Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-09-12

| Where Does all the Central Committed
Money 60 "
There seems to be disposition or
the part of the press this year to de-
mand fair share of the campaign fund.
A we'll put article in the Reno Gazette,
headed +" Campaign Burdens" says:
OF the immense sums spent for legit-
innate expenses by every party, COM
paratively small portion goes to the
press, and yet the papers fill their col
umns six times week with strictly
party matter, and exert all their in
fiuence, built up 10y years of labor and
the use of thousands of dollars of capital.
In doing so they arouse opposition
and endanger their prosperity.
This strikes the key note of princi-
pie that political parties are slow to ac-
knowledge. The APPEAL from time to
time has called attention to the reckless
waste of the campaign fund, and will
continue so to do until the reform is ac-
complished. The papers all over the
State both Democratic and Republican
have been the tail of the political kite
for the last twenty years. y good many
uEscientific minds think that the tail of
a kite is simply a lot of papers tied
along a string for ornamental purposes.
All right, but take the tail off and
where does your kite go? To support
the argument it may be well to quote
little history. At one time the Central
Committee sent $4,000 cash to a man in
an Eastern county to pay him for taking
the stump. The orator lost $4,000 at
faro the day he got the money, while
the county paper in the same town,
which had been making a hot fight
for the ticket all through the campaign
sent in bill for $3.50 and got it reduced
to $3.50. The publishers expenses for
extra printers, paper, ETC., for the cam
paiyn was $3.50. Total loss for the
$50. Two years ago the
APPEAL got $l1O from the Central
and extra expense during
the campaign was over 5000 cash.
Some of the Central Committees have
spent more for whisky, buggy hire, and
gorgeous rooms than was paid for all
the newspapers combined. This is not
only a shameless waste and eXtrava-
,ance, but bad policy. Public speakers
get big slice of the campaign fund,
md most of them absolutely refuse to
.oot horn until they are paid all ex-
oenses and round sum in advance. In
he next campaign they come up and
demand fat offices on the ground that,
6 Two years ago l stumped this State
It my own expense, etc" A good many
If these men have received nomina- |
ions on this very proposition. Yet as far
IS anybody's knowledge goes, these
spouters never drew vote
rom the other side. Would all the
,ratory of Tom Fitch make a Dem |
rat vote the Republican ticket? or
would all the clever arguments of Cen
raj Kittrell cause DETECTION of one !
,ote from the Republican ranks? Is
here any stump speaker in Nevada
Who ever made campaign for glory or
he good of his party? Papers of both
political compilations this year are ask
ng for just recognition oftheir services
n the campaign, and they demand at
east to be placed on an equality with
he rest of the cogs, levers and wheels
n the political machine, instead of be-
ng treated like Old Mother Hubbard's
log, alluded to in the rare old epic:
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor dog bone,
But when she got there
The cupboard was bare,
And SO the poor dog had none.
To the Public.