Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-08-01
OUT WITH KNIFE
AND TOMAHAWK
Democatic Factions have a Hot Old
Time at Caucus.

ALECA tA0 AAC
cleared away in the preliminary
skirmish by the Democratic braves,
the field represented one of the most
frightful scenes of carnage that has
ever been witnessed since the battle
of the Little Big Horn, where Custer
met his last defeat.
The signal fires had been lighted
and were burning from every knoll
and hill. The tribes of Mcf'adden-
Pittman had unsheathed their scalp
ing knives and tomahawks and the
Observation-Disclosures early donned
their war bonnets and bedecked
themselves in feathers and paint.
Fire water had been dealt out with
a lavish hand and the braves were
there resolved to have each others
scalps dangling at their belts. The
talk of peace by big Chief Smith of
the McFadden-Pittman tribe sounded
good, but the Thatcher-McIntoshes
scented treachery. When he an
nounced that as a sucking babe he
had imbibed Democracy in Texas, a
grunt went around the circle of
Observation-Disclosures that BODIED no
good. When hostilities ceased for
the night it meant that a more ter
rife combat will ensue at the pri-
maries on the fifth of August.
The caucus of the Democrats of
Tonopah district, Nye county, was
called to order in the Miners Ex-
change hall promptly at s O'Clock by
County Central Chairman W. r. Nc
Fadden, who stated in a few words
the object of the caucu There were
present some 200 of the faithful, 1879
of whom were aspirants for office,
ten expected to get d~eputyships and
the other was the janitor and he had
to be there.
B. H. Smith and d. G. Robb were
placed in nomination as presiding Of
ficer, the honor falling upon Smith.
Upon Mr.. Smith taking the chair he
delivered an address felicitating the
Democrats upon their being able to
be in the hall and listen to him adj
dress them, while he referred to the
deeds of that patron saint OF De-
mocracy, Thomas Jefferson. Tom
has had many eulogies, but he must
have turned in his grave upon this
recital Of what he accomplished. The
chairman then related a story of
records in the justice court, follow
ing which he said that men only
should be nominated by the Demo-
Gratis who had records. CA voice in
the audience: HE must have been
scanning Judge Brissell's calen-
dar.")
Walter Shelton, the follower of
Blackstone, in a speech redolent of
babbling brooks and green fields far
away, placed in nomination w. J..
McCabe for the Office of secretary.
Mr.. McCabe vas elected by aeclama-
tion and escorted himself to a desk
on the platform. The chairman an
nounced that the secretary would
now read the following resolutions
which had been dug up from the in
side of McFadden's coat pocket and
had evidently been prepared with a
view to getting a Bryan steamroller
push On the anne. They are as fol-
lows:
Whereas, The use of more than
one ticket or ballot will cause con-
fusion in the minds of the voters,
make more difficult the counting of
the returns, permit the injection of
the names of persons not nominated
at this caucus. and tend to other mis-.
takes and errors which this caucus
desires to avoid, and,
Whereas, There is no method pro-
vided by law for meeting the ex-
penses of a primary election, and no
funds r available in the Nye Coun-
ty Democratic Central committee for
such purpose, therefore be it
Resolved, First: That any menu
Der of this caucus may nominate one
candidate, whose nam will be placed
upon the official ballot to be voted
for at the primary election to be
held in Tonopah precinct August 8,
1908, as a delegate to the Democratic
state convention to be held at Tono-
pah August 81, 1908.
Second: That the names OF all
nominees, in the order of their nomi-
nation, shall be placed on one ballot
TO be provided by the Nye County
Democratic Central committee and to
be known as the official ballot. The
judges Of the election are hereby
authorized and directed not to recog-
nize or receive any other than the
official ballot at such primary cleo