The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-10-22
Watch Out For the Assembly Ticket

- URING the present campaign in Nevada, the contests for Cover
nor. United States Senator and Congressman should o take
u the greater part of the attention of the voters. The voters
shonld not forget that a determined and energetic fight is being
waged by the corporate interests to get control OF the legislature
That the arch enemy of the state had a hand, either directly or by
representatives in the framing of the platform adopted 1t the recent
Republican convention held IN Virginia oHy mere al oe no i"i'"e
doubt.
Contrary to the declarations of the leaders of the Republican
party that the railroad which has held Nevada by the throat Tor many
wears has not been interested in the politics of this state for the past
ten years, an analysis of the platform upon which the Republican can
|didates for the legislature r running and to which they are pledged
reveals the fact that the Southern Pacific Railroad is as acutely and
cunningly interested as at any time since It's rals we're o acloSs 'e
state. E.
The Republican platform pledges the party to the retention OF
the present railroad commission, but for how long 1t does not state.
1t may be that the act creating the railroad ommlSSoh vii oe ie
pealed in the event of a Republican majority in the legislature, or
more likely it will be amended, as set forth in the party platform, 50
that tbe commission. instead of being appointive, will be elective.
What does this mean? 1t means that the Southern Paclnc VIII spehd
any amount of its time and money to secure the election OF persons
whose thoughts travel in the same groove as its own The endorse
ment of the present commission by the Republican party is well cal
culated to hoodwink the people. Can 1t be SAID that the southern
Pacific Railroad aided or abetted the passage of the act creating the
railroad commission, or that it is well satisfied with the work OF the
commissonq Would the boodsucking corporation like to see the
commission shorn of all it's powers? Would it like to see that office
thrown into the political arena where in many cases personalities are
paramount to abilities. Through what channels does the Southern
Pacific hope to accomplish its deadly work? The question answers
itself: Through a Republican legislature.
Why does the Republican platform advocate the abolshing OF
the state board of assessors? Simply because the Southern Pacific
RAILROAD realizes that the people have risen in their might and Will
elect to office n o man who will not lend his aid to the placing OF a
proper valuation upon the property of the Southern Pacific IN this
state. When the railroad had a board of assessors that "a sub
servient to its interests it was perfectly satisfied that the law W a a
good one. But what a change of heart when it is known that the
wave which extends over the Union has hit Nevada and that 1t must
come out into the open and be judged upon the same footing as It's
Ineighbors
Another thing-and one of the paramount things of the cam
paign: The Republican state platform pledges the Republican candl-
dates ito work for the amendment of the direct primary law. Now
then, how would a Republican legislature amend" the direct pl-
mary law? Every Republican in the legislature that passed that law
fought it-wih but two or three "nsurgeut" exceptions. And the
insurgents haev been gathered into the standpat fold. The Demo
Gratis know that the law can be bettered, but in the next legislature
lis that betterment to be done by the friends of or enemies OF the d.
rect primary law? The Republicans tried to have the direct primary
law declared unconstitutional In (" amending it would not the Re
publicans se that the amendments were such that the law would be
Unconstitutional?
There s a reason why the Southern Pacific has a hand in the pie.
There's a reason why it wants the next Legislature to be Republican.
However, the people If not to be so easily fooled, and when the roll
lis called next January over at the state capitol it will be seen that the
people were not so foolish as they were thought to have been, and a
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