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

sdtlOu liSteueu 10 sweet uOLnlnBS as
~discoursed by the anti artletts.
Everytime someone made a motion it
was straddled with amendments I'M
til the original motion was buried so
deep that 1t was lost sight of then,
then the first amendment would be
withdrawn and another hours work
would be lost. This was repeated
several times until at last H. c. Cooke
moved that Esmeralda be allowed the
additional twelve delegates and that
Churchill's delegation be increased
four, Humboldt two, White Pine two
and Nye two. And then the affair
became farcical in the extreme and
strange to relate after another hours
wrangling this was carried.
Senator Bell called w. H. Husky to
take the chair as he was too fatigued
to continue further in the capacity of
chairman.
The next was the report OF the
committee on organization and order
of business, rendered by Chairman
H. r. Cooke of that committee, which
passed without a dissenting vote.
The platform and resolutions re-
port was presented by Supreme JUS
tice Sweeney. AS Sweeney assembled
to the platform the majority of the
Esmeralda and Washoe delegations
left the hall. The reading of that
section which referred to Newlands,
Bartlett and Dickerson was greeted
with cheers, the noise for Dickerson
being the loudest. When the chair
man had finished reading the major
ity report, Governor Dickerson pre-
sented the minority report. In sup
port of the minority report the gov
ernor made an impassioned speech,
contending that the dead governor
and the Democratic legislature which
passed the police bill, were not en-
titled to commentator for the par
ticular act. He was opposed to the
plank in the majority platform from
a political standpoint and said that it
would lose votes for the party and
that 1t was but a half way SOP to the
friends of Governor Sparks. Sweeney,
as chairman of the platform commit
tee, said the real issue before the
people was the state police bill and
that they would be accused of cow
ardice in the event of their falling to
pass the plank. He stated that Gov
ernor Sparks had sacrificed his life in
the interest of the people. He saw
no harm in endorsing Sparks and
commencing the legislature. Bartine
opposed the plank and Carl Young
remarked that the people had been
buncoed.
The most impressive speech of the
evening was made by S. w. Bedford
of White Pine. He it was who swung
the convention by his m~atchless ora.
tory and forced the majority to finai,
ly accept the minority substitute. He
started by advancing from his posi-
ton in front of the hall towarC
sweeney with uplifted hand and re,
marked that he did not have to bt
taught a lesson from Sweeney to pa,
his respects to the memory of Spark,
as an individual or an official. II,
eontended that the issues as present
ed to the Democratic party must b.
met. At no time in the history of tn,
party had such a crisis as this con
fronted 1t. The Republicans woult
make capital and he feared for tn,
result.
Judge Hubbard of Esmeralda wal
the next speaker. He favored tn,
minority report. Sweeney rose to hi
feet to take issue with the remarks o
the Esmeralda man, but was howlet
down. Dunlap had the secretary reat
the majority and minority reports OF
the bill, pointing out that the stumb
ling block was but the two concludini