The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-19

NEITHER PLATT, HOWE OR NOR
CROSS HAS MAJORITY OF
DELEGATES


day, in commenting on last weeks
primaries as affecting the senatorial
contests has the following:
Tuesdays primary election dis
closed the fact that Key Pittman was
the choice of a large majority of
the democrats of the state for nomi-
nation for United States senator. But
the election, it seems, did not alto
gether make certain the choice by
the republicans of an opponent to
Senator Pittman. 1t is true hat the
returns given out in Reno would
indicate thai Sam Platt had gained a
considerable number of delegates in
excess of a majority of the conven-
ton, but on the other hand an analy-
sis made in the premises shows that
Platt yet lacks a majority in pledged
delegates, or at least that is the
claim of his opponents, A. H. Howe
and Judge Norcross. In the repub-
lican convention it will require a
vote of forty-siX to nominate and
it is the assertion in the premises
that Plat can muster only some 81
delegates or so who are actually
pledged to his candidacy, this by
way of prior-to-election pledges.
Platt apparently carried delega-
tions in the following counties:
Washoe. Nye, Ormsby, Douglas,
Lyon and probably Lincoln. All told
this would give him a vote of 40
6oln0ofnc h1f still tho nIoir, Sc made
that j. l. Wilson, of the Lyon county
delegation is %unpledged and hat pos
sibly Lincoln county selected a dele
cation of two unpledged delegates.
The point is also made that in other
of these counties a stray %'unpledg-
ed" delegate may bob up to dismay
the Plat forces. Plat lays claim to
a full delegation from Humboldt
county, and the assertion is now be-
ing made by his opponents that all
of these delegates did not appear
before the electorate as pledged
Judge Norcross carried Elko and
White Pine counties, while A. II.
Howe gained the delegations from
Churchill, Esmeralda and Mineral
and these two contestants assert tina,
many of the other delegates elected
to the republican state convention
stood forth as absolutely unpledged
Therefore the charge is openly made
that to all intents and appearances
Plat has taken in too much terri
tory"
That the republican controversy
has not yet been concluded and that
there will be a fight made for the
senatorial nomination before the
convention was made known in Reno
on Friday, this on the arrival of A,
H. Howe of Goldfield. The candi-
date from the south had a pleasant
smile for the Plat claim, but under
meath it all a determination to fight
through false claims to victory
could be plainly observed. Answer
ing a request for a declaration in
the matter, Mr.. Howe gave out the
following statement:
Il have been a good deal amused
by the ~eXtravagant claims made by
my opponent, Mr.. Plat, in regard
to the makeup of the elected dele
gates to the republican state conven-
ton. Mr.. Plat, enthusiastically.
has assumed that all of the delegates
running in the state who were not
publicly pledged to Judge Norcross
and myself we're necessarily Pla 1
delegates. AS a example, Mr.. Piatt
claimed to have a set of delegates
running in my home county, but two
of them, who withdrew from his
ticket, made a public statement be-
fore election that if elected they
would have voted for me in the o n
ventfon, and resented Mr.. Platt's
reference to them as his delegates.
1t is fair to assume that many other
delegates are now astonished to
learn through Mr.. Platt's publicity
bureau that, contrary to their own
belief, they are Plat delegates.
LAS a matter of fact, my own in
formation, which is based upon cal
culations in which | have taken all
precautions against deluding myself,
makes it plain that, ~conceding to
Mr.. Plat all of the delegates Of
Washoe and Nye counties and also
%conceding him more than he prob
ably has in other counties, he will
not go into the convention with
more than 81 delegates out of 80.
1T is unfortunate that the chief
source upon which the public is
obliged to rely for correct informa-
tion in this part of the state should
be a daily periodical so keenly inter
ested in the success of Mr.. Platt'a
candidacy.
The state convention which will
meet on September 5 will have to
perform the duty of selecting candi-
dates. and among them a candidate
for United States senator, and that
convention in the performance of
that duty will no doubt bestow the
nominations upon the men whom it
deems to be winning candidates. By
49, 49, - ~-% ouo@ - 4hA