The silver state., 1880-07-22


sworn testimony that she never owned,
received, or agreed to receive, any
stock of the Credit Mobilier or of the
Union Pacific Railroad, nor any divi-
dends or profits arising from either of
them" and the findings of Judge Po-
lands Committee, which reported him
as having agreed with Mr.. Ames to
take ten shares Of Credit Mobilier
stock, but did not pay for the same,
yet accepted check on the Sergeant
at Arms for balance of 1929 remain
ing after the stock had been paid for
out of the dividends declared on the
stock, it advocates the election of Gar
field to the Presidency. The Appeal,
however, unlike. nearly all, if not all,
the Garfield papers i'll Nevada, does not
believe in delivering the people OF Ne
vada, bound hand and foot, to the ten
der merces of the corporations. 1t
says the railroad companies are laying
ineir plans for the Fall campaign, and
their handiwork is made manifest in
both the State Conventions which met
III Nevada. 1t admits that their ma
nipulators are as active in the Republi
can as i'll the Democratic parties, and
that they have perfected more thor
ough organization than either political
party can boast of, a thoroughness
which comes of long experience and the
liberal use of coin. They are already
boasting that they can capture the Re
publican Convention soon to be held at
Carson, and it therefore sounds a note
Of warning.
This is commendable in a Republican
paper, and the Appeal deserves great
credit for it. We think, however, that
the intimation that the railroad manip-
ulators are no more active in shaping
the course Of the Republican party
than the Democratic party is not borne
out by the facts. Corporations do not
waste their coin on helpless minorities,
and conceding that the Democrats are
as susceptible to railroad influences as
the Republicans, the railroads could ex-
pcct no returns from coin invested for
the benefit of the Democratic party in
Nevada. There is nothing to denote
shat they spent dollar to elect Demo
Gratis to the late Legislature. That
body was Overwhelmingly Republican,
which is certain indication that the
coin invested in the election Of 1878
was for their benefit, as majorities in
Nevada are nearly always on the side
OF the heaviest purses. The Demo
Gratis. though only in a minority Of 500
in the whole State, elected but one
Senator and seven Assemblymen ont of
total Of Is members, including the
holdover Senator's That is a less rep
resentation in proportion to the num-
Der of votes polled by both parties than
ia given the Republicans in what are
called the "bulldozed Southern States, :"
yet the patrioric philanthropists, who
are SO deeply concerned about the stu
alton in the South, never express any
sympathy for the unrepresented minor
ity in Nevada. What object could
railroad manipulators' have in ex-
pending coin to control the machinery
0, a party which had but seven of the
fifty votes of the Lower House of the
Legislature? They could not pass
bill i'll favor of or against the reduction
Oh fares and freights, or of equalizing
taxation. though one of them-Senator
Creswell of Nye--introduced a bill and
urged its passage for the latter pur-
pose. No, Mr.. Appeal, that insinua-
tion amounts to nothing. Rest assured
that the corporations put their coin
where it will do the most good, as
Oskes Ames did his Credit Moblier
stock, and in Nevada, that is not in
Democratic Conventions.
Il would be worth while for both par
ties in Nevada to distinguish between
State and national politics in the ensu-
ing election, and elect the best man TO
legislative and local positions. Times