White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-06-18
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STATE POLICE
THE KICKS REGISTERED BY
CERTAIN NEWSPAPERS PROVE
TO BE AMUSING IN THE LIGHT
OF HISTORY.

The state police of the state have
indeed a hard row to hoe for they
have been selected as the body on
which 10 blame everything that hap
pens TO go wrong. The solicitors Of
the state police for this important
function is the democratic press and
Why they are doing it. We cannot tell.
for If NE remember rightly the ac-
tons that brought the state police
into being and made them a neces-
sify for the state took place during a
Democratic administration.
During the past week the Ely Ex-
positor and the Reno Journal have
made senseless attacks upon the
organization. The one objected be-
cause the police were to be mounted
and the other objected because that
body had failed to apprehend the
men who had escaped from the pri-
son camps. The objections OF both
of the papers were ~senseless for the
simple reason that a moments con-
s~ideration of the matter would show
that neither knew what they were
talking about.
In having the police body mounted
they were in a position to seour the
hills and accomplish the work that
the second paper blamed them for
not doing. The kick and the cries
of the editor Of the Expositor are
not listened 10 in the state any more
and il is perhaps foolish for US TO
mention the matter. II will be re-
membered that the editor of the Ex-
positor was a great lover of the state
police on last election morning and
thought 1t wise to furnish an auto
for them to ride in to the polls but
after the votes were counted-the
state police were a useless body.
The Journal, however. which
claims to be a paper of the people
and giving the correct news to the
people. should know that the state
police were some four OF five hours
behind Riley when he escaped from
Steamboat Springs and that in this
space of time it would have been
possible for him to have reached
Reno and departed from there on a
freight or passenger train. II there
is blame attached to anyone for the
~non-capture of the escaped convict,
it should be upon the Reno police.
The attacks made on the state
police by the sorehead and ignorant
papers of the state is just that space
thrown away that might be used In
the boosting of their own editors.
The state police is an organization
that necessity forced upon the state
and one that the people of the state
will be always proud to sustain and
support. The men who comprise the
organization are men who are true to
their trusts, men who are fearless In
any position and men who are bound
to uphold the laws of the state and
carry out the orders of their superior
officers. In Captain Donnelly, the
state has a man who is fitted for the
position he holds and one that is in
every n a gentleman and a most
competent officer.
This body is doing a vast amount
of beneficial work for the state and
has builded up a scheme of appre-
hension and detection of crime-that
is considered one of the strongest
and best within the state. The men
are trained to the positions they hold
by days, weeks and months of con-
slant study and can pass examina-
tions in all phases of military and
legal law that could possibly ever
confront them. They are fitted to
take command of bodies of men upon
a moments notice and in time of
trouble would prove themselves to be
a blessing to the state.
The state police are doing their
duty and doing it we'll and they
should be commended instead of
commented upon by all, especially by
the organs of that party which
brought them into being.-Carson
News.