The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1908-07-02
SQU|RM AS
CALCIUM IS
TURNED ON
Standard Forces Leaders of
"Non-Partisan" Club to
Unmask.
In Signed Statement They
Admit Desire to Over
throw Machine"

With characteristic fairness the
STANDARD herewith prints a signed
statement by the leaders of the "Non-
Partisan" club. We have but little
comment to make other than that the
article in last week IS STANDARD was
printed without the knowledge of sin
gle person outside this Office These
leaders now seek to make capital out OF
the little compliment the STANDARD
| paid them before the real nature of the
movement became known. And liz e
jeff Davis, all they want is to be let
alone. The statement will be answered
fully in next weeks paper. 1t follows:
FALLoN, Nevada, June 80. Editor
STANDARD: 1nasmuch as the editor OF
the STANDARD has seen fit to make a
gratuitous attack upon the Churchill
Comfy Non-partisan Club, we trust
tnat rev paragraphs en- that subject
will not be deemed inopportune, and
that, since he speaks for fair play and
both sides, he will not take idle gossip
of the street, but give good place to
an authoritative reply from those in a
position to properly represent the spirit
of the club.
The last two issues of the STAND-
ARD, in the opiniCns urged relative to
the new organization, are in such
marked CONT asst as to occasion remark
from the most casual of readers. III
the issue of June 1S, the STANDARD
used such expressions, referring to the
efforts of the new organization, as,
should receive the support of every
vne who has the interest of the COM
munity at heart, etc." As TO the per-
sonnel of the club, the edito,
sad, "The STANDARD believes from
the character of the men instrumental
IN perfecting the organization that il
should be productive of much good. 4"
"Fallon and Churchill county," he con-
nues, are at last outgrowing then
sgaddiing clothes and have reached the
point where wisdom demands that
the best men should be put forward to
administer their affairs" A very
straightforward statement it was, and
the frank opini.n OF the editor.
But in week the weather has
changed; the editor found that 1.-The
formation of the club is ill-advised and
and hasty, that its objects will be re-
gar ded with suspicion by majority oil
the best people OF the county and that
those who desire to be considered fair
minded cannot afford to JON it. He ad-
vises all sincere men to 60 to the two
old-hne parties upon the additional
ground that the club rs formed to
lurther the aspirations of certain am
oitious individuals. The latter criti-
cism is in point OF fact, absolutely un-
true. Ii deserves note, however, in the
setting IN which 1t stands, for its ab-
surdlty. 1t is easy to fancy the con-
sternation of the innocent newcomers
who might follow the STANDARD ad-
vice, and go to the regular parties ex-
,Jecting to find the leaders free from
political ambitions. The most highly
colored picture that could be painted OF
his fictlcious office-seeking within the
new org nlzation beside the actual, ha-
1itual office-huntng on the part OF
me influential men IN the party organi-
cations. The STANDARD should receive
the congratulations OF the entire COM
.nunity upon its detective work IN ter
retng out the infamous designs of the
men whom it commented so heartily
Jnly week before.
Everyone knows what happened; the
TANDARD is the organ OF the ruling
political machine and will throughout be
the voice OF that machine whenever men
n control wish to speak to the public.
Two weeks ago the county was given
The real opinion of the editor. With
that fact in mind what is to be learned
from the article in question?
Its real purpose is defense. There
seems to be m awful fear possessing
the editor, lest, as he puts it, some one
say, "the money in the county treasury
mas been squandered. The money spen,