The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-07-25

pear before the Silver Party and Demo-
cratic State and County Conventions
to submit his claims for political prefer
ment has purchased harmonica,, and
there will be no use for brass bands
this year.
There is an old warming to the I'M
wary to look out for the man who first
cries 'thief, thief, catch him. and it
would turn out TO be very strange to
me five ought not to look out for the
man who cries Harmony, harmony;
let us have harmony the loudest and
longest. fear all such will go into
the Conventions with harmonica in
hand, and come out with chip on the
shoulder. But what have the Conven-
tions to do with outside quarrels2 Why
should harmony be counseled? There
is no discord amongst the delegates
themselves. Why introduce any? !
believe the delegates should sit down
on the harmonica band, and proceed
to business irrespective of the claims
and demands of any individual, and
look out for the interests of the party
only, and as awhole.
understand the following to be one
of the plans to accomplish fusion of
the Democratic and Silver Party forces:
The two conventions to meet.separate-
ly, and appoint a conference committee
of about five each. This committee
win meet and apportion the offices,
the Democrats to take, for instance,
the Attorney Generalship, and perhaps
another Office. For such office no one
but Democrats will be voted for. The
Silver Party then to take the rest of
the Offices, and no one but Silver Party
men to be voted for such offices. After
the offices are thus divided, the two
conventions meet together and cast
their ballots according to their prefer
ences. have no plan to advocate; at
the last convention l advocated plan,
and won out, and caused more stink
than little. But there are other
plans. believe the adoption of plan
will depend on how the best political
manipulators may be affected unless
the conventions take the bit by the
teeth andrun away with the machine.
General Chaffee declared that there
had been a miscarriage of justice in the
cases of Major Waller and Lieutenant
Day, who were court-martialed for the
execution of Filipinos. He says that
with the exception of three Filipinos
who had deserted, no overt acts were
committed by the carcadorres, but, on
the contrary, "those sent to their death
continued to the last to carry the arms
and ammunition of the soldiers after
they were no longer able to bear them,
and they rendered in their impassive
way suchservices as deepened the con-
viction that without their assistance,
many of the marines who now survive
would also have perished.o Plainly
stated, the Filipinos carried the arms
of the soldiers, and helped the soldiers
to get to the marines in time to save
many who would otherwise have per-
ished, and under the orders of Waller
and Day they were shot for it. Chaffee
has been recalled to he.United States.
Wonder if he will fare any better than
Miles, or share his fate.
The plan to extend the Sutro tunnel
from the Alta shaft to Silver City is
grand scheme. 1t would tend to de-
velop the most promising mineral sec
ton in western Nevada. 1t would
drain the mines to depth of about 600
feet, and open for development a min
eral section mile in width and prob
ably three miles in length of gold bear
ing rock. Every reasonable effort
should be put forth to encourage the
corporation which has undertaken to
do the work to Immediately proceed
with it. But by this do not mean to
say that the mine owners, leasors and
tributers, should give all they have, as
it appears 30 me by Che outline of the
published contract they are asked to
do. They are asked to pay ten cents a
bon per mile to haul their waste rock
out. From Silver City to the mouth of
the Sutro tunnel, in the roundabout
way traversed, is distance of about
8 miles, making charge of so cents a
ton for hauling waste. The Cmstock
contains about 1000 tons of waste to
one ton of pay ore; but of course it is
not all hauled out. However, very
much waste is hauled compared to pay
rock in quantity. They ask 10 per
cent. royalty on the gross proceeds of
the mines; the tributers and leasors
now pay about 10 per cent. to the
owners; this would make 20 per cent.
chat,1a AGAINST the tributar and laasor