Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-10-20
"A GREAT COMPLIMENT.
Why the Water R. K. Monop,
oily Are Fighting the
County Ticket.

The persistency with which the Re-
publicans of Ormsby attempt to make
the editor of the APPEAL the issue OF
the county campaign is certainly a
a great compliment to the Silver and
Democratic ticket.
: Unable to pick flaw in the ticket,
for it has none, they turn upon the
person they presume is responsible for
its being in the field and attempt to
make his personality the issue. In '92
the Silver party had just such ticket
in the field, ticket composed OF tax
payers and men of irreproachable
standing in the community, and they
were unable to successfully assail it.
They picked out the editor o. the AP
PEAL as the person responsible for
such ticket and hired irresponsible
suribblers and SINISTER stump speakers
to assail him.
The voters were quick to see the
point and elected the ticS..: from top
to bottom. The success OF the ticket
put an end to the reign of extravag-
ance which had marked the conduct of
county affairs, and it saved the taxpay-
ers ten thousand year.
Today the same sort of a ticket is be-
fore the voters, a ticket that cannot be
successfully criticized and they pay it
the compliment of making the APPEAL
i Z \ n; :, ~, DIN pninf IF attach
The ticket was not our making. It
was nominated by a convention of rep
resentative men and taxpayers of
Ormsby,. men who have the welfare
and prosperity of the people at heart.
While, as we have said before, we did
not construct the ticket, we are willing
to shoulder any responsibility connect
ed with it and we can assure the public
that it was chosen in open convention
and was not fixed up by clique of five
men selected by the water and V. & T.
Cos, as was the Republican ticket.
At the last city election the water
company knew that the nominations
by the people were men that they
could not handle. The enemies of the
ticket concluded that there was just
one way it could be dowaed, and that
was to convince the public that it had
its origin in the APPEAL Office. The
day before the election a circular was
distributed all over Carson, informing
the voters that the ticket was the work
of the APPEAL editor and therefore
the public should be warned in time.
| The voters were not seriously STAN
peded by this information and elected
the ticket, which the water. company
had been kind enough to put a tag on,
by an overwhelming majority.
What was the result. The books of
the City Trustees show the result. The
result was an ad ADMINISTRATION for the
first time in years in the interest of the
people, the Inauguration of business
methods in the conduct of city affairs,
the cutting down of useless expenses
the wiping out OF the city indebtedness:
and the unusual spectacle of the city
being able to pay its debts and hav.
ing money in the treasury.
Where had the leak been? It was
: very easily located. The leak was in
} the exorbitant price paid the Electri,
3 Light Co. and the Carson Water Co.
both off shoots of the V. & T. r. r
monopoly.
These institutions have been fatten
ing off the citizens Of Carson for year
and the APPEAL has compelled then
to loosen some of their tentacles. Their
is no business sense in running tn,
county and city governments merely t,
let these hoggish corporations slice OF
:s*,, the fat and leave the taxpayers will
g the bonded debts
a The people u this county have givey
e the Y. & T. people over half million
: cold cash, not as loan but as fire.
n gift, and they have taken this none,
! to start new schemes by which the
ple's pockets
The road was the gift of the peopl
of Washoe, Storey and Ormsby. B
G handling the County Commissiodel
It they got the boa Is issued as a gift an
d never paid back Il dollar. They eve
made the dupes who loaned them th
money pay the interest. Suppose tn
people of these three counties had il
4 sued these bonds for the benefit of th
counties themselves? The result woul
have been that the dividends of tn
road would have paid the expenses
running the several county COVER,
ments and relieved the people abst
lutely from taxation, and there woul
have been an influx of capital to the:
\ counties and Reno, Carson and vi
ginia would have been twice as flourish
ing as now.
III When the people Of Ormsby wante
to vote S4OO, 600 worth of bonds to gi,
the proceeds thereof to the V. & T.,