Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-09-05

county for the Democratic candidate
for governor at said election in 1906,
and upon the same basis the appor-
tionment and allotment Of delegates
to every county In the state was SIM
ilarly made by the state central COM
mittee, being n delegate for each
fifty votes or major fraction thereof
so cast.
The request of Esmeralda county
having been fully and extensively
presented by her delegation, your
committee was appraised of the fact
that in the event that any increased
representation was allowed any coun-
ty in the state for the reasons on
which was requested by Esmeralda
county, then those other counties in
the state situated similarly in this
respect and with new towns and in
creased population acquired since the
election in 1905, notably the counties
of Humboldt, Elko, White Pine,
Churchill and Nye, would upon the
same theory also ask for the allow
ance of increased representation.
The committee after full discus
sion of the entire subject matter, and
being of the opinion that the allow
ance of increased representation to
one county in the state under the
circumstances mentioned, would just
ify other counties similarly situated,
in demanding similar treatment and
a similar apportionment allowance OF
increased representation; and being
further OF the opinion that such a
step would result in a totally chaotic,
uncertain and indefinite basis for the
apportionment of delegates in the
various counties of the state; feeling
that such an arrangement would up
set long settled conditions generally
prevailing in all sections of the coun-
ty, governing representation and be
unfair and unequitable to other coun-
ties for the reasons stated; declined
to allow the request of Esmeralda
county to this committee made for
such increased representation, and
fixed the apportionment of Esmeral-
da county upon the same basis as
that established for all the counties
OF the state as above outlined, to-wit:
One delegate for every fifty votes or
major fraction thereof cast for the
Democratic candidate for governor in
1906; emitting Esmeralda county
upon such basis to twenty-seven dele
gates; and this committee recon-
mends that this convention affirm the
decision OF the committee and declare
Esmeralda county to be entitled to
twenty-seven delegates.
Your committee in this connection
regrets to have further to report that
upon the decision of the committee
as hereinbefore stated, the members
from Esmeralda, Washoe and Storey
counties, namely, J. L. Garner, F. J..
~Gruenthal and w. j. Lynch left the
committee room and declined and
refused to further participate in the
deliberations of your committee on
credentials; and your credentials
committee further reports that there
are before 1t no credentials of any
nature or character showing Esmer-
aida county to be entitled to any dele
gates to this convention. and accord
ingly we are not able to accredit to
Esmeralda county any delegates en-
titled to a seat in this convention.
Dated Tonopah, Nevada, Septem.
Der /. 1908.
G. II. M'INTOSH,
Chairman of Committee on Gre
dentia1s.
Attest:
D. J. FITZGERALD,
Secretary of said Committee.
To the Temporary Chairman and
Members of the Democratic State
Convention assembled in Tonopah
Gentlemen:-
A minority of the committee on
credentials submit this report to your
honorable body:
/. That the said committee com
piled a list of all the members of this
convention as appearing by them.
selves or by proxy and this minority
coneurs In the said report a V al
to members of the Nye and Esmer.
aida delegations as hereinafter sci
out:
2. That a contesting delegation o.
three appeared from Realty In NJ,