Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-10-27
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
County Central Committee khould
Have yves" Printed on Their
Ticket.

county Co0tEAk COmmhtteS HmO0so
Nave -Yes" Printed on Theil
| Ticket.
Many Of cur State exchanges are urging
the necessity for the calling Of Constitu
tionsl Convention to place organic law o
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 II
will pass. The following from the Carson
| Appeal cannot but strike the reader as being
emnently 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 OF
defeat Of the measure in White Pine county.
The cost Of holding a 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
uadcr on account OF the disconnected. con.
Trajectory, restrictive, and entirely inharmo'
NOUS tumble Of clauses which com.
prise the aggregate OF our present Constitu-
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 attempt has been
made . number Of times to make the neces-
sary amendments, but without effect. There
are number Of amendments which will be
submitted to the public at the next election.
While they are all OF them, perhaps, we'll
enough in their way, none OF them touch the
most glaring defects. The only remedy is a
Convention. This, too, the people will vote
upon on the 9th day OF next month. While
nineteen twenteieths 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 Csnstitu
tisnal 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 to the County
in regard to the printing Of the
tickets. 1t is, however, tee late for that
SOW. The only hspe is in the action Of the
committees having the ordering Of the
tickets. II both eyes" and ono" are
printed thereon, the call will be defeated,
although if the question were to be SUBJ
mi,ted at a special election for that purpose,
it would carry by vote OF probably nine to
one
We trust that the press Of the State will
take the matter in hand, and so ven,ilate the
subject that the Committees will feel justi.
he'd in taking the responsibility hy doing
that which they should have been directed
10 de by the Conventions which appointed
hem. This is the only hope that the propo,
Iition can carry at the election.