Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-03-18

ltlekIdNNeu 10 carson anu we're ut-
layed in being sent to her az Reno.
wondered how strong that made them.
for did not know how many they
had In view Of an the things that
had transpired, | absolutely refused
TO allow my name to go up.
At the close of Miss Martins ad-
dress, Miss Cohn asked that the con
yentiln stick to the order of bust
ness as provided by the constitution.
Miss Martin stated that the order
of business had been made out by
the executive committee and that the
request was out Of order. Miss Cohn
insisted, and at last, as you know,
appealed from the decision OF the
chair Miss Martin refused to put it,
grave mistake, but she maintained
Miss Cohn out of order from the
beginning and refused to be annoyed
by someone who seemed scheming
to make trouble. | admit Miss Mar
tin was wrong in denying an APP
peal but she certainly was right in
maintaining that Miss Cohn was out
of order
The credentials committee proceed
ings are too well known TO need re
peating The proxies We're allowed
they could not be denied. They
were there in what looked good
shape 1t was up to that convention
to decide whether they should be
used Nothing allowed them in the
constitutional had no precedent ex-
cept that of the national convention
rulings, which prohibited them. Miss
Cohn had asked Miss Martin 10 days
before in Carson if they were to be
used, and she said it was up to the
convention to decide, that they We're
not allowed by the national and that
no effort would be made by the eX-
ecutive committee to get them. Miss
Coin sent a cal Ito as many counties
as she could reach asking for them
knowing that no official call had been
sent out for them have since
found that one of the proxies she
helped to get, one held by Mrs
Stickney of Lyon, was secured from
Mrs. Coryell, who was not even an
appointed delegate, and only a mem
Der Of Elko county branch, which
had sent no representation.
| did not want to see Miss Martin
beaten. for ! was convinced the op-
position TO her was led by personal
antagonism, and ! did everything !
could to down the proxies, for | was
afraid they would beat her, and be-
cause | was convinced in my own
mind that they were not obtained
fairly,
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don't know why they should have
been allowed TO vote, but they had
been asked by the executive commit
tee, with the desire to have as many
interested people present as possible.
Miss Cohn knew they were going to
be there and vote, for Miss Martin
had told her she need not consider
Mrs. Bray of Carson as a delegate,
for as she was state officer she
would vote as such Miss Cohn took
advantage of this information to elect
another delegate from sOrmsby. Does
it not strike you as strange if her
motives were good, that she did not
point out these defects before too
late, rather than take advantage of
them to her own good, and then
kick about them afterward?
To my mind, the alternates from
Washoe county were duly elected.
The Washoe county branch was duly
organized and had perfect right to
decide for themselves the way their
alternates should be elected-they
have nothing to govern it in their
and no precedent to go
by.
Another point: The national con
yention rules; one delegate for 10
paid up members and one delegate
for every five or more over This
ruling Of the national convention
was followed by the opposition, but
when a national convention ruling
against proxies ruled against them,
they would not accept it.
The opposition accuses Miss Mar
tin of railroading and stuffing that
convention, To my mind she abso-
lutely did not 1t happened that the
followed her, which for
her was good luck, for she had made
no plan of action and the opposition
had very definite one, and two
clever parliamentarians to carry II
out To my mind the woman who
those proxies with the in
-ention of using them against Miss
Martin, without letting those who
sent the proxies know that they were
% be used to down Miss Martin, is
he woman who stuffed the conven- /
ion and tried to railroad IT, If she |
lad been in good faith she would I
lot have been abusive on the floor, |
tut would have done all she could |
o straighteB out the tangles instead |
If trying to make them bigger
md afterward-call a rump conven.
ion after having staid with the con
'ention up to the time of adjourn /
nent
Two ladies from Washoe remon-
trated with me for downing the |
'roxies-one apologized to me after
ward. She did not see the game they
we're playing until called her at
ention to II, and she voted to down
hem when she did see through It.
he other as soon as she did see
that was doing, passed the word
long, and the convention voted to
own the proxies. assure you
Vashoe county was unprepared for
n opposition fight, and as for Miss
lartin having fixed beforehand those
Z ladies who voted for her, it is inn n
ossible and not true.
AS to the resolutions. no vote was
egistered by the opposition when
ne president said "If there is no
bjection, the committee will be so