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Show Sen. Sutherland Here Senator Sutherland and T. C. Hoyt, who are touring this part of the state in the interest of the republican party, were in town during Tuesday and made political politi-cal addresses in the Opera house in the evening. Mr. lloyt was the first speaker and in his talk gave a sketch of the duties he had preformed in the government govern-ment service for the past eight years as an officer in the "Forestry "Forest-ry Dept. He stated that he was for prohibition first, last and all the time, that he was for American Ameri-can preparedness, and for the protection of American labor and industries. While not a fluent speaker, Mr. lloyt held the close attention of the audience and was honest and enthusiastic in the support of his ticket and his candidacy. Senator Sutherland, who is a clear and concise talker, gave a history of the democratic party since it has been in power and tore to shreds its campaign arguments ar-guments as to the beneficial laws it had given to the nation, set forth its extravagant expenditure expendi-ture of public monie -sover $1,-300,000,000 $1,-300,000,000 for one year-and attacked at-tacked their policies in dealing with Mexico and the warring-European warring-European nations. As an illustration of some of the worthless laws which have been put on the statute books of the nation and states, the senator told one on the law makers of California, which whether true or not illustrates about as much judgment as some state legislatures legisla-tures have shown at times during the existence of the Union. This is the law that he said was passed by our neighboring neigh-boring state's legislature. ,,That, when two trains traveling on different tracks in opposite directions di-rections meet at a crossing, they shall both come to a standstill stand-still before going over the crossing, cross-ing, and that neither shall move forward until the other one has passed." The senator made a nice clean talk in favor of his party and we now await the arrival of his opponent op-ponent to have the light thrown on the other side. The crowd which greeted the speakers was small and when we went to the minstrel show Wednesday night we couldn't help noticing the contrast in the size of the crowds. There were probably five times the number of people who walked up to the ticket office at the show and paid from four to six bits to get in, (Continued on Page 8) |
