White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-07
COLEMAN SEEKS
BALLOT REFORM
Continued from page one.)

there must be organization 10 pro-
cure the election to the Legislature
Of those who will pledge themselves
to procure the election to the legisla-
ture of those who will pledge them
selves to vote for such a bill and in
the future to punish those who are
elected pursuant to such pledge, and
then betray he peoples trust.
There is a common practice
among candidates for office which
is radically wrong, that is, the ped
ding or distributing of cigars and
liquors while campaigning. No nan
is worthy of American citizenship
can be influenced by such things.
No other should be. Under existing
conditions II one candidate INDUCES
in these practices others feel that
unless they follow the custom they
lay themselves open to the title of
"tight-wad."
Another custom which is a burd-
en- to a candidate is that of having
carriages and automobiles on cleo
ton day to take voters to the polls
This practice exists in cities, where,
as a rule, the average voter does not
have 10 walk more than two blocks
TO vote. Any man VINO is entitled to
the elective franchise, would be
willing TO walk that distance, and a
man who is not sufficiently interest
ed in the welfare of the country to
walk such a distance to vote should
not be permitted to influence its pol
icy. The candidate who INDUCES in
either of these practices must be or
ganized against. These practices
must be le~gislated against because
they are sources of useless and great
expense. What mar in ordinary en-
ployment can afford TO give up four
or FIVE months salary every two
years 10 get a job? Why should
public servants do it? Campaigning
should be a matter, of education, not
of petty bribery. / want every man
and woman in Nevada who reads
this and is DESTROYS of cooperating
with the movement TO write to me
This invitation Is extended to the
women because they are asking for
the ballot. Let them embrace this
opportunity to show that they are
entitled to IT. Let them get behind
this movement and demonstrate thai
they are alert To the needs of the
time and they will thereby aid their
cause more than they know. Let
them agitate this question. Ii Is TO
be hoped that every man and woman
In Nevada who reads this. will lay 1t
aside for a day or two. read ii again
and pass II along. Let us hope hat
every man and m in Nevada
will read II. Seventy-five per cent
of the people should be willing to ae-
lively cooperate in this movement,
but if twenty-five Republicans and
twenty-five Democrats. in every
county in the state Will work to-
with a view of electing to the
legislature such men only as will
pledge themselves to support this
bill the undertaking will be easy, for
all of the counties in the state are
politically close, and fifty men, work
ing together, can succeed in such a
movement. Ii is to be hoped that a
greater number in each county will
be willing to cooperate with a view
of procuring the enactment of a law
designed to purify politics. All of
progressive views will; reactionaries
will not. Spot the knoeker and learn
motive.
The following provisions should
be Incorporated in the bill as 1t pass
ed the Senate. and as thus amended,
become a law.
ANY officer, agent, servant or m
ploye of a corporation, acting for
corporation, while without the
state of Nevada. or any individual,
while without the state, acting in be-
half of himself, or another, or
others. who shall do any one or
more of the acts or things prohibited
by any provision of this Act, shall
be guilty in like name as though
such act or thing was done and per-
formed within the state of Nevada,