The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-10-21

TALK TO
CROWD
Democratic Candidates Appeal tC
Voters For support i'm Pre-
sent Campaign
SENATOR PITTMAN HEADS
PARTY OF SPELLBINDERS
O"at ~ Flows at HippodrOme Meet.
ing Where Nominees Set Forth
Their Claims

democracy, U~arShalleG by their pre-
sent active leader, United States
Senator Key Pittman, invaded Gold
field last night in the course of their
speaking tour of the state, and hav-
ine the last word over the republi-
ans led by Sam Plat. who opened
their campaign from the same
stage 10 days ago, held forth at
the HippodTome in the opening
shots from the democratic side in
the 1916 state and national AM
paigns IN Esmeralda county.
TIE ~campaigners had been head
Cd this way for nearly a month,
the county central committee had
beer planning to receive them for
some time and their coming was
well heralded.
The party had a rousing recep-
ton. the big theater being well
filled by an audience keen to hear
the junior senator in a discussion
OF the national issues that have
arisen during the present admins
tration and which will come before
the court of last resort at the APP
preaching election.
With Senator Pittman were f. f.
Game, candidate for representative
in congress; ]. A. Sanders, candi-
date for justice of the supreme court.
and William Kennett. nominee Cor
clerk of the supreme court.
CantoI %, tha rtnoa tuith tho
speakers were Mrs. Charles $.
Sprague, Mrs. Nellie V. Towley, Mrs.
Pauline Mills, Mrs. Della Lindsay,
Mrs. Rebe Curtin, Mrs. Julia Thee,
Mrs. Lola Connolly, Mrs. J. A. San
ders, Mrs. H. H. Clarke, w. H. Cur
tin, S. F. Lindsay, Roger Foley,
w. \. ingalls,, Clyde p. Johnson,
II. C. Robertson, M. G. Myrtle, w.
T. Oliver, Marvin Arnold, J.. w.
Van Wrinkle, J. d. Browne, James
y. Parks, Alfred French, DR.. J. l..
Mccarthy, Adams F. Brown,
Charles S. ~Sprague, T. L.. Foley,
H. F. Hillard and Fred Vollmer.
The speakers arrived on the even
ing train from Las Vegas, about an
hour and a half late, and it was not
until 8 o'clock that they reached
the Goldfeld hotel. where they
were greeted with cheers as the
band played Hail to the Chief"
A large democratic delegation
from TOnOpah was present to aid in
the reception to the candidates and
a cheering squad the T%onopahans
had with them enlivened the lobby
with continued yells for democratic
candidates from Wilson down.
1t was not until 8:45 that ;he
candidates with the exception of
Pittman, who arrived later, filed on
the stage to open the meeting. T. /.
Foley, chairman of the county cen
trail committee, introduced Charles
S. Sprague as the chairman of the
meeting, and he. in a brief and
complimentary speech introduced j..
A. Sanders, who said his candidacy
was not political and that if elected,
he would, in the performance Of
his duties, place his party econd
to them. He made an appeal for
the woman's and labor vote. stat
ing that he had advocated the wi
dow's pension in Nye county and
pointed to his record in Iavor of
labor in Nye county.
He stated that he was the first
lawyer in the state to take charge
of public utilities in the state and
bring them within the law and SAID
that with the consciousness of a
duty well done to the people of Ne
vada, he asked for the biggest ma
jority ever received by a candidate
il, southern Nevada.
Senator Pittman then came on
the stage to an accompaniment of
cheers from the audience.
The chairman then introduced f.
E. Caine. He began by saying that
in Tonopah and Goldfeld the party
had received the most enthusiastic
greetings of their entire trip. He
said that the issue in the present
campaign conferred or but one is
sue, Woodrow Wilson. and spoke
for the liberal support of the pre-
s:dent and his policies, particularly
his peace policy.
In speaking of the tariff as an
issue in the campaign he said:
1.-The tariff is not a fundamental
issue, or an issue at all, because it
has been removed by the creation of
a non-partisan tariff board. The
important thing in this campaign
l., xho nnkO1din0 IF Tho InoicIo two
accomplishments of the admins
~tration." He followed with a plea
for n~on-partisan support of Wilson.
He defended the Wilson Mexican
policy and declared the president
to be the greatest friend Of the
laboring man the country v had.