The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-11-23
THE ELKO INDEPENDENT.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER AZ. 1870.
How the Republican Party of Nevada Pay. it.
Expenses.

How tho Republican Party of Nevada Pay, il.
Expenses.
The remark of our Member of Congress
that the Republicans leave to the Democracy
"a bankrupt treasury and a ruined credit" is
proving correct in n more general sense than
the speaker, perhaps. intended. The State
treasury is not only bankrupt, but the treasu-
~ of the Republican State Central Committee
Is proved to be in n similar impecunious con-
dition; aud, judging from the indignant
protest Of the office-holders of California, the
credit" Of the Committee is suffering rs bad
ly rs the credit of the State. -
The office-holders of Nevada have been bled
blistered, and bleached, to pay election ex-
penses, but these applications have been in
sufficient; the managers have gone down to
the bottom of their pantaloons pockets for
''spondulics, " but they are not forthcoming.
The bills for attempting to corrupt the polls
have accumulated with frightful fecundity,
but the wherewithal has not increased in pro-
portion. The concern is bankrupt-bursted-
like the managers themselves and the organi-
cation they controlled. Hence, the fact to
which the San Francisco Bulletin aIludes in
the following extract:
But it is nevertheless true that levy has
been made in this city for the benefit of Ne
vada politicians, which has in some instances
been already paid under the belief TINT il was
ordered through the Republican Central Com
mittees of the two States. We learn positive
ly that formal written assessment was made
out against the officers and employees of the
Mint, every one of whom, from Superinten-
dent down to the colored porter, about seven
ty-hve in all, have been called upon to nav
sums ranging from 5000 to 81 80 each, on &C
count OF Nevada, by the first of December
so FAR as We can learn, the assessment extends
In n like manner to other Departments or has
been already collected therein. The officers
nave always been ready enough to subscribe
to the party fund i'll their own State, but they
regard this call from Nevada rs unfair if not
extortionate. Made under the pretense OF
official sanction by the State Central Com
mittee, 1t becomes swinde and an outrage.
and since the Committee have repudiated it,
we have no doubt that the further collection
of the levy will be resisted.
This throws little light on the manner in
which the late Republican party has hereto.
fore maintained itself in this State, in the
face of constant Democratic majority of the
people. The State has not only been bled to
death by onerous taxation, the treasury robbed
Of about $3.50, 900. the office-holders assessed
at the steepest rates, but California has been
called into requisition to assist to maintain
this bondage of the people of Nevada, and
sustain shameless aristocracy of ring-m
tiers. In this instance we have an assessment
lowed on the employees of the San Francisco
Mint, which the Sacramento Reporter esti.
mates at $4,000, an assessment which, il
collected Of all the officers there, would
amount to about 100000. What was this
100000 for? How much more WAS added
to this enormous corruption fund from this
State and from tho East? 1t is known
that immense sums were sent into sew.
eral States east from the Republican Cen.
trail Committee to carry them for the Rad
ical party, and particularly to elect Radical
Congressman. How much of that fund found
its way to Nevada is known better to certain
Radical politicians than to us. Perhaps the
money changers who sent four or five thous
and dollars to Elko county could throw some
light on the subject.
Secretary Cox was recently dismissed from
the Department of the Interior for refusing to
permit his clerks to be subjected to this arbi
trary tax. We shall now see whether the
employees in California. who exposed this at
tempt there, will receive any better treatment
from the Administration.