Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-01-27
ELOQUENT
Speech MADE
IN ASSEMBLY
BY DENTON OF LINCOLN ON THE
REELECTION OF GEORGE s.
NIXON LAST TUESDAY

emily on the election OF Georse
Nixon to the senate, was made
" Mr.. Denton, a Democratic mem
,er from the county of Lincoln, and
IN old-time resident of the state.
The manner delivery, and the
earnest speaker made every hearer
lake notice and realize that the
election of Senator Nixon was
worthy the effort: 1t was as fol-
lows;
"Mr. Speaker, Gentlemen of the
arise for the pur-
pose of seconding the nomination
of our distinguished citizen, VINO
has been chosen by the people OF
the sovereign state of Nevada to
them in the highest Of
fee in their gift. While the chosen
candidate of our own party was
that Young man from Tonopah, Mr..
KEY Pittman, whose moving genius
and dazzling intellect challenge even
the admiration of his opponents, l
wish to say to you, having been
born in a Democratic house, rocked
in a Democratic cradle, and fed
on Democratic milk, second the
nomination with all my heart, and
with all my soul, in the name OF
the county which | have the honor
in part, to represent upon this
floor, county which wears the
immortal name of the first Repub-
lican president Of the republic, the
name of Lincoln.
II also wish to second the NOM
nation in the name of the Demo-
cratic party of the state of Nevada,
and the United States, a party that
was born in the morning of Liberty,
the first to proclaim to the civilized
nations of the globe that the peo-
pie must rule.
I'VE hope our sister states will
follow our precept and eminate
our great example Commencing at
the Golden Gate on the placid Pa
cific and extending across the con-
tinent to the Atlantic ocean, where
the wild waves lash the shores.
that the sons and daughters Of Lib
erty, the anointed children of edu-
cation, demand that the men who
shall have the honor of represent
ing them in the greatest body Of
men on earth, shall be the choice of
the people and not obtained through
trickery, chicanery and fraud. The
question can no longer be consid-
cred simply the foam on the ocean
: wave; beneath the foam is the roll
ing deep, representing ninety mill
lions of freemen.
ION the Sth day of last Novem-
Der the people of the sovereign
state of Nevada, through a free and
4 untrampled ballot, majority ex-
pressed their preference for George
s. Nixon for United States sen
ator.
"We stand here ready to bow
to the will of the majority; tht
{ fundamental principle of republics
from which there is no appeal, ex
cept to force the immediate narent
E of despotism. On this occasion W.
= would appeal to the Supreme Rulel
80 Int - al a
of Heaven to stand ajar while a
Washington, an Adams, Jeffer
son, a Jackson and Lincoln cal
a witness the Battle Born State 0
the Union through their public ser
want in the Twenty-fifth session 0
the Nevada legislature, assemblies
at Carson City, the capital of tn
state, carrying out the supreme vii
of the people, representing a prin
ciple which will stand the test o
time and square itself with eterna
Justice. The voice of the people
the voice of God
NOW, a few words in regar
to one of Nevada's favored som
who has this day been named fo
a United States senator. We hay
known him long and we'll; he POI
sesses all the manly qualities whic
bind man and man, and frien
and friend; he belongs to thi
grand body Of men and wome
known as the pioneers of the Yves
in my judgment, as grand boz
of pioneers as ever breathed Il
4 free air Of heaven, or tread upC
the carpeted foot-stool of Jehova
Commencing at the bottom
the ladder, through industry. pers
verance and laudable ambition.
has reached the top with superi
Western intelligence and courag
he has always been to the fro
in the upbuilding Of our gre
state, and it is with pleasure II
III second the nomination OF tt
full-fedged Nevadan. that prince