The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-03-30
.WOUlO-BE REFORM
PROTAGON|ST
j., ROASTED
CALIFORNIA STATE SENATOR Is
SCORED BY COMMERCE
; CHAMBER

AOhC yCobCt 0oy ohOPtCu IC0OluIlOu
denouncing former State Senator E
e. Grant for his anti-saloon activi
ties in Vallejo and calling upon tn,
federal authorities to conduct al
investigation of conditions in tina
town. The resolutions follow:
Whereas, for many months past
former State Senator E. E. Grant,
as representative of the California
Law Enforcement and Protective
League, has been conducting a
systematic campaign of SANDER
directed against the city of Vallejo
and its officials, and,
Whereas, through false and ma
licious statements uttered by said
E. E. Grant in public meetings
and through the press, the city of
Vallejo has been wilfully ma
liciously and criminally branded
as a hot bed of vice and corrup-
ton, and,
Whereas, the Vallejo chamber
of commerce, representing the bus
mess men of the city of Vallejo,
knows said e. e. Grants allega-
lions to be absolutely untrue and
not founded on fact, and desiring
that the public shall know the
truth concerning conditions in the
city of Vallejo, the board of d.
rectors of the Vallejo chamber of
commerce, in regular meeting as
sembled, does hereby voice its
disapproval of the i~mputations of
said E. E. Grant, and
Be it Resolved, that the Vallejo
chamber of commerce denounce
as untrue and uncalled for the
statement of conditions in Vallejo
as proclaimed by said E. E. Grant;
that it voices its confidence in
Mayor James Roney, Commission
er Robert o. Pierce, State High
way Commissioner Henry J. Wild
erman, Adolph Waterman and
other local American citizens
whose loyalty and patriotism have
been questioned, and it hereby
demands that further ISLANDERS
against the city Of Vallejo or i'm
putation against the character Of
! it's citizens shall cease, and furth-
er,
Be it Resolved, that the Vallejo
chamber of commerce request of
the state and federal authorities a
thorough investigation into the
conditions that have existed in the
city of Vallejo and do exist at the
present time, in order that a fair
and impartial board of investiga-
tors may compile an accurate &C
count of the cooperation that has
been given by city and county Of
ficials in endeavoring to suppress
vice in this community. despite
the assertions Of E. E. Grant and
others to the contrary.
Be it Resolved, that a copy Of
these resolutions be spread on the
minutes of the chamber of COM
merce, that a copy be given to each
local newspaper, and a copy be
sent to each newspaper within the
state of California.
At a meeting of the farmers ant
oairymen of the lower sections o
Solano and Napa counties, resolu
tions we're adopted expressing con
fidencc in Henry J.. Widenmann
state highway commissioner, and ex
coriating former State Senator Ed
win E. Grant, with whom he had
public fight on the streets of Vale
jo a faw days ago over the dry con
troversy, which has split the nav,
yard town into two warning fac
tions.
The resolutions ~"whereased" tina
it mad G, ne to the attention of tn
farmers and dairymen that "a so
called reformer, Edwin E. Grant
has been willfully, maliciously an
falsely branding State Highway
Commissioner Henry J. Widenmanl
as dishonest, disloyal and unfit t
be a STATE Official" and that tn
farmers and dairymen know tn
said allegations to be without foun
dation and a cowardly attack o.
one of the foremost American citi
zens in the state" and that the,
have personal knowledge of Widen
mann's honesty, efficiency and loyal
ty and know his father, Charlie
Widenmann, to be a venerable citi
zen oe answering loyalty, rugge'
honesty and strong character"
Resolved" conclude the resolu
ltions, that this association con