The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-11-02

One of the best meetings of the
nresent campaign was held in the
Nixon opera house last evening.
while the attendance was not as
LARGE as that at the Platt-Roberts
rally held last week, the audience
was attentive and although the speak
ing commenced at o'clock and last
ed until 1926, not half dozen peo-
pie left the hall until the close.
Judge Norcross and Senator More
house are perhaps the two leading
public speakers of the state and their
whirlwind trip on the eve of cleo
ton will no doubt have the effect of
"cinching" the state for Hughes and
the entire Republican state ticket.
The meeting was presided over by
L. G. Campbell and seats on the
stage were occupied by L. G. Wilson
and c. T. Smith, respective Republic
can candidates for district attorney
and county clerk.
Judge Norcross took up the question
of the claim made by the Democrats
that President Wilson was entitled to
reelection because of the many laws
passed during his administration in
the interest of the public. The Judge
pointed out the fact that most of
these laws were not of a partisan ma
ture and were supported by members
of all parties He referred particular
Iy to the banking law, the farm loan
law, the child labor and the so-called
eight-hour law. as those upon which
the Democrats had especially relied
He conceded that the banking law
may be a good law, but pointed out
that il had not as yet been put to the
test, that it was based on the report
OF the monetary commission appoint
ed under a Republican administra-
ton and that the Democrats could
not Justly claim credit other than for
participation with the Republicans in
the ultimate enactment of the law
This law did not go into effect, said
the Judge, until November. 1914, and
was not the law under which the ma
ton weathered the financial stress
following the breaking ont of the Eu-
ropean war when it became necessa-
ry for time to close the stock eX-
changes: that the law which enabled
this country to withstand that finan-
cial storm was the Aldrich-Vreeland
law. passed by a Republican admins
tratiOn.
The farm loan act was not mention
ed in the Democratic platform of
1912, but was contained in the Repub-
lican platform Of that year. That
to President Taft was very largely
due the credit of the passage of that
law, because il was Taft that had APP
pointed the commission to invesu-
gate the workings of similar laws in
Europe; that il was the report of
this Taft commission that formed the
basis of the law in question; that the
Republican party was the FIRST to de-
clare in its national platform in favor
of such a law and il was the Repub-
lican party that furnished the data
upon which the law was based and
supported it in its passage.
Relative TO the. national child-labor
law, the Judge pointed out the fact
that such a law had been pending in
Congress for more than three years
and could not get hearing until af-
ter the Republican convention in
Chicago in June, when the Republi-
cans put plank in their platform
favoring national child labor legisla-
ton; that the Democrats followed,
instead of leading. in the enactment
of this legislation; that the Demo-
cratic caucus. with the Presidents
approval, at first left the bill out of
the list of legislation to be passed
through the last Congress, and that
it was not until the Republicans de-
clared for it in their platform that
the administration took favorable ac-
ton.
The speaker further pointed out