The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-04-28
OUR ANSWERS To
ARTICLES IN STAR


fire, The Silver State will in this COL
umn answer articles concerning the
forthcoming municipal election which
appeared in the Humboldt Star of last
night.
In confusing article captioned
Business Men Make Statement"
signed by several business men and
all proprietors of soft-drink saloons,
except those in the restricted district,
effort was made to make the state
ment of Councilman Akin, which ap-
peared in the last issue of The Silver
State, appear untruthful and for the
purpose of bolstering up the candi-
dacy of Mr.. Akin and the persons as
sociated with him to the end that they
may succeed in further hampering
the progress and prosperity of the city
of Winnemucca and bringing the peo-
pie of the city of Winnemucca into
disrepute, for their own selfish pur-
poses to enable them to continue to
misrepresent the voters and injure the
prosperity Of this city"
Those persons associated with Mr..
Akin must mean Mayor Brandon and
Councilman Hoskin3. Just how it
can be figured their motives are sell
fish and that they misrepresent the
voters and injure prosperity is hard
to understand. No facts are given
as to how they misrepresent the peo-
pie and no allegations are made con-
corning the other items. Facts are
what the voters want-not generali-
ties calculated to confuse and i'm
plant ideas that have no foundation.
1t cannot be understood how actions
Of the present city council can be
said to be selfish and that Mayor
Brandon and Councilman Hoskins
associated with Councilman Akin.
misrepresent the voters. They work
for the city without pay and give lib
orally of their time. Mayor Brandon
has acted as city attorney without
compensation, saving the city 5000 a
year right there. He has boosted the
Owyhee and Humboldt irrigation prof.
ects and made trips to Carson City
to start the ball rolling and to pass
law insuring volunteer firemen
| Under the present city council the fire
fighting equipment has been brought
up to point undreamed of, resulting
! in a substantial cut in fire insurance
rates in Winnemucca, which benefits
every resident directly. His very op-
| ponent laid more than half a mile of
sewer in East Second street. Side
walks have been laid across the
bridge for convenience of pedestrians
The old fire house has been worked
over and made into a city hall. II
time permitted columns could be filled
with good actions of the city council
Be 1t said to their everlasting credit
that when they saw the present slump
in business coming they cut down on
municipal expenditures and reduced
the tax rate by one-third. At this
very time other state newspapers are
pointing to the city government of
Winnemucca as model, in hope that
their own cities can be conducted like
wise. And in every other way the
present city council has truly repre-
sented the people. morally and other
wise. and It does not seem fair
these men should come in for criti-
cism because they failed to obey the
wishes of selfish business interests.
who would have them overlook their
sworn duty and permit the law of the
nation to become farce. Those are
the people they have not represented
and they should be proud no one can
ever say they did.
AS to the rest of the statement. II
will be noticed no part of Akin's alle-
cation has been denied, and in fact
the last paragraph is construed to
mean that while these men have no
suggestions to offer to the Western
Pacific (Which they are willing to
make public), still II he should be dis
charged from his position because of
being a city councilman, it would be
all right with them.
1t develops today that certain of the
signers of this article were not fully
aware of what was said therein, the
language being chosen carefully, and
one merchant. w. t. Henley, has
asked The Silver State to print the
fact that he understood he was merely
signing statement that he was not
responsible for the effort to get Akin
discharged. Others were not inter-
viewed directly. because Of lack of
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