Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-28
MR.. LAuauroN,s CANDIDACY.
An Analysis of His Attitude Drawn
from His Recent speech.

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from His Recent speech.
The speech of @. E. Laughton, Republic
can candidate for Lieutenant Governor, at
the Skating Rink Thursday night, was one
that it is difficult to c~riticise impersonaily.
Mr.. Laughton was manly and outspoken,
and did not resort to the subterfuge
offered by the Territorial Enterprise to
show by precedent that if he were Presi-
dent of the Senate he would not have the
appointment of committees. Mr.. Laugh
ton has too high an appreciation Of con-
sistency to say that, if elected, he would
not have the appointment Of committees,
because, on three occasions, the President
of the Nevada Senate has been deprived OF
that prerogative by vote of the members,
who took the matter into their W hands.
He knows that in these instances the
Senate YVES Republican and the President
a Democrat, and that if the presiding Off
Ger and a majority Of the members had
been of the same politics at the times re-
ferred to, no resolution woul have been
passed taking the appointment OF commit
tees out of the hands Of the former. Mr..
Laughton preferred to be candid and not
deal in such sophistry, and he is entitled
to credit for his candor. He claimed that
his reputation for integrity should be a
sufficient guarantee that he would discharge
his duties as presiding officer Of the Senate
in case he is elected, without bias in favor
of the railroad company, of which he is
Auditor and Paymaster. We are not dis
posed to say that this would not be Mr..
Laughton's inclination, but, as we
bova had 0onasiop tn urpn in q nrayiOua
article, the inference is natural and merely
human that he could not occupy both
places-the Authorship of the Virginia q
Truckee Railroad and the Presidency of
the Senate-with justice to himself and
with impartiality to the people. Mr..
Laughton, in his speech, also said that if
he were elected Lieutenant Governor he
would resign his Authorship of the rail
road, intimating that the motive for his
resignation would be his election. Now, the
Office of Lieutenant Governor yields ten dol
lars a day during the sixty days session of
the Legislature every two years; in other
words, it would be three hundred dollars
a year or twenty-five dollars a month.
We presume that Mr.. Laughton is paid
about two hundred and fifty dollars a
month for the discharge of his RESPONSE
BILE railroad duties, that is, $4,000 a year.
Without more definite. explanation from
Mr.. Laughton, and with a just weighing
Of these facts. it would seem that Mr..
Laughton could not afford to resign from
his railroad employment, except tenn
porarily; that is, during the sessions Of
the Legislature, which, in effect, would be
tantamount to no resignation at all. His
interests during his temporary separation
from the railroad would be still with it,
and the people, for that reason, could not
look up to him with the same implicit
trust in the fairness of his vote, his ap-
pointments and his rulings, that they
would lave in him were he totally unfet-
tered by any corporation alliance. We
feel bound to thus analyze the situation
in which Mr.. Laughton has placed him
self, for we feel it our duty, as a public
servant, to discuss candidates for i'm
portant Offices in the light of facts as they
appear to us, Notwithstanding any personal
feelings of regard that we may entertain
for any candidate under discussion.