The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-10-31
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DESPERATE EFFORT

The latter part of the week, while
in Southern Nevada, Senator Pittman
received the SOS. call from the east
ern part of the state, and hurried
back over his trail, to find al
fences knocked down by the trium-
phant march of the Republican can
didates But so far as Winnemucca
is concerned, he might better have
'let her gone as she lays" and re-
mained away.
Word was received in town yester-
day morning that Senator Pittman
and Judge Sanders would speak here
last night Hurried preparations were
made for their reception by the local
faithful" but when the train ar
rived it was found that Judge San
ders had thought better of the mat
ter and did not come. Shortly after
he announcement of the meeting, the
the announcement of the meeting, the
mercury began to fall in the vicinity
of the Nixon opera house, and long
before eight o'clock it had dropped
out Of sight. After the bonf1res were
built loud reports were occasionally
heard. which were thought to be
from bombs, but an investigation dis
closed the fact that they were due to
cracks in the frozen ground occa-
stoned by the heat from the fires.
At five minutes past eight small
procession filed out onto the stage
from the wings. and were greeted by
vociferous applause from one lady
admirer seated in the rear. At that
count seated on the first floor, with
nearly an equal number in the gall
lery A fair estimate of the crowd
would be from 135 TO 140 but at the
conclusion of the speaking there was
hardly half that number left
Seated on the platform with the
sneaker were Tom Powell. chairman
IF the Democratic county central
committee. Chris Wolf r. r. Tilden
and T. A. Brandon The latter offici-
ated as chairman, and in his opening
remarks explained the absence of
-~onv county candidates by the fact
at they we're out of town campaign
inc.
Senator Pittnan was evidently in
an uely humor. for he began speaking
# S:15 ond had not concluded in
working the bile out of his system ia
1925 O'Clock An incident occurred
Slring the epoaking that did not tend
"a swee ten his teennerS prnniaent
local Baeuue bu4fness man learning
fiat a fac he aid 1oaned to the Re-
nrb'i"ans for the PIatt meeting last
woek was araong the stage decora-
L. so1.4 H.
return of his emblem and fhe cur
toin was lowered while the flag was
removed.
Thereupon, in bitter invective. Sen
ator Pittman literally waded into the
entire Basque race and succeeded in
alternating whatever little remaining
support he may have had among vot-
ers of that nationality. The address
can be classified as follows:
Apology
Pittman land grab The speaker
used up an hours time in a futile
attempt to undo the havoc caused by
Sam Platt in five-minute discussion
of the measure. He utterly failed to
overcome the principal objection to
his bill, which is stated to be as fol-
lows: If settler should wish to
take up a tract of land he would be
obliged to advertise the fact in a
newspaper, have the value of the
land appraised and then enter into
competitive bidding for it at an auc-
ton sale BY this means the poor
men would be compelled to do all the
prospecting for water, while the
wealthy classes would only attend
the sales and outbid the prospective
settlers.
lf-COngratulatOry
The speaker handed himself bou-
quets for having secured passage of