The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-08-16
PART OF GOV. sApLER's
POLITICAL RECORD.


Elko Independent, October 20, 1898: Gov
ernor Ssdler and his friends are trying to
make considerable capital out Of his stand on
the quarantine question hat disturbed the
cattlemen so much last Spring. A little ex-
animation of the record then made by Gov
ernor Sadler will show that he alone is re-
sponsible for the trouble caused the cattlemen.
On March IL Senator Stewart t~elegraphed
Governor Sadler that the cattlemen Of Cali
fornis wanted the quarantine removed so that
they could drive their cattle into Nevada to
save them from starvation, and asked the
Governor what the cattlemen said about il.
To this dispatch the following reply was sent:
"CARsoN CRY, March IL, 1902.
"W. M. STEWART: Stockmen admit that
Nevada ranges are pretty well depleted Of
cattle by Eastern buyers. Men in Humboldt
county have bought cattle in California to
stock their ranges and cannot bring them here
because of quarantine regulations. Farmers
who raise hay want more cattle in the State,
so that they will have a market for their feed
next Winter. There cannot at present be any
valid objection to raising quarantine and let
ting healthy cattle come into the State. 1t
will increase taxable property, utilize feed on
the range and benefit alfalfa growers.
"R SADLER."
To this dispatch Senator Stewart replied
that the Secretary of Agriculture would in
clude Nevada in the infected territory proper,
and remove the quarantine if the people Of
Nevada desired it. To this the Governor re-
piled hat he did not believe the cattlemen
would favor the proposition of the Secretary
of Agriculture, as it would put Nevada under
the ban of Introduction.
These dispatches reached Elko on Sunday
morning, March Is, and created a good deal
of commotion in the ranks of the Elko
County Cattle Association. A meeting was
held and a dispatch was sent to Senator Stew
art protesting against placing Nevada under
quarantine laws, or of raising the quarantine
between Nevada and any infected district. A
dispatch of the same tenor was also sent to
Governor Sadler. After these dispatches
were sent the matter hung fire for some time
and the Governor finally called a meeting of
the cattlemen at Carson. The meeting adopt.
ca siOh6 abdAhot AaAoAhb ~ dudi-
antine and demanding its enforcement. This
stiffened the Governors backbone which had
shown signs Of weakening and the cattlemen
won their fight.
From this brief outline of the quarantine
matter it will be seen that the whole difficulty |
was caused by Governor Sadler's first dispatch
to Senator Stewart. Had he taken the proper
stand then the cattlemen would have been
saved a great deal Of trouble and anxiety and
there would have been no necessity to call q
convention of cattlemen at Carson to bolster
up the Governors political aspirations. The
defeat of the scheme was due to the prompt |
action of the Elko County Cattle Association
and it should have the credit, not Governor |
Sadler.
SadIer Deserts the SiIrer Party.
White Pine News, Nov. 8, 1898 \ 4
1t is generally understood and believed,
that after the adjournment of the Legislature
in March, 1895, Lieutenant-G Governor Sadler
declared to Governor Jones that he was a Re-
publican and nc longer a member of the Silver |
Party. This statement was made in the Gov |
ernor's Office, and at a later meeting of the
Capitol Commissioners Upon a public stand
in Eureka, some days later, he made a similar
declaration. When did he get back to the
Silver Party, or is he yet q Republican!
The Governor Shirked.
Elko Independent, March 80, 1899: The
bill creating the office of Livestock Inspector
has become a Law without the Governors |
signature. This is another evidence that the
ways of our Governor in regard to bills passed
by the Legislature are mysterious and past
finding out. The Independent is informed
that the principal cattlemen of the State re-
quested the Governor to veto the bill because
it placed every man engaged in the livestock
industry at the mercy of his enemies and ere.
ated q useless Office. Their protests seem to |
have had the effect of making him dodge the
issue and let the bill become a law.
Sadler and the Supreme Court.
White Pine News, Nov. 8, 1899: So Nc.
MILAN thinks that the Supreme Court did not
treat him fairly. Lord bless us, who ever
thought that it would! After raking Sadler's
chestnuts out of the fire by stamping the
State for him last Fall, was it reasonable to
suppose that the honorable Judges would al.
low those same chestnuts to burn up in court?
Fair, or unfair, the decision was just what
everybody in this part of the State expected,
and Mr.. Mcmillan should take his medicine
without making faces. At the" next State
election the people will have something to say
about both Governor and Judges of the Su.
preme Court.