Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1910-01-10

CARSON CITY DAILY APPEAL
CARSON CITY, NEVADA
Published s,ery evening, Sunday excepted
APPEAL BLDG, CORNER OF MAIN AND SECOND SIS
s.,es: BY Carrier 81 a montn~s1s a year. By Mail S a year in advance.
OFFICIAL ORGAN or oawssv COUNTY and tn. STATE OF NEVADA
K. s~r7S 1fTB1 JAS T. aazz"
THE The ar between challenger and Pinchot has reach
paEs,pENr ed the stage where Taft lad to choose between fac
Split ton or the other an he sided with the monopoly and
corporation influences. Elected o. the Republican platform h o0"ia not
vel do otherwise. Friday he dismissed Pfnchot from the service M at
ice the a "a m between the regulars n he nSarsen
On the first skirmish a anti Cannon resolution passed. the House
by three majority and when the a nouncement as made thu galleries
broke into tumuluous cheering. 1t was the first trick taken against the
iron rueo OF the Speaker and when the roll call was scanned it shove
that three Congressman, all friends of Pinchot. had gone W. to M n
surgents and their votes carried vic tory with them.
A few days ago the Taft people announced that the insurgents could
have n O patronage of any kind. not a erumb from the pie counter should
fall =" thew N 10" IN, H. flash a flash from om a clear sky: com comes a sn % that taa no%
1t $ the greatest split in the Republican party for years and will go
deeper with this session Of Congress.
It will now be interesting to ee where u Nevada Congressman
stands in this fight. He has been cassed by Champ Clark as Of the
twentythree Democrats who forsook their party at = crisis and voted
with Cannon.
Now that the insurgents re n the saddle it might be a good time
for George to get in line and votes straight with the Democrats
This fight between Taft and the members OF his party n" are oound
to the corporations is o well o n and the hopes OF TIT Democratic party
yer never brighter.
Saturday night the Democrats of Nevada sat down to a banquet, cele-
brating the birthday OF Andrew Jackson, and began a campaign Of De-
mocracy for the fall election lin this State. The fight for absolute Demo-
cratic rule in Nevada and the Nation opens vel.
GOOD AND BAD TRUSTS How MAJ y people, or few nj
AND A BAD LAW the Sherman Antitrust Law, so ia a IS in
trepreted by h courts, actually is? 1t fol
bids all combinations in restraint o. trade or competition In interstate
commerce. Said Judge Iacombe in the Tobacco Trust case:
Two individuals who have been driving rival express wagons be-
tween contiguous states, who enter into a combination to join forces
operate q single line. restrain a n existing competition Therefore, no
doubt they fall within the ban Of the Act.
It Is urged that o United States District Attorney would prosecute
those two expressmen, or n other small essentially innocent combina-
tbn. Only the big. vicious combina tons are to be hailed into court.
Which means that the Administration will o enforce tn law unless
1t al special motive-not found in the actual legal position or the
PARTIES under this Actor doing c. All combinations are illegal. bH
only those that have made themselves obnoxious in a quite
apart from ther violation Of the Sherman Law will be prosecuted by the
authorities.
A more thoroughly objecuonab bic situation could hardly b devlsed.
4 man ~mouhy nvu prosecution lies not IN obedience 10 INT ~
for his Observation-Disclosures smaIand essentially innocent-violatest the
law. 1t lies solely in appearing we'll in the eyes Of the Administration.
No ADMINISTRATION is SO wise II virtuous that such great discretionary
power should be lodged in It's hands.