The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-09-19
{" o O POLITICS"

The washoe County Democratic Gen.
TIA, Committee has for a second time
demanded the removal of DIR. w. II.
Patterson, a Republican, as Superin-
tendent of the Nevada Insane Asylum.
and that a Democrat be appointed to
ill the position.
State Controller s. p. Davis, in a let
ter to the Committee. read at the meet
iag held in Reno. Saturday, September
6, y 81 believe as does your Com
mittee, that there should be none en-
ployed in the asylum, or in any way
connected with it, but out-and- o
members of the Silver Democratic party
of the State. . / regard the
action of your Committee as timely and
good politics, and that attention to its
suggestions will materially strengthen
the party in Washoe County, which
will naturally be the storm center at
the next general election in this State"
ITO the victors belong the spoils" is
the coup d'e-tat of Controller Davis. So,
too, was it the election cry in Nevada
last Fall. Voters were convinced that
parties would do certain things, when
the real intention of the leaders was to
do something quite different.
There has been an awakening. Vic
tors have been despoiled. Washoe
County, the war seat for the next gen.
eral election, called a council, and set
up a war whoop that Democratic
pledges to party followers have been
grossly violated" And the yell was
heard all over the State. Then a ratifi-
cation council was held and, presto, the
disloyal utterances of the Washoe Coun-
ty Democratic Central Committee were
suppressed. And it really looks as If
the Silver-D Democratic press of "Storm
Center" was muzzled.
If it be ''good politics. that M b1s
out-and-out members of the Democratic
Silver party enjoy all appointments
within the gift of the governing body
of that party. it may be timely to call
the attention of the Washoe County
Democratic Central Committee to an
appointment that has been overlooked.
1t will materially strengthen the
party in Washoe County if the Commit
tee re-adopt its preamble of August "a,
particularly the paragraph OF. grossly
violated" pledges to the party followers,
with a new resolution, demanding the
removal of the very-pronounced. out
and-out. never-anything-else Republi-
can, who has been appointed by Gov.
Sparks of Washoe County, one of
the st. Louis Fair Commissioners, and
who will, undoubtedly, be the manager
of the Nevada Exhibit at st. Louis for
several months next year at a salary of
$685. a day, besides travelling ex.
penses.
AS a second tonic for the storm center
of 1904, the Washoe County Democratic
Central Committee should secure for
Major G. w. Ingalls,, a well known and
very competent member of the Silver
Democratic party, residing in Reno,
Washoe County. the appointment (pro-
missed prior to the election of November,
1909, of Commissioner to the Worlds
Fair at st. Louis, and of manager of
the Nevada Exhibit.
That James A. Yerington is well
qualified and Thoroughly familiar with
the resources and products of the State. "
as required by law, to fill the appoint
ment, is not questioned. Neither is the
administration of DR.. Patterson, whose
appointment the SENTINEL endorsed
and sustains. But MIR. Yerington is
an out-and-out Republican. DR.. Patter-
son says he is a Republican, and Sam
Davis declares that ito the victors be-
long the spoils" is good politics.
Just at the present time there is more
need than ever of good politics in Ne
vada, and it is very important that the
Washoe County Democratic Central
Committee be told of Silver-D Democratic
party actions that itsshuts its eyes to,
but which nevertheless weaken the
party in the State and particularly in
Washoe County-the storm center for
the next general election in this State.
Gould ia believed To be hack of the