Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-11-13
RETROSPECTIVE
Backward Chances Over the
CAMPAIGN


20o0 miles in Stages, freight trains, %ratt!"
ears and cabo"-es, -ul~i~ttng on vHrr"l>
Kinds uf grub. and not getting as n rule
over four hours of sleep out of twenty
four.
Its a great life this campaigning. Won
reach a station ON Il bclrted train At :
O'Clock in tn" ~norrimg,tiut all the beds at
the hnrel occupied and lit in chars in the
bar room until 6"rl"ck, and after sW"i-
lowing It nasty breakfast, clint" oct" tie
deck of u stage ami start OU y sixty mile
Tin, ovpra road that - lined with six
tinc'I.s of dust a. fine IS xxx t'e3r.
Whenever one sits up At III h t. catch
thetwcl,e o'clock train Il uA..r lines
dong until four in tn N brnIn. rnl the
crowd that sits up in the har room 10 help
Won vile awav the hours are always
afflicted with a horrilla thirst. not for
c,mpaign literature, tut bottle I beer and
old Bourbon.
II is useless to talk about the Bland
Bill or the Shprmnu purchase At wi h
these night owls. they have all threShed
over that question and merely want t"
drink the health of the whole ticket from
the top down. Drinking the health of
the ticket is one of their strong sUit<, and
having rracti"ei for weeks drinking to
the Democratic ticket, the R"puhli"an
ticket and the r~ol'uljSt ticket, they f'}l in
= line gracefully and easy on the Silver
ticket az u matter Of course.
The ouenching Of the thirst Cf sage
brush voters is not accounted for Hn1er
the Parity Act, it is merely an every dav
act of sncia,nlitv incidental to travel in
| the >agrbru-h.
V The ONLY time the writer made a
serious hrosk WAS when he treated hrlf a
dozen meu who tHmhlrd in from a train
' at Battle Mountain. After they drank
they conveyed The inflammation hat they
q vere hraak beam tourists ON their way
: to San Francisco.
The Governor gave , man q pull ut a
bottle of Cuiters Best. t. learn a
later that lie WAS ON his way Oregon
where he liz ed. Conversation ON politics
ceased at once and tie man started his
onIes to tho or1hword.
Tho Governor ALWAYS asked for "rick-
ad onail" at the little stape >tatlons. and
, one lanAlady renlied:
"wa arc inst ont Governor. Mr.. Me-
= MILAN WAS hore YESTERDAY aud at. the
-, last that we had"
Atone >tace # teton a man got off the
s,,ro md vailed i'm tho oar of deaf man,
.R,I1v Elkins wants q horse here al
six o,rIock ~
.N.rho ba a,os and uavhe he don't ,
! WAS n ra,lv
.T toll ynn,, yelled the other. ali.
br,tbar died thi. morriur. He must HAY
- .. b,rs. ,o on to Tus.arora"
"N,vha b.,s dead and u,ayhe he mint
10 WAS all the replv that we could pp
or ont of him
n cLur.h.s and saloons were str,ct1,
in ~rolitics all over IN. State. 1t wa
- ahout AN even thing betM cen them " h
cot tbec audidates money. The only dit
ference WAS that Won had to hunt The
sa!oous Will. the chur,hps hunted yol
Inst aft4r 1unch at the hotels the canIi
~ dates wonld he sent for and two swet
VI fa,aa vouug women would meet on
with . c,rdiaI Grin of the hand AMI som
~ .burnh irket. +, sell
" II was impossible for any man. l.
alone a sentative and ~eptanle cand
date to resist these pleasant appeal
male in the jntereste of the Lord All
they were seldom refused. 1t va
really a pleasure to meet these laiit
IL. H. thew were usual the flower of til
3 ,arsh whose WAYS were winning beyon
IN te.criution.
i'm each town and after the churcht