Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-02-16
RITTER ATTACK
BY OUTSIDE PAPER
r.. p. DUNLAP CHARGED WITH
FIXING PROGRAM OF 10
CAL BANQUET.

is being felt throughout the state,
and one paper in particular is most
|yirulent in it's attack upon Mr.. r.
p. Dunlap, who acted as toastmaster
on Saturday night. To him is laid
the sole responsibility of the pro-
gram that was distinctly pro-railroad.
Apparently no regard is taken OF the
fact that many others were associated
with Mr.. Dunlap in the completion
Of the evenings arrangements. It
seems entirely unfair to place upon
Mr.. Dunlap the entire blame, as it
is practically impossible that he, sin
gle handed, could have prepared a
program, without the knowledge and
consent Of the balance of the COM
mittee, of which we understand there
were several, The attack which APP
peared in the Reno Gazette is as
follows:
The members of the Nevada legis-
lature returned this morning from
their trip to Goldfield and Tonopah,
and after spending a few hours were
hurried on to Carson in a special
train to resume their duties of max
ing laws in the Nevada Legislature.
They report having been royalty re-
ceived by the Tonopah and Goldtield
people, but as a majority were quite
indignant over the way they were
taken in and deceived by the railroad
lobbyists and railroad supporters at
the banquet in Tonopah Saturday
night, they strongly denounce the
stand taken by Governor Sparks, Key
Pittman, l.. A, Gibbons, Senator
Campbell and others, who addressed
the legislators ut the banquet and
demanded that they stand for the
railroads, rather than against them,
and that they hesitate to pass anti
railroad laws.
It was strictly a railroad banquet,
although paid for by the people OF
Tonopah, and as a result the people
of that great mining city of Tonopah
are Justly indignant at the way in
which they were deceived by r. p.
Dunlap, who they had trusted with
the affair, but who forgot his true
duty and looked only toward the
m%ercenary side of the question. Dun
lap is accused by Legislators and peo-
pie of Tonopah Of having deceived
the people of Tonopah, by inviting
the legislators to a banquet paid for
by the people of Tonopah, and &c
then have them lectured by railroad
men upon the subject, What the
legislature and the people of Nevada
owe - the poor, prosecuted rail
roads" or in the words of Speaker
Skaggs oil the Nevada Legislature
"R. p. Dunlap sold out the people
of Tonopah and Of the state in ordei
to help the railroads keep the stat
of Nevada in their power
The railroads had waited long 70.
an opportunity to hand a lemon t.
the LOYAL members of the Nevad:
Legislature and by using r. P. Dun
Ian of the Tonopah Board of Trad
as a cats paw they gained thei
point. They lectured the legislator
with a will and ~endeavored to h 0
them that II Nevada should endeavo
to obtain fair railroad rates by jus
legislation the state would be cut Of
from the outside world and the cor
struction and maintaining OF raj
roads in Nevada would cease. Tn
railroads lost no opportunity to gal
a point and through clever work an
undetected methods have succeedc
in having Senator Campbell, Cove
nor Sparks and many other prom
nent state officers look through raj
road glasses and see only the raj
road side of the vital question. TT
hirelings of the railroad won the
point at Tonopah Saturday night, bl
the true legislators are now up
arms and declare that they will p
dearly for the ruse they perpetratt
in the great mining city.
We enjoyed our trip in Tonops
and Goldfeld immensely and we
treated royalty by the people of tho
mining cities, said Speaker Skagi
this morning, but we were sure
handed a lemon by the railroad 10
byists and a few Of the state ofiicia
at the banquet in Tonopah Saturdi
night. 1t was a disgrace to the pc
pie of Nevada and should not be fc
gotten. The railroad lobbyists HI
everything arranged so that tn
might lecture the Legislators and tn
carried their point, but in doing
they deceived the good people
Tonopah, and in my opinion did mo
harm than they did good. In
speech at the banquet | broke fre
the original subject and spoke
railroads. | said the railroads h
been the masters long enough a