Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-07-20
THE LAW A DEAD LETTER.


missioner Bray makes no defense OF
his course as exposed by this journal
yesterday, but says:
sI'll take all the contracts | d
please, and the APPEAL can't stop
me.
If Mr.. Bray used this language,
he out of his own mouth, demon
strates more than anything the AP-
PEAL can say, his utter unftness for
the responsible Office of County Com
missioner. His defiance of the law
comes from feeling of perfect Sc
curity born of the knowledge that
the powerful ring behind him will
see that the law will be made dead
letter in his case.
As long as Sardis Summerteld Is
District Attorney, as long as Tren>
more Coffin can handle the pulls on
the Grand Jury, and as long as the
Grand Jury can be drawn under the
present method, Bray is all right,
and the law might as well be wiped
from the Statute book as far as he IS
concerned.
The law was placed there to pre-
vent county officers profting from
their official positions and passing on
their own bills.
But Bray has defed the law as
well as broken it, and by being a
County Commissioner he has been
able to freeze out the other draymen
in this city, who pay a license for a
protection they don't get, and are
citizens and taxpayers.
That one man can run another out
Iof business because of his official po-
sitiop, is not contemplated by the
law, and if one law cannot be en-
forced In Ormsby, the rest might as
well be wiped off the Statute books
and Ormsby county be placed on a
par with the strip of lawless country
in the West called mo Mans Land,
a territory claimed by no State, by
reason of surveyors blunder, where
lawbreakers of all grades are herded
and allowed to do as they please.
A species of terrorism has been
exerted over the citizens of Ormsby
for wears, and the community has
been cowed by the feeling thatg a
clique of men possess some mysterl-
Gus pull which enables them to crush
out anyone who opposes their little
schemes.
Now this pull is all moonshine;
they merely have certain officials
under their thumbs, and they make
people believe that it is their backing
which alone elects candidates to office
in Ormsby.
AS long as they can fill the official
with this idea they own him, body
and soul. =
They have been unable to put the
collar on the APPEAL and when lit
tie over a year ago this journal an
nouneed that it would not allow
murderers, petit larceny thieves and
fraudulent bankrupts to be crammed
down its throat, it was notified that
it must get in line or it would be
run out of town.
It did not get in line nor will 1t DC
run out of town. 1t will labor IN be-
half Of the better element of taxpay-
ers in this city and rid Ormsby coun-
tv Of the incubus of boodleism which
have been fastened on it and In It's
6oht for a law-abiding county gov
eminent it expects the assistance, IT
respective of party, of all decent, law
abiding citizens.
Threats and clustering talk will
have no effect. The only way tn
APPEAL can be successfully fought OF
this proposition is by disproung 1t
statements.
1t was not many years ago that tn
same sor. Of a ring got its clutches OF
the county Treasury and the people
rose up and stamped the ring out Q
existance at the polls. This is tn
true method Of handling the propo
oitinu