Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-10-26
DICKERSON REGIME
PROVES VERY COSTLY TO The
TAXPAYERS OE NEVADA

blank evasion and subterfuge. Gov
ernor Dickerson in it shows that he
dare not squarely meet the charge
in the republican platform and as
specifically analysed in the republic
can campaign text book.
WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT
LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS?
Not the republican platform, which
charged EXPENDITURES, cash act
ually paid out of the state treasury,
aggregating in the fiscal year 1908
5000, 973.12, and for the fiscal year
1909 (the expenditures for the
present year not being a matter of
record, the stupendous sum of
ISL, 297,35S.40 averaging over
$35O,0O0 per year more than the
average state expenditures under
Governor Sparks. Governor Dick
erson well knows that these figures
and the word EXPENDITURES. as
used in the republican platform, as
used in the report of the state con-
troller, do not mean or refer to
APPROPRIATIONS by the state
Legislature, which is an entirely diff
ferent matter.
Yet he blandly declares to
| Goldfield audience that they point
to the fact that over million dol
lars was appropriated; but they
were careful not to tell you that
$550,000 of that money appropri-
ated is still in the treasury" Cap
plause).
Assuming that there was applause
at the statement by those who nat
urally thought it an answer, the
arises how much applause
would have been forthcoming If the
audience at the time had realized
that it was not an answer; very far
from an answer. In fact specious
and insincere play on the lack OF
Information of his auditors.
i Let us dig little deeper into
this purported answer to the repub-
lican campaign charges. Governor
Dickerson mentions that we pur-
chased a prison farm for $4,000.
, But it is not contained in either the
state expenditures for 1908 or 1909,
which we are considering. It was
! apurchased the present Year OF
ii Grace, 1910, and the money for its
4 purchase is no part of the expend1t-
I'll ures of the two fiscal years to
| (which the specific charges of the re-
publican platform relate.
~ GOVERNOR DICKERSON KNEW
THAT AS ABSOLUTELY AS HE
t KNEW THAT SUCH PURPORT-
, led ANSWER WAS AN EVASION.
In the beginning of the above
l quotation from Governor DECKER
: 4 sons speech we find something
, about favoring permanent improve
ments and that he believed it nee
essary 10 build ward building at
1.-THE insane asylum and another
lat the state university-all of which
he'd to the Inference that these items
> with the prison expenditures com.
rlfately answered the republican
platform charges Now, the cost Of
: The ward building at the asylum
was $2O,05995 and of the univer
sity Building was $24 ,H05.93, a mat
:. ter cud $4,000 as against $350,00(
!. charged, while ALL OF THE Elk
!. EXPENDITURES FOR TIE NEW
APRISON BUILDING HAVE FAL
Hen WITHIN THE PRESENa
: lYEAR.
III Nor did ahe governor, while quail
! flying his belief in permanent i'm
ia improvements" mention that during
:. Enhe session af 1909 he vetoed
q Unnecessary appropriation for $35,
is lmO biological building at the uni
, wersity, yet stcod for 100000
a. new prison when the state pos
4 sesssd one adequate for its needs
9 The state expenditures for tn
~ present incompleted fiscal year ar
II mot yeii published, but with the bi
=. expenditures for the new prison ar
y .ikely IN equal or surpass those c
It sos
FL Again 1--WE ask Where? How an
r for What? has over 100000
= II the public -res enues, over and abo,
vii ordinary expenditures, been di
T. Il bursed the past two years?
Ell The answer is. THE BUlLDlN
Up OF A DICKETkSON POLITICA
r MACHINE AT THE EXPENSE