The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-09-24
Cannot Dodge the Issue

/ Y and laughaDle attempts 10 uouge ne issue OF the CAMPAIGN
: and switch the Democratic press and candidates into Olson.
sions of questions that are absolutely foreign to the fundamental pnn
ositiOn upon which the Democrats are asking the support of the voters
of the state of Nevada.
The one issue of the campaign is whether Nevada is to contnu.
and remain under corporate domination, o whether the individual
citizens of the state are to have a government of, by and for them.
selves.
On the state ticket Governor Dickerson is bitterly opposed for
election because he is openly antagonistic to any corporate inausuee
or dictation in state affairs; has waged and is waging warfare to the
end that in the matter of taxation and observance of laws the cor
poraton shall receive exactly the same treatment as the private cit.
zen. Governor Dckerson was almost wholly responsible for the as.
sessment valuation of the Southern Pacific Company property, for
example, being raised some $4,000 per mile. The property IF the
company was being assessed at 13 per cent of its actual worth, while
the property of the private citizen is assessed at about 60 per cent of
its real value. Governor Dickersons firm stand with the state board
of assessors caused the assessment rate of the Southern Pacific to be
raised from about 10 per cent to about 30 per cent of its real valuation
and thereby caused a reduction in the state tax rate of IA per cent
That means that money has been saved to every taxpayer of the state
of Nevada. And the Southern Pacific company is afraid that Dick
erson, as the spokesman for and representative of the people of the
state of Nevada, will eventually force the Southern Pacific company to
pay taxes o a still higher assessed valuation. That is the reaso. the
railroad company is fighting Dckersons election.
Key Pttman, candidate for United States Senator, is meeting
the same opposition. Senator George S. Nixon is the man behind"
the Republican political machine of the state, which until the DIker
son regime, controlled not only the Republican but the Democratic
party in Nevada. Nixon-Southern Pacific men were put up in both
Republican and Democratic conventions, in county and state, and held
the commonwealth in then clutch. With Nixo nat the helm and in
the Senate, the corporation interests had a high friend at court, even
though the governor of the state was constantly smashing through
the interest rush line and stopping end runs. Pittman is a chip
from the same block as Dickerson, and in the senate will not only vote
against the Aldrich-R ockefener-M Morgan interests (Which Nixon never
did, but in the state will use all of his political strength to back up
the efforts of Governor Denver S. Dickerson to enforce the square deal
to the people a S well as to the corporations.
Charles S. Sprague, Democratic candidate for Congress, is also
being opposed most bitterly for the same reason that Dickerson and
Pittman re opposed. Mr.. Sprague is public life has always been
known as a fighting friend of the people of the state a against the
interests that demand domination. He has always helped fight the
battles of the common people against special interests. He has done
so in Goldfeld, and the Nixon machine knows that he will continue to
stand for the square deal'' after he is elected to the United States
Congress. Nixon knows that Sprague, too, will uphold the hands Of
Denver S. Dckerson in state affairs that he will throw all his power
toward furthering state legislation that tends to benefit the people
the state of Nevada; and that where the fight is between the working
man and he interests, he will be found IN the side of a square deaO
all men.
The Nixon press will charge the Democratic candidates with
jingoism, and point to the fact that the corporations have developed
the state of Nevada, that the corporations are the largest tax payers
and that the corporations, therefore, have a right to take a part IN
politics.
No one of the Democratic candidates but welcomes the develop
ment of the state by individual or corporate capital. Not one ofu
Democratic candidates but welcomes the large corporation to- Nevada
and will try to help the corporation and its members in the business
life of the state. And they will welcome the individual members "
the corporation into the political life of the state. But when a cor
porahon, al such, insists on debating the business and political pon'
of a town, county o state, it is thereby contravening the consr'u
tonal rights of free speech, of individual liberty and the PURSUIT.
happiness; and the men named believe in calling a halt. No corp0i'
ton is entitled to greater power in politics than the personal V0'
and personal influence of the men associated in that copoara0D
And when a corporation threatens its employees with discharge fr w
free exercise Of the right of suffrage; when it assumes to reguSe ~
price of all kinds of labor in a community; when it attempts ~