Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-11-06
A GREAT COMPLIMENT
Why the Water R. K. Monop>
oily Are Fighting the
County Ticket.


the editor of the APPEAL the issue of
the county campaign is certainly q
a great compliment to the Silver and
Democratic ticket.
for it has none, they turn upon the
person they presume is responsible for
its being 10 the field and attempt to
make his personality the issue. In '92
the Silver party had just such ticket
in the field, a ticket composed of tax
payers and men of irreproachable
standing in the community, and they
we're unable to successfully assail it. |
They picked out the editor of the AP-
PEAL as the person responsible for
such ticket and hired irresponsible |
scribblers and SINISTER stump speakers |
to assail him.
The voters were quick to see the
| point and elected the ticket 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 tSxpay.
ers ten Thousand year.
Today the same sort of ticket is be-
fore the voters, a ticket that cannot be
successfully criticized and they pay it
the compliment of making the APPEAL
their main point of attack.
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. 4 7.
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
t could not handle. The enemies Of the
ticket concluded that there vas just
, one way it could be dowred, 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
r the voters that the ticket was the work
= of the APPEAL editor and therefore
the public should be warned in time
The voters We're not seriously STAN.
!, peded by this Information and elected
= the ticket, which the water company
> had been kind enough to put tag on
I by an overwhelming majority.
What was the result. The books OF
e the City Trustees show the result. The
e result was an ad ministration for the
first time in years in the interest of the
IS 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 cit,
& being able to pay it's debts and hav
ing money in the treasury.
e Where had the leak been? It wa
e very easily located. The leak was il
n the exorbitant price paid the Electri
r. Light Co. and the Carson Water Co.
=, both off shoots of the V. Il T.. r. r
monopoly.
These institutions have been fatten
ing Off the citizens Of Carson for wear
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
= all the fat and leave the taxpayers witt
5. the bonded debts.
oi The people of this county have give
TO the V. q I. people over half a millio
h cold cash, not as a loan but as a fire,
it gift. and they have taken this none
! to start new schemes bv which the
can snake more, dividends from the nee
pies pockets
The road was the gift of the peopl
of Washoe, Storey and Ormsby 3
handling the County Commissioner
1e they got the bonds issued as gift an,
never paid back "a dollar They eve
=, made the dupes who loaned them tn
q money pay the interest. Suppose tn
people of these three counties had is
IN sued these bonds for the benefit of tn
st counties themselves? The result woul,
n have been that the dividends of tn
road would have paid the expenses {
running the several county govern
ments and relieved the people abso
lutely from taxation, and there woul,
have been an influx of capital to thes
counties and Reno, Carson and vi,
e. ginia would have been twice as flourish
"a ing as now.
4 When the people of Ormsby wante
TO vote $500, 600 worth of bonds to Civ
the proceeds thereof to the V. & T.,
was all very well, and also $50, 900 in
terest piled on top. When the peopl
he OF Carson desire to issue bonds to civ
lg themselves municipal water and ge
20 some OF their money back. the r. r
people, the only benefcaries of bon
= money in this county, object and will
Or spend money to defeat the project.