The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-10-17
NOTED LECTURER
GIVES INTERVIEW
Continued from Page one)

Miss Martin, undismayed. goes about
personally to the homes and shops, the
mills and mines, and sees as many
voters as she IAN. But this takes
time, and there are % less than
three weeks to election day.
In Elko we had a good meeting,
however. AT first it was opposed.
Elko is Mr.. Henderson's home town,
and no hall or theater was open to
Miss Martin. But there are broad
minded citizens there and a small
group, railroad men and others, hired
a hall and sem the receipt for ii to
Miss Martins headquarters.
Winnemucca made no such Difficult
ties. Last night we had an ANNE
Martin Rally" with movie pictures
thrown in. personally I enjoyed this
part of the evening as much as any
other FAM
We had here the advantage of a
prominent citizen to introduce us. He
didn't want to. but he did. He ex-
planned. most tactfully, that no other
man would do it, and that he only
consented after urgent solicitation and
quite against his will. But being
there he improved the occasion by
giving a little address. most kindly
meant.
Then did the same thing, at a little
more length, and then Miss Martin
faced again her tremendous task of
laying before the people by word of
mouth her hopes and purposes.
She has a most attractive person.
ality. She is the kind pleasing to both
and women. Good looking in
the most literal sense of the term;
simply and becoming addressed. earn
estness and honesty in every word
and gesture-though she doesn't use
many gestures. Her voice is clear
and pleasant, carrying without effort:
her manner so direct, so absolutely
simple, that few realize how COM
petent a speaker she is.
In an hour, or an hour and quarter.
she lays before her hearers the large
issues of her platform, defending and
explaining as seems necessary. The
only thing she has to defand, the one
only charge her opponent brings
against her, is her having opposed
President Wilson's last election and
having annoyed the President by
picketing the White House"
1t is a treat to hear Miss Martin.
without heat or violence. remove the
whole weight from this charge. As
for opposing n candidate in an cleo
tion-since when has that been a
crime? Did not the whole Republican
party vote against the reelection of
President Wilson? If the voters can
not register their disaprrovai IF a
party administration, because 1t did
not support the measure they mold
important, what power have they?
AS to this much discussed picket
ing" Miss Martin shows first that ii
was wholly legal and constitutional
second that it did not annoy the Presi-
dent-he himself said so, directly, to
Dudley Malone; was Mortified at the
sentences passed upon the picketters.
and then promptly "pardoned" them
the only way in which laws can
acknowledge a mistake.
1t was a mistake. The court of ap-
peals of the District of Columbia so
acknowledged it, holding that the
picketters were quite within their
rights; were arrested on a false
charge, and illegally sentenced.
Such a charge, Constructing the traf-
fic." Six silent women standing in a
row by the high iron fence around the
extensive grounds of the White House
OF either side of the gate, motionless
holding their silken banners.
How were they obstructing the
traffic?" asked the judge of the court
of appeals. "The sidewalk is thirty
feet wide-I have. measured it; Penn
sylvania avenue is one of the widest
in the world-how could they obstruct
traffic?"
The prosecuting attorney replied:
I'm the sense that they were oecu-
plying space some other person could
have occupied if they had not been
there"
I'm that sense" said the Judge, 81
am ~obstructing traffic when l walk to
my lunchi"
If there is nothing worse than this
in the records of Miss Martins op-
ponents they are lucky. She is a
woman not only of blameless char
acter in the ordinary negative sense,
but with the splendid record of long
devotion to the best interests of her
own sex, hitherto an oppressed class
politically.
Years upon years she has labored
faithfully to advance their interests
and in so doing has advanced the in
t~erests of progressive democracy. 1t
is a record of service; strong, brave,
intelligent and successful.
Now she is in the prime of her
strength and enthusiasm. she has the
habit of carvica she can mt habind