Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-10-20
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
County Central Committee should
Have Yes" Printed ON Their
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AbCAGbs
Many Of our State exchanges are urging
the necessity for the calling Of a Constitu
tional Convention to place organic law Of
our State in harmony with the changed con.
ditions of the times. And it is being urged
by them that County Committees, who con.
troll the printing OF election ballots, put the
issue before the voters in such way that il
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 Republi.
can and Democratic Committees of this coun.
ty, 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 benefits that would be de
rived IN single year by the people Of the
State, would exceed five times that amount.
1t is needless for US to enumerate the disad.
vantages that all classes have been laboring
under on account Of the disconnected, con.
Trajectory. restrictive, and entirely inharmo.
nious tumble OF clauses which com.
prise the aggregate OF our present Cons,ltu-
ton. There is not lawyer in the State but
has encountered them scores of times in his
practice, nor an intelligent legislator who
has not realized the difficulty Of enacting
wholesome and economic laws, which will
not conflict with some Constitutional provis-
ions. Everybody admits the necessity for a
reduced change. The atemp, has been
made number OF times to make the neces-
sary amendments, but without effect. There
are number Of amendments which will be
submitted 10 the public at the next election.
While they are all of them, perhaps, well
enough in their way, none Of them touch the
most glazing defects. The only remedy is a
Convention. This, too, the people will vote
upon on the 9th day Of next month. While
nineteen twentcieths OF the people favor the
proposition, there is danger Of its defeat,
through the greater interest of the voters in
the candidate portion OF the tickets.
Unless the tickets are printed Censtitu
tional Convention-Yes," probably more
than half Of the people will fail TO vote upon
the proposition at all, and as it requires a
majority Of all the votes cast in the State,
the matter will 60 by default, and we will
be as far away as ever from Constitutional
relief. 1t is subject which the press OF
the State should have devoted more atten.
ton to. 1t Should have been acted upon by
the State and County Conventions OF both
parties, and directions given 10 the County
Committees in regard to the printing of the
tickets. 1t is, however, tsO late for thai
now. The only hope is in the action Of The
committees having the ordering of tn;
tickets. II both ayes" and "No" are
printed thereon, the call will be defeated
although if the question were to be sub
mtted at a special election for that purpose
it would carry by vote Of probably nine t.
one.
We trust that the press Of the State wi
take the matter in hand, and SO ventilate tn,
subject that the Committees will feel ius,i
fed in taking the responsibility 10y doinI
that which they should have been directed
to do by the Conventions which appointed
them. This is the only hope that the propo
sltion can carry at the election.