Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-02-18
THE USUAL ASSAULT ON NEVADA

lowing wicked assault on the fair name
of Nevada from Washington to the San
Francisco Bulletin
A Republican Congressman who speaks
from his own personal knowledge, In dis
cussing the laments periodically sent up
by some OF his associates over the alleged
disproportionate exercise OF political
power, by one or more States OF the
South, said: Nevada furnished really
an illustration without precedent or par
allel the world over. Nevada, which has
two Senators and one Representative,
had not a bona fde population Of more
than 30, 900. She was admitted into the
Union % years ago, and in all that time
not one Of the men who had sat in the
Senate as her members, could honestly
claim residence within her borders. They
are Californians in every sense OF the
| term, and controlled always by Califor.
MIA influences. In all parliamentary his
tory, he said, there never was such q
rotten borough as Nevada. She has two
Senators and three electoral votes, and
in case the election Of President should
be thrown in the House Of Representa-.
tives, 30, 900 people of Nevada, or rather
the San Francisco ring, through one
member who sits there, would exercise
the same influence as sc members from
New York, speaking for more than five
million people,"
That is in keeping with the usual " rot
which is periodically thrown at Nevada.
We deserve a good deal of that which is
said. 1t cannot be denied that we have
been e~lecting C%alifornians to the Senate
pretty regularly since we became a State.
But that is not the fault Of the SENTINEL
nor any one connected with this journal.
We have always stood for home rule and
a home man, and we propose to fight it
out on that line. Aside from the impor.
tation of her Senators, Nevada in politi-
| cal morals is neither better nor worse
than the rest Of the Union. If any diff.
ference our people are higher priced.
Two dollars a head is the market rate
for voters in Indiana, Pennsylvania,
New York and the other great States Of
the East. In Nevada they average from
ten dollars to fifty dollars per head, and
are scarce at that. In the East the sup
ply is always equal to the demand. while
here there are times when a sufficient
number cannot be had at any price. Our
corruptionists are simply more princely
and higher toned than the corporation
slaves of the East, that's all. The great
mass of our people of both parties are as
upright in their politics as those of any
people in the world. By this we do not
mean that they are strict partisans-not
at all. The u~npurchasable element Of
our voters are as apt to elect a man Of
one party as the other. The thinking
voters 20 largely for men in Nevada.
But what right has "a Republican Con.
gresham" to arraign Nevada and throw
stones at her for the meagreness of her
population? We wonder also, just here,
who this Republican Congressman can
be? The SANDER reads like it may have
| emanated from a Pacific Coast man. We
think it did, and thiuk we know the man.
Where ia Nevada's delegation in WASH
ington? Is such vile vituperation of our
fair name to 60 unchallenged ? We ought
to assume a virtue if we have it not.
Above all our delegation should repel
| these slanderous attacks with interest.
Those making them are usually quite as
| vulnerable as poor abused little Nevada.
And why a Republican should have
anything to say against us is SURPRISING
strange. The admission Of Nevada to
| the sisterhood of States was strictly 9
Republican measure. With few excep-
tions it has always kept a Republican
delegation in both houses Of Congress;
SO the political benefits accruing from
Nevada statehood have generally gone to
the Republicans. And so they would
continue to 20 in the imaginary case pre-
sented BY this NANCY sneak who spends
his time in abusing US. If the Presiden.
tial election should go into the House he
is Mortified to know that Nevada with
$4,000 population and one member would
have the same power as New York with
5000. 900 population and sc members.
Well, what are you going to do about it!
The Constitution Of the country has fixed
things that way. But why pick out big
New York to size up against little Ne.
vada? How about Rhode Island and
Delaware, and several of the less densely
populated Southern States? The con.
trast between any of these and the EN-.
pire State would be quite as striking as
that between Nevada and New York.
But there is not one chance in q thous.
and that the next Presidential election
will be thrown into the House, for the
very forcible reason that there is no third
party 10 the field strong enough to carry
a State. And If il should go there, and
| the President had to be selected by q vote
of the States, each voting as a unit. as
provided by the Constitution, the Repub.
| licans would still have the best Of it.
| Such an election would take place in the
House in February next, and the term Of
Mr.. woodburn. our present member,
does not expire until March 4th 1889.
But this Republican Congressional viii.
fer also lies about our population. We
are not 80. 900 strong. but 81, 900. accord.
ing to the last census. 1t is hardly nee.
| essarv 10 add hat Nevada has In the Last