Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-13
SEN1TOR JAMES q. FKTK:

The people OF Nevada are " 70 WI"
graduated on their choice OF a United
States Senator at the last election.
Everything goes to show that senator
Fair is the right man in the right place.
He is a true representative OF the peo-
nle and the peoples interests. And above
all he is a slayer. He gives all OF his
time to his official duties. In this re-
spect his course is in refreshing contrast
with that of others who have pretended
to represent our State in the upper
House of Congress during the past eight
or ten years. Soon after his election he
went on to the extra session, and re-
NAMED in Congress as long as his pres
ence was required. On the assembling
of Congress in regular session last De-
eember he was again i'll his seat on time,
and from all appearances he is likely to
remain at his post until the dog days.
Mr.. Cassidy, in a private letter to the
editor of the SENTINEL, referring to the
status of Nevada matters in Congress, and
speaking pleasantly and approvingly OF
Senator Fair, says: "He tFairl has not
been absent from his seat a day, posi-
blv rot an hour, since Congress con-
yened." Mr.. Cassidy further bears tes-
timony that the Senator sis a splendid
worker on the floor of the Senate as well
as in committees, and always devotes
time and attention to the most tritiing
requests from any of his constituents.
He has a marvellous adaptability for get
ting facts and statistics concerning every
conceivable question pending in Con-
press, and when the roll is called no man
votes more und~erstandingly than the
Junior Senator from Nevada. He has
not made many speeches yet, except be-
fore the committees land that Is really
the place where members most impress
their ideas upon the legislation OF the
country); but one of these days, when a
proper occasion shall arise, it is not I'M
likely that Senator Fair will astonlsh
the country with the breadth and thor
oughness of his practical knowledge and
the strength and soundness OF his logic
as applied to the true functions OF gov
eminent and the wants of the people
from whose ranks he has sprung by the
force of his indomitable will and energy"
These are high words OF praise, and all
the better, because the SENTINEL is salts
fed they are deserved. Senator Fair
evidently took with him to the Senate
the motto that a thing that is worth do
ing at all is worth doing well. All In.
formation from Washington goes to prove
that the Senator, by his courteous and
genial manner, coupled with his close ap'
plication to business, has built up, during
his brief career, a commanding influence
in the body of which he is a member. He
has an irresistible way Of slipping loca
measures through that would do credi
to the oldest of legislative stagers. 1t il
quite apparent that our Senator and Con
gresham understand each other we'll anC
always,pull together in the most perfec
harmony in everything concerning Ne
vada. They look out for each other
bills and other matters in their respec
tive houses, and altogether make abou
as effective a team as could we'll be fount
to represent a State. The people of Ne
vada have no cause to be Dissatisfied
with Fair and Cassidy.