The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1882-10-23
rive CHAPTERS OF DESIALs.

to deny each and every material aliega-
ton in the complaint. whether the
charges be well founded or not. Act
ing on this principle, the Virginia
Enterprise prints two chapters OF deni-
ais, in which it says: That it is not
owned by the Virginia & Truckee Rail-
road Company; that J. w. Mackay and
William Sharon are the principal stock
owners in the Enterprise Publishing
Company; that it does not attempt to
attract attention from the railroad
question; that the Nevada Legislature
of 1881 was not Democratic, and that
the Democrats in the Legislature were
not responsible for the legislation of
that session; that bill passed at that
session for the expenditure of public
money in aid of sectarian school was
unconstitutional, and that it is not a
valid statute to-day; aud that Mr..
Laughton, tine Republican nominee for
Lieutenant Governor and Auditor of
Mr.. Sharon's railroads, If elected, will
not, by virtue Of his Office as President
of the Senate, appoint all the Commit
tees in 5hat body.
This is formidable array of denials,
but with one exception, and that is a
standing rule of the Senate, the denials
are not supported by single fact to
substantiate their truth. The general
belief is, that William Sharon, whom
the Enterprise admits is one of it's prin-
cipal owners, is largely interested in
the Virginia & Truckee and Carson &
Colorado Railroads, and in strict justice
to the Enterprise, it must be conceded
that for years it has labored assiduous-
ly to prove that its ownership and that
of those roads are identical. This was
so apparent that the Carson Index, an
anti-monopoly Republican paper, fire.
quently cautioned the party early in
the present campaign to beware of the
Enterprise and other papers in Western
Nevada, which were endeavoring to
make Republicanism subservient to the
railroad interests. Its denial OF the
charge that it is endeavoring to attract
attention from the question OF reducing
rates on those roads by raising false
issues, is controverted by its own COL
umns, which have been devoted almost |
exclusively to the school question since |
the State Conventions assembled. 1t
flies in the face of the record when it |
denies that the Act for the expenditure |
OF public money in aid OF a sectarian |
school was not passed by Republicans
as well as Democrats, as the Senate
which passed that bill and the Gov
ernor who signed it were Republican,
and it seems to be oblivious of the fact
that not cent of tine money could be
used for the purposes specified in the
Act, for the simple reason that the
Constitution prohibits the use of the
public funds for sectarian purposes.
And now as to the last denial
OF the Enterprise, that Mr.. Laugh
ton, who is Auditor of the Virginia
& Truckee and Carson & Colorado Rail-
roads, will not, if elected, as Presi.
dent of the Senate, appoint all the
Committees in that body. In support
of this denial, it asserts that the Sill
YER STATE is off the track in assuming
that Mr.. Laughton would not regard
the interests of his constituents as para
mount to all other considerations. 1t
is barely possible that he might, yet in
view Of the acts of modern politicians,
the people would scarcely feel like in
trusting the question of regulating rail-
road rates to a person who is salaried
officer of the roads on which rates are
sought to be reduced by law. Nor
does the rule adopted by the Senate at
its last session, which provides that
"All committees shall be appointed by
the President, unless otherwise special
ly directed by the Senate" help the
Enterprise very much in its endeavor
to show that Mr.. Laughton, as rail-
road olhcer, would be harmless as Presi-
dent of the Sauate The r,ta u,as