Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-25
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND
MR. SHARON.

Under this head the Virginia Chronicle
reads the Republican party of Nevada 4
truthful lesson. We sre not yet certain
that the California millionaire viii be 5
candidate. We have no donbt that he
would ike a reelection. but We have an
idea that when be comes to consider the
question, in connection with the great per-
sonal struggle it viii involve, he viii quiet
ly step down and out contenting himself,
perhaps, with naming his successor Should
it transpire. however. that he is a candi-
date, then the s~ubjoined article. from the
Chronicle, will be found especially ap-
propos:
The Republicans Of Neyada eve it TO the
State, and to themselves, to ~repudi2re
William Sharon, at their next State Con-
yention.
They sent this man to the United States
Senate. He has held the seat for more
than five years
What has he done. during that long
period?
He'has not been in his seat five weeks
during five years.
He has not been in Nevada five weeks
during the uFe years.
He has lived in California and taken no
more interest in Nevada than If he were
Mayor Of San Francisco, and had never
seen this State.
In the words Of General Grant Mr..
Sharon lives in California. votes in Ne
vada, and carries the State in his vest
pocket"
He has utterly neglected his public duties
and has no. thought Nevada sufficiently
concerned to even offer an apology for, or
explanation Of his conduct.
Every other State in the Union has had
two representatives in the United States
Senate. Nevada has had but one.
Mr.. Sharon was elected by the Republic
can party Of this State. The Republican
party, therefore, owes it to the people of
Nevada and to its W self-respect 10 dis
claim as far as it may responsibility for the
indifference and contempt with which this
man has treated the people who honored
him with the highest Office in their gift.
If the next Republican Convention does
not openly and strongly condemn the course
Of Mr.. Sharon and proclaim to the people
that the party will have no more OF him,
then it will be certain that the ~wire-pullers
and sack-bearers of the Republican party,
and not b voting rank and file. have con-
troll of the Convention.
There can be no doubt that Sharon's
money is ail-powerful with the engineers Of
the Republican machine in this State.
His open boast that he is sure Of ~re-elec-
ton, and that he knows better than any
other aspirant for the Office how to use
money" shows that Mr.. Sharon is Of the
same mind ON this point as ourselves.
But we do not like to believe that the
mass OF Republican voters of Nevada will
permit such a disgrace to fall upon the
State as the reelection Of Mr.. Sharon to
the Senate would be. He can be reelected
only by the most wholesale purchase Of
votes. Without money he would never
have been heard Of, for he has no ability
except such as belongs TO the average pawn
broker. Bad as Nevada's name is, we
cannot believe that the Republican voters
of the State are so los. 70 2 sense Of shame
as to advertise themselves to the country
as a characterless and degraded mob, will |
ing to sell their votes to the highest bidder.
Mr.. Sharon's reelection would prove be-
yond any reasonable doubt hat the Repnb-
licans OF Nevada are such a mob.
II, as is probable, the machine captures
convention, and Mr.. Sharon is not re-
pudiated, then it will remain for the Re
publican voters to ~repudiate at the polls
both MI. Sharon and the machine.