Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-11-19
POISONED WHISPERINGs
Philadelphia mublic Ledger, Rep,


Ii has taken for the American people to realize
and understand the genuinely fine but unsung things
OF days Ii is curious TACT that we Americans
simply could norcaze the time the pahos and the power
the silent drama that almost tragedy that being
PLAYED through the White House final days OF Pres
dent Wilson's administration Strange also, that the
American OF cyalry and OF lair play dull and
deadened
In a late number OF the Ladies Home Journal Charles A.
Seden tells much OF story OF those days the world
is likely to know For good many reasons it is fitting
that the story should be told in great magazine for Ameri
for in its il is the record of American
womans OF duty the she loved of her heroisn
yes OF her patriotism
That was time OF poisoned whisperngs Back and
forth the country in American homes, American
streets under church porcos in Pullman smoking and
everywhere, anywhere the whispers running. There
"pctticoat government in Washington; the Nation
leadercss the country drifting ruin because of
" that woman in the White House. The country was full
of mixed hates and preudces, blended with the curious,
quick sensclcss any and everything that part
Weariness The land seethed with feelings that
were part reptlan artsanshp and part reaction from
strain. All these somehow coverged beating against the
door OF sick ROOM
Back OF that door lay crusader for Ideaism wounded
death Maybe he mistaken crusader but he
honest by his side barring the doors against
the world turning aside the poisoned speareads OF hatred
saving the hurt man from the hrusts of Nation
he had all but died to save, stood a woman
Strange that America could all this then Passing
strange it is only beginning it now For at last the
orked tongues sted and the poisonous whspcrngs
are dying away. 1t is hard to believe that in all that
long time when the chief executive of America was fighting
The weary battle to live and Congress failed offer even
the most peruncory resolution OF sympathy 1t is true
just the same; and the shortest memory will recall the
congressional harassine and houndngs the sick man.
The Congressional Record tells the tale how certain lead
ing lights flayed the president with scorpion whips
Mr. Seldens story dsposes probably for always
OF the tales that Mrs Woodrow Wilson was handling
the wheel OF the Ship Of State, appointing federal officials
and IN divers and devious ways, trying the govern
ment She is pictured as Virginia gentewoman a home
maker and the presiding genius the White House hearth
res She who had been one OF those pretty Boiling girls
IN little Virginia village the WIFE super nurse and
super secretary of the sick Man OF the White House"
when he needed these services more than ANYTHING in the
world.
1t is good for know the of womans devotion
and her solitary herosl that have become sane
enough politically to understand and appreciate it.
The opening OF two places of business in this
city calls attention the fact that desirable locations are
becoming weekly more along street indicating
confidence III the future that is fully justified by the facts
and developments to date in mining revival The old Com
stock rapidly nearing the top of Nevadas going towns
and one OF these days destined to reach the pinnacle
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