White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-07
Nevada's Senatorial Situation.

The poll of the state to be taken at
the time of the primary election In
September to show the choice of the
people for United States senator has
called into the contest three lawyers
as aspirants for the democratic nomi-
nation and one business man as the
Republican candidate.
The three lawyers are Key Pitt
man, Judge Sweeney and c. b. Nc
Intosh, all legal gentlemen of mod
est attainment in the profession and
irreproachable record as citizens and
advocates at the bar. They are rep
resentative democrats and represen-
tative lawyers, remembering that we
are now limiting our remarks to Ne
vada. AS politicians, neither of the
trio has raised through personal
power or circumstance to a height
where he can command his party.
Each is lord among a following COM
posed of his own admirers and fellow
associates in the hunt for political
prestige. Each has a tomahawk still
crimson from a bath in the blood of
some Democrat, who was caught
alone in the forest or who was slash
ed In some melee, which they call a
democratic state convention.
The one business man is the pres
ent Senator George S. Nixon. His
attachments In his chosen line are as
one in a million, and now We are
limiting our remarks by the bound
airy lines of the Republic. From a
forty dollar-a-month job as tele-
graph operator to a commanding po-
sition in the United States senate is
a spectacular bound, for a nan of the
modest demeanor of George S. Nixon.
From cashier of a country bank to
a position as one of the strongest
financial factors on the Pacific coast,
represents steady climbing. 1t speaks
of nerve. 1t tells of few mistakes of
judgment. 1t tells of a clear vision
at both short and long range; of
right action In the tumult of panic
and in the dead sea of dull times.
Neither of these three lawyers has
been tried in positions of legislative
importance.
The Republican candidate has a
term of efficient service to offer the
people of Nevada as a hostage for
good and better performance in the
future.
As the campaign progresses our
lawyers, three, will doubtless inject
into the night, the pyrotechnies per-
cuIar to their rum. Pyroteehnics
certainly make campaigns more in
teresting and often MAKE good read
ing in tie Congressional Record.
But as a rule py%rotechnics are
much en- nj uplift for anything save
the sticks that guide the spark
| suffering rocket in its useless fight.
Without foreknowledge, we could
say to the voters not TO expect pyro-
technics from the Nixon side. He
will doubtless work as he always has
worked, quietly, effectively. He will
work as he worked in the senate.
There, he gained points. He essayed
little at making show. He worked
for Nevada in things little and things
big. No request from a constituent
was too trifiing for him to give It
a%ssidious personal attention. No
policy, affecting Nevada, but what
vas forcefully and clearly advanced
by his efforts.
He worked as effectively to this
end with the i%nsurgent as we'll as
with the regular Republicans. He
even induced many Democrats to his
way of thinking. He was with Aid
rich for a high duty for Nevada wool.
By a simple presentation of facts he
won from Dolliver, the arch-Iowa in
surgent unqualified support for Ne
vada's contention as to the long and
short haul clause.
But why enumerate. These law
yers three will soon be trying to
steal Nixon's w record and plat
form-his service for Nevada.
Newlands is good enough In the
law for Nevada for four years more.
At that time-well wait.
But 10Y 1t Is to the interest of Ne
vada to stick by the Nevada business
man.-Reese River Reveille.