White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-20
NEVADA WILL
REAP BENEFIT
REPUBLICAN SUCCESS THIS
YEAR WAS A VICTORY FOR
THE SUBSTANTIAL, HOME
MAKING ELEMENT OF STATE.


tory in this state VIII become NOR.
and more apparent as the days go by.
The election returns coming In are
an earnest evidence of the terrific ma
ture of the political battle that has
been fought. There have been in the
past some great election campaigns
In Nevada, but these, in every in
stance involved the problem of cor
rupting voters, and the generalship
displayed was in handling voters as
purchasable commodity, says the
Reno Gazette.
This election, and the three pre-
ceding, neither party. to any known
extent, attempted to pursue the old
methods. Not only is the purity of
election law very strict but the peo-
pie of Nevada will no longer stand
for vote-buying. Each party has
watched the other and in this respect
the election has been clean.
The Republican party, after an in
terval of sixteen years. has won con-
troll of the state government. Sena-
tor Nixon will be returned To the
United States senate and again Ne
vada will be represented in the lower
house of congress by Republican
This election means more than the
public generally realize. 1t is vic
tory for the substantial home-mak-
ing element in the state and spells,
moreover the downfall of a politieal
machine OF a dangerous character
The source from which the funds to
conduct the opposition campaign
were undoubtedly in large part de-
rived, the desperate battle put up,
scrupling at nothing TO win; with the
state police system used as a politieai
machine, the radical element OF the
labor unions following the direction
of Meyer to line up against Nixon
and Oddie, with the principal appeal
for Dickerson and Pittman made to
those who might be melted by in
flammatory declarations. and with an
organization behind the Diekerson
party. the most perfect this state
ever saw-the victory of the Repubii-
can party. supported by the better
element of the Democratic party as
their allies, / s victory not alto
gether partisan, but instead. in its
deepest sense. is victory for good
government, law and order and de-
ft0G1. ne fODStffdiift tsfHtnl VI
the labor organizations or the state
and that element is decidedly in
the majority-stood with the Re-
publican party. and their votes were
necessary to carry the day The line
of division In the ranks OF labor, like
that in the Democratic party. was
along the cleavage of good govern
ment as against dangerous govern
ment. BY this, we do not mean TO
declare that there were not hundreds
of splendid men in the state who vot-
ed with the defeated organization
far from 1t! We know OF very many
such. all over the state. But when
the campaign Is reviewed on broad
lines, no one can miss the signifi-
cants of the general character OF
those who stood behind each organ
ization
The defeat of Senator Nixon would
have been an ill-reqniting of man
whose life and activities has been h
part of the modern history OF the
state, who must essentially be the
leader now In the great work before
us of up-building commonwealth
on the foundation at hand, and who,
In addition, has made us an extra
ordinarily effective representative In
the senate On the other hand, his
victory, at a time when In other
states so many of his party leaders
have suffered defeat. is tremen-
lous testimonial of the esteem and
affection of the majority of the peo-
pie of Nevada for him. This is a
great tribute to him, and one which
he must appreciate more and more
deeply when. on his return to the
senate, he notes the number of his
Republican associates who have gone
down in the Democratic avalanche,
which outside of Nevada, has swept
the country.
Next congress in the senate. there
will be a new alignment of Republi-
can leadership. Aldrich and Hale
have voluntarily retired. Dolliver is
dead, Beveridge, Scott. Dick, prob
ably Carter and several more are de-
feated or their reelection extremely
doubtful. These changes Will bring
Senator Nixon forward as one of the
half-dozen leading and most power
full members of the senate. III Car
ter be defeated he will be the chair
man of the committee on reclama'
tion of arid lands, otherwise the
ranking member. and become the
chairman of the committee on mines
and mining. In addition to this, II
any event, he will be entitled tt
membership on the committee on ap
propriations, the most powerful com
mite of the senate. A significant re
suit of the recent election is that l
transfers the control of the mos
powerful committees of the senate
for the first time in American histor.
to the west Hitherto that contro
has been held for fifty years by sen
ators from east of the Alleghenies