Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-04-30
A SIGNIFICANT STRAW.

One OF Jne mOSC SlS ullCdhI stla"
in the political situation in Nevada
is the gradual change of front on
the part of the Enterprise from a
silver organ to an abject mouthpiece
of the gold bugs of New York.
Fer some years it floated the silver
banner high at the masthead, but
now it has thrown overheard every
principle of State pride and journal
istic consistency, and boldly adver-
tises its servitude to the monied ring.
1t says:
For the pretended Republican pa
pers such as the Silver State and
Carson APPEAL-that are in the
service of Wallace and Cassidy, and
would as readil betray silver as they
would the party to which they claim
membership, while never neglecting
an opportunity to urge something to
urge something to its injury-there
Is no excuse. Flattering a popular
sentiment that they do not share,
they are probably interested in keep
ing attention away from the South
ern Pacific road, and a pretended
ardor for silver and hatred for every
thing Republican is a convenient
disguise. Never venturing an opin>
ion of their own until they thing
they have discovered the current of
public feeling, their misrepresenta-
tions, false pretenses and too noisy
self-assertions may be accepted as
certain indications of very weak
regard for the cause.
The above is by no means the ut>
terance of the old Territorial Enter
prise, but the talk of the mouthpiece
of Mr.. Mills, a resident of New York
who owns the V. & 7. r. r. of this
city and who, according to the sworn
annual statement of the company
clears a thousand dollars T. day out Of
the people Of Nevada, which is spent
in New York.
For years the V. & T. company
has been the sole master of politics
in Nevada; it has controlled the leg,
islature, the State Conventions and
the Republican party. No man can
be nominated on a State ticket with
out the permission of this corporation
and if nominated cannot be elected |
if the road decides he shall not be.
Here is the situation:
d. O. Mills, a nonresident of the
State and a man who openly pro-
claims his allegence to the gold ring
of New York and is one of them, has
for years been, through his agents, |
the absolute dictator of Nevada ard
now through two of his organs, the
Enterprise and Reno Gazette, is at
tempting to teach the people of this
State how to vote en- the question of
silver coinage.
We do not think the people of Ne
vada desire any longer to go to school
to Mr.. Mills. The spontaneous sill
yer movement now sweeping like a
prairie fire over Nevada, has alarmed
the foreign bosses of the Republican
party in Nevada and they are leaving
no stone unturned to see it checked.
The success of the silver movement
in this State means the death knell of
their long dominion in Nevada.
They are making frantic fight to
squelch the movement but it has
passed beyond their control and if
the people of the State, the regular
.ssidents, citizens and voting masses
will stand by their guns they can
wipe out boss rule in Nevada forever
and run and own the State they
helped to build up.
There are enough papers left IN
this State that do not wear the collar
of the bosses and the people can de-
pend upon having them for standard
bearers in this fight. This movement
has reached such proportions that at
the present time the silver men IN
Nevada have on their rolls majority
of all the voters of this State.