The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-10-29


and for the benefit of the industries of the state which is his home
He will vote for revision of the tariff downward, that the people
~ buy the necessities of life more cheaply, and Pittman VIII take
up the same fight In the senate.
Nevada is about to elect as Governor Denver S. DiekersOn' VINO
as acting governor, has forced the Southern Pacific to play more
sanarely with the people than it has ever done before.
Nevada is about to elect a young, clean, fighting attorney gen
|eraI. Cleveland Baker, who knows n o corporate collar ana VINO via
he found beside Denver S. Dickerson fighting for the rights OF III
people of the state at every turn. Between them, Dickerson ana
Baker will name the next railway commission-wlll rename ue
present commission in fact.
All those facts have suddenly come to the attention OF william
Herrin. sitting in his lair down there in San Francisco. Blakesiee
has been asked why he is letting Nevada slip out OF us grasp y"
domination. Blakesee has suddenly been shown up as o htue ii
his Job. Herrin, the master mind of the Southern Paclhc ponuca'
machine. has been aroused, and today he is camping on Tn JoO'
putting his hand into the Nevada fight.
It is very evident that from Herrin the word has gone III 10
every Southern Pacific employee, spy, hangeron and agent to Beat
Dekerson. Beat Pittman. Beat Sprague. Beat Baker and beat
them at any price, We have got to beat D1ckerson TO Keep Gown
our assessment figures; we have got to beat Baker to get eonVci oi
and destroy the railroad commission; we have got to beat Fnuman
ana sprague to keep them from Working with that Democratic con
gressional majority that will have mo mercy on the railroads during
the next session of congress. Beat them at any cost
From over the state come rumors of railroad employees beng
given vacations y with plenty of expense money and full pay u
do political work until after the election. From California come ~
mors of political agents starting for Nevada. Their object is 10
matter of conjecture.
And, right here, it may be said that when Herr1n, the master
mind, is o the job, he is going to overlook no detail, no matter
how small He is going to, through his agents, be interested IN the
election of Republican sheriffs (who are also assessors) IN every
county of the state. He is going to be interested in the election OF
a Republican assembly and state senate, for the Republican state
platform pledges its candidates to destroy the railroad commission.
The Republican platform also pledges the destruction of the direct
primary law-that. the voters of the state may not again vote for the
men they want, rather than the men the railroad machine wants
them to vote for.
The fight is on. and it is a fight to the death. 1t means death
Ito Nixon politically and to the pernGous influence that has been
welded by corporate agents in Nevada or-it means death, for i
time, to the hopes of the people of Nevada fora free state, of which
it cannot be said that only millionaires can come to the senate
from Nevada
Nevada is Democratic normally, and, like the majority of the
states of the Union, has since the passage OF the Payne-Aldrlch tar
lift bill, made enormous Democratic gains. At the same time the
see that their own party has gone too far in panderng to the de-
sires of the great interests, and the majority of these voters are
turning to the Democratic party az the only hope of speedy relief.
SHOULD the Democratic state ticket be defeated in Nevada this fall
lit will be by reason of an outpouring of bride money by the inter-
est that wants to return Nixon to the Senate, and to defeat the
balance of the state ticket for its own ends. 1t will mean that
Nixon through his banking and other interests has threatened men
of influence with ruin if they do not work according to his dicta-
ton and for him, and that these men in turn have threatened work
ingmen with summary dismissal and hardship if they dare vote their
their convictions. 1t means that the Southern Pacific, through Geo.
is. Nixon and his fellow workers, would again debauch the voters
of Nevada, make Nevada again a subject of sneers and light jibes
yes, that Nixon and his fellows would make the state of Nevada
continually for sale, a harlot among the sisterhood of states.
1t is a fight to the death and-victory will rest with the peo-
pie of the state, for the Democratic state ticket is going to be elected,
and a Democratic assembly ticket is going to be elected. A few
creatures in whom the element of free manhood does not dwell will
be bought, whether for a drink, or a cigar, or for high material re-
ward matters not. The Republicans ae sneering that 'the Demo-
cratic press is saying that Democratic votes are for sale.' Votes
that are for sale are not Democratic, not Republican, not the votes
of any party. Yet the Republican machine is not above buying them
LAS cheaply as possible. 1t despses every creature that it buys,
and yet-counts his vote. The purchaser stoops lower than the
man who takes the price, for the procurer is ten thousand times more
damned than is the prostitute.