Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-01-21
a QUEER APPOINTMENT.

President Mckinley Inns appointed
John s. Mayhugh OF Elko agent mt
the Western Shoshone Indian Res
ervation in this county. Tho an
nouncement Of his appointment
comes like a clap Of thunder on: OF
a 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 a Democratic standpoint the
politics OF this appointment IS hard
to size up. Mr.. Mayhugh, outward
lY ut least, has left the Republican
party aud burned all tho bridges be-
hind him. He is the chairman OF the
Silver party county committee OF this
county md took an active part in the
campaign last year for Mr.. Bryan
and, when that distinguished gentle
man passed through here in July, was
n OF the committee that went to
Wells to meet him and escort him to
Elko. IL, therefore, would seem TINT
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,
TINT this has been to him u passport
to the pie counter.
Ii this does not furnish the proper
solution to the appointment it viii
probably be found in the reported
combine Of the Nevada Senators with
the protectionists in the Senate when
the Dingley bill was before it for
passsge. 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
Il mess Of pottage. This appointment
h however, seems to confirm the re-
ported sale by which Senators Stex-
art and Jones helped to fasten upon
the people Of their State the mon
strous iniquitles Of the Dingley bill in
return for tho 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 INDEPENDENT is glad the ap.
pointment has fallen to a citizen OF
Nevada instead o, to Il carpet. bag
ger from the East. And so long as
the appointee could not be a Demo-
crat 1t would N soon see Nj. May
hugh at the Indian Agency as any
ono else. He will doubtless ill the
bill and take cart OF the wards OF the
Government rs we'll rs any dyed in
tho wool Republican.
Taking everything into considsra-
ton, however, the appointment is a
queer one viewed from n political
standpoint and it will cause a great
deal Of heartburning aud jealousy
among the faithful Republicans who
wont back on their State in tho last
election i'll order that they might DO
In line to receive favor from McKin-
ley in caso he was elected. Not all
the Nevada Republicans who sup
ported Mckinley did it from Il desire
to eat OF the crumbs, but IA great
many did. To them tho IFDEpESpExr
extends its sympathy for the aiIlic-
ton that has fallen upon them by
reason OF MIR. Mayhugh's appoint
ment.
In con%gratulates Mr.. Mayhuph in
having friends at Washington power.
full enough to snatch this delicious
piece OF pie from the counter that
otherwise would have gone to fattcn
the faithful. They mourn and he re-
~joices.