Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1880-12-09

/ mated In SharOns interest. The election of
this ticket would insure Mr.. Sharons election.
1t would give him IA Assemblymen and 2
Senators. There are 10 Republican hold-over
Senators out of total of IA. Qrmsby
County was sure for the Republicans; Mr..
Sharons agents had never failed to carry
White Pine. Eureka and Lyon Counties
were naturally Republican. and other coun-
ties could be carried with little work. II
was all plain sailing, and if Col. Fair had not
\ appeared on the scene, Mr. Sharon would have
had walk-over. He would have had be-
yond question votes as follows: ,.. -..
| Storey County, .... ,...... 81. . 16 si
| Hold.over Senators, IS
| Ormsby County,
| White Pine County, 5
| Necessary to elect, ... 38 y,
And would have been sure of votes from
other counties. This was the situation of af-
| fairs when Fair appeared in the contest 1t
had long been known that COL Fair had Sen.
atorial aspirations He was not known as a
partisan, and doubt if there is man IN the
| State who ever heard him discuss politics, or
could state positively as to his party member
| ship. However, such part as be had taken in
politics had always been in favor of the Re-
| publican party, and it was naturally presumed
that his predictions leaned to that side. At
the time of the Storey County primaries he
was homeward bound on his trip around the
world. The strong position obtained by Sem
ator Sharon shut off all chance for Col. Fair to
come in as a Republican candidate. The
Democrats were casting about for candidate
| for United States Senator-one who had the
| means to enable him to shoulder their party
and carry the fight-and they fixed on COL
Fair. Letters were written to Chairman Bar.
hEyl NkNS IN
| endeavor to induce the Col to ''stand in,'
and on Col. Fairs arrival at New York he was
| waited on by Barnum and other members of
| the National Committee and urged to run for
| Senator. The appeals prevailed, and.before
| his departure from New York it was known
| throughout this State that Col. James G.. Fair
was the Democratic candidate for the United
States Senator. This put an entirely differ
ent complexion on the face of political affairs
and caused the Republicans to feel nervous
and anxious. The influence of the bonanza
firm had heretofore been all on the side Of, the
Republicans, and here was one of its members
Democratic candidate for United States
Senator'S nan of such determined will that
he was never known to leave q stone unturned
| to accomplish an object which he had set out
| to attain, besides being the possessor of prac-
tically unlimited wealth and power. John
w. Mackay is member of the Republican
National Committee, a strong partisan, and as
ardent Republican as lives The candidacy
of his partner, Col. Fair, placed him in an
embarrassing position-his Republicansm on
one side and his friendship and business rela-
tions arrayed on the other. 1t must be said of
Mr.. Mackay that he came out Of this trying
position with credit, and that he was true to
his party, with the single exception that he
| assisted in the election of the Fair Legisla-
tive ticket.
The campaign being opened, Col. Fair en-
tered upon the contest with the vigor and de-
termination which are his distinguishing
characteristics. He supplied estate Central
Committee with ample funds, visited in per-
son nearly all the principal counties, and took
care that the exchequers of all the county
committees were plentifully supplied with
coin. The Democracy of Nevada were never
before in such position to make strong
| fight, and they made the most Of it. The
Bonanza firm controls nearly all the leading
mines of the Comstock, in which it employs q
sufficient number of voters to constitute the
balance of political power in the State, and it
was only natural that its employees, from Su-'
| perintendent down, should desire the success
| of Col. Fair. Mr.. Sharon saw at the start that
| to attempt to stem the tide would be useless
| Knowing the great power and resources pos
sessed by Fair, he saw that 1t would be only q
waste of money and energy to attempt to
| combat them. The mines now controlled by
| Senator Sharon are few in number, and there
| was not in his employ during the election 10
per cent. of the number of men employed by
| Fair. Mr.. Sharon was savagely assailed by
/ the Democratic press. He was charged with
non-residence, absenteeism from the Senate,
and employing Cinnamon ON the railroads in
! which he is interested AS to Col. Fair the
Republican press were silent, or If they spoke
| at all it was in weak, uncertain tone, and
not one Republican paper attacked him Wig
orously. ..
The result could easily be forseen, and the
| Republicans allowed the State to 60 by default.
| The Democrats carried every county in the
State but two on their Legislative ticket and
all but three on the Electoral ticket. The
two exceptions were Ornsby and Eureka
| Counties. Inithe latter,' the Democratic can
didate for Congress, the Hon. George W..
Cassidy. made personal fight. The county
| is his home, and he knocked the Democratic
1 ticket right and left to carry the county for
| himself. He was supplied lliberally with mon-
ey by Col. Far. and he usesi it to the best ad-
! vantage, the consequence being that while the
county gave Garfield about 20 majority, Cas-
/ sidy carried it by. over 400 The Legislative
| ticket was in the interest of Wren, and by
hard work the Republicans elected the State
Senator and three out of the four Assembly,
1 men. 81. $50. 70 So Z" E. at. i.
THE NEXT SENATOR.
| The next Legislature of this State win
stand thus :si1ff 7aa ~ fa
tsi9 Senate. House. Z
Republicans, sau lsJ IS 7zHa
| Democrats, aa@ 10, 343 as,e
| 4Hg4s -tai = uoies 5,i +-rHi - u
| Total, ,yg4s 4 >3.,tta 25 90 l.,l3
Democratic majority on joint ballot, 81 p,
! There can be scarcely question that should
James g. Fair live till the meeting of the Leg
islature be win be chosen United States Sem
ator to succeed the Hon. William Sharon, and
| therefore, hurried sketch of the gentleman
may be appropriate. 4. 80,
Col. James g. Fair was born id the North
1 of Ireland, in the year 1881, and came with
! his parents to the United States in 1S43, his
parents settling in Illinois. In 1849, on the
breaking out of the California gold fever,
/ Fair, then lad of IS, joined the adventurous
| throng and wended his way to the land Of
! geld to seek bis fortune. And he found it.
! Immediately on his arrival in California be
1 entered upon the pursuit of mining, following
| it with the varying success attendant upon
| gold mining until $780,, In that year occur
red the great Washoe silver mining excite