Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-04-18
MR.. LEWIS CARD.

In response to an invitation extended by
the APPEAL Mr.. Lewis to-day publishes a
card in which he endeavOrs to explain why he
voted against the primary test. He advocates
allowing the test prescribed by the State Cen
trail Committee to govern the voting at the
Republican primaries aud says ...
Any ether course would disfranchlse nearly
one half If the Republican party at all pr.
maries, an outrage, III my view, that would
drive them into any organization that prom
ised redress We cannot afford this, and
besides. this petty warfare is cripping our
influence and rendering us contemplate
throughout the State. ....-.--... b.
The test prescribed by the State Central
Committee will have precisely the same effect
in shutting out the boilers as the County
Committees will have.
Can any man who voted the Dolly Warden
ticket in the last election vote at the Repub-
Gcan primaries on the 9th of this month |!
. Not one.
The test requires the voters at the primar
les to have voted the Republican ticket, not
part of it, and this test practically shuts out
all of the men who at the last election threw
themselves into the arms of the V. & I. r.
r. Co. and the Democracy.
Let us review the causes of the "unfortun-
ate split" to which Mr.. LIE wis refers.
There was a certain clique of men who went
into the primaries with ticket which was
badly beaten. The sore heads got together
and proposed to organize bolt. They soen
found people who needed them. ID. NJ Yer
ington and the Democrats wanted them for a
special purpose. They took them into their
service and used them as they fit.
What have the boilers got now to show for
their work.
They expected to get hand in the organ
ization of the Democracy. Let us see just how
far they succeeded in that The Central Com
mittee of the Citizens party is as follows:
Warren Wassen, Chairman, (Dem.).
S. Longabaugh (Dem.).
M. Hogan Dem.)
j. C. Ogden (Dem).
Matt Rinckle (Dem.) deceased.
The bolt defeated the Republican party of
Ormsby county, and the men who without
cause OfSdHlLeu LH&J Doll, dSh " DO "io"Oo
to come back as trusted members of the party
and be allowed to play the same game of
treachery AGAIN.
The leaders of the movement were tools IN
the hands of the DemOcratcs and the railroad
and they knew it, The rank and file have
since realized the fact, and the ma iority openly
avow their intention to vote the straight ticket
next fall. The Republican party of this
county has adopted the same means to punish
traitors that is used all over the United States.
To let such unreliable material have a voice
in party council would be the hei ght of felly.
What assurance has any one that the same
trickery that defeated the purity once will not
again be at work! A minority which seeks to
rule or ruin is not to be trusted any where,
and it will not be in this instance.
This hue and cry against the primary test is
being raised by men who have no business
modelling in any way with the Republicaa
party. The cry emanates from the V. & L. r.
Office and is uttered through an evening news
paper which has never had any journalistic or
political status in this State Neither the
master nor the servant is entitled to vote
in the United States of America.