The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1916-10-06
Republican Speakers
Have Big Meeting
Platt and Roberts Drive Home Truths In
Discussing National Issues and Receive
Great Ovation Here

/ and duties in that office He also re-
yealed the fact that he Is an attorney
by profession with knowledge or the
duties and responsibilities of the
elerkship to the supreme court lie
promised the same faithful devotion
to duty in the future that had moved
him in the past.
E +. Roberts stood pat on his rec
ord for protection and insisted on re-
tanning the tariff will that had been
an American principle for 100 years.
Every foreign made match, he said,
scratched on the seat of an imported
pair of pants, is blow struck at
American labor He told of the
blacksliding and broken promises oil
the democratic administration and
how he had tried to stand back of the
president when the president was
right but the president wouldn't
anyone to stand back of him He
told how he voted to make Huerta
salute the flag end how the president
let Huerta get away without a salute
and how he voted to run down and
| get Villa dead or alive and the presi-
dent backed up and Villa is very
much alive still He told how the
! president promised free tolls for
American ships going through the
Panama canal and then backed down
when Enganld protested and how the
democrats to lower the high cost OF
living and it is not lower but higher
He told how the democrats passed a
tariff bill against Roberts vote and
voice that lets In Argentine beef free
and Chinese eggs free and how
Roberts tried to get a tariff act COM
mission clause in the Underwood
tariff act and the president shut it
out and then backed down later aud
put in pela for a tariff commission.
Roberts ridiculed the cry Il didn't
raise my boy to be a soldier and
said the mothers of this land were
ancestors and that the mothers would
say that they didn't raise their boys to
be soldiers particularly but neither
/ did they raise them to be traitors.
Roberts told how he had urged wo-
man suffrage years ago in the state
legislature and that the fact that he
didn't vote for the amendment was
due to the fact that he was unavoid-
ably absent as he had promised to
! vote for the amendment and was in
favor of suffrage by federal amend
ment
He told the people of Douglas
county how he has secured the visit
of the congressional reclamation
committee to Douglas county ;fter
that body had decided not to visit
/ Douglas county and how the com
mittee finally reconsidered and made
the visit and expressed great pleasure
III hdNhiS uoHS So ne tolu oi MS el-
1 forts to secure convenient postoffice
and postal route facilities in Nevada
He said his great satisfaction in all
his campaigning every year since 1900
was that his precinct and city and
county and the block in which he
! lived always returned his a handsome
majority and that testimonial from
his neighbors would always be a
vindication and justification for him.
earned fruit of his labors for he will
be almost at the head of two i'm
portant committees of the house One
man, Kinkead of Nebraska, is ahead
of his as minority leader of the i'm
portant committee on irrigation and
ON coinage, weights and measures, he
is the ranking member for chairman
If there is a republican majority in
the house
San Platt's Speech
Sam Platt discussed the tariff and
| the Pittman Land Grant bill and he
paid tribute to the sturdy American
ism of the foreign born population of
! Douglas county. In no county in the
state. he said, are there so many rep
resentatiye American citizens who
were born under the different flags
withstanding their past allegiance
of the old world They were born in
Germany, Denmark, Norway Sweden
| Fance and Great Britain, ye not
withstanding their past allegiance
they are now true Americans, bone
] and sinew of the American body
polite at is such as you," he said,
who titled the SOIL dug the mines.
founded the homes and contrihuted