White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-28

to the primaries, was announced in
July.
Since that time my opponent for
the Republican nomination has been
making charges against me, by let
ter, by circular and in public meet
ings to the following effect:
First, that l am a corporation
lawyer Second, that corporations
Third, that II | am elected ! will
be controlled by corporations.
To the people who know me and
who have done business with me for
many years past; it is not necessary
that / should reply to these charges.
But inasmuch as they are now be-
ing Systematically circulated to the
remotest corners of the state, and
are accumulating additional oppro-
brium with their daily repetition,
will no longer permit them to go un-
denied or their author unrebuked.
Therefore, l make answer as fol-
lows:
First. There is no lawyer in Ne
vada, so far as l know, who is old
enough to be attorney general, or
who has had sufficient training and
experience at the bar to qualify him
self as the chief law minister of the
state, who has not got corporations on
his list of clients. If 1t is true that
am a corporation lawyer, then it is
also true that / am union labor law
yer; also a mining lawyer and a
water right lawyer. I have had
clients both rich and poor, in all
these lines of professional activity.
do not belong to one class any more
than to another. Numerically the
largest number of my clients have
been prospectors, miners and mining
men, and the largest expenditures of
money that i have made during eight
years residence in southern Nevada
faside from the maintenance of my
family have been for the mainten-
ance of a prospector in the field.
Second. The answer to the sec
ond charge necessarily compels me
to throw my private affairs wide
open. I do this with sharp regret,
and extreme repulsion, but without
hesitation or evasion.
My campaign two years ago, when
was a candidate for associate
justice of the supreme court, cost
me upwards of $4,000. No person
ventured to say it did not come out
of my own pocket-every dollar of
1t. / spent 1T economically; without
waste or extravaganza. Every cent
of it went into legitimate channels,
the chief item being thorough tour
of the state. The rest of the expendi-
ture went into circulars, cards and
announcements; a contribution to the
state central committee; a contribu-
ton to the central committee of my
home county of Nye; and also for
clerical help, postage and sundry
other items; in several instances
employed men BY the day or job to
go into localities where | could not
go myself, to present the claims of
my candidacy All had left out
of my campaign fund, at the end of
the campaign, was the unused por-
tion of mileage book.
/ contemplated that the campaign
this year for attorney general,
would cost me more than ] spent
two years ago, especially If it should
entail the added expense of primary
campaign of the state.
Although my various property
holdings and interests are sufficient
to put my credit on the right side
of the ledger, l did not have suf-
ficient surplus cash, over and above
the current needs of my family and
of my business activities, to meet the
cost of such campaign. Therefore,
put some of my holdings on the mar
ket at 1900. l did not find a buy
er. Then l offered holding at s5,-
900. hut without success. Later, in
July, ! disposed of holding of stock
for a consideration of $4,000, which
was considerably below its intrinsic
value. The purchaser, already a
large stockholder in the company, ac-
quired the control through the pu-
chase of my stock. The sale is in
writing and a duplicate original has
been lodged with the secretary of
the company, who holds the entire
issued capitalization in pool. This
sum, $4,000 is the fund that will
see me through my candidacy for
attorney general, If / am nominated,
unless l shall see fit to make some
further sacrifices of my property,
which ! am not likely to do.
l make no privacy of the fore
going conditions. During the
months of May, June and July,
stated the conditions to various
persons, both Republicans and Dem
ocrats, on the streets of Carson
Reno and Tonopah, all the while en-
deavoring to make a sale. My Re.
publican opponent was one of the
persons who knew these facts.
gave him a statement of the matter
in writing-a letter over my
signature dated July IL, 1910.
Third. Up to date, during the
present campaign. no corporation oi
individual has approached me di
rectly or indirectly on any PROPOSE
| tion concerning the future action ot