Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-01-19
DAILY INDEPENDENT.
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 10, 1893
A QUEER APPOINTMENT.

President Mckinley has appoIL led
John 8. Mayhugh of Elko agent at
the Western Shoshone Indian Res
ervation in this county. The an
nouncement of his appointment
comes like a clap of thunder on: of
clear sky to the faithful Republic
cans of the State some one Of whom
expected to get this choice morsel of
@pie" from the Presidential counter.
From Democratic standpoint the
politics Of this appointment - hard
to size up. Mr.. Mayhugh, outward
ly at least, has left the Republican
party and burned all the bridges be-
hind him. He is the chairman Of the
Silver party county committee of this
county and took an active part in the
campaign last year for Mr.. Bryan
and, when that distinguished gentle
man passed through here in July, was
one Of the committee that went to
Wells to meet him and escort him to
Elko. IT, therefore, would seem that
he had forfeited any claim he might
have had to patronage from the party
with which he had been connected so
long in the past. 1T seems, however,
that this has been to him a passport
to the pie counter.
Ii this does not furnish the proper
solution to the appointment it will
probably be found in the reported
combine OF the Nevada Sen ators with
the protectionists in the Senate when
the Dingley bill was before it for
passage. 1t was then reported that
Senators Stewart and Jones had
agreed to vote for the Dingley tariff
bill in exchange for the privilege of
controlling the federal patronage in
Nevada. The INDEPENDENT did not
then believe that the Nevada SEN
ators had sold themselves to the high
protectionists of the East for so small
mess OF pottage. This appointment,
however, seems to confirm the re-
ported sale by which Senators Stew
art and Jones helped to fasten upon
the people of their State the mon
strous iniquities of the Dingley bill in
return for the few crumbs of patron
age that might fall from the Presi-
Dental table. This hardly seems
probable yet this appointment is hard
to size up on any other grounds.
The INoEP ENDEET is glad the ap-
pointment has fallen to a citizen of
Nevada instead o. to a carpet-b bag.
ger from the East. And go long as
the appointee could not be Demo-
crat 1t would as soon see Mr.. May
hugh at the Indian Agency as any
one else. He will doubtless till the
bill and take care of the wards Of the
Government as well as any dyed in
the wool Republican.
Taking everything into considera-
ton, however, the appointment is a
queer one viewed from political
standpoint and it will cause a great
deal OF heartburning and jealousy
among the faithful Republicans who
went back on their state in the last
election in order that they might be
in line to receive favor from McKin.
ley in case he was elected. Not all
the Nevada Republicans who sup
ported Mckinley did it from desire
to eat OF the crumbs, but a great
many did. To them the IFoEP ENDENr
extends its sympathy for the afflic-
ton that has fallen upon them by
reason of Mr.. Mayhugh's appoint
ment.
In congratulatee Mr.. Mayhugh in
having friends at Washington power
ful enough to snatch this delicious
piece of pie from the counter that
otherwise would have gone to fatten
the faithful. They mourn and he re-
joices.