The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-10-13
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION,
County Central Comm Ittees Should
Have "Yes'' Printed on Their
Tickets.

Many of our State exchanges are
urging the necessity for the calling of
Constitutional Convention to place
organic law of our State in harmony
with the changed conditions of the
times. And it is being urged by
them that County Committees, who
control the printing of election bal
lots, put the issue before the voters in
such a way that it will pass. The
following from the Carson Appeal
cannot but strike the reader as being
eminently sound on this question, and
we commend its reasoning to both the
Republican and Democratic Commit
tees of this county, for with them
alone rest the adoption or defeat of the
measure in White Pine county:
The cost of holding Convention
need not exceed, at the maximum,
thirty thousand dollars, while the
benifits that would be derived in
single year by the people of the State,
would exceed five times that amount.
1t is needless for us to enumerate the
disadvantages that all classes have
been laboring under on account of the
disconnected, contradictory, restrict.
i've, and entirely harmonious jun BILE
of clauses viii Ia comprise the aggre-
gate + our present Constitution
There is not lawyer in the State but
has encountered them scores of times
in his practice, nor an intelligent leg
islator who has not realized the diff
ficulty of enacting wholesome and
economic laws, which will not con-
tlict with some Constitutional provi-
sions. Everybody admits the neces-
sity for reduced change. The at
tempt has been made number of
times to make the necessary amend
ments, but without effect. There are
a number Of amendments which will
be submitted to the people at tie
next election.
While they are all of them, perhaps,
well enough in their way, none of
them touch the most glaring defects.
The only remedy is Convention
This, too the people will vote upon
On the sixth day Of next month. While
Observation-Disclosures of the people
favor the proposition, there is danger
of II defeat, through the greater IL
terest of the voters in the candidate
port on Of tie tickets.
Unless the tickets are printed
CONSTITUTION Convention Yes. pro-
badly more thrn haf of the people
will fail ~ vote upon the proposition
Al all. AMI rs il requires a majority #
all Of The votes cast IN the State, the
natter will 90 by default. and we vii
lie Is lar away Is ever from Consti.u-
tional relief II i subject winch
the press of the State shuuid have de-
vote more attention 10. Il should
have bcea acted upon bY The State
and County Conventions Of both part
les. and directions given n the Coun-
" Committees in regard ta the print
ing of the tickets. II Is, however, too
late for that now. The only hope i
in the action of the Committees hay
ing the ordering Of the tickets. If
both ''Yes" and No" are printed
thereon. the call will be defeated, al
though if the question were TO be
submitted at special election for
that purpose, it would carry by vote,
probably, of nine To one.
We trust that the press of the State
will take the matter In hand, and SO
ventilate the sui ct, that the Com
mit,ees will feel justified in taking
the responsibility by doing that,
which they should have been directed
to do by the Conventions which APP
pointed them. That is the only hope
that the proposition can carry at the
election.