The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-09-23
some Possibilities
IN STATE POLITICS
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Summerfield has been an adherent
to Republican principles all his life.
In 1912. when the Progressive party
sprang into being, he was the candi-
date Of that party for United States
senator and polled a very flattering
vote.
Born in Indiana. S~ummerfeld came
to Nevada in 1881. when he was
eighteen years Of age. He was elect
ed district attorney of Ormsby county
In 1893 and served four years. Later
he moved to Washoe county and wal
elected 10 the state senate, being one
Of the two Republicans sent to the
legislature that year from washoe
county. He and George Mills were
the only two Republicans in the senate
and when time came for electing q
United States senator, there was q
strong desire on the part Of the Dem
ocrats to make the election Of John
p. Jones unanimous. Summerfeld and
Mills. however. would not stand for
the frame-up and cast their votes for
William Mcmillan.
Before his term as state senator ex-
pired Summerfeld was appointed
United States Attorney for Nevada by
President Mckinley and was later re-
appointed by President Roosevelt. He
served in that capacity nine years.
Those r not the only political
jobs l have held" said Summerfeld
Saturday. Il was minute clerk of the
senate once and also justice of the
peace of Carson City"
Governor Boyle's unanticipated and,
evidently. ION the spur of the mo-
ment" announcement made at Tono-
pah during the week, that he is
through with politics. was quite a
bombshell in the camps of the poll
tfcians who have figured him as a
certain candidate for senatorial hon.
ors In 1922. The governor chose the
occasion Of an impassioned address
to striking miners at Tonopah as the
setting for the official announcement
| of his withdrawal from the political
| ring.
Despite the fact that the governor
was quite emphatic in his remarks his
announcement will not be taken with
great seriousness by those who have
watched with any particular degree of
closeness his political career. 1t still
Is the general belief among those
who know him best that he will be a
candidate for the Democratic senator |
ial nomination against Key Pittman in
1922 and that he and his followers
will be back Of Colonel j. G. Scrug-
ham as a candidate for governor in |
the same year.
The governors withdrawal from
politics Is not his first venture along |
those lines. 1t still is quite fresh in |
the memory of all that he made al
definite and 40 less certain annuonce-
ment just after the legislature had ad-
journed in 1915 that he would never
again be q candidate for public ONCE.
The governor expressed about the
same sentiment at that time as he did
at Tonopah last week. It will be re-
membered that he stated then he was
through with politics, did not expect
to be a candidate again. and expressed
the belief that he could not be elected
again. At that time, however, the
governor attached a sort of q string
to his withdrawal. saying that he
would not be a candidate unless it
became absolutely necessary" or
words to that effect. This time, how
ever. he is a trile more emphatic In
his withdrawal announcement. His
remarks at Tonopah are credited with
being as follows:
They say I've ome here to do
politics. II l fail to settle this
strike l will lose their votes.
II l settle this strike l will lose
their votes. l want to say right
here. that l don't ask anyone to
vote for me. l have done with
politics. I am not a candidate
for any office and l will not be
a candidate for any Office after
my term expires. l am going to
give my sole time to my own
business and / think l am entitled
to the right Of looking after my
own affairs"
or course the governor may have
been speaking in all sincerity when he
made those statements. He undoubt-
eddy was. But the governor will find.
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