Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-03-29
a LAME APOLOGY.


The Gever.er's xxYlunnsscn far
SAirkinf: his Suites.
A correspondent in tho Times
Review, attempts to apologize for
Governor Adams, and explain his
course On the bills which he turned
over 20 Lieutenant Governor
Laughton when he left for San
Francisco, soon after the close Of
the session. Here is an extract
Lieutenant Governor Laughton
returned to Carson Friday morning
in accordance with an agreemens
between them, as he, Governor
Adams, was obliged to leave for
that evening to attend to some pri-
vate business involving the pay
ment Of a large sum Of money He
left the unfinished business in Gov
ernor Laughton's hands, citing him
particularly to the defects in the
White Pine bill which he said
ought to be vetoed, stating tae cir
cumstances of the expected petit
tions, etc Governor Laughton, as
Governor Adams most positively
declares, promised to veto the bill.
Governor Adams also expressed his
views concerning the other bills,
hut said he had not had sufficient
time to give them the consideration
| they deserved, and requested the
Lieutenant Governor te examine
them carefully and act as his sense
of duty dictated. All Of this Gov
ernor Laughten promised to do,
and Governor Adams left for San
Francisco under the full conviction
that the duties of the Office would
be faithfully attended to, and the
interests of the people Of the State,
or any portion Of them, would NOT
suffer by his enforced absence.
This is the statement of Governor
Adams, substantially as given to
| the writer, and in justice to that
gentleman I give it to the public
through your columns. It certain u
" does not appear from the above
that there was any desire upon the
part of the Governor to "shirk the
responsibilities of his official Pc
sition- As intimated by the Enter
prise, nor does it seem that the
present acting Governor evinced,
| at that time, any unwillingness Il
assume them, as is indicated in his
communication to the Secretary Of
State. Under the circumstances 1t
most certainly strikes every fair
minded person that the Virgins
papers structures upon Governo
Adams are exceedingly unfair ans
unjust.
The above explanation nigh
have been swallowed BY the limo
cent correspondent of the Times
Review, but it will not 10 dow
with more than one man in a hun
dred. It does not dovetail at al
with the statement the Governo
made to a Reno Gazette reporter, t
the effect that he intended to vet
the Anti-treat bill, but the bill go
mislaid and was taken by him t
: San Francisco inadvertently. Tn
Cheat Nevada Wiggler has in
dulged in his two-faced explana
tons and bicycling ledgerdemaln
: on all public questions until he ha
fairly sickened the citizens OF tn
; State. His attempts to ride tn
Temperance and liquor horse at Tn
} same time, was too much for III
T straddling powers, and he has gon
: down between the two with a rust
= He simply lacked the backbone t
E face the music of either tactic
: and has earned the solid conteml
. of both by his constitutions
. eyasiyeness. Things have reache
S that pass that Governor Adam
can no longer hoodwink his col
= stituents, as his word on politics
f question is not worth cheap pine
8 of secondhand snuff.