The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-10-08

r1 ooIDrrEnD NEw2 SATURDAY, OCT. s. 1910.
.mDdrn fund laws the Democratic party bids fair to totally emanci-
nate the voter of The state from corporate domination. +
liz the Republican state platform the plank relating t" the direet $
urinary law is merely a part Of the general scheme OF humor ha'
SEEMS to pervade the entire platform. 1t will be remembered .ha'
the Republicans bitterly fought the passage OF the law. introduced IN
the legislature by the amented Senator George Pyne, and that aItet
its passage the Republican machine did all in its power to attaek ~
validity of the law and have it declared unconstitutional. fahng III
this at the last moment before the primary election the Republican
press united in an attempt to confuse the voters as to balotng at M
primaries. Forgetting all its past record as to the direct primary t@
Republican machine. through Senator George ). Nixon, IN drafting
its state platform, gets off the following relative to the direct prr
mary law:
We endorse the principles of the direct primary law asa
progressive advance over the convention system. and pledge
the Republican party faithfully to preserve it as a means to
purify party management and to enable the electors OF the
party TO choose their own candidates freed from boss rule or
political corruption, and we hereby pledge all our legislative
nominees to vote for the person receiving the largest number
Of votes for United States Senator.
Il is to laugh. DR.. Nevada has said that the direct primary law
is good medicine. and that the Republican party. which fought its
prescription, and the Democratic party, which brew up the prescrlp-
ton, must, like, take the dose. And now the Republican party says
it likes it 1t reminds us of the kid who when his mother prescribed
a dose of castor oil, fought against it, and when the alternative of the
oil 0 "a thrashing was put up, swallowed the oil. spo'n, bottle and all,
and asked for more.
Bat dom let the above little Endorsement hondwink you in the
least There S a joker appended. The joker reads IS follows:
But as the present law is burdensome anu expensive to
the taxpayers. w e demand such amendments to the law as
will reduce the expense to the lowest MINIMUM In the II
duet III primary elections, both to candidates and to the pub
lie treasury, county and state; and which will prevent 60
ercion and preserve the secrecy of the ballot by placing the
candidates of all parties On one general BALLOT, but mder
separate party subdivisions.
I'VE demand such amendments to the law, = etc. There is the
joker. The Republican candidates for the assembly and state senate
are pledged by their platform to undertake the amendment of the
direct primary law. Think you, voter, that the anmus Of the Repnb-
lican party to our direct primary law disappeared entirely when Sen
ator George S. Nixon wrote that first clause indorsing the primary
law as heartily welcomed by the Republican party? Think you that
any Republican amendments to the law will work to the Further
emancipation of the voters of the state from Republican corporate
domination and misrule? Think you that those amendments will
be 50 woraed that after they are passed Republican hired attorneys
viii not be able to find flaws that will invalidate the whole law and
cause it t., be thrown out and the next election come back under the
old convention system, much loved by corporations?
The direct primary law is a Democratic institution and creation.
II contains thc fundamental principles of Democracy, to which Re
publicanism is directly opposed. The Democrats of the state know
that the law Is it now stands Gas do almost all new laws of broad
scope contains some MINOR defects But In order that the law may
be corrected SC as to work the most good to the people of the state,
shall it be corrected by its friends, in loving spirit, o r shall it be
placed in the hands of its bitter enemies for emasculation. if not utter
destruction
A Democratic legislature must be elected in the state of Nevada
in order to care for the direct primary law, if for no other reason. 4
Democratic governor must be elected in order that the affairs of the
state may rot be in the hands of a man who is travelling with Senator
Nixon and who has donncd the collar of the Southern Pacific COM
pany' A Democrat must be sent to the United States Senate and a
Democrat must be sent to the House of Representatives that the
Nevada delegation will be with the controlling party in the next Con
gress. For ii the next House and Senate do not be Democratic, be-
tween the Democrats and the insurgent Republicans the Democrats
will be in control Nixon. should he be returned, will not be with the
dominant element, for Aldrichism is overthrow. The record of Nix
on's vote shows with whom he stands. Roberts if elected to Con
gress, will not be on of the dominant element in the lower house, for
Cannonsm has been downed, and he would be found in the lower
house just where Nixon would be found in the Senate
Now is the crucial time in both state and national politics. and
the exigencies Of the situation demand a Republican defeat in Neva-
da, from the top to the bottom of state and county ticket.
A Most L~aughable Attempt