Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-21
THE SACK IN NEVADA.
All Right for Republicans. But
DeviIish Wicked for Democrats.

The Wiunemucca Silver State publishes
the following:
The Reno Gazette, in a spasm of virtu-
JUS indignation, deprecates the sack" asa
means Of carrying elections in Nevada, and
advises the Democratic legislators to make
Fair buy their votes to secure his election.
That Nevada is a ''rotten %burrough," no
one conversant with its politicians, and the
in which many OF them have Sc
cured high offices. no one will dispute. 1t
is safe to say that no United States Sen
ator has ever been elected in Nevada with
out a liberal expenditure of coin. In the
early days Of the State, Nye and Stewart
spent money lavishly to secure the prize,
and that, too, when no Democrat aspired
to the position, as there were not more
than two or three members of that party
in the Legislature. In 1872 hundreds OF
thousands of dollars were expended for
the Senatorship of Nevada. Twelve men
engaged in mining in Churchill county,
were paid S720 for their votes. and those
men say the money was given them by the
Judge Of the District Court. The Silver
State gave details of the transaction at the
time, and asked the Legislature to prefer
articles of impeachment against the Judge,
whose name was given in full; but the vir-
tuous press of the State said the truly
good members OF the Legislature never
once referred to the matter. In the Re-
publican State Convention, held at Carson
last fall. W. w. Bishop, of Eureka, boosted
that he had bought Democratic votes at
every election in Nevada, aud advised the
delegates to follow his Example. We have
no recollection of the virtuous Reno Ga
zette, or any other Republican paper in Ne
vada, expressing d%isapproval OF the senti-
ment; on the contrary, Mr.. Bishops pa
triotism was applauded TO the echo by
the representatives Of the party of
great moral ideas, and the speech OF Mr..
Bishop was reported approvihgly IN many
of the Republican papers of Nevada.
We do not doubt that money was spent
in the recent election by both Republicans
and Democrats, bnt il was the first time in
the history of the State that the Democrats
had any money to spend for election pur-
poses. 1t may be u grievous ofense, in the
opinion Of the Gazette and other journals,
for Fair, or any other Democrat, to do in
1880, what Republicans have been doing
since Nevada was admitted into the Union;
but Ia expanding money FOR election pur-
poses, he was only following the nlnstrious
example Of Stewart, Nye, Jones and Shar-
on. But it is not the expenditure OF any
money by Fair. but the failure to do so by
sharon, that has so enraged the Republi-
can press of the State, and makes them
cry out against the 'sack" in politics
which, so long az it was used for their BEN
eft, they never once thought of condemn
ing. Now, let the Legislature pass string
ent laws against the use of money in poll
cs-on that can be enforced against all
those who Offer to buy votes, and which
will forever disfranchise the buyer and the
seller, that the politics of the State may be
purified, and that men who are not mil
iionaires. though otherwise we'll qualified
for the position, may aspire to the United
Ssstss SsuASs wiAh s0me boys W success.