Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-10-24
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OF his time, the charges 10 ade az AIMS
Republican candidates for Office
in the Virginia City Chronicle
appear as models of logical reason
| ing and the case as argued in its
columns seem almost unanswer-
able.
A mere casual inspection Of the
facts in the case cause the Chron-
icle's position to tumble to pieces
like house of cards. The chain
of argument followed by the
Chronicle is all correct except the
/ first link.
1t has worked itself and probably
come Of its readers into \ frenzy
Of excitement n the charge tia,
! Senator Stewart has An immense
railroad sack behind him and that
the roads are sending him to Wash
incton because they want his assist
ance in swindling the Government
by extending the mortgage on the
Pacific railroads. If W. NJ. Stewart
was indeed a tool Of monied men
and Republican corporations to
swindle the Government he would
indeed be unfit for the off ce Of
Senator.
The facts in the case are:
LIST, The mortgage on the bonds will
not expire until after Stewart has
Served his time as Senator. They ex-
pire IL 1915 not in 1890 asthe Dem
ocrat,c organs will have it.
End, The extension Of the mort
gage isnot arail Tread move to swindle
the Government, but Government
move to compel the road to pay
the interest on the mortgage.
Ord, 1t is no, Republican but
a Democratic measure. The prop
osition is to compel the roads to
pay three and a half millions Of
dollars per year into the National
Treasury for seventy Eve years. Is
there anything out of the way III
that?
The measure came from com
mittee composed Of ten Democrats
and FIVE Republicans. This is the
heavics,charge and the loudest and
longest dwelt upon Of any issue in
the campaign.
1t originated in this way:
When Stewart was announced as
candidate, man remarked that he
was a personal friend of Steve
Gaige of the G. PR. Il.
Another man said if that was so
this must be some big railroad
plot.
A third figured out that the mort.
cages on the road were to be ex-
tended and Stewart was hired to
engineer the job
To make things dovetail they
knocked five years off the mortgage
and said it expired in 1890 and |
called it a Republican joo. Now
that they have been made to real
ize that the bill is a Democratic |
that it will not come up
during Stewards tern that it is |
more of an anti-railroad bill than
otherwise, the campaign thunder Of
two months dies away as useless
as So much noise always is.
The Chronicle makes the blunder
Of allowing Its editors to manu-
facture the facts Of case without
taking the precaution to consult
the Congressional Record recog-
nized as the official authority on
National Legislation.
This Congressional Record is q
yreat book, 1t oyerturnsa thousand
pet theories Of wild eyed writer's
For the press, it demolishes scores
If apparently live campaign issues
ind is the rock upon which thous-
lnds If blockhead newspapers
plit.
A man bowls the assertion from
he stump that John Smith Il Re
publican Congressman introduced
bill TO lower the wages of labor
The laboring class curse Smith.
Along comes a friend Of Smith,
pens the Record points to page
81 and shows that Brown a Demo
ratio Congressman introduced the
ill. What answer has Smiths &C
user to that? II
Now that the Chronicle learns