The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-08-12
GOOD ADVICE FROM NEVADA
PROGRESSIVE COMMITTEEMAN

Recently Meyer Lissner, editor of
the California Outlook, the state Pro
gressive organ, and national committee
nan of that party from California,
wrote to Senator p. L. Flanagan, to as
certain his views in regard to the stand
10 be taken by the party in the coming
Presidential election.
With all anti Democrats, Senator
Flanagan has become more thoroughly
impressed than ever before, during the
Wilson administration, with the in
competency of the Democracy, and be-
lieves the two wings of the Republican
party should get together and win the
next election. The full text of Senator
Flanagan s letter follows:
Replying to yours of August 6 re-
garding the course and policy the Pro-
gressive party should take in the cam
paign of 1916:
my candid opinion is that the Re-
p%ublicans and Progressives should.
represented by the national committee
men of both parties, meet and proceed
to thresh out their differences, the Pro
gressives contending for the f~undamen.
tai policies they have so gallantly
fought for and which they have so in.
dehbly impressed on the minds of more
than one-half of the voters of the Unit
ed States. Ny idea is this: The com.
n1ttees should meet in the near future
and eliminate the sbosses.' namely.
Barnes, Penrose, Root and their fol
lowers on the one side, an | Roosevelt.
Perkins, Murdoch and their supporters
on the other side, and let the direct
representatives of the people rule. We.
the Progressives, will stand for what
we have worked so hard to accomplish.
namely: regulation of trusts without
destroying them; conservati) IN and rec
lamatlon of the great arid West be-
tween the Rockies and the Sierras.
I'VE do not believe in reciprocal
trade relations between Canada or anv
other country whereby we have to give
them a market consisting of a popula-
non of one hundred millions of peopIe
IN return for a market with only EIGHT
millions. This is 10 times worse than
free trade. We demand a tariff that
VIII protect American labor and Ameri-
can industries. That this tariff NAV ,
he intelligentlv carried out. a non
partisan commission should be appoint
81, whose duty it would be TO travel
the world over, if necessary. study tbe
wage scale, climatic conditions, etc.
n recommend to Congress such a
tariff as is necessary to equalize these
conditions. The commissions recon-
mendation should be final.
AS to the referendum, recall and
primary election laws, all to the end
that the people shall rule, and other
policies Of national Importance that we
nave been co~ntending for, the idea is
10 give way a little and take as much
as we can get. Fair-minded men, with
out the advice of bosses, will succeed
in drafting a platform that will meet
with the approval of all Progressives.
Republicans and some Democrats. We
afford at this time to allow per
sonal differences and friction among
the leaders of the great Progressive
and Republican parties to place us in
a position immeasurablv worse. after
o years of mal-administration. than
Europe will be in after he greatest
war the world has ever known.
: Every intelligent American well
knows that, had it not been for the
AAaN I
revenue received by the industrial en-
terprises of the United States ON ac-
count of the European war, all the
Democratic policies would have been
almost to the extent of the
recall of those instrumental in the pas
of such infamous measures.
"It appears to ms that a convention /,
of this kind, to be held soon in Chica-
g" or at some other central point,
would be of incaleulable benefit. AS a
result of such a convention we should
to victory OF November 4. 1916,
as we did when we elected Mckinley.
After such a demonstration of Demo
Incompetence as we are witness
ing at the present time, we would elect
a President whose name, like that of
Mckinley, would be an inspiration of
Gold, now boarded, would
turned loose with the feeling that |