The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1912-06-05

Otner sallent features io1 the plat
form prepared by the convention that
will govern as precepts of the party
during the state campaign are the un-
qualified espousal of the recall, includ
ing every member of the judiciary;
woman suffrage and recommending that
federal court be held in Elko, Winnie
mucca, Reno, Goldfeld, and Tonopah
in addition to Carson City as at pres
ent. Roosevelt and Taft each came in
for the usual prediction grilling, and
their little political drama was the
theme around which good many Dem
ocratic jokes correlated.
Early in the convention, the ascen-
deecy of the Dickerson faction was de-
cisively demonstrated. and triple po-
litieal suicide occurred when Boyd,
Bartlett and Sweeney impaled them
selves, deliberately, recklessly and in
hari kari fashion, in the snare that had
been set for them by Dickerson and his
lieutenants, who ruled the convention,
not in steam roller fashion, if you
please, but in spirit of all fairness.
A rumor was set afioat during the
convention by the members of the
Dickerson opposition that the ex-gov-
ernor was leaving the state to reside in
California. Mr. Dickerson requested
this paper to emphatically DENY the re-
port, stating in explanation that he
was taking Mrs. Dickerson and the
children to the coast for the purpose of
benefting Mrs. Dickerson's health and
that within few months he would be
back at Ely conducting the Expositor.
The principal difference between De-
moeracy and Republicanism speaking
of them in a party sense, and in confer
enee to their practical operation, both
present and proposed, seems to be about
this: Democracy led by Champ Clark
and others of the party leaders, strives
always and along for the good to the
greatest number and the greatest num-
Der is poor people or those of moderate
means, while Republicanism stands al
so for the greatest good to the great
est number, but with this difference
of the greatest number of dollars, and
to few people. This is really the
real and substantial issue of the 1912
campaign. Whatever subsidiary SUBJ
ject one takes up, he is lead right up
to the broad ground of the paramount
issue.
The Republican spokesmen defend
their policy of running the government
for the benefit of the few, rather than
for the many, on the ground that some
how the benefits filter down to and are
somehow spread abroad among the
many, but examination always disclos-
ed the fact that these are mere assump-
tions, and their reasoning mere soph-
istries.
These were points well brought out
by Temporary Chairman Clay Tallman,
Immediately he had been called upon to
preside over the meeting, and they
were points that met with such general
concurrence among convention MEN,
bers that cheer after cheer was sent
up as corroboratiye proof that the
chairman had touched popular chord.
George Thatcher, of Tonopah, Lem
uel Allen, of Reno and E. A. F. john
son, Of Elko county, were unanimously
chosen as presidential electors. As
delegates, Hon. r. l.. Douglass, of
this county, Key Pittman, of Tonopah,
Pat f. Carney, of Godfield, Phil Trip
lett, w. S. Proskey, of Reno and Sam
Belford, of Ely were named. John
McGrath, of Gold Hill. c. II. Mcintosh,
of Tonopah. Chas. Stout, of Reno, W.
j. Bell, of Humboldt, ]. G. Babcock,
of Clark and l.. II. Koontz, of Cold
field were named as alternates.
The convention recommended that
w. J. Bell, of Humboldt county, be
named by the presidential convention