Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-10-06

the opening of the campaign in Man
haitian.
A wave Of resentment against the
| Democratic courthouse ring has
caused the voters to, turn and the
prediction is'freely made that Nye
county is on the eve of sweeping
political reversal.
The Republican congressional and
state candidates returned to Tonopah
this morning and after their expert
ence of the last two days in Tonopah,
Round Mountain and Manhattan, de-
clared that never in their memory
of campaigning had the outlook been
so bright for Republican success
| from top to bottom. Coming into ter
ritory additionally conceded to be
enemy territory, the candidates were
prepared to find the usual probability
of large Democratic majority. but
after their two days travels and con
sultation with men close to the local
feeling, they are convinced that
Democracy this fall is bound t
suffer a surprising discontinue. This
following a triumphal tour through
Douglas. Lyon and Mineral counties
put the candidates in jubilan
frame of mind.
The meeting Wednesday is con
ceded the best Republican meeting
in the history of Tonopah. Congress
man Roberts in his demand for pro
lection for American Industries ant
American rights struck home. Rob
erts disclosed the menace of Demo
cratic control OF the tariff by showing
that half of Japan's export trade, tn
, product of pauper labor. is now sen
to the United States. Every tim
:. the American people buy foreig
, made product that can be made b
a American labor they take that niue
v money out of the pockets of Amer
can labor and they contribute anothe
dollar to the work Of reducing tn
A American working man to the Twin
a and wage standards Of the cheapes
= and most degraded labor Of tn
- world" Roberts declared amidst al
plause. He said that the price {
~ potatoes on this coast in the ope
n market was fixed by the Japanes
h potato king at Berkeley and that tn
price of pork on this coast was fixe
= by Chinese overload of San Fra
"A cisco. Every foreign made mate
scratched on the seat of an importe
pair of pants is a blow struck |
American labor" he declared ami
laughter and applause.
Roberts silenced the critics of h
labor record by reading letter fro
= Congressman John /. Nolan of Sa
Francisco. chairman of the committs
! on labor in the lower house of co
gress. vouching for the fact TIL
Roberts had always. voted right ar
- was always a live friend for labo
10 Roberts said that II anyone cou
* show when he had ever voted again
m measure favorable to labor |
ID would hire hall and apologize
"a the people of Tonopah.
~ The address of Samuel Plat wi
ell mastery effort on behalf Of Amel
/ canism in national affairs and co
~ servation of Nevada's land resource
se at home. Plat declared that the tn
n type of Americanism was shown
Theodore Roosevelt's message
Raisuli the Moroccan bandit: pare
caris alive or Raisuli Dead" and
Grover Cleveland's message to Gre
Britain over the Venezuela ana
d When England sent ships to Ven
zuela and threatened to lombard tn
country's port unless debt to Br
ish capitalists was paid. Richa
olney, Cleveland's secretary of stat
an notified England that such a cour
ot would be considered an unfriend
9. act and closed by saying that und
nd the Monroe doctrine the Unit
lis States was practically sovereign
I'D this hemisphere and Its fiat was la
lg- The course OF Wilson. by contral
Or. Platt declared. led thoughtful Al
ur patriotic persons To fear for the D,