Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-04-25

-NNS NS'ouoj HpII E1B 1910.
To the Wells Commercial Club and
Phil S. Triplett, Editor of THE
Wells Herald.
Wells, Nevada.
Gentlemen:
In answer tc your communica-
ton, which you were kind enough
to publish in the Wells Herald, in
stead of sending to me through the
mail, | beg to submit my reply. 1t
appears from your method of pro-
cedure that publicity is what you
are seeking and / can assure you
that it will be my duty, as a pub
lie journalist, to assist in helping, in
my feeble way, to reach your
hearts desire. While | doubt the
wisdom of such a course, on our
part, you have left me no alterna-
tive and | can only bow to your
dictum and proceed to outline my
defense or acknowledge that | am a
champion prevaricator, which is
not true, at least in this case. Per-
nit me to sur You, in the start,
that | have no personal feeling in
the matter and have no i'll will to-
wards Wells, or any of her citizens;
the Herald's false, malicious and
wicked SANDER, to the contrary,
notwithstanding. | will admit that
| am a new" man in Elko county,
but you must remember that other
mcn have been new" when they
came among you and some of them
made good, just as ! will do.
The fact that | am a new man does
not prevent me from knowing
right from wrong, neither does il
| give me license TO become q public
liar. or shield my prevaricating
propensities under cover of emf
nent responsibility or long standing
| citizenship. The crime of being a
new man, | will neither attempt
to palliate nor deny.
Every statement, made or i'm
piled. in the article complained of,
by you, was made on the word of
responsible members Of the legisla-
tive assembly. | have taken the
trouble TO interview them personal
ly and If their statements are any
consolation to you, or give you just
and reasonable grounds for com
plant, you are invited TO avail
yourself of the privilege and to
take such action as the part of wis.
dom may dictate. II it turns out
that | an all wrong in this contro-
versy, it will be a great consolation
to me, to be vanquished by so
brave and generous an adversary.
Your attention is called jointly
and severally TO the statement
made by Messrs Russell, Mcbride,
Fernald, and Fitzgerald, the only
members Of the Elko Delegation
whom ! have had the pleasure of
Interviewing on this subject. They
all say or infer that they were led
to believe by Mr. Badt that there
was unanimous desire in your part
Of the county that the bill be pass
cd without the customary vote be-
ing taken by the taxpayers at an
election held for that purpose.
They further say that Mr.. Badt
told them there was no opposi ion
to the bill in Elko and on his assur-
ance that such was the case the Ell
ko delegation made no further OPP
position to the bill.
Since returning home they find
that there was not, and is not now,
n universal desire for the bill in
your own part Of the county until
a vote could be taken on the mat
ter.
They find further that the very
men in Elko whose names were
mentioned by Mel S Badt. as being
favorable to the bill, are now, and
always have been strongly opposed
to this or any other bill being
passed until submitted to a vote of
the people. They find that no one