The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-10-16
MAXSON FAVORS
SAN FRANCISCO

That he will give enthusiastic sup
port to San Francisco in the campaign
to secure the Republican national con-
vention for 1916 was the personal mes
sage. which II. b. Maxson, Republican
National committeeman from Nevada,
gave yesterday TO the San Francisco
Convention league upon his arrival
from Reno with special train of
Shriners. Maxson was in conference
with officials of the league, Congress
nan Julius Kahn and Charles A. Rice.
the Republican national committeeman
from Hawaii, who, with his family, is
visiting the Exposition.
You cannot make il too strong that
| am first for Reno and then for San
Francisco for the convention said
Maxson. . Seriously, there is not a sim
gle argument worth while against San
Francisco.
''I am so much interested in win
ming this convention for San Francisco
that | could almost forgive the state
should it by any freak of circumstances
fail to defeat the non-partisan bills
that are now under discussion. San
Francisco offers superlative advantages
as a convention city. And its advan-
tages over the eastern communities in
midsummer, the convention season
there, are so tremendously evident that
argument is unnecessary.
1--WE are going to win the thing for
San Francisco. That IS the way l feel
about it. / have attended Republican
national conventions these many years,
and l have always been compelled to
stand the awful heat and swelter of
some eastern city for the sake of my
party loyalty Now we should be given
the chance to hold that convention IN
a climate that appeals to the world as
the only place on earth.
so much for the convention. Now
let me say word about this non -parti-
san obsession. | wonder whether the
people of California realize that this
thing, if it shall not be beaten, means
mob rule. / wonder if the people of
this great state, with all of the need
i, has for national recognition and
support, win deliberately permit the
extinguishing of party government.
81 cannot conceive that any great
number of Californans will seriously
consider for a minute the thought of
voting TO wipe this state off the ma
tional political map. And that is ex
actly and precisely what this non-party
move means. | hope that every Repub-
liean and every Democrat and every
Socialist and every Prohibitionist in
California who believes in the right to
organize under his own political ban.
Eer will vote against this extraordina-
ry measure.
"Severing the connection between
the state party organization formed of
the lesser political divisions and the
larger field of national activity, how
III the world can any man have the te
merity to say that the non-partisan
bills preserve the national party sys-
TEN. It is absurd and no argument can
make il stand the test of practical re-
suits.
Maxson said that he did not care to
mix the national convention campaign
with the non party fight, but that, in
his Judgment, the result of the election
On October Goth would have strong
influence upon the Republican national
committee i'm its deliberations at Wash
ington in December, when the eonven-
tion city shall be selected Maxson and
Rice will be the guests of the San
Francisco Convention league executive
committee at luncheon today at the
Commercial club. Members of the citi
ztns' committee, which is working with
the league, will also be present.-San
Francisco Chronicle.