Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1914-10-31
CLEAR STATEMENT
FROM GOVERNOR ODDIE
ON ALL QUESTIONS
Carson City, Nevada,
October 20, 1914.

October %, 1914
| To the voters of Nevada:
| have made my fight for reelection
in the open and | have made a clean
| fight. | have not told one man one
thing to gain his vote and another
man the contrary to gain his vote.
But | have told all men the same thing
and there is neither doubt nor mis-
conception in the mind of any voter
as to where | stand on every import
ant public question.
Gambling and Divorce.
The paramount issue in this cam
paign is whether wide-open gambling
and easy divorce will again be legal
lied. Mr.. Boyle declares that these
are dead issues. Meanwhile the
corpses of these dead issues are wan
dering through every street, alley and
byway of every city, town and ham
let in the State enthusiastically rally
ing their advocates and whispering the
name of Boyle as the candidate who,
if elected, will not veto any gambling
and easy divorce bills the Legisla
ture may pass. The gambling and di
vorce issues are dead and Mr.. Boyle
is dumb. The silence has its clog
uence. And no man will get past the
people of this State to the Governor
ship because he is silent on the gam
bling and divorce issues and near
sighted as to what is now transpiring
in relation thereto.
The New Prison Episode.
Mr. Boyle has complained that
misrepresented him when | charged
that he supported the scheme to sad
die on this State in 1910 a $355,000
new prison. He claims that he is
entitled to the credit of killing the
prison scheme by advising me of what
| already knew and every citizen in
the State knew at the time. But when
| put the question to him why when
the law only called for 100000 new
prison and specifically limited the to-
| ldl an anu oliiSuidi "
that sum (Sec. 7, Chapter CXXXI.,
Statutes of 1900, a second case of
silence occurred.
The Tax Bills.
Mr. Boyle declared to the taxpay
ers of Humboldt county and else
uence And no man will ge past the
tax bill, introduced in the Legisla
ture of 1911, was a Southern Pacific
measure because it merely proposed
to assess the railroads four per cent OF
their gross earnings. | have in my
possession a statement prepared by
the Nevada Railroad Commission at
my request at the time, showing the
comparative revenue the fourper
cent-gross earnings basis would bring
into the State and counties for the
previous year, 1910, as compared with
the total assessment actually collected
that year That statement shows that
in round numbers the Southern Pacific
paid in taxes to the State and counties
in 1910, $295,000, but if the four per
/
cent gross earnings basis were in
force it would have paid $4S00OO in
taxes. | quoted these figures and the
Nevada Railroad Commission as
authority in my special message to
the Legislature of February %, 1911.
! For the information of the late mem
! Der of the Nevada Tax Commission
| will say that the four per cent gross
earnings basis of railroad taxation is
in operation in California under the
| Johnson regime, which has not been,
so far as | know, successfully accused
Of being unduly favorable to that com
pany. 1t may here be proper to men
ton that Mr. Boyle's assessment of
railroad property in 1913 failed by
considerable of reaching the four per
cent basis which he deplores as evi
dence of pro-railroad leanings. | trust
that Mr. Boyle will not have any loss
of speech in rushing to an explana
ton of this Inconsistency.
Irrigation Legislation.
Mr.. Boyle, in his speech at Love
lock and Winnemucca declared that
his water bill which passed the Leg
islature of 1911 was vetoed by me.
That it was designed to relieve the
ihtolerable conditions along the Hum
boldt river and had | not vetoed it
the water situation in the State would
long ere this been settled to every
body's satisfaction and every water
user be happy. Mr. Boyle's bill, even
he must admit, was experimental.
Moreover, it would have been met
with the same legal delays in testing
its constitutionality which the Car
penter bill has met, before the ques
ton as to whether or not it really
solved the intolerable water situation
COULD ka Jatarn,ipeJ Al laact that