Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-02-15
carson Appeal. February III

carson Appeal, February Ill
Already the excitement regarding the fall
election is beginning to simmer, and poll
ticiabs are putting the claims of their
favored candidates to the fore. The United
States Senatorship naturally takes prece-
dence in this State. At present William
Sharon's name is the most prominent, from
the fact that a certain class OF men, who do
the low work Of political campaigns, are
anxious to see a Sharon fight made. A
Sharon fight means plenty OF money dis
tributed through pot houses, places Of com
mon resort, and among the ~riff-raff Of both
parties, who stand ready at all times to sell
their votes for coin. 1t means lively times,
an exciting campaign, bribery, corruption,
and political m~endacity OF the vilest sort.
During that time these hungry buzzards,
who hang about such scenes, will dip their
beaks in the putrid mass and gorge them
selves with their first square meal for two
years. The Belcher development is part of
the Sharon programme. The indications
now creating such an excitement In the Bel
cher mine were known more thar a year ago,
and nave been carefully saved up for a min
ing and political boom next fall. When the
campaign fairly opens the strike will be
considered OF sufficient importance to put
seven or eight hundred men at work in the
mine, all of whom are expected to vote the
Sharon ticket. After the election Sharon
and his crowd will unload the stock at fig
ures which will about pay the expenses of
the campaign, and the next assessment
levied after the unloading) will pay for
extra and useless work. The smaller mines
under Sharon's control will carry out q
similar plan. Thus Sharon will foist him.
self upon the people Of Nevada as a repre-
sentative, against their consent, and heap
additional insult upon them by actually
compelling them to foot the bills.
The talk about putting MoDgolian labor
on the Bodie extension is another card in
Sharon's hand. Superintendent Yerington
has no idea of employing Cinnamon, and
he is as well aware as anybody that the
Miners Union will not allow it. When the
time comes gangs OF Sharon's voters will
be set to work. His last campaign was
carried in Nevada by the expenditure of
vast sums of money although he was per-
s%onally unpopular with the people. To-day
Sharon has not a dozen real friends among
the honest voting population of the State.
Since he has held the high Office of United
States Senator be has SO persistently ne
elected the interests of his constituents
that his friends have fallen of, and his
only followers now left are the men who
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double dealing with the Legislature in the
famous Ophir transaction will not soon be
forgotten. He spent thousands Of dollars
in some counties only to carry them by
bare majorities, and reach the Senate by a
close call. After making a disgraceful
record for himself and earning the con-
tempt of the people, he comes up again for
their s~uffrages.
Taking all the factors Of the game into
consideration, the change in public senti-
ment, his dead aand buried popularity,
his disrespect shown for the people he
should serve and their utter contempt for
him, it cannot be figured down but that
Sharon's next fight will cost him at least
four times as much as his previous one did.
He does not to-day know who are his
friends or his enemies. The length Of his
sack alone determines that, and the only
man on earth he can really count on as
loyal is his poor, despised Chinese servant,
Alb XII.