The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-08-13
Dickersor Unafraid In
His Fight For Right
(Ely Exposition

Away yer in Carson City they have awakened to no Foot. Tho, Nav.a,
has a governor that will not be coerced by a bOughten press into becoming a
party to what threatened to be n of the most notorious steals ever per-
petrated in this state. Though the prison commission consisting of a Re.
publican secretary of state and the attorney general voted a few weeks ago
to accept a contract for cells for the nw state prison many thousand dollars
in excess of what other bidders offered to do the work. the commission
finally has been brought to realize that the plans have nt yet been accepted.
There win be n o prison until they ire ad the law provide tbat tn COVER.
mol must approve them.
There was a meeting of the prison board for this purpose this week and
Governor Dickerson refused to approve the plans, stating that he would pre-
fer to have the next legislature pass o n this important detail. Though it
is only a few months until the legislature meets, the Carson News in its eff.
forts to cloud the issue claims that Governor Dickerson is acting to the in.
jury of ormsby county, where the proposed prison will be located. None bet,
ter than The News knows the fasity of this claim.
The fact of the matter is the prison plans as presented by the former
state engineer called fol- a prison that would be larger than Nevada could
possibly have need for within the next fifty years. In addition the specihca-
tions afforded opportunity for endless graft SO great in fact that the scandal
Os conditions which surrounded San FranciSos "new city hai' a few
years ago would have been insignificant. The News knows this % be a
fact. The first evidence of it came with the awarding of the contract for
the prison cells. The name in which the majority of the prison board
awarded the contract to Inc highest instead of the lowest bidder, caused al
most a much comment as did the memorable action IF the notorious Judge
Pike of Reno about a year ago whe after the county had convicted a
couple of wholesale robbers and suspec TED muraeers he fined them a few
hundred dollars, allowing them ther freedom. That action resulted in
Pixies political death; nt to speak of other acts of fragrant 90 improperly
he has committed since.
Governor DckerSn IS a minority member If the board refused to sane.
ton this action. He va overidden, but they reckoned without thought of
the future. Now the indications are that the matter will go before the
next legislature. That body, composed as it will be of members of both
parties, will have a opportunity to judge whether or not Governor Dicker
sn has acted wisely. If he has prevented a gang of plundeprs from rob-
bling the state of hundreds of thousands of dollars he mas performed but one
of many similar duties which have marked his administration.
For some reason it Gems that every time the Republican press attempts
bring criticism upon Governor Dick rson it says something that reacts
upon itself and the men n whose employ it is entered.
If the Carson organ will be candid it will recant it's recent utterances,
come ~ with the truth and state that Governor Dnkerson in his present
course has acted for the good of the taxpayers of the state, that he is
fighting to prevent the state treasury from being looted, and he will succeed
unless the law is defed.