The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-28

To the Editor-I have not hesi-
tated to make it known that I am
opposed to the Wilson administra-
ton and the candidacy of Mr.. Cox,
but / had not thought it of interest
to the public to give my position to
the press till in the Humboldt Star
Of October 20, 1920, I found the fol-
lowing statement:
IL. L. Hudson, Reed Smoot boost
er for United States senator and for
Harding for President, recently when
in Winnemucca denounced the fed
eral reserve banking system and as
serted When Harding is elected
and Smoot back in the senate this
Wilson federal reserve banking sys-
tenn will be fixed. 1t is a curse and
should be knocked out .'"* -
Now have not been in Winnemuc-
ca for about ten years-not since
several years before the enactment OF
the federal reserve banking law. 1
did not make the statement which I
have been quoted as making. On the
contrary, l have often stated that l
consider the federal reserve banking
law one of the very great achieve
ments of constructive legislation of
this century in this country. am not
a supporter of Senator Reed Smoot:
have no acquaintance with him. am
citizen of the state of Nevada and
am, somehow, under the impression
that Mr.. Smoot is not now a candidate
for senator in this state
Since this appears to be a wilful
Misrepresentation of my position,
will state that / was reared in the
South; have always been a Demo-
crat, and first began to doubt the ad-
ministration on account of it's altitude
of unpreparedness and trucking after
the sinking of the Lusitania.
The League of Nations, without
amendment or reservation, as pro-
posed by the President and Mr.. Cox,
is the one issue in this campaign. It's
sinister potentialities are such that
this country is threatened as it has
not been before, since, at its birth,
its life swung in the balance at the
battle of Yorktown. Believing as I
do. have no choice but to vote for
Harding and Coolidge.
1t is with deep regret that / find
myself out of harmony with the DEM
ocratic party. The Democratic con-
vention at San Francisco has indorsed
and lauded the Wilson administration.
The things that the Wilson admins
tration stands for are not in keeping
with the traditional tenets of the ia
theirs of the Democratic party.
The Democratic party has preached
simplicity. Jefferson, its great ex-
FOUNDER and first president, rode
horseback to the capitol, hitched his
horse and took the oath of Office. Will
son, who claims the mantle of Demo-
cracy. has reveled in gilded extrava-
gance unknown to royal pageantry.
He has dined off $15.00O,O0O worth of
gold plate and hobnobed with the
successors of that George that our
revolutionary fathers went through
the throes of hell to overthrow. With
a glamour unprecedented by oriental
despots, he set out on his encourage
with nearly one and a half thousand
servants and retainers, and while the
peoples money flowed like water, he
succumbed to the Establishments of
princes, and had it not been for the
restraining hand of the senate would
have permitted the bartering away of
the independence of the United States.
While this Saturnalia of extrava-
gance was being enacted, all over this
land, in every public place, were dis
played common glass fruit jars partly