The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-08-23

state that Hugh M. Brown, candidate
for the Republican nomination for at
torney general was the creature of the
corporations and was making his can
vass with their money, Mr.. Brown has
issued the following letter:
Tonopah, New, Aug. 81, 1910.
My candidacy for Republican nomi-
nation for attorney general. subject to
the primaries, was announced in July.
Since that time my opponent for the
Republican nomination has been max
ing charges against me by letter, by
circular and in public meetings to the
following effect:
First, that / am corporation law
yer.
Second. that corporations are paying
my campaign expenses.
Third that if / am elected I 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 necessary
that ! should reply to these charges.
But, inasmuch as they are now being
systematically circulated to the re-
motest corners of the state, and are
accumulating additional opprobrium
with their daily repetition, I will no
longer permit them to go undenied and
their author unrebuked.
Corporation Lawyers.
Therefore. | make answer as follows:
First. There is no lawyer in Neva-
da. so far as / know, who is old enough
to be attorney general, or who has
sufficient experience and training at
the bar to qualify himself as the chief
/ law minister of the state. who has not
get corporations on his list of clients
IF it is true that I am corporation
lawyer. then it is also true that I am
union labor lawyer; also a mining
lawyer; commercial LAWYER and a wa,
ter rights lawyer. / have had. clients
both rich and poor in all these lines
of progressional activity. I do not be
long to one class any more than TO
another. Numerically. the largest
number of nv clients have been pros
pectors, miners and mining men. and
the largest personal expenditures of
money that I have made during eight
years residence in southern Nevada
(aside from the maintenance of my
family have been for the maintenance
of prospector in the field
Personal Affairs.
Second. The answer to the second
charge necessarily compels me to
throw my private affairs wide Open
I do this with regret.
My campaign two years ago, when
was candidate for associate Justice of
the supreme court, cost me upwards of
four thousand dollars. No person ven
tured to say it did not come out of nv
own pocket. every dollar of it. spent
it economically, without waste or ex-
Etravagance. Every cent Of it went
into legitimate channels. the chief item
being tour of the state. The rest of
the expenditure went into circulars,
cards and announcements; contribu-
tion to the state central committee; a
contribution to the central committee
of my home county of Nye, and also for
clerical help, postals and sundry other
items.
In several instances employed men
by the day or job to go into localities
where | could not go myself to present
the claims of my candidacy. All I
had left out of my campaign fund. at
the end of the campaign was the un-
used portion of mileage book.
I contemplated that the campaign
this year for attorney general would
cost me more than 7 spent two years
ago, especially if it should entail the
added expense of primary campaign
of the state.
How He Raised Money.
Although my various property hold
ings and interests are sufficient to put
my credit on the right side of the led
ger. did not have sufficient surplus
cash over and above the current needs
of my family and of my business acti-
vities, to meet the cost of such cam
paign. Therefore I put some of my
holdings on the market at seven thous-
and five hunded dollars. / did not
find a buyer. Then / offered a holding
at five thousand dollars but without
success. Later, in July, | disposed of
holding of stock for consideration
of three thousand dollars which was
considerably below its intrinsic value.