The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-25
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Especial Correspondence,

Especial Correspondence
RENO, Notwithstanding appoint
ment of new State central commit
tees, which will be consummated next
Tuesday at Carson City, politicians of
Nevada are virtually marking time.
The four candidates for national Of
fices-Republicans and Democrats
for Senator and Representatives,
of course, busily at work at the vote
getting contest, but the rank and file
await the settlement of all political
in the metropolis, and there are
some straws to indicate ways in
which wires are being pulled. but the
main idea seems to be to keep hands
off" and let the men who must name
the committees act in an unhampered
way.
Will II. Hays, chairman of the Re-
publican national committee. has an
nounced the appointment of an adj
visory campaign committee of forty
members. Among the names Is that
of former United States Senator A. j.
Beveridge of Indiana. Once upon a
time, when Beveridge first went to
Washington as a Senator, he attended
state dinner and was patronized
somewhat by matron who had seen
much of Capital life and apparently
desired to impress her own sense of
importance upon the young man from
Indiana. Beveridge didn't like it,
so this is the new Indiana Sena-
tor about whom we have heard so
much!" gushed the lady.
Madam" replied Beveridge, ALLOW
me to correct you. l am not an In
diana Senator. | am Senator of the
United States-from Indiana"
Nevada, from the very date of her
statehood. has been looked to for her
Senators. Because Abraham Lincoln
had need of one or two more Republi-
can Senators to carry forward his
plan of winning the Civil war, Ne
vada was created State. She is
sometimes named the Battle Born
/ State, and she was exceedingly i'm
portant in three distinct ways in
winning the war Her Senators have
been important in affairs of the
United States ever since 1s64-so i'm
! portant, indeed. that Nevada people
have sometimes almost forgotten
their Representative in Congress. and
have looked upon the Senators as
representatives of a State, which they
are not They are representatives of
the United States.
Surely. representing a State in
Congress should not be looked upon
as matter of doling out Federal
patronage to hungry politicians. If
il be nothing more than that, people
might well save themselves the
great expense of electing a represen-
tative. Nevada has but one Represen-
tative in Congress, and il he be not
chosen with due regard to his fitness,
ability, and experience in the peculiar
affairs of Nevada, then the voters are
throwing away the only chance they
have in the House of Representatives.
When exercising their franchise in
the matter of selecting a Representa-
tive, Nevadans can well afford to put
the matter of party affiliation aside
With Senators, the case is different.
| The most thoroughly qualified man
who ever aspired to represent Nevada
| in Congress is now before the peo-
pie He is unknown, personally, to
many voters. That is because he has
! led busy life. But he has great
works in Nevada and elsewhere in
the West standing TO his credit
They prove the mans practical un-
derstanding of Nevada problems. He
has developed and operated mines
shipped ore, built railroads, and made
an irrigated and productive ranch
from sagebrush lands. His character