Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-03-06
after SECURING
GLORY DESIRES TO
SDESTEP FAME

Il was in Carson the other day
when the copy of the Bonanza, CON
tanning an editorial intimating that a
mistake had been made in placing
Giffen in the speakers chair, arriv-
ed there, which was the occasion of
much comment" said a gentleman
from the outside now in Tonopah on
private business, while talking over
affairs at the state capitol with a
friend here. He is acutely wise to
what goes on around him and no one
can size up situation more quickly
or accurately. Continuing he said:
From all | could learn from those
on the inside of things there, the b.
nanza called the turn on the little
man from Manhattan, and no one is
srrer of that fact than are the men
who made him speaker. They excuse
themselves for making this mistake
with the statement it was a choice
between three evils: Lem Allen
wouldn't do at all, for there is moth
ing to him except bunch of alfalfa
Whiskers and great noise The ex-
pressed objection to Folsom is that
his eyes are too sensitively peeled for
Folsom own interests-that he had
been there before and tipped off his
own hand in this paramount particu-
lar The hew members were all more
or less unknown quantities and Gift
Zen put on the best front and won.
Trey do say that there is written
statement in the hands of one prom
inent Democrat, signed by Giffen, in
Which he promises to take the pro-
gram and not try, all by himself, to
inject any foreign subject matter in
to the Democratic program. Ii the
thing had to be done over, several of
the new members could give him
cards and spades and distance him in
the race, notably Brooks, of Esmer.
aida
The truth about the matter seems
to be that Citizens thinking appar-
atus is built in proportion to his ILL.
pution carcas. Every one is familiar
with that kind; narrow-minded
small-souled biggoted and bump
tious, they scratch into some position
of prominence, instantly forget their
creators, imagine they are the whole
cheese, strut around pompously dur.
ing their brief season of authority
assiduously seeking the spot light
are swept aside at the first oppor.
tunity and are soon forgotten. That's
CITIZENS record, from soup to nuts
He is now making his first, last and
only appearance on the stage of Ne.
vada state politics
Il heard one good one on hin
while rubbering around the corridor:
of the capitol. You remember that the
cslcium was turned on him for a de
licious 1eeting moment when he in
troduced that anti-gambling resolu
ton, early in the session. Well, hi
did that when no one was looking
and it really embarrassed the admin
istration for few days, in the pend
ing negotiations with the nationa
government relative to mineral land
held by the Central Pacific, but Gif
fen was tickled tremendously owe
the fame this secured, claiming all tn,
honors for himself alone, until tn,
food of adverse criticism began t,
pour in by wire and mail. Then h,
wanted to side-step; but Judg,
Sweeney, who, SO the story goes
really prepared that resolution, an,
easily induced the speaker to intro
duce it, wouldn't stand for the guilt
after Giffen got the glory.
NO" there's no use wasting an
time on him-he's a back number
out of the running. and has done al
the harm they are going let him dc