Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-09-23
Who is Responsible?
TUESDAY, EVENING

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The following from the Goldheld
Tribune, a strictly non-partisan pa
per and one OF the most conservative
in matters OF state, tells the story
about as plainly as it could be told,
and those papers that are attacking
Governor Oddic on this score, purely
as a means Of wreaking their person
al and political vengeance, should
learn a lesson therefrom that will be
Of some good to them and also put
them out of the calamity-howling
class:
Governor Oddie is becoming
alarmed over the statewide demand
that the appropriation OF $4,000 for
exhibits at San Francisco and San
Diego be not expended" says the
Deeth Commonwealth.
a few weeks ago the Common
wealth and a few other newspapers
were demanding that the governor
call the legislature in special session
to repeal or cancel this %appropria-
ton. The governor evidently failed
to scare or even shy at that demand
and it is hardly probable that he is
deeply concerned over the new "eX-
element"
The Tribune had no voice is fixing
the amount Of this appropriation.
If it had, it might and might not
have reduced the figure. We are not
familiar with the plans or scope OF
the exhibit which the legislature had
before it. We hold no brief for
Governor Oddie, but we are quite
certain that the figures were already
in the act when it came to him for
signature, and that they were placed
there by a democratic Legislature
and certified to the governor by a
democratic lieutenant governor and
a democratic speaker Of a democratic
assembly. 1t will also be recalled
that a preceding democratic legisl:t-
ture made a similar appropriation
which a Republican Governor vetoed.
Now the Tribune is not a partisan
news paper and its funny bone has
been tickled a good many times by
the uttcrances OF some people who
see nothing i'll Nevada but party
politics. 1t is quite apparent that
the governor controls the policy OF
about four newspapers in the state
as completely and absolutely as he
could do through an ownership i'll
Zee simple. lie need only intimate
in the most indefinite way his at
titude on any subject to fix the pool
icy of these newspaper in opposition.
Should he desire later that they
change their policy, he need only
say that he was formerly mistaken
or misquoted. These newspapers
would have the governor call the
legislature in special session, with
ali the cost this would imply, to can
eel an appropriation which it has
twice passed. Isn't this about the
hardest slam the legislature has sui
icred at the hands of its friends?
The Tribune is not concerned
about the political complexion OF the
legislature. 1t doesn't care a rap
who holds public Office i'll Nevada
so long as the duties of these Offices
are honestly and efficiently admins
tered. But Mr.. Gray occupies a diff
ferent position. He was connected
in the last campaign with the state
committee OF his party and urged the
election OF the legislature which pass
ed this appropriation. He was an
attache of the legislature and on its
pay roll. He now holds one of the
best Offices at the disposal of his
party. Having failed, with others,
to induce a republican governor to
summon a democratic legislature 10
undo its work, he is now demanding
that the governor defy the legisla-
tive will and refuse to execute the
legislative purpose, on the theory
that he and three or four other edit
ors are the people Of Nevada and