The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-07-06
SENATOR GRIFFITH
FOR STATE OFFICE
State Senator From Clark County
Announces Candidacy for Elec-
ton on Republican Ticket
as Lieut.. Governor


E. w. Griffith, state senator from
Clark county, and of the few Re-
publicans who ever achieved success
at the polls of his county, where
the registration is overwhelmingly
Democratic, has announced through
S. E. Ross, newly elected chairman
of the Republican state central COM
mittee, his intention of becoming
candidate for the party nomination
for lieutenant governor.
1t is understood that Senator
Griffith, who has been talked of as
candidate for several months, has
been reserving his decision in the
matter to await development Incl
dent to the state convention. He
was a delegate to the convection and
was elected as one of the three
Clark county members of the state
central committee.
Senator Griffith is well known in
the state and particularly in south
ern Nevada, where he has been active
in political and civic affairs for
many years. He was one of the
delegates to the national Repub-
lican convention in Chicago in 1920.
His formal announcement to Chair
man Ross is as follows:
"This will notify you that l have
decided to become a candidate for
the office Of lieutenant governor on
the Republican ticket in the primary
on September 8.
81 do this at the request of many
friends throughout the state who
feel that, as business man, ex-
perienced in legislative matters, l
should lend my help and experience
to the end that we may have for
the next four years a real business
administration of state affairs at
Carson City.
Senator Griffith is one of the
solid, self-made business men of the
state, proving it by becoming the
largest individual taxpayer of the
county in which he resides. He has
served in the state legislature both
in the assembly and senate, being
the only member of the 1917 as
sembly who advanced to the senate
and on many other occasions has
been similarly honored.
In 1920 Senator Griffith was
elected delegate to the Republican
national convention held in Chicago
and was the Nevada delegate to act
upon the committee having conven-
tion arrangements in hand.
For many years he has been one
of the leading agriculturists of the
state and was the first man to advo-
cate and introduce a bill doing away
with state agricultural farm and
instituting in its place the system
of educating farmers on their own
farms. This work has since been
taken up by the Farm Bureau.
Through Senator Griffith's efforts
the Southern Nevada Agricultural
Board was organized, quickly fol
lowed by a similar organization in
northern counties. In this way
wonderful work was accomplished
in the development of scientific
agriculture in the southern and
eastern parts Of the state.
Senator Griffith has always been
a friend of the laboring man. One
of his accomplishments in this re-
gard was the passing of the semi
monthly payday bill and he has
sponsored many other measures of
Importance to labor.
Senator Griffith states that he
stands for economy in government
demanding a dollars worth of value
for every dollar spent. He has had
a great deal to do with the develop
ment of Clark county and has been
a factor in state progress. He is
the author of the state cement plant
bill, which is resulting in great say.
| ing. He also is the author of the
Colorado river commission bill
which is bringing into being the
greatest reclamation-hydro electric
project in the United States, or in
fact the world.
| Senator Griffith's name on the
Republican ticket lends strength t.
that party's plea for power in Ne
vada, representing as he does the
successful type Of business mar
and assuring voters that the same
qualification will be carried int,