White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-11


public approval. Upon all of the great
measures which he made the founda'
lion OF his work as governor of the
state. We endorse the several mes
sages of Governor Oddie 10 the iegis-
iature as embodying sound construc
tive policies for the states improve.
ment. welfare and development: We
endorse his courageous exercise OF
The veto power.
Since January 1911. while the gov
ernor. treasurer and state controller
have been republicans. the lieutenant
governor. attorney-general, secretary
OF state. surveyor-general, state min.
ing inspector. superintendent of pub
lie instruction, superintendent of state
printing and both sessions of the state
legislature have been democratic. Dur.
ing such period the state prison, or.
rhans' home, railroad and public ser.
vice commissions, Panama-Pacifc Ex-
| position commissiont. the Industrial
commission and up to recently the
state tax commission have been con-
trolled BY democratic officials. In
this connection We commend the veto
by Governor Oddie in 1911 of the wat
er law. which proposed to take the
appointment of the state engineer
from the governor and place IL in the
hands of a democratic board.
The state of facts shown ia that
norton of the platform which ] laye
read shows that only three OF the eley-
en- state Officials are republicans and
that both the sessions of the legisla-
ture in 1911 and 1913 have been demo-
cratic cannot be denied. The session
OF 1913 was Overwhelmingly demo
cratic In both houses but In the ses-
sion of 1911 the senate was democrat
ie while the house was evenly divided
between the democrats and republi-
cans with one independent holding
the balance of power. The house
was organized republican by his vote
but thereafter he exercised his perog-
alive as an independent and the leg
islature for all intents and purposes
was democratic. Now If anybody pres
ent thinks that any republican COVER
nor with a less order of diplomacy
than a Talleyrand or with a less or
der of patience than a Job would &C.
.cupy a bed of roses under such cir
cumstances, | would like TO be in
troduced 10 him.
| have certainly found the
last four years sufficiently interest
ing in the political equations at the
state capital to satisfy the cravings
for excitement in any man. To
paraphrase the saying of a famous
president Il have had a corking
time but | want 10 finish the work |
have begun and to carry out the plans
end policies have expressed and
advocated in my message and which.
in a large part. | have succeeded in
incorporating into the statutes of the
state.
My record will show that | am
neither a faddist nor an extremist,
nor a splendid beginner and a poor
fnisher. On the contrary | claim the
credit for sponsoring a large number
OF sound, safe. practical changes. re-
forms, and improvements in the state
government and it's policies. That a
large number of these have been en-.
acted into law. and that time is
proving the success and merit of these
laws. On the other hand ! have ye-
toed more bills perhaps than any 9th.
er governor in the history OF the
state and | believe that each veto was
d~efensible and with the facts In pos
session of the people | believe they
will be sustained by sound, public
sentiment. (ApplauseD.
L HOuAa ithf " SOY III NOlitIAiOi
with The yetoes that in 1911 | vetoed
bills aggregating a very large sum.
among these vetoes was one for $780,
900 for the Panama-Paciic Exposition
at San Francisco. That veto vas
~roundly denounced by certain news
papers In the state and these same
papers denounced me two years later
for signing the bills appropriating
$4,000 for both the San Francisco
and San Diego expositions. | did not
veto the first appropriation because
did not believe in an exhibit, but
because | thought il was just as well
to let the matter 90 over two years
To sound public sentiment on II. and
because the Legislature of 1911 made
nc provision for such expenditure.
When another legislature two years