Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-14
SADNESS OF A FAILING MIND.

tFrom the Carson City News)
1T is with the feeling Of utmost sorrow that recently w e have noticed
he lden OF a failing mentality o n the part Oft the editor Of the Elko
Free Press. 1t a but a short few months ago that the Free Press
was listed among the strong papers of the state but sickness came upon
its editor and lie "a forced to go to California for an operation, since
which TIM he has never been able to reach his former standard and his
paper has been dropping, down and down, until now it has reached the
plane where the guiding light knows naught of his actions and is making
statements which but a few short weeks ao would bave brought ~
blush Of shame to his brow.
The first great sign of the mental failure was when the editor as
founded the world Gay with a full page story O silver going to par
and all the silver mines of Nevada O be working night and day filling the
great demand for the silver bars. The sane editors of the state were
thrown in a furry when they read the glaring headlines and realized
they had beer scooped in the greatest story of the age; then they smiled
and then they pited when they learned it was only the decisions of n
who had succumbed to the grind Of editing a great daily. Later there
came another story from the same Source bostering up the dream of sill
yer at par but it was not noticed for n fooled the press is seldom
stung again.
Now from the same fountain head canes a stor showing that the
Free Pres' has WEIGHED o. all its republican statements OF the past
campaign and is flirting with democracy. He makes a n attack Sam
Plat and states that "he republicans lost the opportunity of their lives
in ALLOWING Plat to become their Candidate" Why in the world did not
the editor of TIT Free Press announce months ago that he desired to be-
come the :epubHcan candidate for Senator? Nj. Plat would undoubtedly
have stood back and have given hi a clear field and furthermore would
have suppc rtd the editor for the position without resorting TO the high.
way methods OF. the historical Jesse James.
Mr.. Plt was defeated for the Office. according to the returns fled
with te secretary Of state by a scant forty votes. He made a fight
against the political lion who has owned Nevada, body and soul. for over
twenty years, and made the grandest fight of record. He made this
fight Notwithstanding the fact that traitors were in the car and that te
mn who gere supporting him to his face we're knitting him to his back:
notwithsta lding the fact that every word certain papers had TO saw for
him we're said ats omuchperline and aso muchpcrline that other papers
would blush at the figures
The Observation-Disclosures supporter is N in whom dependence
can never be placed TO he places the golden dollar ahead of his honor
and his words ar only warmed by the price that is paid.
The Eko Free Press attempts 10 place Sam Platt in the discard. 1t
would read Mr. Platt from the party and in so doing shows but another
phase OF the mental disturbance which placed silver al par and made a
laughing stock of the paper.
We repeat, it is with sadness that W e ire called upon to chronicle this
sad story, and we do it al a apology for the editor Of the Free Press
a S We would not have the people of the state believe he could nurfy
his previous writings INT his previous actions, were he in his sound mind.