Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-10-27
OODIE SPEAKS OF
GOVERNORS DUTIES
AS HE Sees them

IF elected governor of this great
state. as | have now every reason
to feel assured that / will be-, sail
Senator eddie at Ely, in reply TO
a direct question from the editor of
the Copper Ore, II shall undertake
to make my administration one of
actual accomplishments in solving
state problems.
My life has always been active.
have tried, in everything | under
took, to put into it surplus of en-
ergy and enthusiasm, with such
ability as | possessed. The office of
governor of Nevada is one in which
a live, resourceful, purposeful and
energetic man, thoroughly under
standing the state, it's people and
the conditions and obstacles in the
way of it's prosperity and upbuild-
ing, can accomplish substantial re-
suits. But he must be a live lead
er-not figurehead. The office, it.
self, is one of leadership. When
ever a state elects a man without
the dominating energy and purpose
to accomplish large results for his
state and people, that state has a
And if it make progress it must
find the leadership to go forward
elsewhere than in the governors
chair.
The duties of a governor, in my
belief, are three-fold: First, to see
that the laws of the state are prop
Ferly executed and upheld; second,
to see that the public revenues are
expended for useful and necessary
purposes, and for none other, and
thus to tighten the burden of taxa
ton on the shoulders of those who
have to support the state govern
ment; and lastly to- make it his
earnest business to investigate and
devise ways and means to give the
commonwealth he governs prac-
tical and progressive impetus-in-
dustrially and otherwise. The gov
ernor of state can do more than
recline in an easy chair ON the
shady side of the capitol in summer
and on the sunny side in winter.
1t is a great Office and one that can
be made tremendously useful.
Il know this state as perhaps
few other men know it. / have
travelled over the great area from
end to end and from side to side,
not once but many times, and in all
manner of conveyances. have
never crossed one of her great arid
valleys-some of the mlarge enough
to contain an empire-but what |
have been impressed with the ques-
ton whether the Creator intended
them to be always deserts and I'M
tenanted, and never clothed with
d
porous and contented people.
/ There is but one answer to the
question in my own mind. That is
that ultimately these. deserts will
be reclaimed-not all, perhaps, but
enough to support directly and in
directly ten to twenty people to
every one today living within our
boundaries. The Ngreat and vital
problem in Nevada at this time is
to ascertain how to go about it to
accomplish as speedily as we can
this result But the problem of re-
claiming and colonizing our wastes
| is far from solution and overshad-
ows, now, all others. | have given
to it no small amount of study my
self in the years l have traversed
these deserts. We have the land
and about us, in every other state
are multitudes of land-hungry peo-
pie who will come here gladly and
quickly if we can show them how
our waste valleys can support the
husbandman. That, in my opinion
is one of the greatest of the great
state problems that confront us to-
day.
"The question of freight and
transportation determinations that
transportation discrimination by the
railroads against us is largely set
tied, or in the way of complete and
satisfactory solution, but we should
strive to make substantial progress
along these lines, and see that
everything possible is done to bene.
fit the people of this state and i'm.
prove their condition and bring
about closer harmony between the
railroads and their patrons.
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