Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-07-28
THEN AAOnJCW
Senator JOINS Eefore ard After
Ills Political Fail.

About u year z last February,
wheu Senator Jones pessel through
Rem FROM Washington, he was the
los sought for and anxiously a.ait-
ed man that eve struck Nevada.
The Republican party looked To him
% he Noses that would lead them
through the wilderness OF Il State
campaign. Each morning the old
gang Of the party, whose head quar-
ters were ut Reno, rent out quit
and watched the railroad track
for the jones train with much
more anxiety than the shepherds of
Galilee watched for the rising Of the
Star Of Bethleham. Men were on the
lookout ali along the line from Pala-
sade TO Reno TO wiIe the progress If
the train which Il to bring JUu-s,
| and q big barrel 10 wrest the State G
Nevada from the Silver party. vi,
he finally got 70 REM, and the gang
Of hungry politicians who boarded The
sleeper, vas a n amusing sight. They
found Jones and began 10 talk poi
tiles. But when he saw the
second aud instead Of the glad
hand and the open sack, they got ,he
| CLASSY stare and the closed mouth.
| They opened the talk with some pol
i,t'al gusn about the 81. o. P. but the
! Senator beg Il. 20 ask about the Soda
Springs mines. His conversation
seemed to lack warmth politically, but
he livened up on the mining lay ont.
Meanwhile the coloted porter. acting
on Instructions received hours before,
had made everything safe and was
standing gnarl over the Senators Ell
fects. He had locked his money wal
let in the drawing room section,
pla ed his other vnluab'es under the
eat and was hrared against the door
with gun, ready for emergencies.
The Senator WAS expecting t. so -
Gold Hill, hut he became alarmed at
the general appearance of the ,. ob
about him aud kept on TO Sln Fran
cisco.
They went down there and bese;ged
him III the Palace, logged him about
the Union Clnh and nearly festered
the life ont Of him trying to make
him dig ny some money to carry the
State election. Bnt he declined the
he would not put up n cent or the Re-
publican party any more. thai it wa
IL gold bug parry and that he was
done with it.
He VA Very free With his express
sions of opinions, vet whenever lie
a quoted as uttcriDS such senii.
ments, the papers quo'ins them wer,
denoune d as liars and canarders all
over the St te. The MORNING APPEAL
quoted som remarks of the Senator
about the old parties and was called 4
liar and manufacturer OF lies ovel
400 times by our contemporaries in
sid" of so days.
Finally the truth dawDed upon the
reminent Of the old gang aid they
realized that Jones indeed had giver
them the last grand shake and tia
they would never. meet again. The
men who had or ,ckei the dirty party
lash over the h ,cks OF the voters fol
years. found that they were in ,
hopeless and utterly contemplate,
minority and that the day OF spoils
and sack handling was gone forever
The new deal I'd swallowed then
ami then spere'l them up.
Then they turned on Jones. the maj
who had upheld the flag Of silver il
two c %,ntinents for years, and begar
to abuse and falsify his political rec
: ord.
They discovered that he WIS not {
Republican and " had been.
That he never voted or spoke TO
silver in his life.
That lie played poker in tho Hoff
man House and actually raked dow
IL thousand dollar bet on two SKIES.
That his winter residence was SAINT;
Monte. and his Summer Residence
Alaska.
, That DC had cleaned up over fou
million in Grown Point and refusnt
to 1T Cofir and Bragg use it 70
, campiign purs'03's.
That he had been kicked ont of tn
Senate IN | off all the Committees b.
tn" Republicans Of tn" Coast.
He wa also charged with catin'
with his knife 1T il banquet given t
Dupaw in New York. but the ciitr1
WAS not proven.
Now the men who followed the Sen
> ator's steps for years for the s,na
, change that might be Sc itt"rrl alon:
y NOM Wig rOMt.. nrr now denuun