The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-09-17
TAxPAYER's'' VIEWS.
some Of Them Sound and Correct,
but Others Visionary and Totally
at Variance with the spirit OF the
Times and Genus Of Our Instit uttOns.

ED. NEws-Dear Sir: Please per-
NIT space in your column for me as
taxpayer to ask the due consideration
of every taxpayer in White Pine
county to beware of the present move
ment afoat, known as the Silver Lea
que or Peoples party movement. Are
we to allow certain clique to organ
ize party for their own benefit and
deceive the good people of White Pine
county by browning themselves with
the title of "Silver League" or "Peo-
pies party ?" AS matter of fact al
most every man in this county and
State believe in O. change of national
politics and are in favor Of free and
unlimited coinage of silver and believes
in some radical course of procedure to
advance our cause, and which would
undoubtedly relieve us from the pres
emit stigma which renders us unpro-
tected and has placed us in such
perilous condition, but should this
movement apply to local politics
There are about 45O voters in this
county and some 800 of them have
signed call for Convention to or
ganize Peoples party and nominate
county ticket, and have pledged
themselves to support the nominees of
the Peoples party. This pledge will
have great bearing upon the signers
on the 9Th of November.
And now is the time to fortify our
selves and revolt against the present
scheme inaugurated for rural convent
ances. Let us organize in our respec-
tive precincts and select the very best
men and heaviest taxpayers in the
county and send them to this conven-
ton.
There are eight officers to elect in
this county this Fall, and Ely is now
organizing and ready to take the
reins of the county government, with
the exception of one place-that of
Clerk and Recorder and Auditor
which is allotted to an outside camp.
This slate is made almost entirely
of new material, the major portion of
it never having filled county office,
and only one out of the eight having
filled the Office allotted him under the
new scheme.
White Pine county is to-day the
most prosperous county in the State
under her present magement, not only
self-sustaining, but during the last six
years she has erected us cozy little
ten thousand-dollar Court House, has
reduced her bonded and her floating
indebtedness nearly thirty thousand
dollars and lowered our taxes from
ten to fifteen per cent, notwithstand-
ing the many obstacles which impedes
the progress of our prosperity, caused
by the apathetic attitude taken to re-
tard our principal industry by our
perfdious national executive depart
ment.
Is there a county in the State of
Nevada where it's warrants have in
creased in valuation during the last
six years except White Pine, which
now sells regularly for double what it
did six years ago. This, I think,
should entitle some of our present
managers of county affairs to recogni-
ton at least with any new party, for
our only salvation rests entirely with
the safe-keeping and judicious distri-
button of our county revenues, and a
failure to recognize our present Treas
urer and a portion of our present
Board of County Commissioners would
be foreshadowed proof of and full
crum of usurpation, promulgated for
mercenary achievements.
1 again admonish you to take the
necessary steps for our own protection,
and when you meet in convention you
can arrange some feasible way to
arrive at the sentiment of the peo-
pie generally, but to allow few non
producers and non-taxpayers to dictate
who shall be nominated and elected
to fill the few offices of trust is per-
fectly ridiculous.
My opinion is that the proper way
to organize convention and nominate
a ticket would be to abandon the pri-
mary system and simply allow repre-
sentation in convention according to
the amount of taxes paid into the