The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-11-22
BUYING vorEs.

It has been openly charged in the
Eureka papers that money was used in
that town on election day in buying
VOTES. It is slso .noissd about that a
certain prominent politician of that
town kept an Office open within easy
distance of the polls on election day,
where tickets and greenbacks could be
procured by all who desired them upon
- condition that while the greenback
~s went isto the pocket of the voter, the
voter should place the ticket which &C.
r, eompanied it in the ballot box. 1t is
said that the gentleman did lively
business, and that some two or three
q. hundred men who disgrace the name OF
American citizens. procured tickets and
greenbacks at the office. Now Grand
Jury has been empannelsd in Eureka,
and Judge Rives IN charging the jury
as to its duties uses the following
language:
The practice of buying votes, as it
50 Is called, had become so open notorious
u
1873 endeavored to put check upon it
by passing this ample and exhaustive
Act against it. This has now been in
operation for FIVE years without single
conviction under it. although the venal
practice is all the while continued So
far from there having been conviction.
there has never been a siogle iudict-
ment presented. The people not only
are ioe1,.y Of the inactivity of the OFF
GERS OF the law, in this connection. bat
e are rightfully becoming aLdrns5d at the
probable results. unless those who have
the means and turpitude to purchase
mp the venal and debased. are at once
rebnked and punished. Neither re
buke nor punishment can be admin
lstered to those deserving of both. un.
less Grand Jury can be found fear
less. faithful and energetic enough to
hunt down these corruptionists; who
are not only law breakers. bat Misrts
Vt the liberties of the people. | am re-
quired by the statutes to charge you on
this subject, aud my only regret is that
r-.. feel myself really unable to do The
- subject Justice. but relying upon your
2utegrlty, your Jud smsnt and houest
desire to do your whole duty, conjnre
you to pursue your inquiries on this
subject with zeal. energy aud fearless.
kess. Let no feelings of friendship
political or personal. influence you in
abe least degree from your duty under
your oaths. and as good citizens. Spare
no man whom Won may fiud to have
committed an offenss under the law.
Self-presersation demands that this
matter should be thoroughly invesia,
gated. check placed upon the prac-
ttce, and an example made of the
guilty. Until such is. done neither the
nights OF persons nor property is safe
from the results OF such dangerous aud
unlawful acts.
The Judge farther states that he does
not believe there is a sane man in the
community but who feels morally Ger.
ssin that offsnses of the character to
which he refers haze been committed,
and that he might call at ention to par.
sicular cases, and persons whom uni.
versai report connect with these mat
sers, were it not for the fear of doing
shnocsnt men great harm. He express.
ss the hope that the Jury will investi.
gate the matter carefully and Impair
tally. and inclines to the belief that
men OF both political parties have been
equally guilty of violating the law
Surely this jury ought to determine be-
You'd doubt whether Eurek. has within
hts limits. as has been charged by both
papers. she boss corruptionists of the
state.