Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1900-09-08

pr,ss;on that / am under the influence OF
Mr.. Wallace, the Southern Pacific Com
pany. or any other person or corporation
they are ~fAlsehoods. | belong to no one.
I am the property Of no one. have made
no promises and no one has laid upon me
any pledge except those which are con-
tanned in your platform. | " no poiit-
cal debts exeep. those which | TO the
Republican party Of Nevada.
Il do not seek this Office for tie disgrace,
the dishonor, the corruption and the degra-
datiou which an unworthy man may
bring upon himself. | seek this office for
the high and splendid opportunities which
it affords to any young man who wishes
to distinguish himself in the performance
Of exalted duties. l seek this Office be
cause the time has come to redeem the
State; to show TO the world that Nevada
l. no longer a rotten borough, and to serve
notice on ambitious Californians that our
conventions and political parties shall no
longer be manipulated and our elections
| controlled by the brute force Of lawless
wealth.
These charges have been made for the
purpose Of influencing this convention; for
the purpose Of bringing into this campaign
a trivial and unworthy issue, and for the
purpose Of obscuring the real issue of this
campaign.
'Mr. Wallace is not a csndidate-he Is
not running for Office. For six years MIR.
Wallace was the leader Of the Silver
Party; the political manager for the South
ern Pacific Company, and the political man
ager for Mr.. Newlands. Mr.. Newlands
and Nj. Wallace were another David and
Jonathan. They belonged to the same
household Of faith. They were seeking
the same objects. They were using the
same methods. They wen equally de
voted TO the Southern Pacific Company.
During those six years Mr.. Wallace hlled
the State with bis praises Of Mr.. New
lands. During those six years Mr.. Wal
lace constantly, persistently and enthusi-
astically, urged the candidacy and election
Of Mr.. Newlands to Congress. Two years
ago Mr.. Newlands and Mr.. Wallace had a
failing out-not over the extortions Of the
Southern Pacific Company; not over polit-
ical methods, but over the fact that Mr..
Wallace would not support Mr.. Newlands
for the United States Senate. They now
hate each other with all the ardor of old
friends. They now hate each other As men
who once were friends can hate. This
sudden change of heart, this sudden antip-
athy for the railroad. this new hatred foI
Mr.. Wallace is not the result Of any grea,
love for the people, it WAS not begotten by
any great love for pure and clean politics.
On the contrary it is the outgrowth Of an
uncommon love for an Office which Of right
belongs to some actual, bona fde resident
of Nevada. Mr.. Newlasds and Mr.. Wal
lace nave had a falling out, and now there
Is a chance for other men to get their dues.
The merits Of their quarrel are not an ISSUE
IN this campaign. The question as 10
whether Mr.. Wallace viii support or op.
pose Mr.. Newlands is not an issue in this
campaign. The greatest issue Of this cam.
paign is Mr.. Newlands himself.
''Since when has Nevada been so poor in
men, so poor in brains, so poor in
character and integrity, that she
must needs send TO a neis hborine
State for a Congressman? In times past
Nevada has sent her own citizens 10 Con.
gress. Did any one Of them ever cause
Nevada to blush! Was any ore Of them
lacking in ability or integrity! Go back
over the list. Bartine, Woodburn, Gas.
sidy, Daggett and Wren. Is there any one
in Nevada who wishes TO blot from her
history the pages which these men have
filed? Is there a Nevadan who Is not
proud Of the record which these men made!
Was any Nevada Congressman ever q
tool for a corporation?
"Did any Nevada Congressman ever
make a practice Of delivering silver speeches
in Nevada and writing Gage letters In
Washington? Did any Nevada Congress.
man ever advocate a protective tariff in
Nevada and dodge the Dingley bill in Wash.
~ington?
"Was any Nevada Congressman ever
accused Of being absent from his post Of
duty two-thirds of the time? Think of q
Nevada Congressman passing but one bill
for Nevada in six years, and that a little
$500 relief bill.
'Think of a Nevada Congressman re.
turning to his constituents after six years
of service, holding up before them as the
sum Of all that he had done-one $500 re-
lief bill-one bill for $780,
"Yas any Nevada Congressman ever so
completely under the control Of the South
ern Pacific Company that he would go be.
fore the Committee on Platform and Reso-
l~utions at his party convention and protest
against a resolution requiring that corpor.
alton to pay its just debts?
"People who live in glass houses should
not throw ~stones;' and men who have spent
a political lifetime in the service Of corpor-
ations should not attempt to play the DEM
agogue,