Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-11-20

OF the danger incurred by cuttlnl
down of the number of member.
of the Legislature, seems to be re-
garded by the Enterprise as q
strong reason for still advocating
the cutting down. In attempting
to inaugura.e political reforms, one
must look some distance ahead OF
the immediate present. Let us con-
slider for a moment how the pre-
posed reduction of our learned con-
temporary would in the end result
Take fifteen representatives
away from the various counties,
and the counties containing the
greatest population would natur-
ally lose the most representatives.
This wedding out will come from
the Republicans Of Ormsby, Storey,
Washoe and Eureka, because a
small county, with only one Sena-
tor aud one Assemblyman, could
not we'll be deprived of either.
Presently, after a majority of the
Republicans have been veeded out.
We are met with the spectacle of a
Legislature, Democratic on joint
ballot. Its first act will be to send
Democratic Senator to Washing
ton. With a Democratic Preside It
and a Democratic House We need
all the Republican Senators We
can keep. Suppose that Che Enter
prise's big reform scheme resulted
in a Democratic United States Sem
ator by a majority of one, and
bill to restore Free Trade to the
country, came up from the Lower
House passed and went through
the Senate aiso7 Perhaps the En-
terprise editor had not taken all
these things into consideration
when he penned the platform of
the party. The Civil Service Re-
form Bill, another pet measure of
our esteemed Comstock contempt
rary, might also be retired to the
things that we're, and hoard Of
hungry Democratic ofice-seekers
be turned loose, red-eyed and vel
low-fangcd upon the Treasury.
Thus the attempt to save a few
thousand dollars in Nevada, might
result in loss to the National
Treasury of hundred million.
Does the Enterprise for mo-
ment contend that the economical
laws for the governing Of counties
by whic, the robbing fee system
was wiped out to make way for the
sa'aried system, would not be re-
pcaled if our State Legislature
was largely Democratic. =
Woald not the jerry wandering
bill by which Jewett Adams and
Hook Mason sliced of a portion of
Lyon county to make it Democratic,
be repeated over and over again,
until the Republican party of Ne
yada was cut to pieces by Legis-
lative trickery.
Does the Enterprise wish to
break down the solid wall reared
by the Republican party Of Ne
vada, between the State and bank
ruptcy.
Its plan would result in nothing
else. Its petty scheme Of economy
is nothing more than saving few
drops at the spigot, while the other
end of the barrel is knocked out
entirely. The Republican party
has something beyond the perpetu-
alton Of its partisanship. Its mis-
sion is to protect the people and
keep the door of the State Treas
ury closed against the marauders
outside the pale, and the short
sighted reformer inside the fold.
We have cited few instances of
the undesirable results of inaugur-
ating a scheme of reform, which
can only be carried out at an ex-
pense Of more than double the
amount saved. We might cite a
hundred more, but. weary of it.
The trouble all lies in the fact that
the editor of the Enterprise wrote
a platform without giving the sub
ject proper consideration, and is
now laboring hard to make the
party adhere to the strict letter of
it. His idea is that we had better
the Ship of State, jeop-
ardise the interests of the whole
United States and fling the COM
interests of nation into