The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-12-15
HARD PUT FOR
CAMPAIGN SUBJECTS

It's rather ungentlemanly as !,
matter of neighbor to neighbor ane
unethical as matter of politics for
the Democrats of the state to launch
a TRADE against Congressman San
Arentz on the score of the mining
bill which bore his name and met
with general disfavor in Nevads
mining and political circles. l,
seems not to matter to the leaders
of the Democratic party within this
state that Mr.. Arentz was entirely
responsive to the sentiment of his
constituency and had the bill killed
in committee, nor does it matter in
the least that Mr.. Arentz merely
introduced the measure at the in
stance of the federal government
bureau of mines and did not give it
sanction.
Mr.. Arentz killed the bureau of
mines bill, administering the coupe
de grace in the committee room of
the house of representatives, where
a multitude of similar murders have
been perpetrated in the years agone,
but like Banquo's ghost, it rears its
yoluminous length to smite him as
he announces his candidacy for the
United States senate. This in brief
is the Democratic version.
One is thus minded that if the
Arentz mining bill, so called, con-
stitutes the Democratic talking point
against Mr.. Arentz' candidacy for
the United States senate, then his
opposition is flimsy and ephemereal
indeed.
The thinking Nevadan understands
that it was his good fortune that
Mr.. Arentz introduced the bureau
of mines bill and he knows, too,
that fairness precludes reference to
the bill under Mr.. Arentz' name. If
he is conversant with the facts he
knows, what is more to the point,
that had the bill been fathered by
a congressman from an eastern state
it might even now be law, for the
man who introduces q proposed
measure has certain rights which do
not extend to his colleagues. Pic
ture In your mind what would have
happened had representative from
Pennsylvania or Ohio, or West Vir-
ginia, introduced the bill which Gre
ated SO much ado and is now for
tunately listed within the congress
sional casualties.
Western opposition might have
found it exceedingly difficult, in
deed it might have been found i'm
possible, to kill the proposal, for
mining conditions are not the same
here that they are in eastern states,
where one big coal or iron mine
represents more than all of the
mining activities in this state put
together.
Mr.. Arentz' act in setting about
and acting upon the requests that
reached him from his Nevada con-
stituency must be termed gracious
in its every aspect. When he sent
copies Of the bill to this state at
the time it was introduced, he also
sent word, which was published in
several Nevada newspapers at the
time, that mining men should read
the provisions over carefully and ad-
wise him on points inimical to the
states interests, and Democratic edi-
tors know it. And he further asked,
through the newspapers, for all of
the arguments available against the
bill, SO that he would have material
with which to work in killing the
proposed legislation. And Demo-
Gratis know that, too.
The single logical comment aris-
ing from the Democratic antics of
the moment is that Nevada's Demo-
cratic leaders lack in the most sin
gular sense indictments to hurl
against Mr.. Arentz.
It is this papers forecast that the
Arentz mining bill will not be de-
bated in a serious manner during
the 1922 campaign, but that discus
sion will be limited to the mouthings
Of the pre-campaign slate makers.