The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-11-19
STATE CONTROLLER SAM
DAVIS SAYS;


periences during the late campaign and
there is more truth than poetry in the
story. The candidates are held to the
strict letter OF the Purity law but no re-
strictions are placed upon the grafters.
At the present writing the editor of
the Appeal is unable to figure out
whether he has won his fight or lost it.
And is not losing a single hours sleep
over it.
During the campaign be travelled
over 1900 miles In stages, freight trains,
cattle cars and cabooses, subsisting on
various kinds of grub, and not getting
as rule over four hours sleep out OF
tweEty-four.
"It is great life, this campaigning.
You reach station on belated train
at 8 o'clock in the morning, find all the
the beds in the hotel occupied, and sit
in chairs in the barroom until 6 o'clock,
and after swallowing hasty breakfast
climb onto the deck OF stage and start
on sixty-mile trip over road that is
lined with six inches of dust as fine as
XXX -four.
"Whenever one sits up at night to catch
the IL o'clock train it never comes along
until O'Clock in the morning, and the
crowd that sits up in the barroom to
help you while away the hours are al
ways afflicted with horrible thirst, not
for campaign literature, but bottled beer
and old Bourbon.
at is useless to talk about the Bland
bill or the Sherman Purchase Act with
these night owls. They have all thresh-
ed over that question and merely want
to drink the Eealth OF the whole ticket,
from the top down. Drinking the
health of the whole ticket is one of their
strong suits, and having practiced for
weeks drinking to to the Democratic
ticket, the Republican ticket and the
Populist ticket, they fall in line grace
fully and easily on the Silver ticket as q
matter OF course. i
"The quenching of the thirst OF the
sagebrush voters is not accounted for
under the Purity Act, it is merely an
everyday act of sociability, incidental to
travel in the sagebrush.
"The only time the writer made
serious break was when he treated half
dozen men who tumbled in from
train at Battle Mountoin. After they
drank they conveyed the information
that they we're breakbeam tourists on
their way to San Francisco.
1.-THE Governor gave man pull at a
bottle of Cutters Best, to learn mo-
ment later that he was on his way to
Oregon, where he lived. Conversation
on politics ceased OF once and the man
started his mules to the northward.
"The Governor always asked for
picked quail' at the httle stage stations,
and one landlady replied
"'We are just out Governor, Mr.. Nc
MILAN was here yesterday and ate the
last we had.
"At one stage station a man got off
| ond yelled in the ear OF deaf man:
Billy Elkins wants horse here at
six o'clock. ;"
"'Maybe he does and may be he don't,
was the reply"
"'I tell you,' yelled the other, his
brother died this morning. He must
have horse to go to Tuscarora. ,"
'"Maybe he's dead and maybe he
amt, was all the reply that we could
get out of him."
"The churches and saloons were strict
ly in politics all over the State. 1t WAS
about an even thing between them who
got the candidates money. The only
difference was that you had to hunt the
saloons while the churches hunted you"
"Juat after lunch at the hotel the
candidates would be sent for and two
sweet-faced young women would meet
one with cordial grip of the hand and
some church tickets to sell.
at was impossible for any man, let
alone a sensitive and susceptible can
didate to resist these pleasant appeals
made in the interest OF the Lord and
they were seldom refused. 1t was real
ly pleasure to meet those ladies as
they were usually the flower OF the par
ish whose ways were winning beyond
description"
Each candidate tgnred up about what
expenses he expected to be able 10 stand
in each town and alter the churches
nailed portion OF his sack the saloons