The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-11-01
NEWLANUs DEFEAT PREDICTED
Reno Writer Says He Is Another
OF the cable" Men of the
Senate Who Will Be Re-
tired to Private Life

Special correspondence Ia Ely Hecoro
Reno, Nevada, Oct. 25 Bert McIn-
tosh. presumptive successor to U. s.
Attorney Sam Platt, has finally denied
the charge made against him three or
four months ago. namely. that in the
campaign of 1910 he entered the SeDa
torial race against Key Pittman as q
'~'sel!iDg platter" and that the late Sens-
tor Nixon financed his campaign. The
denial is published in q Lovelock paper.
ring true. He deals in glittering gener.
alities aud relies on circumstantial evil
dence TO clear himself Of the charge.
The original accusation was based on
the allegation that Bert Nixon dug up
from his fathers private correspondence
The iDcrimin ating letter from Mcintosh
and showed it promiscuously around
Reno. as something of a joke. Scores
of men here claim to have seen it Pos
sibly Mcintosh has secured the letter,
and if SO, of course, he is safe in making
the denial and defying his accusers tn
produce it.
Most of the papers of the State have
taken a fall out of Mcintosh. but really
their motive is.not creditable. The Ne.
vada Press Association tried to force
through the last Legislature a kinter.
garten graft bill. requiring briefs to be
.rtnraA M0IntOak vnssh Ohara.farfats.
lack Of tact and bluffiug tactics, fought
the Measure and denounced the hungry
editors. On account Of his opposition
the bill sailed through the Assembly
without striking a snag. Mcintosh lett
Carson, the bill reached the Senate and
was killed. A few sensible remarks
rom a Senator did the business.some.
thing that Mcintosh never could have
accomplished and the Nevada press is
doing him an undeserved honor in
blaming him for its defeat.
Senator Newlands was here, but has
gone south" He came direc, from
San Francisco, where he had been con-
sultiDg with prominent citizens relative
TO the Hetch- Hetchy project, he being
the leading advocate in Congress for
turning that beauty spot over to San
Francisco as a reservoir site. And again
the Senator's Nevada critics are asking
why he should thus serve California,
when the powers that be in that State
are so persistently and professionally OPP
posing the plan Of raising the Truckee
dam and the waters OF the lake some
thing like p inches, that the parched
alfalfa fields around Fallon may have
sufficient water to sustain life. The
California opposition is based on the as
s~ertiou that by raising the surface of
the lake a few inches of the beautiful
lawns surrounding rich mems bunga.
lows there might be submerged.
And this naturally calls to mind pol.
tics. First the folks are not wasting
nearly SO much time and sleep over the
campaign next ear as one would be led
to believe By reading some OF these
western Nevada papers. The lists OF
candidates published from time to time
are largely faxed. 1t is doubtless true
that the Democrats. with former Gov.
ernor Dickerson leading on the firing
line, will place some man in the field to
oppose Newlauds for the Democratic
nomination. for it ia we'll known thai
Newlands aided in the defeat of both
Dickerson and Pittman in 1910. Dick.
erson is a good warm. blooded hater,
which is one reason why his friend.
love and follow him, and he can be re.
lied upon to go after the Newlands SCALP
when the time comes-and get il too
but the time has not yet arrived. He
is busy at the penitentiary. improving
things there physically and other wise,
developing the 1900 acre farm into a val.
liable State asset, and he is making
good. Yet every time he passes through
Reno to buy a Jersey bull or a Berkshire
shoat, those curbstone politicians thai
lnfest this town imagine that he is on
some dark secret of q political mission
and forthwith give voice TO the fear.
AS things stand to day. it is altogether
within the realm of the probable thai
Sam Bedford will be the man who will
defeat Newlands for the nomination
but ihus far Mr.. Bedford has not con.
sented to enter the race. is fully occu.
pied attending TO his private law rrac.
tice, watching the while with more OF
less interest passing events and the an
tics of pygmy politicians, with philoso.
phic calm.
The argumentative ammunition that
will be fired at Newlands is that he
has been faithless both TO his party and
bis State that he is the father of the
bipartisan machine that has controlled
and corrupted State politics and govern.