Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-09-02
COMMITTEE REPORTS
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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, ]. 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 it 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 seat in this convention.
Dated Tonopah, Nevada, Septem-
Der 1, 1908.
G. H. M'INTOSH,
Chairman of Committee on Gre
dentials.
Attest:
D. j. FITZGERALD,
Secretary of said Committee.
To the Temporary Chairman ant
Members of the Democratic State
Convention assembled in Tonopah
Gentlemen
A minority of the committee OF
credentials submit this report to you
honorable body:
1. That the said committee com
I piled list of all the members of thi
convention as appearing by them
selves or by proxy and this minorit
concurs in the said report save a
= to members of the Nye and EsmeT
g aida delegations as hereinafter sc
out:
q. That a contesting delegation 9
" three appeared from Beatty in Ny
lcounty and we And:
That no primary was held in sal
, Beatty and that three delegates wer
- elected by political club and ths
: the meeting at which said three weI
!. elected was alleged to have been cal
!, ried on in, defiance of the rights of
Democratic meeting as determined b
) parliamentary usage and the bod
which choose the contestants organ
: lied at once and in apparent goo
: faith chose delegation with the pu
- pose of representing them to this col
:, vention.
% In view of the totally divergel
IN statements of facts presented v
recommend that the three delegate
y. appointed by the Nye county centr
IN committee be seated and also Il
n three contesting delegates and TIL
D each of the six so seated be above
~ one-half of a vote each in this CO
ch vention.
he 8. That the Esmeralda delegate
he selected thirty-nine delegates to til
re convention in good faith and in a
ed cordance with the authority of t
Democratic party in convention q
OF sembled and that said delegation W
,e- far below their actual rights of re
lot resentation as presented and that tt
nv convention should leave the distrib
lot tion within Esmeralda county to
re delegation and we recommend til
cir this convention do not discredit t
NO action of former Democratic &C
los vention which acted without t
sir cloud of fractional difference
making it's findings.
All of which is respectfully S,
mitted.
q H. PILKINGTON,
n j. E. GRUNENTHAL,