The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-11-16
MEANING or FIJI
JUBILEE

Winnemucca Republicans held a
Jubilee" at the Nixon Opera House
Saturday night. We say night in
stead OF the more fastidiously polite
evening" because those who attend
ed came near making a night Of it,
rather a night than an evening. The
plan was projected by the Women's
Harding Coolidge Club. and the he
Republicans. particularly the success-
ful candidates. thought so we'll of il
that they dug into their p~ocketbooks
for the necessary.
The event was a success in more
ways than one In the first place. the
attendance was large and representa-
tive. The opera house could have
accommodated no more than came.
More important, Democrats attended
freely-and not one of them will say
IL was not a pleasant and profitable
gathering. Again. the refreshments
served seemed 10 satisfy those who
partook thereof. and no objection was
heard to the dance facilities-indeed
il was hard to stop the dancers. APP
p~arently they would have stayed all
night.
Now, dances and refreshments are
lot uncommon in Winnemucca. They
are all pretty much alike, it may be.
What made Saturday nights soiree
so unusually pleasant was the fact
that good citizens of Winnemucca,
some of whom had considered that
they were divided into Republican
and Democratic factions, came to a
realization that the line of demarca-
ton was very faint-forgettable, in
fact-and they were glad of it. 1t
seemed a relief from campaign siren
uousness.
II has been estimated that $500
cups of coffee were served at the
function though goodness knows
how such an amount of beverage
could have been consumed. There
were a thousand elephant cookies
big ones-and about as many ham
sandwiches, Nearly everything dis
appeared. The musicians finally de-
clared they had played until they
could play no longer: and probably
a good many dancers were willing to
confess Sunday morning, anyway,
that they had danced enough.
The really valuable thing about the
Jubilee was the lesson it taught re-
gartiing the f~ooiishness OF political or
other prejudice. Some people are
known to have gone to the affair Sat
urday night expecting to have. at
least, not a pleasant time. They were
happily disappointed. 1t will be diff
ficult for them, in future. to believe
many derogatory tales and whisper
ings of scandal mongers. They will
have been shown.
1t is sad to relate-sad for Winnie
mucca and for humanity in general
that poisonous tales were put into
circulation Saturday afternoon re-
garding intentions of "the Republic
ans to burn in efigy a certain prom
inent Democrat. Soon these tales had
increased the number of victims to
two or three. Three men and two
women, all aghast with indignation,
called at the office of The Silver State
TO learn if these stories were true.
We of the newspaper did not know
anything about the yarns at first. but
we were fatty o~utspoken regarding
what we thought of them. We said
in our opinion no one but hoodlums
would even think of such a thing
and the Republicans who were giving
this jubilee were not hoodlums.
1t is not pleasant to mention things
like the above, but they must be I'M
covered in order to be killed out.
The meanest man in town Is the one
who goes around whispering that he
has heard" something d%erogatory to
some other citizen or set of citizens.
He is not a plain matter-of-fact liar.
You can never convict him. He has
merely heard" that somebody has
lone or is going to do something
awful. When these whisperers come
around with their tales which are
calculated to stir up strife among
good citizens of Winnemucca they
should be promptly and openly dis
credited. Progress a never be made
while one-half of the town believes
it hates, or is being hated by, the
other half. In reality. citizens OF
Winnemucca think a great deal OF
one another, and the jubilee was an
outstanding demonstration of this
fact. Let's have lots of jubilees.