Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-09-01
GAZETTE SPILLS THE BEANS

Sam Platt, 0 r his paper, the Reno Gazette, can be relied upon to
spill the beans alta inopportune time o Mr.. P1atts political ambitions.
Two years ago Sam kicked the pot over in the first speech he made and
kept scattering the beans in all hi subsequent efforts to grab the toga.
This time it is Mr. Plats paper, the Reno Gazette, which has, figur-
atvey speaking, knocked the bean pot off a red hot stove. This, too,
before Sam has been officially commissioned to grab the Pittman goat.
1t has happened din this way. The fact that Governor Hiram John
son has secured the Republican nomination in California is too much for
Mr.. platt and his Gazette to gracefully swallow.
This was a case where silence would have been golden. for the Pro
gressives are not yet sc thoroughly amalgamated that they a be told
by standpatters. that the only duty o n earth for the Progressive to per
form is, in sackdoth and ashes, to meeky vote the Republican ticket
straight and ask n 0 questions.
Here re o choice EXTRACTS from an editorial in Wednesday even
ings Gazette anent The California Primary"
Republicans Of California have before them a dilemma x
swallow if they have to support Hiram Johnson now, and they cannot
be blamed if they refuse to do SC. *
III eyes shall turn favorably now to George S. Patton, the Demo
cratic candidate, none a eensure the Republicans who see in Johnson a
traitor to their organization.
distasteful and probably gained his nomination by trckery +
vote is to be cast for Charles Evans Hughes.
1T seems to us that there is only n thing o do, If ar outsider
may advise the Republicans OF California. That n thing is to accept
the inevitable and vote for johnson. 1t is too bad that the Republicans
cannot send a real Republican to the United States senate, for California
is too important a commonwealth to be represented at Washington in
the upper house by a Democrat and a non-Republean.
"Caifornians will have to look att the result philosophicaHy. In
the meantime there Is n % harm in hoping tina te hsures IRE incorrect
and that full cturn will end in the discontinue OF Johnson"
That editorial may read all right to the $50 stand-pat Republicans
who voted the TAFT electoral ticket in Nevada four years But what
OF the 55SS Progressives and Progressive Repubicans who voted for
Roosevelt and Johnson?
If Gazette readers are told that Republicans in California cannot
be blamed if they refuse to vote for Johnson. we wonder if some of
those same Gazette readers won't ask themselves the question if they
could be blamed il they didn't vote for the mai who characterizes on
OF their heroes IS a political traitor?
n o matter how distastul Mr. Johnson may be they should accept the
inevitable and vote for Johnson because the Progressive vote is necessary
for the election of the Hughes electors. That philosophy will, of course
apply to Nevada and we may expect to see the Progressive, OF Nevada
mcekly walk up to the polls and vote FOR Hughes and Platt-Nt
Undoubtedly the Gazette wishes to impress upon the Progressives
that, while, if California Republican eyes shall turn favorably nov to
George S Patton, the Democratic candidate' there should be II o cross
eyed squirting upon the part OF Nevada frogress'ves towards Key Pitt
man., the Democratic candidate in Nevada ProgressIves are to keep
their eyes riveted on Sam P1att.
an the ueantnme' we presume there will be mo harm il the
ProgreSivcs and Progress sive- Republicans of Nevada may be allowed
to continue to hope that full returns of the Republican State Con
vcnion will end in the discontinue OF a certain Republican candidate
o now aDDearSt TO be almost safely under the lnatl wire