Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-06-17
JUSTICE TO SAM DAVIS.

A recent number of the Ely Expositor makes
the statement that Sam Davis career as a pub
licty commissioner was merely joke and that
he never induced single dollar of capital to
into Nevada Mr.. Davis is now out of
office, and think that justice should be done
public official.
The fact of the matter is that the publicity
bill was frame up" for some parties in
Reno The whole act for their special bene
fit. Governor Sparks got wise and rendered
Davis the position He afterwards resigned the
job and the governor refused his resignation
Then the Reno Trainer" opened the fight
Well, suppose we look over the field and see
just what Davis did He went to New York
at his expense, and his return an
nounced that Clarence Mackay would donate a
school of mines to the university and put up a
statue of his father The Reno journal pOked
fun at the whole proposition and pronounced it
"a Davis pipe dream Well, the university
got the school Of mines, and the statue and
altogether Mackay has followed Davis sugges
ton and donated about quarter of million
to the university.
1t is now no longer mentioned as "a Davis
pipe dream" No, not much. DIR. Stubs is
pointed out the man who did it all.
Davis also secured a donation Of $4,000
in New York for statue of Mark Twain for
the capitol square in Carson City. The capitol
commissioners turned it down Now they wish
they hadn't They had no objections to Twain,
but they hated to Sam Davis get the credit
But this is merely starter. The Bonanza
editor recalls one fine autumn day when Sam
Davis rolled into Tonopah with Clarence
Mackay and his party. He was showing Mackay
the progress and development of Southern Ne
vada and Mackay was looking it over with
view to investing and bringing. in his Postal
Telegraph company. One of the party said I'd
the writer
we thought Davis hot-ar man in New
York. but Nlackay agreed to let himself be
shown, and | guess he is already changing his
mind about Nevada
Well, the party got into Malcolm Macdon-
AIDS auto and were whisked over to Goldield
and from there down southwark. Mackay told
several parties that he had come here in fulfill
ment of an agreement with Davis, but that he
had not expected to see such progress and de-
velopment The result of that visit was an in
vestment by the Postal Telegraph company of
four million dollars, and they are not through
yet People here know these facts if the Ely
Expositor don t.
Governor Dickerson wanted the publicity
commission abolished, but the legislature with
these facts before it, refused to stand for such
shabby treatment OF public servant who had
" done something"
few weeks ago the Ely Expostor stated
that the people of Nevada had the pleasure of
seeing Sarah Bernhardt act here and that it
was through her friendship for Davis that she
had been induced to make a stop in Nevada
Can the Expostor name another man in the
state who could induce the greatest actress in
the world to stop and play in Nevada?
Davis secured $4,000 subscription to
publicity special train to cross the continent and
advertise the resources of Nevada
Why did it not run? Because the state
controller refused to recognize the state pub
lefty commission. The supreme court decided
in favor of the commission This was after five
OF six months of expensive litigation
The controller held that no fund was men
toned out of which to pay Davis salary An
investigation of the appropriation bill revealed
the fact that the controllers salary was in the
same fix and some seventy-eight other salaries
Don't it look little queer that in looking
for some excuse to stop Sans salary he should
have overlooked the same identical flaw in his
own salary and lot of other peoples When
the writer last in Carson the board of
capit"i commissioners We're wrestling over one
of Davis bills for postage stamps
The bill for $4,000 auto for the new pub
Ecity commission, however, went through it'll
out dissenting voice The bill to wipe out
the oil publicity commission would never have
passed at the last session but for The fact that
Davis made talk to the house and asked that
it be ! assed. He said rr was tired Of wo king
for the state and paying his own expenses.
When Nevada had the best mineral exhibit