Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-05-20
TOWNE PREDICTS
GREAT FUTURE
FOR NEVADA
PAYS TRIBUTE TO CLIMATE AND
WONDERFUL PROGRESS MADE
IN GROWTH DURING THE PAST
SIXTEEN YEARS.

Mr.. Chas A. Towne. who stopped off
in Elko last night to deliver political
address, was met this morning by a
reporter who obtained the following
interview just before Mr.. Towne left
on No. 10:
!; "I have enjoyed my visit to Nevada
more than I can express" said Mr..
Towne. II was here briefly in 1907 on
some business in Goldfield, but l had
no opportunity then of seeing very
much of this part of the state. My
comparisons, therefore, are between
present conditions and those of siX-
teen years ago; and, of course, the
change in all material respects affect
ing the progress of your wonderful
young state, is little short of magical.
1t Is easy to be understood that it will
not be long before the rapid develop.
ment of your agricultural and stock
resources under a wise policy of irri'
cation and scientific culture must add
to your great mineral wealth a bal
ance of healthful and all-around
growth which, considering your well.
night perfect climate. cannot fail to
augment your population by leaps and
bounds and place you at a not distant
day among the most prosperous and
progressive of all the great Western
States.
when here in 190O," continued the
Senator, 81 made speeches in nearly
every town in Nevada. ! remember q
particularly interesting meeting | ad
dressed at Elko. l suppose ii was the
recollection Of that occasion that sug
gested to my friends, Henderson, Hes
son and others, the idea, when they
learned of my projected visit to ad
dress the State University, of detain
ing me at Elko on my way out and
getting me to make political speech
here. will admit, that, although
pressed for time, l was glad to comply
with their request. because l am in
tensely interested in the reelection oi
President Wilson and of those men ir
both houses of congress that have 10y
ally supported him and vindicated the
Democratic party's championship o.
the cause of equal opportunity for al
our citizens in our domestic affairs
and Of international peace, mainten
ance of neutral rights and adequate
military, naval and industrial prepar
edness, in respect of our foreign rela
tions. The record of the party in leg
islation and of the administration il
Diplomacy is, as endeavored to show
In my speech last night, the most re
markable In many ways in our his
tory. The reform Of the tariff and thu
placing of its future regulation upoI
true scientific principles under tn,
supervision of a tariff commission
the passing of the federal reserv'
bank act, which will guarantee tn,
country against the periodic credi
panics bred by the old national banl
system, and the present reinforme
ment of that legislation by the rura
credits bill, which supplements IL will
especial reference to the permanen
needs Of the great farming population
are alone enough to immortaliZe th
party and the men responsible 70
them, not to mention the numerou
other similar acts Of legislation tend
ing to assure greater justice and equal
ity in the development of our gigantic
business and industrial interests. Ad,
to this that we are at peace while al
the rest OF the world beyond our hem
isphere is at war; that American
rights are being upheld on the SCI
against invasion by either belligerent
and you have, as 1t seems to me, al
overwhelming reason why our grea
President should be reelected, an