The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-04-27

Considerable interest attaches to the
proceedings of the Silver Party State
Central Committee at Reno on the 18th
instant, and we have been requested
to publish the following account of the
meeting from the Virginia Report.
The Report editor, John L. Considine,
is member of the Committee.
The result of the Silver Party State
Central Committee meeting at Reno
Thursday was a blow to bossism and
victory for fusion, but victory that
was not won without much hard fight
ing. 1t was blow to G. G. Wallace,
but the proceeding showed that if it
was not for the tremendous pressure
in favor of fusion throughout the State,
Wallace would have controlled the
committee against the measure.
For the first time in the history of
the Silver Party the boss himself at
tended the committee meeting in the
capacity of a member, being there up
on proxy He handed in resolutions,
he voted on every measure and talked
till the cows came home He threat
ened, pleaded, begged, stormed and
scolded by turns, but in the windup
was forced to bow to the inevitable in
the form of resolution declaring in
favor of uniting with the Democrats,
and appointing a subcommittee to
make arrangements to that end.
The Committee met at IL o'clock in
the Court House in Reno, Judge Curler
having donated the use of his cham
bers for the occasion. The credentials
of the various delegates presented were
examined and reported upon by
committee appointed for the purpose
and then the trouble began.
Secretary Rolf, who is a parliamen-
tartan of rare ability, was elected tenn
porary chairman, and presided through
out the meeting. J. F. Mcdonnell of
Storey and NJ. Sheeline of Washoe
were placed in nomination for perma-
nent chairman and this was the first
test of strength between the Wallace
and the anti-Wallace forces. Wallace
had his little band of proxies under
noble control and they elected Sheeline.
Then the resolutions began to tumble
in. A. Livingston, who held a proxy
for Harry Gorham of Storey, put in a
set of resolutions declaring it to be the
sense of the meeting that the COM
mittee have nothing to do with fusion,
that being matter properly within
the province of the coming State Con-
vention.
This meant, practically, a knockout
for fusion. And C. c. Wallace, who
with tears in his eyes and more water
drops in his voice afterwards declared
himself fusionist, at this point moved
the adoption of the resolutions.
w. E. Sharon here presented an
other resolution accepting the invita-
ton of the Democrats to merge ac-
cording to the ideas outlined by them
at their December meeting and its
adoption as a substitute to the Wallace
resolution was moved.
A third resolution calling for a Sill
yer Party convention to meet at the
same time and in the same town as the
coming Democratic State Convention
was also proposed as a substitute for
the other two.
Then the fur flew. John Considine
of the Storey delegation arose and de-
nounced Wallace for his advocacy of
the first resolution. The member from
Storey stated that he had not much
hope of converting the meeting by
any remarks he might make, as nearly
half were proxy holders in the hands
of Wallace. He went on to state that
the people of the State would repudi-
ate any man who voted for the Wallace
resolution or against the second sub
stitute.
The reference to proxy holders
seemed to touch Gov. Sadler on the
raw. and he turned loose a torrent of
mangled coquence but did not have
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very much to say after the inquisitive
member from Storey called attention
to the fact that the two loudest mouthed
advocates of the Wallace resolution
were Wallace himself and Governor
Sadler, and inquired of these two elo-
ouent gentlemen who was it chat was
most instrumental in electing DR.. Pat
terson, gold-bug Republican, to the
Superintendency of the State Insane
Asylum Neither of the interesting
pair made any reply to this very pert
inent question
After some further talk, one of Mr..
Wallace's friends moved-just for the
sake of harmony, so he said-to lay all