The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1884-12-14
Bur rasY DIDN'T.

AaAA 80 -. INV
Pine dfl-pnint all the election tick +:
For Constitutional Convention. Yes
the Ine ASSURE would have been carried
Cherry Crrrk News
Hut they didn't do: 4, nor WAS such the
purpose Of tsA agents o. the rail esd
monopblicS who ul~aniynlatrl the hnsi-
ness. Il SaS their game to beat he
proposition By default. and they played
st siSccc ssiIily. The people % Nevada
will par deariy for their ,uriness in that
matter, b-sor. they will have Al .:her
opDortnniir nf fr~~jno locomotives from
their constitutional boniAge.-Hlavs-
z view.
Nov. by WIT authority. we ask the
News. VS. che IA satise reply to the Com
stituhonai proposition excluded fn.u TIE
ticker. The returns show that there
were voters in every County Who were
opposed u the all aud in those IN which
the negative was fraudulent, that is
the word which exactly expresses the
faat-Sept OF the ticket, there would
douhs.eN' have been many more, ksd
they not entirely overlooked that p~arfieu-
ls- question ct issue, and been lead BY
thu adsoGt Schemes Of ticket mauipula-
toas, tp unv;si2gy cast their votes in
opPosi;ioa to their wishes and tn ir
judgm .a;. 1t is clearly apparent that il
the advocates of the Convention were
justified in hocdwinking voters into the
support of the measure, it, opponents
would have been equally UNSUITABLE in re-
sorting to a similar species of SSn;ldsg-
gerry IL accomplish its defeat, by supr,s-
sing the word, ''YcS." leaving the mega
tive alone on the ticket. 1t will be urged.
no donhi. that the eni aim d at, j ssiiied
the means, but such posi:i n is inde.en-
sibls anisr any respectable code OF
moral ethics.
KIT thr Ti"'e7-Revia-, q ~rrAnnIn"ed
and practical political neutral, with char
acterisiic rsotisiical imp ;dence, assumes
the air of an authorized dictator, and
presumes TO insult the Democratic
unity Central Committee h. charging
them with heing mere t0ol.s o. the rail
road eompa0y, because, forsOoth, they
did not in accordance with the peculiar
views OF the Times-R Review, have their
tickets SO printed as to sC>-re au anirmg-
tive vote upon an issue, rcgardl. ~ OF
the views Of the voters upon such issue
they having through ncgl. 5e. ce or stu
pidity entirely overlooked the matter
thus atfording = chance TO achieve a sue
cess through default
Those Democratic tickets, over the
issue Of which the Times-Reyicw has
most unwarrantably made itself consLic-
uousiy offensive during the past Thirty
days, were printed at this Office, exactly
In accordance with our instructions. aud
even at the risk Of again mourning the
awful dispieasEre OF the Times. Review,
and the imminent danger OF causing it's
cranky scribe TO buGst with yirtuous in
dignation, we would, iii future, act pre-
cisely the same under similar conditions;
and yet, We are neither a railroad agent
nor the tool OF corruptionists. We shall
never shrink from a comparison of char
acters with the editor of the T;mes-Re-
view; and as for the position we have
taken with regard to the printing of bal
lots, which has called forth such n diar-
rhea OF invective from our supercillious
contemporary, the public are fully COM
petent to pass upon its merits.
From first to last, both privately and
In public, We have warmly advocated the
calling OF Convention, and at this mo
ment are still firm in the belief that it i,
the only feasible plan by which the nee
essary changes in our organic law, SO
urgently demanded, can be effected, and
we shall not tamely submit to being
held in any degree responsible, even i'm.
pliedly, for the stupidity. ignorance ard
apathy which alone caused the defeat of
the most important, and what would
have proved, had it been successful, tho
most beneticient q this people
have had an opportunity to endorse for
years PAST.