Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-03-06
Gureka pailp 9eutinel.
TUESDAY MARCH 6. 1888.
BuNCO MBE

A Republican House showed its hon
esty OF purpose by passing the Melarkey
bill, and a Democratic Senate had ample
opportunity to pass the bill with proper
amendments, so that it would have re-
suited in effective legislation .-Carson
Appeal.
This is about the first effort made by
the Republican press, since the adjourn
ment OF the Legislature, to manufacture
political sentiment for the next election,
two years in the future. It is pure
buucombe. Everybody who knows any
thing of the matter at all knows what
the fate OF any anti-railroad measure
would have been had it rested upon the
vote Of the Republican House." That
the last was a railroad Legislature "goes
without the saying"-both Senate and
Assembly. A good many Assemblymen
voted for the Melarkey bill who are
avowed pro.railroad men, knowing that
their votes were not going to count IN
determining the issue, knowing that the
bill would be killed in the Senate, know
ing that a scheme had been cunningly
devised to thus whitewash themselves
and cast odium upon the Upper House OF
the Legislature, the terminal action OF
which was the identical record they
would have made for themselves had
they been forced to it. Any assertion to
the contrary, if made in earnest, would
only cause a smile among those who paid
any attention whatever to the situation
of things in the now defunct Legs
lature. The defeat Of the Williams bill
in the Senate was merely a part OF the
same play. The railroad people know
that the Republican party is more in
sympathy with them than the Demo-
cratic party is; that the Republicans are
nearer to them than the Democrats are.
Those to whom were entrusted railroad
manipulations, for this reason, resorted
to the device of pulling the wool over
the peoples eyes by this very trans
parent little political trick. The people
are to be cheated into the belief that the
Republican party is with them and
against the railroads. And upon the
Republican press, the great majority
of which advocated the railroad
cause during the session Of the Legls-
~lature, now devolves the gracious
task of demonstrating that the "Repub-
lican House" was in sympathy with the
people and opposed to the oppression
and monopoly by the railroad corpora
tions! The consistency Of such a course
is delightful to contemplate, especially
where it involves the conduct of any
newspaper that at the beginning of the
legislative session was rabid in d%enounc-
ing and damning railroads, but which,
before the adjournment OF that august
body, had lost its fangs altogether and
ceased to have any more heart for such
a matter than the eunuch has for a
woman
But the argumentum ad hominem is
not necessary in this case. The record
will speak for itself as far as the ques-
tion of politics is involved in the &C.
ton of the Democratic Senate" and
the Republican House." The vote on
the Smyth and Melarkey bills is fresh
in the minds of the SENTINEL's read
ers. These bills were defeated in the
democratic Senate" by Republican
votes. Two or three Democratic only
and almost all the Republican Senators
are recorded as voting no. If only a
few Republican Senators had been will.
ing to permit the schedule" bill to be
discussed it could have gone to the
Assembly. But it was not a part Of
the scheme to allow the Republican
House" to assume any such RESPONSE.
bility for the sake of the "grand old
party" This is about the whole story.