The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-10-27
MONDAY ...............oCToBER q, 1902
Mr.. RUDDELL UNJUSTLY ATTACKED.

The Lovelock Tribune is making a fight
candidate for County Commissioner which
is sure to increase his majority. The last
issue of the paper contains an especially
ugly attack, one which, by the way, could
have emanated from no other mind than
tha which directs the destiny of that bril-
liant exponent of Republicanism and
blackguardism, the Lovelock Tribune.
But, as we said in the beginning, Mr..
Ruddell will lose nothing by the attack
made upon him by the Tribune. The
source of the Tribune's enmity is too we'll
known for its condemnation to have any
but an opposite effect to that intended
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Ruddell
OF the Lovelock Justice of the Peace case,
the facts regarding which are too famil-
lar to need repetition here. The Tribune
championed the cause of George Young
and abused Mr.. Ruddell and the other
members of the Board of County Commits
sioners for declaring Young's office va
cant and appointing a successor. The
action of the Board, it should be borne
in mind, was sustained by a decision of
the District Court.
The outcome of the case was a defeat
now he is trying to obtain a petty revenge
on Mr.. Ruddell, the only member of the
Board who is a candidate for reelection,
by publishing venomous articles against
him which are little short of libelous.
Simple justice to Mr.. Ruddell demands
that the cause for the Tribune's unjust
attacks upon him be pointed out.
Now, as to MI. Ruddelrs candidacy.
there is also something which should be
said. He has made one of the best Com
missioners this county has ever had. The
present Board is acknowledged to have
given the county the best administration
in it's history, one marked by intelligent
business management in its every branch
Substantial public improvements have
been made in the towns and throughout
the county and yet the expenditures for
these purposes have not resulted in in
Board has managed the county's business
so well that the rate of taxation has been
reduced each year, and yet it is now on
an absolute cash basis and in better imam
.cial condition than ever before.
Mr.. Ruddell has been a faithful repre-
sentative on the Board of the people Of
the county and has at all times been keen
~ alive to the interests of his particular
section, as is assuredly right. He has
proved himself an able public official and
understands the duties of the office thor
oughly. AS one of the members of the
Board which has given this county such
an excellent administration, Mr.. Ruddell
is entitled to his full share of the credit
due, and that credit is sufficient to entitle
him to reelection.
The people of Lovelock will fail in their
duty to a deserving public official If they
40 not give MT. INuuNell ~ &c NOtc anu
set the seal of their disapproval on the
tactics used by the libelous Tribune in it's
attempt to injure him.
The people of Winnemucca and other
parts of the county should support Mr..
Ruddell because he has been tried and
measures up to the standard of a first
class Commissioner, and because If re-
elected he will be a faithful representative
of their interests.
And, further. he should be reelected be-
cause he is a Democrat and entitled to
the support of every Democrat and Silver
party man in this county. where the very
name of Republican attached to a candi-
date ought to defeat him,