The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-08-19
PRESENT ANOFUTURE
POLITICAL REVIEW
Continued from Page One)

FOr the nrst time in over fve years
a Republican is chief executive of the
state, N. H. Chaplin of White Pine
county is the acting governor because
Governor Boyle and Lieutenant-Gover-
nor Sullivan are both out of the state
No dire results have accrued to the
Democratic machine as a result of his
accession to the throne and none is
likely to accrue. OF course, there isn't
much that Governor Chaplin could DO
in the way of upsetting the political
organization of the state, although
there are several appointments to be
made. The members of the tax COM
mission never have been r~eappointed
although the governor has threatened
to make them for the last several
months. The members of the state
cement commission, as provided for in
a bill which Chaplin, as senator from
White Pine county, helped to pass,
have never been named by Governor
Boyle and might be appointed by the
acting governor. The dictatorship OF
the state council of defense also Is
vacant, an appointment that rests
with the governor.
There isn't much chance, however,
of the acting governor taking any snap
Judgment on Governor Boyle during
the latter's absence, as it is more than
likely that Governor Boyle and Cover
nor Chaplin talked matters over be-
fore the former stepped over INTO
Utah to try and settle the Ely strike.
AS a matter of fact Governor Chaplin
wouldn't have much opportunity to do
much damage to the Democrats, even
if he had that inclination, because
Governor Boyle is only about an
hours ride from the state line.
Another Republican paper was abb
sorbed by the Democratic machine this
week when the Yerington Times,
of the 'old line" Republican sheets OF
the state, was taken over by j.. A. Nc
Carthy, editor of the Walker Lake Bull
letin, published at Hawthorne, Miner
al county. Mccarthy is one of the
leading Democrats of Mineral county
and represented that county in the
lower house of the 1913 legislature.
His acquisition of the Yerington
Times leaves Lyon county without a
Republican paper. The county is n
of the banner Republican s~trongholds
in the state and it is common belief
that the paper was picked up by the
Democratic machine with the idea of
swinging the county into the Democrat
column next year. The county now
has two Democratic papers, the other
being the Mason Valley News, owned
by c. c. Emerson.
Rumor has it that George B. Thatch-
err, former encouragement. is slated
for appointment as food director IN
Nevada, to take the place Of Hal Lem
mon. who resigned to accept a posi-
ton in Canada. Thatcher is said to
have been recommended for the APP
pointment and recommendation prob
ably equals appointment. As Lem
mons personal attorney Thatcher has
been in close touch with the duties of
the director. With government inves-
tigation of food prices coming on, the
selection of a keen attorney to handle
the affairs wouldn't be much of a mis-
take.
Reports coming from Tonopah
are to the effect that something is la
BILE to drop there before long in con-
nection- with the enforcement OF the
state prohibition law. People return
ing to Reno from Tonopah say they
have experienced no trouble in getting
red liquor over most any bar in the
town. Some of them ven went so FAR
as to say hat members of the state
police stationed there for the purpose
of enforcing the law are well aware
of what is going on.
The affairs of the Gardnerville post
office have not been closed up yet. The
congressional record of recent date
tells of the withdrawal of the execu-
tive nomination of Mrs. Ella Currle