Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-08-23

to the primaries, was announced in
July.
Since that time my opponent for
the republican nomination has been
making charges against me, by let
ter, by circular and in public meet
ings to the following effect:
First, that l am a corporation
lawyer. Second, that corporations
are paying my campaign expenses.
Third, that if | am elected l will
be controlled by corporations.
To the people who know me and
who have done business with me
for many years past; it is not ne
cessary that | should reply to these
charges.
But inasmuch as they are now be-
ing Systematically circulated to the
remotest corners of the state, and
are accommodating additional oppro-
brium with their daily repetition, l
will no longer permit them to go
undenied or their author unrebuked.
Therefore, l make answer as fol-
lows:
First. There is no lawyer in Ne
vada, so far as l know, who is old
enough to be attorney general, or
who has had sufficient training and
experience at the bar to qualify
himself as the chief law minister of
the state, who has not got corpor-
ations on his list of clients. If it is
true that | am a corporation law
YER then it is also true that l am
a union labor lawyer; also a min
ing lawyer; commercial lawyer
and a water rights lawyer l have
had clients. both rich and poor,
in all these lines of professional ac-
tivity. | do not belong to one
class any more than to another. Nu-
merically the largest number of my
clients have been prospectors, min
ers and mining men. and the largest
personal expenditures of money that
I have made during eight years resi-
dence in Southern Nevada (aside
from the maintenance of my family
have been for the maintenance of a
prospector in the field.
Second. The answer to the sec
ond charge necessarily compels me
to throw my private affairs wide
open. | do this with sharp regret,
and extreme repulsion, but without
hesitation or evasion.
Ny campaign two years ago, when
l was candidate for associate
justice of the supreme court, cost
me upwards of $4,000. No person
ventured to say it did not come
out OF my own pocket-every dollar
of it. | spent it economically:
without waste or extravaganza. Ev-
cry cent of it went into legitimate
channels, the chief item being a
thorough tour of the state. The
rest of the expenditure went into
circulars, cards and announcements;
contribution to the state central
committee; contribution to the
central committee of my home coun-
ty of Nye; and also for clerical
help, postage and sundry other
items; in several instances 1 en-
ployed men by the day or job to
go into localities where | could not
go myself, to present the claims of
my candidacy. All l had left out
of my campaign fund, at the end
OF the campaign, was the unused
portion of mileage book.
l contemplated that the campaign
Inis year, Tor attorney general,
would cost me more than | spent
two years ago. especially If it
should entail the added expense of
a primary campaign of the state.
Although my various property
holdings and interests are sufficient
to put my credit on the right side
of the ledger, l did not have suf-
ficient surplus cash, over and above
the current needs of my family
and of my business activities, to
meet the cost of such campaign.
Therefore, I put some of my hold
ings on the market at $500. I
did not find buyer. Then I offered
a holding at $4,000, but without
success. Later, in July, I disposed
of holding of stock for a consid-
GRAFTON of $4,000, which was con-
siderably below its intrinsic value.
The purchaser, already large
stakeholder in the company, ac-
quired the control through the pur-