Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-31
FIVE CANDIDATES
Seeking One Office in the State of
Nevada.
PROSPECTS OF THE COMING ELECTION
The Democratic Cloud Has a Silver
Lining.
SEN ATOR JONES' POSITION
of The Evening Star.

Correspondence of The Evening Star
CARSON, New, October "a, 1894.
In politi al matters the state of Nevada,
nointed at now as one of the pocket bor-
ough'' states of the Union, and threatened
some time age with annexation with Utah.
possesses the greatest number of parties
and candidates for the smallest amount
of population Of any part of the United
States. Naturally these differences arise
from the geographical contour of the coun-
try. The state is spread out over a vast
area, the greater part of which consists of
mountainous country alkali deserts.
Is tit foi the NEST part only for mining and
stock raising. Under such conditions, of
course, there are no large cities, and but
very little communication that will put the
people in tne different parts of the state in
sympathy viii one another political
issues or even pllcw entire accord in any
one party.
1t Is this feeling that has given rise to
the nomination of five candidates for Con-
gress. Francis c. Newlands, the sitting
member and representative of the out.and-
out silver party. is again before the people
The remnant of the republican party who
still believe that there is something to be
gained by remaining true to the allegiance
and combining the principles of protection
and free silver in the one fight have put
forward III. F. Bastine. The populists also
came to the front, and while announcing
themselves as the one and only silver party
that can accomplish anything in the end,
have nominated James c. Douty of Elko
The democrats were always very much In
hopeless minority in the small state which
still clings to many of the traditions of the
war; but, nevertheless, there was enough
of the party This year as last, to form the
two SIDES to a very pretty factional fight
and while the regular organization placed
b. F. Riley in nomina Ion. Jules S. Gignoux
and his followers, who form a respectable
portion of the party, declined to abide by
the decision and Dolted the ticket straight.
placing a man of their own in the race.
Though the state Is thinly settled. except
around the eastern i'm, where the Southern
Pacific railway crosses the line. and where
he great bonanzas have been found In the
past, each party is making strong can
vaSS all over the region. The railway COM
munica ton Is not good, and campaigning to
a great extent has to be done with the aid
Of. buckboards. With them the journeys
over the mountains are rough and the rides
over the alkali deserts are anything but
pleasant However. the citizens are being
rorsed 20 the necessity or voting this time.
and there will, probably be fun poll.
No Senators In It.
Neither of the United States Senators are
in the fight. 1t Is thought that Senator
Stewart is convinced that the silver party
will win, and has no more care than that:
and for this req son he Is staying In WASH
lngton. With Senator Jones 1t Is different.
Although he has renowned republicanism.
he has not announced allegiance with the
populists or the liver party or the demo-
Gratis No one can say to which side he Will
lean when he does form a new alliance.
to llu q
his determination to be a free lance from
this time on, and 90 work with any party,
In any locality, where the candidates and
principle, of that party are favorable TO
free silver.
His action in renouncng the republican
party has had a great effect on the situa-
ton in Nevada. The state has been almost
FRUSTRATED by the adverse silver legislation
of the last twenty years. and there Is little
to hope for unless silver is again restored
as the money metal of the country on a
parity with gold. For this reason the whole
state is worked up over the silver question
That is the first and last considera ton in
the politics of the region, and any party
that is in line with the silver advocates
is sure 10 gain great deal or support
among the voters. Senator Jones has been
always looked upon as the leading advocate
of the silver cause and his following In
the state have never cared to question any
of his acts OH the question. Therefore
when he said that there was no longer any
hope for silver i'm the republican party
those words almost proved the death blow
Of the wing of the party in Nevada, and
there is little hope that they can win the
election.
4 silver Lining.
On this the democrats are making a
strong fight. They say that the demo-
cratic party has always had silver leaniags
and If the west had not always been SO
uncompromisingly republican the demo-
western man for President and elected
him, and after that silver would have been
restored. 1t is the argument now that the
east holds the balance of power in politics
because the south has been solidly demo-
cratic and the west solidly republican. If
change can be brought about whereby the
interests of these two sections can be for
warded by an alliance under one political
party then the two will be strong enough
to bid defiance to the east and pass what
ever legislation may be necessary.
They hold, of course, that the negro ques-
ton in the south precludes for many years
any break of any Importance in that re-
gion, and say that the west, with more
at stake, must go to the south for the
alliance, and that the alliance, to prove
of any benefit. must be made under the
democratic banner. For the west to so
to the third party. they urge. would be
just as injurious to the cause of silver as
the republicans, for such action would
force the democrats again in 1896 to go
east for their candidate in order to insure
them enough strength to carry the election.
AS under such circumstances the republi-
can candidate also would be taken from
the east there would be little to hope for.
Next to silver the tariff question Is hav-
ing the greatest bearing in the campaign.
Nevada has no large manufacturing in
dustres, but the new tariff has struck her
wool raising and lead producing people,
and therefore there Is strong element
that will try and carry the state for the
republicans in order to enter an emphatic
protest against the tariff system now in
vogue. Wool is a staple of Nevada and
is one of the chief Industries outside of
mining. During the past summer the price
has been down to a ruinous figure and
much hardship among the sheep owners
and their employees was consequence.
The price has raised somewhat, it is true,
since the German blu passed. but then
it has not reached the figures that pre-
vailed n year ago, and the producers are
fearful of the effect when what the re-
publicans term a sudden burst of Industrial
energy wears Off These men will have
with them the lead miners, who have also
had the protection taken off their product
and do not like it because the price is down
to such a low figure that the mines can
not afford to operate extensively, and pros
pectng for silver and lead mines is almost