Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-06-06
For preSident---I9I2
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT,
Of Ohio.
ALL NEvADANs MOURN.
George S. Nixon is dead.

George s Nixon is dead
We pause, not to record the history of a life
that is known to all of us, but to register the
uncomfortable grief which brushes our hearts
this day
Why is Nevada shrouded in glooml Why does
she feel that she has suffered loss which can
not be measuredg Because man wise in coun
sci, strong in action, loyal in friendship, lover
of his state and country, doer of great deeds
a builder, a power on the frontier and in the
crowded city, man of big brain and big heart
has passed from our mortal sight forever
He was the apostle of sunshine, the embod
ment of good cheer, the inveterate foe of pess
mism, a supreme optimst, who saw only the
best in everyone; man who made and held
friends whose very presence dispeed gloom and
whose CHEEKY smile and warm handcasp made his
fellows forget the little animosties and trials of
life
He was prodigous worker and knew the
art of approaching and dealing with men He
an honest and successful legislator, shrewd
politician, and highminded public servant
whose record will glow brighter as the years
come and go He not an orator but he pos
sessed powers infinitely more potent than that of
oratory Through his logged determination to
accomplish results his observation-disclosures his in
dependence of thought and action his devotion
to the state and country, he was instrumental in
enacting measures of great Importance to the peo
pie he represented He was prominently the
business in politics in its best sense He
was a pioneer and promoter, He could turn
the wilderness into productive possibilities which
would attract and support many people Through
his own genius for affairs, he won an enormous
fortune clean fortune wrested from the mines,
the soil and the legitimate individual and corpor-
ate enterprises of the community
In many of the states there has been a cult
waited hostility to corporations and wealth which
builds bars against any man. no matter how
gifted, who has made success in corporate
management or accumulated a fortune in active
business becoming representative of the peo-
pie in public offices Such communities believe
they are best served by theorists and dealists
They accept with eagerness and enthsuiasm the
various panaeeas which are so skillfully manufac
tured and 50 attraetively presented for the cure
of the ills of the body polite But Nevada. along
with other states similarly situated, presents
remarkable contrast Lmitess wealth. and op-
portunity for employment and accumulation Of d
competence, lie in the mines in her mountains
and valleys. Instead of locking up her bound
less resources, she welcomes capital and capital
lists who will open her mines, build her villages
enlarge her cities and redeem her desert Her
people recognized that every mine opened meant
more families supported and more opportunities
for the youth it meant the wilderness converted
into boundless opportunity for development for
population and for prosperity She believed that
the man whose genius energy experience, and
money were accomplishing these results could
best secure for her the legislation which would
rebound to the progress Of the state and the bene-
III Of her people George $ Nixon was leader
among these bold and adventurous spirits who