The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-12
ADVOCATE CHANGE
IN CLUBS POLICY
STEPS MAY BE TAKEN TO INDUCE
SOME PROMINENT BUSI-
NESS MEN TO JOIN.
WHY SOME DO NOT PARTICIPATE
w. B. Graham And w. n. McGiIl
Give News Representative
Their Views.

/ COmmefc1al cluD toward COnQ
the affairs OF that organization on a
basis that would produce better re-
suits for the camp and community in
general?
he above question is propounded
as the result of remarks heard yes
terday that have a tendency to show
that conservative members of the
club have taken the standpoint that
the organization has adopted the
wrong policy and should take steps
| to improve conditions.
1t is argued that pickering and
wrangling do no good and that the
real purposes of the Commercial
club are lost in the desire of some
to agitate matters.
According to information dropped
by one or two of the most prominent
members of the organization steps
will be taken to induce some of the
influential men of the city, such as
Mr.. McGill, Mr.. Graham and others,
to join and help promote the organ
ization toward advertising the camp
and boosting all legitimate propo-
sitions that will have tendency to
let tne country know that Ely is
alive, wideawake and appreciates
the fact that it possesses resources
that many a community would have
| just cause to envy her.
ANY organization of the nature
of the local Commercial club is used
to advertise the community, to pro-
mote enterprises mat would benefit
the town, to induce capital to inves-
tigate the locality's resources, to
learn what other such organizations
are doing, and, in fact, to advance
the welfare of the city in general,
remarked a prominent citizen yes
| terday.
He took the position that better
results would be obtained by the
Commercial club, provided the MEM
bers worked in unison on plans that
would advertise the resources of the
country and that would show capital
that there were not only great advan-
tages here but that the people were
anxious to have big enterprises start
| up
A News writer interviewed both
Mr.. Graham and Mr.. McGill last
night, having been informed as stat
ed above that they were to be ap-
preached in regard to joining the
club. The opinion expressed by both
gentlemen was similar in many re-
spects and especially in the one
that the conservative element was
in the minority and that as condi-
tions now are those who favor a
more radical policy had the control
ling vote in the club. Neither cared
| to join under those conditions.
Mr.. Graham's Statement.
w. B. Graham, the pioneer merchant
of Ely, at his residence last evening
and informed him that it had been
reported certain members of the
Commercial club had signified their
intention of requesting him and Mr..
McGill and other prominent business
men of the camp to join the club
and help the conservative element"
in it's efforts to straighten out GER
tain matters.
He stated that as yet no one had
approached him upon the matter, and
the reporter asked what he would
do in case he is requested to join
the club.
That is a very difficult question
to answer" he said. I must say I
do not favor the attitude of the ma
/
if the reports in the papers are COR
rect l do not agree in raising such
turmoil and placing matters In
such a muddle.
when the railroad proposition
came up we people who had lived
here for years and had not enjoyed
the privileges of railroad line were
very anxious to have the road built.
If we had taken the precaution to
make it compulsory upon the rail-
road company to build a freight de-
pot here then matters would have
been different. I gave the company
a right of way in the rear of my store
and | have no complaint to make.
While | believe railroad companies
do not always give the people the
best of it, yet l feel that it is foolish
to take a hostile attitude against
them. | favor giving a little to re-
ceive little and think that the best
way to settle the affair would be by
compromising.
'Supposing you were assured the
| Commercial club would change it's
policy in favor of more conserva-
tive one, would you then look favor
ably upon the proposition of joining
the organization
Yes, | would be willing to help
if conditions were different he re-
piled.
/ MIR. McGiIl's Position.
! Mr. McGill stated that he intended
to join the club when it first started
but he was unable to attend the first
few meetings, and that he drew his
conclusions from the start that many
of the members appeared to care
more for producing turmoil than for
! advertising the camp and obtaining
the benefits that naturally should re-
suit from the formation and proper
management of such an organization.
He believed that the conservative
members of the club were SO few in
number that it would be useless to
endeavor at the present stage of af-
fairs to change the policy of the or
ganization. Mr.. McGill said he had
not been approached to join and he
/ would not state whether he would