Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-10-28

Enthusiastic 7rong Filled the Miners Hall Last Euennq


cratic platform ever been issued in
advance of the republican; that
never in the history of the nation
has a democratic convention been
held prior to republican conven-
tion. He has very aptly given in
explanation the fact that our party
is ever the aggressor, and that the
democrats are simply followers and
critics.
Now, my friends, | am going to
tell you why l am going to vote tn
republican ticket from top to bot
tom at the coming election. / am
going to vote for George S. Nixon
for the United States senate for two
reasons-one political the other
personal. The reasons are these:
First. / am going to vote for Nixon
to succeed himself for the reason
that it is historic fact that no
senator serving his first term is
permitted to hold the craftsmanship
of any important committee. 1t
matters not how brilliant man he
may be, this is a custom which has
obtained in the senate for the past
century. Now, gentlemen, there are
reasons why Senator Nixon should
be sent back to the senate at the
coming election. They are these:
If sent back to succeed himself he
can obtain the chairmanships of
two very important committees,
namely, that of the committee on
irrigation of arid lands, and of the
committee on mines and mining.
All of you must realize how impor-
tant these committees are to a
state more than two-thirds of which
| is at present an arid waste, solely
for the reason that they lack that
God-given substance, water. You
must realize how important to this
state the craftsmanship of that COM
mittee is to this state at, present.
Again, take the committee on mines
and mining. Upon what does this
state thrive at present but upon her
wonderful mineral resources? Just
think what craftsmanship on this
committee means for us. How we
will have an ardent advocate at all
times vigilant in our interests, who
will bend every effort to bring to
pass extensive developments in the
mining industry; who will by years
of the closest contact with mines
and mining generally, know how
best to improve every opportunity
which may arise; who will be of
vast service to the state in many
ways. This, gentlemen, is my po-
litical reason. My personal reason
tells a story of a different kind.
On October %, 1907, as l sat in
my Goldfield office, I heard COM
motion below me on Main street
I descended to ascertain the cause
and the spectacle that met my eyes
will remain with me to my dying
day. On both sides of the street
were long lines of weeping women
and children, horny-handed sons OF
toll, clerks in stores, composing a
Heterogeneous throng, all weeping
and cursing, and clamoring for ad.
mission to the State Bank and
Trust company's building and the
Nye and Ormsby County bank Di.
agonally across the street from NE
stood another bank, familiarly
known as the Nixon bank At that
time Nixon had the management oi
no less than five banks in the state
!, conditions surrounding his banl
, were identically the same as the
, conditions surrounding the others
| yet, in this great time of trouble
when the financial situation wa.
) strained to the breaking point, wha
} did Mr.. Nixon and his colleague!
do? Did they close their door!
: against their depositors? Did they
like their neighbors, step out from
under the crash? No! emphaticall,
t No! Mr.. Nixon felt that his per
: sonal manhood, his honor, his dut,
| to his fellowmen demanded tina
: every demand upon the banks re
> sources should be met. To do thi
it was necessary for Mr. Nixon t,
: dig down into his personal forum,
: to the tune of $1,740.0OO. Will
S was half of the amount necessar.
D to meet this enormous demand; tn
a other half being met by Mr.. Georg
/. Wingfield. Does this strike you a
: being personal selfishness on tn
a part of our honored senator
: Think you there are any other lik
e him in this wide state? Can yor
: point me out an instance in the his
= tory Of this state which will par
a1lol that aat9 No R.to~I.