Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-09-17
A NEEDED REFORM.

some interest in the State legislature. Every
two years body of men meet at the Capitol,
spend several weeks wrangling over things of
small Importance or idle away their time for
big consideration and on returning home are
received with the curses of their constituents.
In some States to have been a member of the
Legislature is considered an honor. In Ne.
vada there is little attached to the position
hut its emoluments for which mercenary men
strive. Now and then men of brains and
capacity reach a seat in lat body, but such
accidents are not frequent. The Legislature
has become sort of hospital for decayed
politicians of both parties, or commonplace
men whom county conventions must throw
a sap te. Each county has it's scramblers for
place who are brought to the front by the
cannot be served, and the defeated, the dis
contented and sore headed must be given
something to keep them quiet, like a rattle
box to q peevish child. These men and their
chips and shavings and scrapings left after the
county convention has finished it's labors are
gathered up to make Legislative ticket of,
with few outside men sand witched in to do
the work of corporations and interested par
ties who have jobs to accomplish. When all
this refuse material is gathered together at
the Capitol the people are obliged to suffer
for the unwholesome legislation which follows.
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and the keen witted minority lead the dullard
majority by the nose. In the general con-
fusion few honest and capable men rise up
to make fight for the rights and wishes of
their constituents, but 60 down in the rush
of the herd for the trough of the corporations
and the Treasury of the State. Business men
and taxpayers growl because these things are
so when the fault is all their own. When
leading representative men who have large
interests at stake in the community and are
recognized as men of principle and intelligence
are asked to 60 on the Legislative ticket the
reply comes every time, "Of course l would
like to help the party, but l can't leave my
business" Most of the decent men who are
asked to run decline, and the result is that a
lot of cheeky, unprincipled place hunt
ers get on the ticket who have no
more idea of their duties than SO many
mules. Some of these men go with the most
honest intentions and try to do the fair thing
by their constituents, but are 30 hood winked
and befuddled by smarter men, that half the
time they have no we'll defined idea on
which side of question they are voting.
They are not unprincipled or corrupt men,
but simply irredeemaole muttonheads, This
is an important year, politically, in Nevada,
and the Republican party will be doing wise
thing to make a careful selection of the best
timber of its Legislative ticket. The people |
have right to know just how every candidate
for the Legislature stands, on Sharon and the
railroad. There may be counties in the State |
where majority of the people favor Sharon |
;or reelection and are friendly toward the
railroad corporations. If such a feeling re-
,ults in the square election of Sharon and |
.ailroad delegates, no ore can complain, 80
ong as these men vote according to the |
wishes of their constituents expressed at the
ballot. box. Amy man who goes before the
people declining to define bis position on
hese questions squarely and unequivocally,
8 a rotten stick and should be cast aside.
The Republican party should heed the lesson
f 1873, and experience should teach it to
make more careful selection of its Legisla.
i've ticket. The people as mass are anti
sharon, and where Legislative ticket is put
p which has suspicion of Sharon influence
onnected with it, it largely increases the
hances of Democratic majority in the
legislature.
In Nut SHELL.--In the course of o recent
peech Garfield said
Hereis another monumental black tomb
nd beside it, as our distinguished friend said,
mere towers to the sky a monument of four