The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1908-11-14
ORGANIZATION WINS VICTORY
Independence League Represen-
tative Tells How Nevada Dem
ocrats Carried Election

From the Carson Appeal Of November Z.
General j. @. Hagerman. who is one
of the most observant politicians in the
State, gave his views to an Appeal re-
preventative this morning:
"For the first time in years the
Democratic party was perfectly or
ganized in Nevada. IL was organized
from the top down. and attending to
business. There was q man at the
head of the Central Committee who
understood his business, and the news
papers were properly attended to.
"In the old days the newspapers
never knew how they were coming out,
aud after a campaign they got what
was left-if there happen to be any
thing. 1 noted that the press was
humming all the time with red hot
support for the whole ticket and with
pictures of the candidates. and when /
saw the Republican papers running the
same matter / knew that they must be
getting their cash in hand right along.
l call this slick work, for whenever
Republican papers run Democratic
matter it tends to neutralize the Re-
publican matter they are running. 1t
also indicated to me that the Republi-
cans were not paying cash for their
campaign matter and the Democrats
were. This was a big factor in the
campaign, aud the work told.
There was another new scheme that
was worked by the Committee and that
was the parceling out of the legislative
positions in advance. l heard Of this
early in the fight, and it showed a very
complete organization and meant that
over 40 aspirants for legislative posi-
lions which had been assured them II
the ticket won were out working like a
house aire to see hat their party would
be in a position to deliver the goods.
This little racket saved the lower
House to the Democrats. for some OF
the boys slid in by mighty slim mar
gins.
Every where | went over the State
! found the Republicans di~sorganized,
and instead of men taking orders from
a central point and acknowledging a
command, they were all acting the role
of Major Generals themselves. A few
dozen of these Major Generals in 3
political campaign will knock n
party gally west. The party with the
most of them will lose every time.
you had some dandy speakers along
the line. That man Belford is surely
a conner. He has the eloquence and
the diction that charms an audience.
| don't think Newlands exactly charms
an audience, but he is logical and argu.
mentat.ve. brown and Morehouse
were the only speakers the Republicans
had.
George Bartlett had the qualifca.
tions in the campaign that caught the
voters. He bad the sand to go into the
mining camps where they were fight,
ing the Police bill and face the hissin q
audiences. Such tactics win in Ne
vada, and when the Republicans knitted
Maxon their votes went to Bartlett.
Cyclone johnson, McCarran and
Bartine did good work. aud Key Pitt
man came clear back from New Yorh
to take a hand in the fight and offered
to stump the State at his own expense
But you fellows had no place for hin
on the stump. Some of the higher-upI
think he may be a dangerous man IL
politics later, and he was shelved foi
that reason alone and to punish him fol
not being subservient to the ''interests'
in the State Convention at Tonopah
Oh. You can't fool me on that racket
l am giving the Democrats all the credi
coming for their machinery being IL
good working order during the fight
I advise them to keep 1t well oiled up
for they will need to have things work
ing pretty well two years from now.
sour congressional candidate. Fitz
gerald, made a clean, manly fight. bu
he had the two allied parties againsr
him.
nixon put his money in behind tn
holdover Senators because he don't ex
pect to submit his candidacy next tim
to the popular vote. He downed Oh
Elliot in Goldield and elected his nan
and it cost him some good hard oasl
and plenty Of it,
an bet he spent more money to bull
up his future political fences to herd hi
stock in two years from now than b
spent for Flanagan.
81 think the entire campaign was
lot of mud singing all along the lin
between the two old parties. The odo
arising from showing mp each other
records made the whole State hold it
nose. You saw no mud singing iron
the Independent people, and we will b.
on deck next year.
eve had clean candidates and mad
a clean campaign aud earned the re