Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-10-31
U%NWARRANTED ATTACK.
Mr.. Ayres Can Beat Mr.. Pike or
Mi. Pixies Boy at Marbles,
or at Law.

cal meeting held at Verdi, w. H. A.
Pike, Democratic Silver nominee for
District Attorney. is reported to have
said:
That mar Ayres wants to be Dis
trict Attorney. He ought to be play
ing marbles with my six year-oId boy
and going to Sunday School
Just why this attack should be made
the Gazette" is unable tic say. 1t is
true that Mr.. Ayres, Republican NOM
inee for District Attorney of Washoe
county, is a much younger man than
Mr.. Pike. but he has been several
years longer at the bar.
The records Of The Supreme Court
of this State show that Mr.. Pike was
admitted to the bar on July %, 1899,
and SO far as the Gazette" knows he
was never admitted TO practise in any
other Court.
Mr.. Ayres was first admitted to
practice by the Supreme Court Of Cali
fornia on April %. 1897. He was
afterwards, upon taking up his per-
manent residence in Reno, admitted
to practice by the Supreme Court Of
this State and in the Circuit and Di :
trict Courts Of the United States Of
Ninth Circuit and District of Nevada.
Mr.. A.yres is entitled to be admitted
to practice by the Supreme Court Of
the United States while Mr.. Pike
must practice law for two years more
before he is eligible to the same high
honor. As is we'll known in Washoe
county. Mr.. Ayres was practicing law
while Mr.. Pike was conducting a
butcher business and before he even
thought Of being admitted to practice.
1t will no readily seen that the attack
above quoted could not have been pro-
voked by anything other than the fact
that Mr.. Ayres is a young man. And
this is the face of the fact that the
nominee Of Mr.. Pixies own party for
Attorney General of this State is said
to be only tWenty-six years of age,
while Mr.. Ayres is two years older
than that. Can 1t be, in this age Of
the young man. while Marconi, the
greatest inventor Of this decade is
still younger than MIR. Ayres, while in
every walk of life young men gradual
ing from our State University are
offered the finest positions in the land
even before graduation, and while
William Jennings Bryan. the idol Of
the Nevada Democracy, is himself the
champion Of the young man. that the
public offices of Washoe county are
open only 10 thoseswho have passed the
zenith OF their ambition and are now
on thhlr decline2 No, the young men
Of Washoe county will not submit to
that. The fathers who have labored
and striven and economical and denied
themselves in order to give their sons
the best possible education, will not
support a regime which means that
those sons must wait until their old age
before they can occupy those positions
Of trust for which their education fits
them.
Mr.. Ayres Is one of the best edu-
Gated men In Washoe county, Of studi-
Gus habits. has shown considerable
literary ability in his contributions TO
current literary publications, is much
sought after by the Faculty and stud
ents OF the Nevada State University as
a coach for their debating teams and
Is a successful lawyer. He is a man
Of wide and varied intellectual attain
ments, and is everywhere looked upon
as a bright and accomplished gentle
man.
The Gazette" hopes no such
attacks will be made upon him in the
future.
Mr.. Ayres is much better qualified.
both by education and experience. to
fill the position Of District Attorney for
Washoe county than Mr.. Pike.
UPSETS ALL PREDICTIONS
J. F. Hughes. was a candidate for
county treasurer at Du Pont, Ca. but
1t was predicted that he could not live
six months. He was afflicted with a