Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-11-03

| The straight ticket, as printed at tne AffEAL
Office and authorized by the Central Com
mittee, is the only ticket that will be counted.
| THE POT BEGINS TO BOIL
| By about noon the froth began to thicken
and everybody began to take livelier inter-
est in matters. Although the saloons were
closed, there must have been here and there
retail dealer who forgot to securely fasten
his back door, and the men who came out Of
| alleyways wiping their chins were numerous A
man who was sitting quietly eating his dinner
at Mitchell's was accosted by half drunken
bully who came in and challenged him to
fight. Quietly finishing his meal, he rose and
sent right handler into the rough's face, de-
| livering the goods in excellent style. The
| man who was hit staggered back to the door
was thrown through by the brawny arm of
, the proprietor, and falling into the hands of
an adjacent policeman was lodged in Jail in
less than five minutes. One OF Fairs
"colony" from Virginia City began to play
the bully near the Ormsby House and was
badly mailed by colored man who he had
insulted Two teamsters got into an alterca-
ton near the railroad depot and one was hit
over the head with the butt of a whip and
knocked out of time. There were several
minor difficulties incidental to the day. ex-
element, but no atfrays of serious nature
took place and the crowd was in pretty good
humer all the while. Rival ticket peddlers
chatfed and jsked each other on the street cor
ners, and occasionally hot words would pass, but
some one would put in his oar. raise laugh
and the matter would end. About half past
8 o'clock, young timer who works for E. B.
Rail got into dispute with man on the
corner of Musser and Carson and was knocked
down. This was in the thick Of the crowd,
and some five hundred men collected in few
minutes, with about dozen anxious to take
q hand 1t took Eve men to hold the timer,
who was finally arrested.
MUSICAL EFFECTS.
The Democrats had four in hand driving
up and down the streets all day with a band.
The band played the ancient air, Marching
Through Georgia" 329 times by actual count,
and over 100 times in front of the French
Hotel Those who could be convinced by the
beating of a bass drum and the clashing Of
cymbals cast their votes for Hancock and
Fair.
THE RIFF RAFF VOTE.
Numbers Of idlers, hoedlums and hard
cases about town waited until after o'clock
before they considered v~ting proposition
at all. They evidently waited until the
mouth of the sack could be opened to cen
vince them as to the proper method of exer-
cising their suffrage. These floating" votes.
got taste Of Fairs sack along toward the
tail end Of the fight and accepted the ticket
circulated by Fairs men which bore a |
straight Republican head and was Democratic
as far as the Assembly nominees were con-
cerned. A scurrileus pamphlet of four pages
reached the city the night before election
signed by II. S. Symons, brother of Hum
phrey Symons which charged Judges Beatty
and Leonard with shielding the Pritchard
murderer 1t was an appeal to the Irish and
Cornish to vote against Beatty. 1t had no
effect whatever.
THE BETTING MARKET
Betting was very lively up to noon, when
it suddenly became furious. The Republi-
cans gave as rule 40 to 20 on New York and
found active takers. Money seemed plenty
and bets of 100 to 80 were in good demand
About ? o'clock The Democrats received a
telegram from thu National Central Com
mittee to the effect tina: New York City had
given Hancock ~, coo majority and the bet
ting was even after that. Jewett Adams
came into the crowd half an hour later with
$500 in cash and called for takers of any part
IF it. One hundre. was snapped up immed-
lately and as soon as it was 81 en- that he meant
business there was general desire manifest.
ed to relieve his rack. AT er the FIRST hun.
lred was taken, however, h suddenly disap-
peared and although score Of men were vo-
,iferating in the CT awd for .back at his pile
ne could not be found. Al .ut o'clock the
betting excitement was at high and sew
srai hundred persons were shouting them
selves hoarse and flashing their $40 pieces in
light. The democrats got all ths bets they
wanted and ere gradually drive FROM the
ield. They, aimed, howe r 1t they had
put up all til coin they ID ID only quit
because their 4rses gave OF There was q