Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-10-09
THREATS AND MUD SINGING


THE WARNING:-I have been
called aside dozen times since |
have been candidate for the office
of sheriff and assessor and threat
ened with being "shot." being beat
up" etc. if | didn't withdraw from
the race and leave it open for the
machine candidate. have refused
TO be intimidated by threats. The
gang has caused good Democrats and
friends of mine to come and advise
me to withdraw, as a three cornered
fight meant that the Socialists would
elect their man" Now they are send
ing men to me every few hours, when
they can find one that they think has
any influence, aud urging me to get
out of the race and let the machine
control continue | refuse to be
intimidated, urged or bribed to give
up what consider my privilege and
my duty to my fellow men.
The last few days they have been
sending men to me threatening, and
urging me to quit asking embar-
RAISING questions about public bust
ness, and to quit pointing out how /
would increase the efficiency of the
office, and not tell the people how
much is being wasted. They say:
what the people don't know won't
hurt them-and they don't expect
efficiency in public work" They
urge me to let well enough alone, OF
I'll cut myself out Of the biggest part
| of the money in the office, and for
every one in the future.
II there is any graft in that office
don't want it, | don't want cent
that I'm not legitimately entitled to
and don't know what they mean mol
why they are so afraid of the few
little questions | asked and the ex
PLANTATION wanted. Maybe they are
afraid some one else will get the
office and find lot of irregularities
after the change is made. Fourteen
. years is long time without {
change. except one man handing i
down to a relative.
They threaten now to sling mut
and ruin my reputation, so that the!
) can defeat me.
? They have started rumors that
killed a man in Alaska" and that
. am ian ex-convict," and that | am
drunk. and gambler, and a lot O
other things Then they have ha
friends come to me and tell me the
r know all about you, and il you don
\ quit they will expose you at tn
g eleventh hour when you will no
have time to answer"
If they can make anyone belev
that stuff they are in luck. FRS
e place ! never was in Alaska; | neye
| had gun fight with any one; | neve
, killed any one; never was in a figh
where any one was killed; never ca
ried a gum never was in a plac
where ! wanted gun OF knife; an
2 never had a gun drawn on me by an
one anywhere. never was in
pententiary in my life, not even o
visit. l have passed through Ca
son City several times, but that's tn
nearest | ever was to a penitentiar.
y don't know what the inside OF on
4 looks like.
= never was drunk in my life
never was taken in custody for di
orderly conduct, nor assisted home
my life-and that's more than som
of the machine candidates can sa
for even higher offices than sherii
, | never gambled more than to dro
> few cents in slot machine occ
Z sionally in my life.
" came to Nevada when | was jul
e % years old, and I've been here mos
n of the time since, except for a fe
years in California, and the las
twelve years I've been right here
Tonopah.
e / have never even been charge
v with felony any place or any tim
e in my life. | was fined $40 for bein
out of town and not getting back
time to serve on jury, but Slavil
Sanders and Walsh handled that dea
u They are all machine Democrats, an
= 1t was a political case that was O
9 trial paid the fine, That's Ii
only time I've ever been before tn
court in thirteen years. Once befoi
was fined 5000 and costs, but
developed that the misdemeanor cor
planned of was forgery and the fir
% was remitted, and | have never ha
+, to pay either the fine or the cost
and the case was reversed by II
y higher court
Is THOSE ARE THE ONLY TW
v TIMES was EVER before cou
"a in NV whole life and both fines wei