The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-09-30
GEOGRAPHICALLY
ADISAPPOINTMENT A

The Democratic rally at the Nixon
opera house last evening was a sore
disappointment to the large crowd
that gathered to hear a discussion of
the issues of the campaign. For there
was no discussion by any of the
speakers, who contented themselves
by making the bald statement that
Woodrow Wilson is the great apostle
of peace and the greatest all-around
President the country has ever
known. In soaring above the clouds,
Candidates Caine compared him with
the Man of Galilee," which decided
lyl did not make hit with the crowd.
The audience was made up largely
of ladies. who will cast their first
vote this fall, and who evidently
came to hear something to guide
them in their choice of candidates.
The entire audience was in a recep-
tive mood and could not be stampeded
by the sophistries peddled to them
by the speakers. The appointments
and settings of the opera house were
perfect, the arrangements rejecting
great credit upon the committee who
beautifully decorated and draped with
the national colors, while across the
top, in large letters, were the words,
Wilson and Marshall" Everything
was propitious and nothing was lack
ing except a little oratory with a
punch to it,
The meeting was called to order at
8 o'clock by District Attorney Tom
Powell, who acted as chairman. Seat
ed on the stage. in addition to the
state candidates. were numerous
vice-chairmen and ladies and the en-
tire Democratic county ticket. These
later were called upon by the chair
man for remarks, which they made
in the briefest possible manner, no
doubt reserving the time for the prin-
cipal speaker of the evening.
William Kennett, candidate for Su
preme Court clerk, was the first Of
the visitors to address the crowd, but
he confined his remarks almost en-
trely to recitation of his qualifica-
tions for the office to which he as
pores.
Judge ]. A. Sanders, candidate for
associate justice of the Supreme
Court, then addressed the audience
briefly, and probably made the best
impression of any speaker of the
evening.
f. Z. Caine, of Elko, candidate for
representative. then took the floor
and made a rather grandiloquent
speech. soaring far above the heads
of any mixed audience. His reference
to Senator Pittman was received with
portentous silence, but when he spoke
of Woodrow Wilson, rolling the
words like a choice morsel under his
tongue, with a dramatic pause, he
was rewarded with a moderate ap
plause. With unintentional irony he
stated the alliterative slogan of the
Democratic campaign to be, Pros
perity, Peace and Preparedness"
Senator Pittman was then intro
duced by Chairman Powell. in a few
appropriate words, and the audience
Strengthened up in an expeetant man
ner. The speaker had not progressed
far, however, before his hearers
slumped down into an attitude of in
difference. and many left the hall be-
fore the conclusion of the address.
Senator Pittman started out by
apologizing for the attitude of his
party towards woman suffrage, and
warned his auditors to beware of
those bad men, Penrose, Root, Smoot
Lodge and Oliver, who for the past
two national campaigns have been
in control of the Republican party,
concluding this part of his talk by
admonishing his hearers to go slow
in offending the great Democratic
party, which has ever been the friend
of equal suffrage as well as human
liberties.
Senator Pittman then apologized
for his land bill, seeking to justify
its authorship by the statement that
at present the entire range lands of
the state are being used by outsiders
as sheep pasture. BY selling this
practically arid land the state may
acquire a fund of such proportions
that the interest from il will run all
the schools of the state without taxa
ton. The speaker said. while on this
subject, that the greater part of the
land was worthless in its present con-
dition from lack of water, and that
he had travelled all over the state and
found the water holes few and far
between. While many in the audience
were noticed to smile at this asser-
tion, it is not probable that any per-
sonal significance was attached TO the
remark. Before concluding this por-
ton of his speech, Senator Pittman
made the statement that the report
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