Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-12-07
POLITICAL DOINGS AS SEEN
BY THE GOLDFIELD NEWS

Rather early in the season to talk
politics. but all over the state there
is an undercurrent that persists in
making surface swirls indicative of
the basal activity. and this undercur-
rent shows that the next state cam
paisn will perhaps be the hottest in
the history of the State of Nevada,
says the Goldfeld News.
Party lines to some extent-to a
great extent-lost sight # in this pre-
season activity. the line up on the one
hand being devoted to finding the
strongest and most logical candidate
to deliver the state from the bondage
OF certain powers that now reign SUI
preme; activities on the other hand
being devoted to ways and means for
holding the supremacy now enjoyed.
The interests against whom the
battle is being planned are slightly
different in the northern and southern
parts of the state, yet these interests
recognize that they must stand In"
with one another in order to avoid the
pending landslide.
The one side has the sack" and is
already beginning to open it in tle
purchase or subsidizing of papers in
debatable territory. as well as in ter
ritory which has heretofore been or
ganization territory. but now is on the
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ing over the fence. On the other
side there Is no sack" 1t will be a
fight of the mass of the people of the
state against the corporate interests. !
the one side depending upon the well !
known purchasing power Of the dol |
lar and of federal and state and !
have nothing to offer but government |
OF, by and for the people; official in
tegrity. equal rights to all, and the
development of the state naturally /
following upon freedom from con-
troll by and in the interests of the !
few.
In the principal counties of Nevada,
town and county governments have
for years been the exclusive property
OF certain mining or railway interests,
or of the two combined. The State
Legislature has been in the same con-
troll, and has named the ruling Sena.
tor from the state. From the same
power has come the naming of the
Federal judges anr the various state
and district appointees who have to
do with the direct welfare of the peo-
pie. The people have had one great
privilege-that of paying taxes, and
the taxes fixed by the "pewers be-
hind"
So the reason for early interest in
the coming state campaign is mani
fest. During the coming campaign
some very unpleasant things are GO !
Ing to be said and published. The
people will have to be educated into
knowing how little they have been
buying with their tax money; educat
cd as to how completely their hands
have been tied in the matter of self
governmeny The interests" recog-
nize that education Is coming from
the opposite side. so the interests"
are acquiring or have purchased the
control of a paper In Goldfeld. anoth-
err In Reno, another in Rhyolte, annth
or in Tonopah, one prospectively in
Ely. and time will show other papers
that have come into the fold only TO
be discarded and left on their last
legs when the corporate interests
shall have been served. II
We are not trying to clinch any
point or frame any moral. We mere
ly want the Independent voter to
wake up to the fact that the political
is moving, that his help and ,
advice are needed and that he must
needs keep his eyes open. Something {
Is likely to happen most any day now.
In the line of active, practical poll
tics. The pot has begun to bOii.