The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-07-15
The Herald Preferred To
ADOid the Real Issue

1t is not the policy IF the silver State to indulge in newspaper fights but
since the Wells Herald has presumed to make what was intended merely a q
political difference a personal matter, We beg the indulgence of or readers
If at this time we diverge from our established rule.
1t will be remembered that a number of days ago W took exception to al
article in thu Herald, because it appeared to US to be a very unjust and ungen-
temanly attack upon the integrity and honor of Senator Il A. Comins. In its
ely me Herald has again &! wn its puerle spirit inasmuch as 1t did not rtir'e
a single statement which re made at that time, but choseo on the contrary to cast
certain reflections upon the youth an inexperence of the editor of this paper
We may be youthful and we may be inexperienced, ut 1t Is several month
since re gave up running a country weekly and embarked upon a more K
tended newspaper career. 1t may be that our remarks were IS the Herald as
serts, not those OF a newspaper man, but those If a school boy. 1t matters
little to III in what category they may be placed, since they were 10Th SO pointed
OF 1T reply u YOU'D sem .h' 0e nefaa on.oe'u an a'"n 'p" Wy p
sonanty of the entcro Of this paper a much easier way out of the matter than
article If those are the tactics employed by newspaper men brains are surely
not at a premium in the profession.
Aside from the purely personal side Of the Heralds reply there were . few
explanatory remarks as to the position it has taken with regard to Senator
Herald says, ABOUT the ony. thing that can be held against Mr. Comns IS the
factt that he left the Democratic party about two years ago, after having been
. rood silver man for a number of years. Ii should 20 remembered that Senator
Comins was a Republican long before the silver movement began and also that
lie was never a Democrat at any time in his life. Hence when he finally realized
that the silver movement was dead he went back to the party Of his first love
and re weula advise the Herald to be just a bit careful about dending Mr.
Comins for that icaor, lseause there are a large number of good men IN the
state Of Nevada who believed and acted in the sam manner hi "a a@o
lutey the only explanation the Herald offered lin support Of the unreasonable at
titule it has assumed with regard to Mr.. Comins' candidacy for governor. 1t
concludes its reply with 2 sort Of peroraton which might ae don ecredt TO a
Webster we're it not that it is entirely lacking in the logic so characteristic of
of the latter The conclusion is a follows:
He. had been a slverte for some time; he went to the convention
at winnemucc, and, because the Silver party kicked him out, and the
Democrats would not have him, he had to go m place, and finally
darted back into the Republican party, which he deserted years before.
Now he wants to be governor o the Republican ticket and the boy just
from school is in with him. Again the Herald ASSERTS "what in thun-
der made Senator Comms believe that anyone could consider him good
material for GOVERNOR"
There are W reasons, then, why the Herald is SO opposed to Senator Com
ms first because he changes his views o. a subject when he sincerely believes
in with him." 1t is quite apparent that in the first he is very different from
the editor Of the Herald, and that reminds us of a little proverb to the effect
that a wise mn changes his mind, etc, but it would hardly be consistent with
our policy to repeat the rest of the provrb, since it might be mistaken for a
reflection upon the character of the Herads editor. Modesty forbids up from
inlmatng that the second reason is 10 objection to MI. Comins' aspiring to the
governOrship unless it be because, as the Herald says W e have not beer con
nected with Nevada politics SO very long. We have beer connected long enough
however to find that a mar more honest than Senator Comins never appeared
upon the political armament tin this state. We admire honesty in men and ese-
cany in politicians, but those ire probably school boy antics and are there
fore Questionable to the editor of the Herald.