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Show I Nevada Politics I T IS thought this year (hat Nevada will cer-J cer-J tainly go for Mr. Bryan and for the Democratic Demo-cratic candidates for office generally. There are two officers over there to which the state is B m especially indebted. One is Senator Newlands. B m -' He has served Nevada with great honor for many B ( years until he has grown to be a potential force m II I' in the Senate of the United Stalos. All this re- IB $j gion is indebted to him, in a measure. It was by g IB I Jiis management that when the bill for the Jh 5 reclamation of arid lands was about to become a ffj j, law, it extended over seventeen states. By his H I efforts Mr. Newlands had that number reduced U $ to five, with the result that these Interior states mmm fj J are the chief present beneficiaries of that law, H J i and the work so far done has made clear how B ji f wise and far-seeing were the minds behind that B m law, how much good that law has done, and is B S doing, in making homes for the people in the B lift desert. B m I The old Biblical sentence was, "He that B 2$ ( malceth two blades of grass grow where only B !jU one grew before is greater than he who buildeth ! j'jfa a, city," or words to that effect. This irrigation nj 3 law makes a thousand blades grow where noth- jj -f' ing gi'ew before; it changes i hat was barren I i'jjf land into a garden; it drives away the frown of pit ' the desert and in itr place brings the smile of II f jj flowers, the glory of fruits, the wealth of grain, P 1 1 the food for men" and for animals, and thus ex- p! J tends the area of the' independent and faithful H U ' I workers indefinitely. It would be a manifest in- H M 3 justice for Nevada to fail to appreciate what Mr. B j 'j 1 Newlands has done and is doing, and we believe B ' , J that is in the thought of thousands of Republicans H t ;'M in that state. B j'j j Hon. George A. Bartlett, the present Repre- H &L ) sentative of Nevada, has likewise very strong B V, claims upon his constituents. He was a power B s1, la settling up the labor troubfes in southern Ne- B ' ', vada, and by what he did he made clear that B , J every throb of his heart was for the best Interests B V i of the state and for the workingman himself. He B y ' is a clear-cut, gifted man and we believe the B 't thought in Nevada is, no matter who is on the B "1 I , TTm f HiEHf JWHB? jHHBBbBBIPIHBIh cs Et'-BBB -u;Hl jBBhBBB mmmmmr' ' ' ' JHBBWKHH1BJBIB bKS bHIkIbIIbIH Boh ' -finKHMrikMBSBfllBwiBH'wslB IiHuig jBIBHBBBkHb .iJIB HBUraBQjBBBHKHHBB Hon. Francis G. Newlands, Senator from Nevada. othor tickot, it is Novada's duty this yoar to honor and sustain those who have served it with so much 'ability and faithfulness and grace. Nevada has always had a warm place In its heart for Mr. Bryan. In the great contest of 1896 they felt that Mr. Bryan was a tower of strength in their favor; they saw, intuitively, what would come if he was defeated, that their loss every year, simply through the hostile legislation which made a commodity of silver, would be something enormous. They had a feeling that the general government and the great bond-holding class in the east were as ungrateful as they were unwise, that when they voted to destroy silver as money, thoy vptcd uncounted losses to themselves, and the event .has proven true, The trade of tho United States with half the people of this earth is practically killed because of that legislation. Silver has fallen until China cannot afford to buy of us. At the same time, so far as she can, her competition is enough to defeat de-feat any manufacture in the United States in anything that China can make, and the gulf widens year by year. The men in the east begin to see this, just as the men of the west have seen it all the time, and hence our expectation is that Nevada will record her electoral vote for Mr. Bryan. The return of Samuel Newhouse and W. S. McCornlck from the east and their remarks -on the national election, bearout the belief that most thinking men have had, that it will not matter greatly -which is elected, and that after the smoke of the battle has blown over, the country will progress as never before, that Ihere will be new life in eevry industry and that it will not be many months until the prosperity that had such a rude shock a year ago, will return anew. In ofher words, as the gentleman stated, the BAhhbPv iMBHHBHHHHHHH RBVAwAwMVMVMr Hon. Geo. A. Bartlett, Congressman from Nevada. country is bigger than any man, and while in the event of Bryan's election, there might be a temporary tem-porary scare inaugurated in the east, that it will right itself readily, for the people are thinking pretty hard these days and while we believe that the majority of them would prefer Mr. Taft, it will not make a great deal of difference except temporarily, tem-porarily, who is elected, for neither man is the ideal president in their eyes, the lines are not drawn as they used to be, and both candidates agree upon so many issues that there is really nothing vital to be decided by the election of either one of them. |