The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-07-02
WOMAN CANDIDATE
HERE LAST night

The first political street meeting of
the season was held from the steps
of the courthouse last evening when
Anne Martin, independent candidate
for the Unitedd States Senate, an
nounced her platform and her pur-
pose in running for the Senate to an
audience of several hundred people,
Miss Mabel Vernon, in an opening
speech, outlined the record of the
candidate as qualification for the
high position of senator, pointing to
her steadfastness in remaining with
the women of the nation until suf-
frage was well won even at the risk
of personal loss and opportunism
The only mud-slingina injected into
the talking was when Miss Vernon
attacked Congressman Roberts for his
vote-getting ability, saying that the
people of the United States do not
want a man who is popular among
the people he represents. but rather
woman like Miss Martin. And she
gave vent to a few well-juggled words
to the effect that Congressman
Roberts is not man of sufficient
capacity for the senatorship.
Support of the President and the
government to win the war was the
first plank which Miss Martin touched
upon, following it up with an analysis
of the Presidents constructive plan
| for reconstruction and peace. She
| pointed to the opening up of Nevada
| land as measure of providing for
the need of the returning soldiers, as
| well as of relieving the industrial con-
| gestion with resulting unemployment
! that will follow the disqualification of
| millions of men unless we are alert.
| The development of Nevada land in
| the interest of the small farmer is to
be provided for, according to Miss
Martin, through government control
of the public range and through rem
tai of it based upon the per capita
stock, which would end to force the
land monopolists to sell their land
through decreased profits.
"The government should do more
than merely provide irrigation prof
ects," she said, after she had spoken
of the possibilities of the Humboldt
} river under governmental conserva
ton. The land should be cleared
? money should be loaned on easiet
t terms to the new ranches and super
vision should be the order so that n,
man should lose his hard-earne,
savings in a game of chance"
State and national prohibition wer,
emphatically urged as a patriotic anC
, conservation measure at this time, tC
be followed by permanent enforce
ment
'If food will win the war, then we
! are inconsistent to economize in re-
gard to bread and sugar we feed the
/ children while we use billions of
1 bushels of foodstuff every month in
the manufacture of beer" she de-
/ clared
| A permanent and binding provision
! for a living wage to every laborer
and provisions for the re-passage of
the child-labor bill were other points
! especially advocated by the speaker,
NIO tlOoCu Win Oh cPpCdI IOI ilAC
consideration of her candidacy as
marking the next step in the progress
of women, urging the entrance of
women into higher legislation as a
| measure not only of justice but of
welfare to the nation, which needs
not only that women should help in
making the sacrifices of the war but
its decisions as well.
A conference with local women fol-
lowed the meeting. which resulted in
the formation of committee to pro-
mote the candidacy of Miss Martin.
Miss Martin will visit Fallon and
LOvelock on her way back to Reno,
while Miss Kate Mullen, who has been
in the town for the past week, will
visit Paradise Valley for the Fourth
and McDermitt later in the week.