Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-24
TINE SENATORIAL ELECTION IN
NEVADA.

writing Of the coming Senatorial con-
test In Nevada, argues that the Demo.
Gratis have q fair prospect of electing
the successor of Senator Jones. We
believe the chances are about equal,
provided the Democrats can muster an
available candidate; and when we al
lude to availability, WI mean a man
who has the ''sinews of war; to over
come the Republican money which is
sure to be thrown in the fight at points
"where 1t will do the most good" We
have but one such man in the State.
Colonel Jim Fair has the money and
ability to make it uncomfortably
warm for Jones' or anybody else who
may enter the list on the other side.
With Uncle Jimmy to "put up" the
solid arguments the Democrats, most
probably, would sweep the State. With
out him the outlook is not at all fiattering
to Democratic hopes. 1t cannot be
successfully controverted that the bal
ance of power element in Nevada poll
tics is purchaseable. The political
parties being about evenly divided
there is not a county in the State that
cannot be thrown for either by the ex-
penditure of money at the polls. This
has come to be a settled fact in Senate
rial elections in Nevada, and nc matter
how zealously we may strive TO main
tain the original purity of the ballot
box, it is not likely that there will be
any change in the immediate future.
Hence the imam who reckons without
taking this important factor into The
calculation is very apt to figure wide OF
the mark. 1t Is safer to deal with mat
ters as we find them. guided by the
experience OF the past, and when we
do this with reference to our coming
Senatorial election, we cannot, for the
life of us, view the Democratic outlook
as being favorable to success. Uncle
Jimmy and his millions is the best
card we have. But it is not sure that
he will consent to become q candidate,
and 80 the chances of a Republican
succeeding Senator Jones [most likely
himself may be considered first-class.
or course there might be q grand re-
volt OF the laboring classes against
capital. resulting in a Democratic
ground swell; but at this early day
there are no visible evidences of such
a diversion to our ranks. On the con-
trary, the working men Of Nevada are
we'll contented, as they have a right to
be. They are secure in their wages, the
highest paid on the face of the globe,
and being we'll treated and highly re-
spected, there is among them a very
strong disposition to consult, in elec-
tons rs we'll as elsewhere, the inter
ests Of their employers. The miners
OF Nevada are largely Democratic. but
they are by no means so set in their
convictions as to support for Office q
man known to be inimicai to, If net
the avowed enemy Of, the mining
interests of the State, by and
through which we all earn
. livelihood, whether we delve in the
bowels of the earth for days wages or
supply with the necessaries of life
those who do. And herein lies n of
the most critical issues claiming atten-
ton In the ensuing campaign. Gov
ernor Bradley and his following seem
determined to plant the Democratic
party on ground antagonistic to The
leading industry of the Common.
wealth. If they succeed, the Republi-
cans will, of course, fight on the other
line. With this issue made, we would
not give ten cents for the chance of any
Democrat who may be placed on the
ticket. Anything that smacks of =
COW county policy as against the min
ing interests of the State will assuredly
TO down. as it ought. before the people
at the polls. No political party de.
serves to succeed, or 1.-Two for tn al
matter, which " not inclined to treat
every interest, industry and section
with equal and exact justice. Bonanza
kings and railroad monopolists have
rights which must be respected, just
the same As those OF the poorest man
In the land. A fair deal all around is
the true and only tenabie policy OF
every political organization. But to
return to the Chronicte correspondent.
We reproduce the following extract for
the purpose OF correcting an erroneous
impression which It seems to convey:
II will b remembered that hereto.
fore in the United States Senatorial
fights the Republicans have had . ma
tority of four or Eve Of the hold over
State Senators; but now IL is changed.
The Democrats have six to the Repub-
licau Eve of such Senators who will
vote for the successor OF J.. p. Jones At
the next session of the Legislature.
Among the five Republican hold overs
Il included Comins, Of White Pine.
who voted with the Democrats at the
last session Of the Legislature, helping
them to secure the organization Of the