Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-01-15

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Senate in violation of his pledge to the
Silver party convention and to Senator
Stewart has made matters very plain.
Mr.. Newlands claims the votes of the
Republicans in the legislature on the
ground that he is in accord with the
Republican Administrations the fnan-
cial and tariff questions. He also claims
the support of the Democrats in the
legislature on the ground that he is a
good free trade Democrat and agrees
with the Democracy on all financial
questions. The members of the legis-
lature will have to judge for themselves
whether a man can be a sound Repub-
lican and q good Democrat at one and
the same time. There is no doubt that
Newlands was a Democrat in California
or that he was a Republican after he
crossed the mountains, aud that he was
afterwards elected several times to Con-
gress as a silver man. 1t is also true that
he assisted the Republicans and Demo-
Gratis Ill his meager way in the last CAM
paign, and that he paid $3.50 as his
assessment in the Silver party. The
question for the people to decide is
whether such juggling gives Mr.. New
lands a claim to the votes of Republi-
cans, Silver men, and Democrats in good
standing III each of those parties. Mr..
Newlands alleges in effect that Sharon
told Wallace before election that he,
Newlands, would break his pledge to
Senator Stewart after election, and as
signs that as a reason why it is honorable
for him to become a candidate for the
United States Senate when he is pledged
by his own voluntary action to Senator
! Stewart, and also to the Silver party
convention. Is Newlands' assertion thai
. Sharon told Wallace in effect that New
lands would be false to Stewart any more
justification for Newlands' dishonesty
than would Il threat by a bank teller
that the president would steal the funds
of the bank be a justification of the
presidents larceny?
Who exonerateI Mr.. Newlands from
the pledge het 5 obtain the nomi-
nation of the ST.. trty! That pledge
related to the.4te- ion OF lSe1ator
Stewart, and coltinue>. ntil ,-e legis-
/ lature had either eleu r defeated the
Senator. Mark ne ~languaat:
eve earnestly recommend the r~e-elec-
ton of William NJ. Stewart to the Senate
of the United States, and pledge the
Silver party of Nevada and the nominees
of this convention to his suppor for that
office"
| Mr.. Newlands contends that the fore
I going pledge does not hold good until
the election of a United States Senator,
and although he admits that Senator
Stewart has a large number of the mem-
bers o. lie Legislature and is still a can
I didat' he is at liberty to break his
| pledgs .preventSenator Stewart from
holding MS friends in the legislature
and Claiming enough other votes to
4 elect him. The statement of such a
contention brands the conduct of Mr..
= Newlands i'll such a name as it would
L not be polite in a newspaper to fully de-
, scribe. The imagination of the people
u must supply the requisite language to
: d~enounce such conduct.
Mr.. Newlands assumes that the peo-
pie of the state have elected a ~legisla-
ture favorable to him for United States
- Senator when he was pledged to Senator
Stewart during the entire campaign and
was publicly pretending that he was
= III favor of the election of Senator
" Stewart but that he wanted the votes of
the people to return him to Congress.
Is it honorable i'll him, after having
secured the votes Of the people for Con
gress, to contend that they were voting
y for him for another office which he was
&c not only not a candidate for, bat pledged
u to another candidate for that Office:
Does Mr.. Newlands think it compliment.
tary to the Republicans of the ~leeisla.
= ture to assume that they were s~ecretl,
AZ committed to him during the campaign
when they were running as Republican,
and not as sellouts? Does Mr.. New
lands desire to disgrace members of tn,
h Legislature by claiming that they wer,
lie secretly pledged to him while they cor
tended before the people hat they wer.
straight Republicans, and if elected
On would represent the Republican party
an These are new tactics which Mr.. New
is lands has imported into the politics o
Nevada. No such disgraceful scheme
was ever charged upon any member o
ds the legislature before. Does Mr.. New