The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-19
Especial Correspondence

tSpec1a CorreSpondonce)
ELY, New, Oct 17.-After spending
four days In rural districts in the
southeastern part of the state, Can
didates Oddie and Arentz arrived at
coming from Baker. Meetings had
been held Thursday at Panaca and
Phoebe. Many agriculturists and
stockmen were talked with during the
long roundabout journey from the lat
ter place to Ely by way of Baker. One
outstanding fact in this campaign is
that the rural population is strongly,
almost unanimously, Republican in
sentiment. Ranchers, it seems, are
more quick to attribute their waning
prosperity to an inefficient admins
tration than are mining men, al
though the two classes are affected
about equally. The farmer can more
readily perceive the deadly work of
the profiteer in his products. and he
wants a government which can and
will stop it.
Governor Oddie. in his speeches, is
making powerful points regarding the
free admission to this country. under
Democratic policy, of South American
beef. English and Australian wool,
and mutton from Australia and New
Zealand. lie quotes exact figures and
refers his hearers to the Congress
sioral Record for verification.
Captain Arentz is using much the
same line of argument regarding
minerals and the mining industry. He
shows his audience, among other
things, that the richest tungsten and
yanadium deposits Ia the world, 10
Gated in Nevada, are absolutely un-
available to American capital and Ia
Dor because those metals are imported,
the former frcm China. the latter from
South America. He says the in
creased freight rates are allowed to
be applied to Western ores with an
absolute disregard or lack of under
standing of how conditions differ be-
tween the East and the West He
points out that the Eastern manufac-
turer Immediately raises prices of his
product to cover increased freight, or
the retailer does it for him: whereas
the miner is helpless when an in
creased transportation charge is put
upon his ore; he is unable to raise
prices. The recent shutting down of
the Como Con. is cited as a further
demonstration, if any such were
needed, of the end toward which
Democratic policies are driving Ne
vada industries.
Dirty politics are in evidence at
Ely since the recent visits of Demo-
cratic candidates. Here Captain
Arentz first heard of the amazing
statement that he is or was, a Stacker.
He will tell his audience at McGill
this evening that, although nearly
forty years old at the time, the father
of four small children, and with new
business interests and new ranch
on his hands, he was, so far as he
offer his services to his country, in
February, 1917. He was a captain of
engineers in the United States army.
Mr.. Arentz sarcastically remarks that
even such a record probably will not
silence men who will stoop to the cir
culation of statements which are false
upon their face.
Governor Oddie is confronted with
a demand, published In the Ely Daily
! Times over the signature of Thomas
e. Haley, chairman of the Democratic
county committee, that explanation be
made why the governor did not ap-
spoint to the Senate, when he had op-
portunity, a man identified with the
labor movement" This Democratic
chairman apparently is oblivious of
the fact that he is working for a
banker candidate for the Senate, and
that his friend Anne Martin has said
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