Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-28


Lean Al, Whittenberg 40.
Under the motion previously made,
Messrs. Kelly and Mckay were declared
elected.
E. N. Robinson and M. D. Foley each
got two votes, but under the motion were
dropped.
Mr.. Wren, Chairman Of the Committee
on Platform and Resolutions, read the
following report which was adopted:
We, the delegate representatives of the
Republican electors Of Eureka County in
Convention assembled, in discharge of the
duty we owe to our constituents and
our county, unite in the following declara-
tions:
First-That the history of the nation
during the last twenty-five years has fully
established the propriety and necessity Of
the organization and perpetuation of the
Republican party, and that the causes
which called it into existence are perma-
nent in their nature, and now, more than
ever before, demand its peaceful and con-
stitutional triumph.
Second-That the principles OF the party
as expressed in the national platform
adopted at Chicago 1880, and in the State
platform adopted at Reno in 1882, meet
our most hearty approval.
Third-That the people Of Eureka
County justly view with alarm the reck-
less extravaganza which prevails in every
department Of the county government that
is now under Democratic control; they
condemn the extravagant administration
OF county affairs by Democratic officials;
that return of rigid economy is i~ndispensi-
BILE to arrest the systematic plumber of the
County Treasury by favored partisans.
Fourtb-That We believe that the grant
ing Of any subsidy or aid by our county
for railroad or other private corporation
purposes will be a direct robbery of the
taxpayers and result in benefiting and en-
riching q few private individuals only,
without being of any benefit to the general
public. Il is therefore
Resolved, That we, the delegates OF the
Republican party of Eureka County, State
of Nevada, in Convention assembled, do
hereby, WITHOUT equivocation, evasion or
mistake, solemnly declare that the Repub-
lican party of Eureka is absolutely. un-
conditionally and unalterably opposed to
the issue Of bonds or granting of other
State or county aid to private corpora
tons, or any corporations, for railroad or
other purposes, and pledge our every effort
to defeat any and all attempts that tend in
the most remote degree to that end. And
we require that all the candidates for State
Senator, Assemblymen, County Clerk,
County Recorder and Auditor, County
Treasurer and County Commissioners
shall, before being balloted for as candi-
dates by this Convention, solemnly and
Internationally pledge themselves to use
all their energies to enforce the foregoing
resolutions in its intent and meaning.
And it is further Resolved, That any
candidate nominated by this Convention,
who, if elected, shall violate the said
pledge in its letter or spirit, shall be
deemed unworthy of the confidence or res
pect of mankind, and will be considered
as a renegade and deserter from the prin-
ciples of the Republican party, and shall
never again receive the support Of any
member of this Convention for any Office
of honor or profit.
Fifth-That the Republican party of
Eureka County is unalterably opposed to
the passage OF any relief bills for the bene-
fit of any contractor or contractors who
may have built any courthouse, school
house or any other public building, or any
part thereof, or for the relief of any per-
son connected herewith, and our candi-
dates for the Senate and Assembly are re-
quired to pledge themselves to vote and
use their influence against the passage by
the Legislature of any such bill or bills.
The first business in order being the
nomination for State Senator. Mr.. Wren
placed in nomination M. d. Foley, Gone
of our Oldest M best citizens; n who
came here a boy, and penniless, but has
a fortune; a gentleman Who has
been foremost in enterprises for the bene-
fit Of the town and county; a gentleman
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a gentleman whose word is as good as his
bond, who, if nominated, will contribute
as much to the success faye. more) than
any other man whom you can nominate.
T. j. Taylor seconded the nomination.
W. W. Bishop also seconded the nomi-
nation, saying the State is best represen-
ted by those who have made their homes
in the sage-brush and settled down among
Us for better or for worse. As a hostler
he curried his horses clean; as a miner
he struck heavy blows. For his employ
ers, he has made money by his devotion
to their affairs. He has been eminently
successful since in his own affairs. He
has enemies. The man that has not ought
to, like Judas Iscariot, go and hang him
self. He has his interests here, and is
going to stay, whether elected or not. He
will stand the peer of any man in the SEN
ate of Nevada. l am for him as against
any man in Eureka.
W. H. Doolin: GIVE got a gamey lit
tie fellow I want to put in nomination.
Cheers all over the house. If a good
send-off dominates q man, NJ. D. Foley
ought to be nominated. No refie ctions
Upon Mr.. Foley. As to identity of inter
ests and residence, the gentleman whom
l shall nominate is AZ permanently with
US as my colleague in the last State Senate.
Hon. W. W. Hobart. As to interests, he
has disbursed in this camp $780, 900. He
has few peers and no superiors in this
Convention in intelligence and business
energy. He will bring more strength to
the party than any other that could be
named. His personal magnetism, his
der him highly popular"
Mr.. Schiller seconded the nomination of
Col. Robinson.
Mr.. Foley came forward and directed
his first glances to the gallery, from which
he received responsive aud cheering looks.
He said he endorsed the resolutions and
platform as he endorsed all the Republican
resolutions he had ever heard in his life.
He appealed to every man and woman in
the Convention to say if he had ever
broken his word. 1.-THE man who says l
would favor a subsidy scheme is a liar,
and he knows it," He put up his money
to prevent the Courthouse Relief bill
steal. He has not a grip-sack in his hand,
which, as the sum total Of all his worldly
goods and chattels, he would drop and
leave the State after the next session OF the
Legislature.
Col. Robinson appeared next. He said
Mr.. Foley was a little larger man than he,
but he could run him a good race. The
Democrats, he had heard, were to put up
q man for Mr.. Foley to beat. l am in the
field to put a stop to that little racket. l
have been a Republican IA years. I am a