White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-23
KNOWS NEVADA
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HON. T. l.. ODDIE HAS PRAC-
TICAL IDEAS As TO WHAT A
GOVERNOR SHOULD BE AND
WHAT HE SHOULD DO.

IF elected governor of this great
state, as / have now every reason to
feel assurance that | will be-" said
Senator Oddie at Ely, today, in reply
to a direct question from the editor
of the White Pine News, " shall un-
dertake to make my administration
! one of actual accomplishments in
solving state problems.
My life has always been active. l
have tried, in everything i undertook,
to put into it a surplus of energy and
enthusiasm, with such ability as /
possessed. The Office of governor of
Nevada is one in which a live, re-
sourceful, purposeful and energetic
man; thoroughly understanding the
state, it's people and the conditions
and obstacles In the way of its pros
perity and upbuilding, can accom-
plish substantial results. But he
must be live leader-not a figure
head. The Office, itself, Is one of
leadership. Whenever state elects
a man without the dominating energy
and purpose to accomplish large re-
suits for his state and people, that
state has a functionary and not an
executive. And If 1t make progress
it must find the leadership to go for
ward elsewhere than In the governors
chair"
THE duties of a governor, in my
belief. are three-fold First, to see
that the laws of the state are proper
ly executed and upheld; second, to
see that the public revenues are ex-
pended for useful and necessary pur-
poses, and for none other, and thus
to tighten the burden of taxation on
the shoulders of those who have to
support the state government: and,
lastly, to make ii his earnest business
to investigate and devise ways and
means to give the commonwealth he
governs a practical and progressive
impetus-industria and otherwise.
/ The governor of a state can do more
than recline in an easy chair on the
shady side of the capitol in summer
and on the sunny side in winter. 1t
is great Office and one that can be
made tremendously useful.
81 know this state as perhaps few
other men know it. l have travelled
over her great area from end to end
| and from side to side not once but
many times and in all manner of con-
yeyances. ! have never crossed one
of her great arid yalleys-some of
them large enough to contain an en-
pire-but what / have been impress
ed with the question whether the
Creator intended them to be always
deserts and untenanted, and never
clothed with verdure and the abodes
of a prosperous and contented peo-
pie.
There is but one answer to the
question in my own mind. That Is
that ultimately these deserts will be
reelaimed-not all, perhaps, but
enough to support directly and indi-
rectly ten or twenty people to every
one today living within our bound
aries. The great and vital problem
in Nevada at this time is to ascertain
how to go about 1t to accomplish as
speedily as we can this result. But
the problem of reelaiming and colon
izing our wastes is far from solution
and overshadows, now, all others. /
have given to it no small amount of
study myself in the years / have
traversed these deserts. We have
the land and about us, in every other
state, are multitudes of land-hungry
people who will come here gladly and
quickly If We can show them how our
waste-valleys can support the hus-
bandman. That in my opinion, Is
one of the greatest of the great state
problems that confront us today.
The question of freight and trans
portation determinations against us
by the railroads is largely settled, or
in the way of complete and satisfac-
tory solution, but We should strive to
make substantial progress along
these lines, and see that everything
possible is done to benefit the people
of this state and improve their condi-
tions and bring about a closer har-
mony between the railroads and their
patrons.
1.-The mining industry is on a
strong and substantial basis, but
there is room for much Improvement
which We should try in various ways
to bring about.
"If elected governor l shall try and
lead in solving these great problems,
with the aid of the progressive people
of this state"
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