The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-10-27
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Reno, October 26, 1914.

menu, OctoDer 20, 1919.
To the People of Nevada:
In the month of July, 1910, was
a resident of Goldfeld and Assistant
District Attorney of Esmelalda coun-
ty. At sucn time contemplated be-
ing candidate for the Republican
nomination for the Office of Attorney
General and during such time
discussed by candidacy with one E.
X. Collins, at that time a strong
political power in said county. Collins
tried to dissuade me from entering
the fight declaring that Hugh Brown,
of Tonopah, would likely be q can
didate before the primaries and would
Nevertheless, l decided to file my ap-
plication. On or about the Gath Of
that month Collins came to my Office
and asked me how / stood in respect
tc the existing membership of the
Nevada Railroad Commission. told
him that / was for their retention in
their reappointment. Collins told me
that this was all he wanted to know
and that as Hugh Brown had not
not as yet fled for the primary NOM
ination, such being my stand on the
Nevada Railroad Commission, he
might not enter the fight. On the
Goth day of July, Collins called on
me in my Office and said it was all
right. That as my stand on the
Railroad Commission was what they
wanted, Hugh Brown would not file.
said that sounded good to me. Col
Inns then said that must put it in
writing to assure Hugh Brown and
others that the Nevada Railroad Com
mission was safe in the event that 1
had no opposition. Suspecting no
terachery, and without hesitation, or
suspicious of unfriendly motives, I
thereupon wrote the letter in ques-
ton.
Within one hour from that time I
learned on the street that Hugh
Brown had filed. / met Collins COM
ing out of the postoffiee and started
to talk with him when he stopped me
and said to come inside. He closed
the door back of me, and turning
about, said: Now We have got you
just where we want you. You lay
down or I'll publish that letter and
kill you politically for all time.
said, "You publish that letter and
will tell how you got it. You have
struck the wrong man. There Is
nothing in it but what / am willing
to have published and defy you to
publish it.'s There was good deal
more said among which was that
proposed to stay in and make that
fight and publicly declare my stand
on the Railroad Commission from ev-
cry platform in the state. This
did, as the reports of those meetings
will show. When the convention OF
nominees occurred at Carson City, l
was chairman of the platform COM
mittee, wrote the plank in the plat
form pledging the Republican nomi-
nees to the reappointment of Bartine,
Shaughnessy and Thurtell as the
Railroad Commission, and read the
platform before the convention.
Ny feeling against Hugh Brown In
the primary campaign of 1910 grew
out of the belief at that time that he
knew of the representations made by
Collins. I do not so believe now, for
Mr.. Thatcher in his speech at Tonopah
quotes a published extract from q let
ter found among Collins effects, the
authorship of which he does not dis
close, and which supplies, at this late
day, the motive of Collins, and ap-
praises me at last that my feeling
against Mr.. Brown was wholly and
completely unfounded.
Mr.. Thatcher's Interpretation of my
letter in his Tonopah speech is neith-
er justified nor uttered in good faith.
wrote the letter honestly, and under
similar circumstances, would do it
again.
(Signed) GEORGE SPRINGMEYER.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Stephenson re-