The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1910-09-03
Political Announcement
To The Republicans of Nevada:

martyrei President by calling yourself
the Abraham Lincoln of Nevada"
You take us into your private affairs
and explain how you sacrificed property
interests to meet your campaign expen'
ses. I can only hope that the sacrifice
is not too great.
You charge me with having stated in
a speech at Ely that you received a cor.
poration campaign fund Of $4,000. The
charge is false. Your personal repre-
sentative, Mr.. Jones, who so d%iscreetly
trailed me over the State. heard the
speech. Under such circumstances your
assumptions are objectionable.
1 told you at a meeting of the Repub
lican County Committee in Goldfeld on
August 7th that although l could not
conscientiously advocate your candidacy,
If you we're nominated I would keep my
hands off and would not oppose you.
Everywhere in Nevada I have made a
similar declaration. You and your
Mr.. Jones know it. You understand
fully the reasons for my letter of which
you complain and how I accepted your
assurances that you did not have a rail-
road campaign fund. 1t is therefore
your evident and deliberate purpose to
give the people a false impression OF
what my conduct after the primaries
will be, and to ALLEVIATE my supporters
on the ground that I place my interests
above party fealty. l do place my duty
to my country and State above party
fealty, and I am convinced that my do
ing so meets with the approval of all
loyal Republicans. Is it my conduct
or yours that is unbecoming a gentle
man?
You say that I have made false state
ments in my campaign. What are
they? l demand that you make them
public and do not indulge in cheap
clap-trap and personal abuse.
l want to say that in your statement
you do to me what you falsely charge
with having done to you. You de.
liberately besmirch my name and &C.
cuse me. of falsehood and dishonesty.
Presumptuous as it may seem to the
purist you profess to be, I believe my
character is as unsullied, my patriotism
IS answering and my ideals as high as
yours. .
I have strictly adhered to the plan of
campaign about which l told you at the
beginning. l have made no misrepre-
sensations and shall make none. And
| have treated you as courteously as
the ~exigencies of a strenuous political
war permit.
A word to you, Mr.. Morgan, of the
Reno Gazette. bad Man from Bodie,"
and traducer of men:
If YOU have the interests of the Re-
publican party at heart why are you op.
posing Republican State and county
oandidateswhose nominations
tested? How many candidates have you
maligned until they acceded to your de-
mands for money? What Interior mo-
tive have you in this controversy and
what inducements have been made to
you? How much Southern Pacific
money have you received from Boss
Blakeslee for giving such fulsome praise
TO his protege, Brown? What is the
cause of your bitterness toward me =:
You remember in 1906 when l was a
candidate for the Office to which I now
aspire, you took me for a wealthy mans
son ripe for plucking ,andyou endeavored
to hold me up in return for the Ga.
zette's support-and I told you in I'M.
m%istakable terms what I thought of you.
Since then you have reviled me. APPLY
indeed, are you called "the pole-cat OF
Nevada journalism" and your paper,
"Reno's dirty little hold-up sheet"
And o a word to you, Mr.. Editor
Of the Goldfeld Tribune: You know
very little of Nevada politics. You are
a new conner, a venomous one, and you
are getting your every word, advice anC
information from machine men.
To you, Mr.. Stanford graduate, who
criticize and complain of plain truths,
say that either you do not understand
or you are unworthy the institution from
which we both graduated.
In conclusion I can but say now tc
the Republicans of Nevada, among
whom l grew to manhood, who know
my every thought, action and deed tina
l fearlessly ask for your support ani
your suffrage at the primaries in tn
great case of the People VS.. The South
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