the assertion that the
senior senator had been qite
generous In dispensing favors to
Clarence Van Duzer and Jimmie
Finch. Nothing further need be