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Show Tom Fitch, "the silver-tongued," who never fails to put In an appearance in a different state every four years just preceding a presidential election, and who just as regularly gets into difficulty dif-ficulty with the powers that be, in -the party, nearly got through this campaign without a break. Had he gone another ten days he would have broken all previous records. But he made a speech at Goldfield the other night, and then the trouble started. Tom has hardly been in Nevada long enough this time to become familiar with the conditions that have changed considerably there since his departure, or if he has, purposely went out of his way to make things unpleasant for the Republican party in the state, for in his Goldfield speech he bolted the platform outright, announcing that he did not stand for the State police law, which is strongly approved by the Republican party. Following this a public repudiation of Thomas was made by the Republicans in a Reno paper, and this was followed with a speech in the great gold camp delivered by P. h. Flanigan, in which he stated that the stand Fitch had taken was neither approved by him nor jthe Republican party. This action was thought necessary in defense of United States Senator George S. Nixon, who, in a speech recently delivered in Reno, strongly declared for the police bill, urging the voters to support those who had passed the measure at the last session of the legislature. The harrowing part of it to Fitch came in an order to deliver no more speeches during the campaign, a punishment that seems almost too severe. |