Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-11-05
WILDCAT
VAN DUZER
The Desperate Efforts Being
Made to Elect Him.
False Reports Of Meetings Issued, Credit
Claimed for Bills Passed Before
he Entered Congress.

Van Duzer's friends realize that
they have a desperate fight before
them to re-elect to congress the man
who, while protesting to be such
a great friend of Nevada, has really
only prostituted his position as con
gresham to dispose of a lot of worth
less stock in companies which no
honorable man would have been as
ISOLATED with much less have organ
lied and remained the chief director
OF and be the only man to derive any
benefit from them. In all his vapor-
ings through the state be has not had
n word to say in r~efutation or ex-
tenuation OF the hideous charges
made against him by Duncan b. Har-
rison, charges which would have
made a MAN boil over with indigna-
tion or horsewhip his u on
sight. With the effrontery that is
born of guilt he still tries to bluff"
the people that he is a noble creature
when really he is ouly "blufing"
himself ! !!
His latest was at Elko where in a
public speech he claimed credit for
assisting in tie granting Of an APP
preparation OF $25, 900 for the Indian
school at that place which became a
law IN THE CONGRESS PREV.
GUS TO THAT IN WHICH HE
TOOK HIS SEAT.
His friend and staunch supporter,
the Nevada State Journal, not con.
tent with publishing accounts of
meetings where Van Duzer is sup
posed to be enthusiastically received,
BUT WHICH MEETINGS NEVER
TOOK PLACE, on the 29th ult pub
lished an interview with DR.. j. f.
Stubs, president OF the University
OF Nevada, and so distorted 1t as TO
make it appear that he was endorsed
by the University, Late that same
day DR.. Stubs deemed 1t necessary
to make the following statement:
1.-THE State University of Nevada
is absolutely non-partisan and is not
seeking, nor has it ever sought, to
influence any voter for or against
any candidate for public office IN this
state. With respect 20 the interview
published in this mornings Journal
will state that Wednesday Mr.. Van
Duzer's secretary, Mr.. Alderman,
and a representative OF the San Fran
cisco Examiner visited the State
University and in the curse of Al
conversation with me | stated in gen.
eral terms that so far as the State
University had had public business
to transact with Mr.. Van Duzer it
had no fault to find with him. The
statements made were OF q general
character and such as | might have
made with reference to any repre-
sentative in either House of congress
which this state has had since | have
been president Of the university. 1t
was not intended in any degree to
influence or weigh with any voter for
or against Mr.. Van Duzer or to carry
any inference that the University as
an organization prefers to see Mr..
Van Duzer elected as against Mr..
Yerington, or vice versa. Mr.. Yer
lnnfOa nAganCnag thn aeNaan. NJ -.
spect of the State University as an
organization to a high degree, and
the State University has no fears as
b the welfare from the election of
either. / regret that the matter
was given the turn that it was, and
again state that the State Univer.
sity is not in the slightest degree in
termeddling IN county, state Jr ma
tional politics. The friendship of all
parties have been with us, because
the University belongs to the people
as a whole, and is endeavoring to
serve the whole public in its high
capacity as the chief educational in
stitution Of the state"
These sort of tricks cannot and will
not deceive any sensible man, and 1t
is not conceivable that anyone who
values his own self respect car vote to
be represented by a man so devoid of
principle as Clarence d. Van Duzer.
100
Vote the Republican ticket from
top to bottom and then, on election