The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-08-13
Kilborn's Fight for the Party

VERY Democrat in Nevada should be a reader of the Nevada
State Journal and should assist in increasing its circulation. 1t
is duty the party owes to itself as well as to the Journal, that
vertable Gibralter of straightup Democracy.
Since George d Kilborn took over the Journal, it has easily be-
come the leading Democratic newspaper of the state, and its Democ-
racy is of the unaduterated kind; for it has from the beginning of his
administration, been fighting for the integrity of the party as against
any frame-up'' between certain erst-while 'leading Democrats and
the Nixon machine. When Mr.. Kilborn came into the Journal, he
found that a compact existed between the bosses of both parties that
certain federal ofhceholders could be kept in office by the exchange OF
support. He also found that a certain gang of Democrats that nestled
for the most part in Reno and Carson City, was in the virtual employ
of the Southern Pacific for the purposes of state offices and state legis-
Ilation and that this gang, through it's compact organization and the
cohesive power of public plumber, was running the Democratic
party of Nevada, controlling conventions and selecting its candidates.
Mr.. klborn at once directed his attention to exposing and breaking
up this conspiracy and 50 insistent and merciless has he been that he
has incurred the most venomoash hatred of the gangsters.
Mr. Kilborn's first move against the gangsters was to secure the
up of the convention system by the substitution of the direct
primary law. This was a body blow at boss rule for it placed the
nomination OF party candidates IN the hands of the people. The pas
sage of this primary law smoked out the gangsters at once and jim
Boyd representing the Nixon Democrats and L. A. Gibbons, Congress-
Bartletts law partner, representing the Nixon machine, imme-
diately rushed into the supreme court to attack the conshtutionality
of the law in the hopes of destroying it. But the law proved invulner-
able; it was declared valid and the law of the state, whereupon the
gangsters ducked and began to frame-up for the primaries.
But in this frame-up they have been countered by Kilborn and
the journal Early in the game, coincidently with the announcement
of the findings of the supreme court on the primary law, Bartlett an
nouneed that he would not be a candidate; Judge Sweeney came out
for the senate and Nicholas, who had been fred by the governor, an
nounced hmsef a candidate against Dickerson. 1t was a long time
before they could find anyone to yield to their persuasive eloauence
to come out for congress aaginst Sprague. but at the last moment a
willing tool was found IN H. L. Hubbard, and Sweeney, Nicholas and
Hubbard are now receiving the full and aggressive support of the.
Nixon Democratic machine. But they are being effectively opposed
and exposed by klborn IN the Journal, which is fighting the Nixon
Southern Paclhc frame-up II every turn and step of the road, giving
his unqualified support to Dickerson. Pntman and Snracne. as the
straight-up, anti-Nixon candidates of the Democratic party.
And George .. kilborn intends to keep up this fight against the.
Pacific Democratic frame-up until every gangster
that has been betrayng the Democracy of the state is driven out of the
party o r into obscurlty. ns night for the integrity of the party is not
for a day or a month or for a single campaign. Kilborn is a man of
high principle, of great courage and large means, and he will carry
1t is for these reasons that Klborn should be oivan the support of
the Democracy in this campaign, and it is for this reason the Journal
should be read by every ieh'ocfa OF principle in the state of Nevada