Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-09-05
AN UNBIASED OPINION.


HOW SHARON Is LOOKED uPoN N WASHINGTON.
The Washington Evening Star Of August
2Sth, has the following. 1t 10 an opinion
from the newspaper which has the largest cir
cul~tion Of any journal published 1T the Cap
i. oil Of the United States. 1t IL Republican
IN politics and the view it takes of the politi
cal situation in this State, is Of all the more
weight from the fact that it 10 unbiased by
any If the local pr-judicss apt to influence
Nevada papers. 1t says:
E.stern people not familiar with the peliti.
Cal situation III Nevada are at y loss to under.
stand how the people Of that State allow
themselves to BIZ msrepresented or rather
not represented At all, by a Senator who du-
ring his whole term, scarce makes prete nee
uf cunning 10 Warrington. The mystery Ut
tile matter Is fur, her Increased when 1t is an
nounced that Mr.. Sharon, whose chair in the
Senate has thus been Vacant for SIX years
wh,ie he has occupied himself with his bust
ness at .irs in San Francisco, is a Candidate
,or re-eiec,iun. 1t is not pretended that his
business is IN \ shape to allow hun to attend
to Senatorial duties any better in the future
than he has III the past. He has still that
huge elephant, the Palace Hotel In San Fran
CISCO, Oh his shoulders, together with other
unremuneratlve hotel properties in that city
aud must Continue to make his home there to
look after them in order to save himself from
financial loss. Yet he has the assurapce to
announce that he Is candidate for re, elect ion,
or rather that no Proposes TO elect himself
again to represent the people Of Nevada as U.
-, Pnt th.,a
quiry may bs made how Sharon with his pres
ent financial load will be able to raise the
,nonsy-the half million dollars named rs the
sum requisite for his reelection. The answer
is that he is not crippled but that he can
command good deal of motley ON occasion,
but it is intlmated that his tactics will be in
the direction Of making the stockholders i'll
various mines in which he is concerned, pay
his election expenses. His plan, it is SAID,
will be to put large force Of men at work i'll
these mines, about election time or rather
about the time of the primary meetings,
digging worthless rsck, and these men
are to be used as voting material to
carry the nominating conventions, and the
legislature that is to re-. elect him. 1t may
seem strange that an operation of that sort
carried on in two or three mines should con-
troll the voice Of the whole State, but i: must
be remembered that the population of Ne.
vada is mostly confined to the mining towns.
There is nothing like farming community
throughout the State, such as in other States
supplies an Offset to the unwholesom-, market
able votes Of the cities. The situation, there
fore, in Nevada is exceptionally favorable for
the purposes of any bonanza king who wants
to use the State q sort of pocket borough.
Still there is q spirit Of revolt in the State
against the Sharon riff raft rule that may over
throw it. This feeling finds . voice more es-
pecially at Carson City, which has q mere
thoughtful, self respecting citizenship than
seine Of the mining towns, and is less suscep-
tible to the sway of the bonanzs bosses. But
there are men of character all over Nevada
who chafe at having the State made by werd
throughout the country as ready to sell it's
vote to the highest bidder. 1t is felt that Ne
vada has men of first class ability, who could
make the State respected in the United States
Senate, but who, under the present money
allowed to come to the front. This party of
licans Of the State, and though in this Presi
Dental year Mr.. Sharon will probably claim
the united vote of the party as the price of
his material aid to the electoral ticket, still it
is doubtful if the disafected ones can be in
duced to come into the traces even by this
1t is within the possibilities
that should the Republican party make this
alliance the disgust of the indie.
pendents would show itself in a union with
The Democrats to get rid Of the Sharon rule at
any cost, even of the loss of the State TO Gar
ield