The San Francisco call., 1898-08-27
SILVER PARTY IS DOMINANT
NOMINATION EQUIVALENT TO
 ELECTION.
Governor SadIer Hopes to Succeed Himself, but His Opponents
 Are Saying Many Mean Things of Him.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

 RENO, New, Aug. 26.-The political pot in Nevada has commenced to warm up. Even now, with but one primary : election held Cthat of the Silver party) the political temperature in the shade :: makes that of the arid, sun-scorched Nevada desert seem like a cool summer , resort. The Silver party in this State . feels so strong that, in the assumed ab- sence of a real contest with any other :. political party, they think they can af- ford to have a red-hot fight among themselves. The production of silver Is looked upon as a home industry. and the party feels no doubt about making the people believe that the free and unlimited" etc, is still a live issue, that its adoption would prove a god send to the State, and. therefore, it does not anticipate any trouble in electing all of it's candidates.
 It has not occurred to the leaders as :. yet that they cannot fool all the peo- pie all the time. or that it might be far cheaper 10 the country at large to make the silver-producing States present to the value of all the silver they might produce to the end of time and keep a good currency, than to adopt their harum- scarum plan in order to give their home product value which does not belong to 1t.
 With unshaken confidence in it's abil- ity to elect WnOmsoeVer it nominates the silver party convention will assem- ble here on September $, with three active, hopeful candidates for guber- . material honors and almost aa equal number of prospective candidates for . each of the other places to be filled Up to about three weeks ago It was thought that Governor SadIer would have little or no opposition, but as the . primaries came on and the talk about his fayorS to priZe-fghters and lack of interest in and support for the State University and other State institutions cryStallized, and since his best friends could not deny that he proposed to Keep BergStein at the asylum and sup port Jones against Fitzgerald for the tudgeship, a very definite opposition made its appearance with the result, as indicated by the returns, that he was turned down" in Washoe County to the tune of about 19 to l, in Ormsby 10 to Tin short. that in ali proba bility he will not have single solid delegation not even Eureka where he claims resi- dence, and that he will fall far short . oi the required plurality in the conyen- ton. The Governor came down from Carson apparently to see what had struck him. He found plenty of fences to mend, but took an optimistic view of the situation and hoped for better luck at the convention. He is said to have asked what the strained rela- tons between Germany and America had to do with politics in Nevada?" without having received satisfactory reply.
 be divided in their choice of the best man to beat him with between Evan Williams, Lem Allen and A. c. CleVe- land. The mere mention of Evan Will Hams name has brought to the front so many vivid recollectiOnS Of him and his little blackboard" In the Hale & Norcross case. and his connection with the Carson mint scandal in 1854. all or which so far rebound to every '. thing except glory or honor to him, that his friends have found themselves unable to stay by their guns or to draw the main opposition to Sadler their way
 A c: Cleveland. the alleged Silver .Republlcan, once infa- nous for his bolt out or the National Republican Con Eenton Tn St. Louis in 1S96 has many 1rlehos among the delegates, but it seems to De an open question whether the majority wish to make him a can didate against Sadler for Governor or against Stewart for United States Sen ator. Many think that he is the only man who would have any cbopce
 
 :. decided not to make the contest and that he should be supported for that place in order to keep Stewart on the anxious seat and in d generous mood
 Lem Allen will find strong support In the convention, WaShOe County stand ing almost as a unit for him. About t1a worst that has been said against him is that he has not had the benefit of anything extra in the way of education. and does not understand all the advan- tages that should be offered to the youth of to-day at the State Univer sity.
 It was hoped by many that Francis G. Newlands would put up a fight against Stewart for the United States Senatorship, but it seems definitely settled that he prefers the sure thing of d seat In the House, to a contest for the higher honor.
 There are so many bees in so many bannets'' for the other places on the