The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-03-11
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and Pittman for imagined Sights put
upon him. He was determined to pre-
vent them from going to the national
convention as delegates from Nevada.
He even went so far as to bar
from the list of delegates named a
single Democrat from Elko county,
the home of Senator Henderson, or
from Nye. the home of Pittman, the
banner Democratic district of the
state.
Mccarthy wished to perpetuate
himself in power as national COM
mitteeman from Nevada. BY making
a combination with Kunz and a little
group of dissatisfied Democrats who
have never borne the burdens of the
party, he collected enough proxies to
dominate the meeting. These proxies
were used to ride rough-shod over the
old-line, conservative Democrats
present, who were actually in the ma
jority, by a count of persons By use
of these proxies he named a hand
picked list of delegates to the nation
al convention, and as these delegates
will choose the next national COM
mitteeman from Nevada it is safe to
guess that they will choose Mccarthy
70 succeed himself"
Probably nothing in politics for
many a long day has excited so much
comment as the failure of the friends
of Senator Key Pittman to have him
selected by the Democratic conven-
tion, even though he would have had
but half a vote. The senator him.
self is reported to be very much
peeved, not at the actual step by
Chairman Kunz that prevented his
choice as delegate. but at the fact
hat anyone ever proposed him as a
delegate at all.
A Washington dispatch says:
Senator Pittman says the story
from Reno that he was turned down
as a delegate to the San Francisco
convention is erroneous. He says his
name was not placed before the COM
mittee. as he and Henderson had
agreed to go to the convention at
their own expense, but not as dele
gates"
And this is undoubtedly what would
have been the case if the senator's
orders had been carried out by his
political friends here.
But the orders were not followed.
And what actually occurred is that
when Committeeman George Thatcher
placed the name of Senator Key Pitt
man before the central committee as
a candidate for delegate, Chairman
John KunZ declared the motion out
of order.
Twelve names of Democrats, good
and true, had been incorporated in the
resolution of Committeeman Zurich
and, although Pittman's name was not
one of the twelve, the resolution had
already been adopted. Kunzs ruling
therefore. was in effect that finished
business could not be reopened-in
other words, Pittman was among the
finished"
But Pittman was not in any way
responsible for this action. He had
written to United States Attorney
Woodburn on the 14th of last month
stating very plainly that he was not
a candidate for delegate and that he
preferred. in view of the limited num-
Der to go from Nevada, that another
good Democrat should be chosen The
letter follows:
MY Dear Mr.. Woodburn: The
Democrats will. in the near future,
convene a convention or assemblage
for the purpose of electing delegates
to the national Democratic convention
to be held in San Francisco | am
aware that it has been the almost
universal custom in Nevada and in
nearly every other state to include
the senators and representatives from
the state in the delegation that is
selected. The omission. or rather. the
failure to select Democratic sena-
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strued as a reputation by the party
| do not know how this custom origi-
mated. nor do | know the reason for
it, unless it be that such representa-
tives of state are supposed to be in
closer touch with the political condi-
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