The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-10-21
REPUBLICANS IN
SECOND RALLY
SENATOR JONES SPEAKS TO
FULL HOUSE AT THE En-
CHANGE

The second republican rally of the
capaign occurred last night, the
speaker of the occasion being the
Hon. Wesley l.. Jones, United States
Senator from Washington. Senator
Jones is making a series of speeches
in Nevada, the first of which was
at Las Vegas on Tuesday night. He
will speak tonight at Yerington, to-
morrow night at Fallon and Satur-
day night at Reno.
The train from Las Vegas vas
late yesterday and when this became
known, A. H. Howe took his car
and with Chairman Royse and v. L..
Ricketts, went to Stonewall station,
about six miles below Cuprite, flag
ged the train and had the speaker
in Goldfield in good time for The
meeting.
The meeting opened at $3.50 with
the stage handsomely decorated and
with the Goldfeld band in the gal
lery enlivening the occasion with
music Both the main floor and
the gallery were we'll filled. Mr..
Howe presided at the meeting and
introduced the speaker. On the
st'ee were also Chairman Royse,
Will Hatton, A. E. Barnes, V. L..
Ricketts,, DR.. B. j. Baker, w. F.
Rendant, Mrs. James Cushing, Mrs.
George Durgan and Mrs. George
Kunz.
Senator Jones is an entertaining
speaker. What he may lack in the
r~acticed arts of the trained pla1-
form orator, he more than atones
for by the impression of sincerity
his manner carries with his speech.
briefly to some of the points pre-
scented by Senator Pittman the night
before and then he launched into
the foreign policy of the national
administration with particular re-
ference to Mexico. He charged our
troubles in that unfortunate country
to the vacillating and uncertain
policy of this government toward
the revolutionary and factional lead
ers in Mexico, who had come to the
belief early in the history of the
Wilson administration that they
they could safely and with impunity
rob, loot, murder and destroy. so
far as the life, liberty and property
OF American citizens were involved
Revolution had been in progress in
Mexico long before President Will
son assumed office, but our troubles
began when this government sided
with n factional leader against
another or with one group of ban
dts against another group of BAN
dts and furnished arms and am
munition which were later used
to kill our own soldiers and our own
people, even on u own soil.
while We refused to recognize
Huerta, who had been legally in
stalled as president of Mexico in
conformity with the laws and the
constitution of Mexico, our govern
ment has consorted with and given
encouragement to other bandit
leaders. including Villa, Carranaa
and Zapata, and made impossible
the establishment of law and order
by the only government that existed
in that country by virtue of law.
And when some of the soldiers of
that government, the only govern
ment Mexico had, took prisoner
some American marines, without
authority from, thnir c,no;o, "a;
Ger, we demanded that Huerta. the
man whom we had refused to re-
ccgnize as representing a govern
went should salute our flag. That
man" then demanded that we
saluate the flag of Mexico, and nei-
Their salute was ever given"
To our vacillating and uncertain
policy in Mexico, Senator Jones at
tributed the attack on the Lusitania.
What nation in the world" he ask
ed, didn't know what our course
IL Mexico had been? If we would
not protect our citizens there, why
should we protect them on the hish
seas on board the ships of another
power? If we had told our citizens
to come out of Mexico, hat they
had no business there, why should
hot Germany, before sinking the
L~usitania, warn them herself, 10
keep off that ship?
They ask us what we would have
done if we had been in Wilson's
place. | will say for myself what
would have done. | would either
have stayed OF of Mexico and per-
mitted the Mexicans to settle their
own quarrels and choose their own
leaders, or | would have gone in
and restored order and safety and
security before coming out. And
when Germany gave warning to
American citizens to stay off the
usitania, | would have told Ger
MANY that ~ cho Ix,ol Az l.r1.