Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-26
Nevada Politics.

Eastern people hOt FAMILIAR Win the political
situation In Nevada are at a loss TO understand
how the people OF that state allow themselves
to be nisrepTesented. or rather not represented
al all, by Senator who during his whole term,
scarce makes pretence OF coming to Washing
ton The mystery OF the matter is further In
creased when it is announced that Mr.. Sharon
whose Chair in the Senate has thus been vacant
for six years While he has occupied himself with
bis business affairs In San Francisco, IS a candi-
date Tor reelection. 1t Is not pretended that his
business Is Ia o shape TO allow him to attend to
senatorial duties any better In the future than
be has In the past. He has still
that huge elephant, the Palace Hotel in
San Francisco, on his shoulders, together with
other unremuneTative hotel properties In that
City ard IGust continue to make hts home there
TO look alter them in order TO save himself from
financial loss. Yet he has the assurance to
announce that he is a candidate for reelection.
Or rather that he proposes to elect him eff
again TO represent the people OF Nevada as U. S
SenatOr,-in San Francisco! But the enquiry
may be made how Sharon with his present
financial load viii be able TO raise the money
the half million dollars named as the sum
requisite tor his reelection. The answer Is
that be Is lot so crippled but that he Can com
maId good deal of money On occasion, but il
Is intImaed that his tactics win be In the direc-
ton OF making the stockholders In various
mines in which he is concerned, pay his election
expenses Ills plan, it Is said, Will be TO put
large force OF men az work In these mines about
election time. or rather about the time of the
primary meetings, digging worthless rock, and
these nen are to be used as voting material to
carry the nominating conventions, and the
legislature that Is 10 reflect him. 1t may seem
strange that an operation OF this sort carried
on In two or three mines should control the
voice or the whole state but 1t must be remem-
bered that the population OF Nevada Is mainly
confined 10 the mining towns. There Is nothing
Ike a farming community throughout the state,
such as IN other states supplies an Offset to the
unwholeSOme, marketable vote OF the cities. The
situation, therefore. In Nevada is excep-
ttonally favorable for the purposes OF
any bonanza king who wants to use
the state as a sort OF pocket borough
Still there is a spirit OF revolt in the state
against the Sharon rif-raff rule that may over
throw It. This feeling finds a voice more eS-
peciany at Carson City. which has a more
thoughtful, self-reSpeCtiGg citizenship than
some OF the mining towns, and is less susceptible
to the sway OF the bonanza bosses. But there
are men OF character all over Nevada who
cbafe at having the state made by-word
throughout the country as ready to sell its
vote to the highest bidder. It is felt that
Nevada has men OF first class ability, who could
make the state respected In the United States
Senate, but who, under the present money
bag rule, have no earthly chance Of ever
being allowed to come to the 'front.'
Tbs party OF revolt includes very many OF the
best republicans OF the state, and though In this
presidential 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
dueed TO come into The traces even by this con
sideration. IL Is within the possibilities that
should the republican party make this disrepu
table alliance the disgust Of the Independents
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 Garfield.