Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-11-02
POLITICS IN LANDER COUNTY

From the Reese River Reveillc. OF Monday
On Saturday evening the Republi-
cans Of this city assembled to listen to
speeches from their candidate for Gov
ernor. +. A. Tritle, and Senator James
W. Nye. In spite Of the sharp October
air the meeting was large, quite a
number Of ladies' being present; and
tho speakers were listened to with
marked interest.
Mr.. Tritle was first introduced to
the audience, which was evidently
greatly pleased with his appearance,
and this feeling grew with his speech.
Tritle is a man of the people. His
manner Of speaking is plain, direct and
candid, entirely free from any embel-
llshment Of rhetoric, and thoroughly
convincing. Good sense and honesty
are his prominent characteristics. At
the close Of his very effective speech
there were few, II any, present who
were not satisfied that, rs Governor OF
Nevada, Tritle would be the fright
man in the right place"
With true business instincts the
speaker went directly to the kernel of
tho subject, by saying that If he were
elected he should recommend:
lst. The immediate selection of the
public lands donated by Congress to
tho State. which. apart from the gem
eral benefit, would give us the means
of creating an extraordinary school
fund, and enable us to carry ont the
cherished project Of a mining school.
I'd. The new apportionmcnt Of the
Senate and Assembly. by which the
number of members in both houses
would be reduced. and the heavy *
pense of the Legislature largely cur
tailed.
Sd. The creation Of n State Board Of
Equalization, by which the valuation
Of all property in the State should be
equal. !
4th. A more economical method Of
supplying the State Prison.
9th. That the tax OH mines should
be confined to their net proceeds.
Mr.. Tritle gave good reasons why he
should favor these propositions. He
spoke at some length in relation to the
tax on mines; and referred to his
course on the bill for taxing the net
proceeds Of the mines, introduced by
Senator Mullen. Of Nyc, for which he
zealously laborcd from its introauc-
ton to its passage. In the course of
his speech, Mr.. Tritle s~trlngled sew
eral OF the numerous lies coined and
circulated by his Democratic oppo-
nents. He had been charged with es-
pousing the policy of employing Chi
nese OH the Virginia II Truckee Rail-
road. The fact Is that ut the beginning
OF his work OH that road the fire broke
out in the Virginia mines, by which
hundreds of miners Of different nation
alities were thrown out of employ
ment he recommended that these
men should be preferred above Others;
and he employed them among the five
hundred men whom he had ut work.
He did not ut any time employ Chi
nese laborers OH that road. He had
ITO hesitation in saying that lie pre-
ferred the labor Of u W people.
with respect to the Chinese question.
Mr.. Tritie declared that he stood
souarely OH the platform Of the Rcpub-
IIcan marty, and had no sympathy with
those miserable demagoSues WHO
sought to produce hostility between
capital and labor. He fairly met ana
disposed Of all the accusations ana M
situations which have been made
against him and lie closed hisexccl,
lent speech-during which he uttered
ITO word Of discourtesy against the OPP
posing candidate-amid the hearty;
cheers of his hearers. It was resolved
In the crowd that. rs candidate for
Governor. Tritle was bound to be n
success.
Senator Nys was welcomed rs an
old, tried. and faithful friend Is e
coined. He spoke briefly, but his elo-
uuent sentences fell upon willing ears
and did their good work certainly. In
reviewing the. honorable history OF the
Republican administration. the Sen
exposed the hypocrisy OF the
Democrats in Congress who talked ill.,
cessantly against taxes-yirtuously de-
plored the burdens laid oil the Shout
ders Of the. dear people; but whenever
the Republicans gave them an oppor-
tunity TO vote for reducing the taxes
and tightening the burdens, they inva-
riably to a man refused to put their
names Oh the record In favor Of the
measure. Senator Nye concluded his
neat speech amid u round Of cheers.