Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-10-28
WHERE HIS

Sam Platts latest to the voters of Nevada is a circular addressed to
the natives of the state, wherein he says: you are OF Nevada, from
Nevada and for Nevada. We werdboth born in this state and it is certain
that no ne may justly question or loyalty and devotion to it, =
am writing you without regard to politics or party afiiation, but wholly
on the basis OF the deep interest which both of H. have in the state OF
our birth"
Loyalty to Nevada! In what manner has Sam Pat proved it IN his
W individual case? Was it when he ven III of the state to receve
his education. passing up his W state university?
Did he prove it twenty years ago, when the party to which he has
always belonged gave silver it's fatal blow and for years put N of Ne
vadas greatest industries II OF business? When nearly every Republic
can in the state left the party at that time in protest of the partys
teachery Platt remained with it and bowed down to the powers that con-
troled in order that later o n he might be rewarded with the Federal
office he subsequently occupied. He was loyal to- party. perhaps. but
was he loyal to the state that ave him birth when it repudiated the or
ganizaton that gave it a stab in the back?
Is he loyal to the state at the present Toner when he is serving,
either through selfinteret, possible. reward or ineXcusabhe ignorance. the
corporations and big landed and stock interests that are fighting the Pitt
man land bill, which means, if properly administered. $ 20 much for the
university and the schools of the state, to say nothing OF a commensurate
reduction of taxes.
Were Platt sincere in his fight against the Pttman land grant he
would be n Of the many who arc doing their utmost to secure the dona-
ton which the government has tentatively offered the state and if there
were any loop-holes in the measure by which its provisions could be taken
advantage OF by land monopo1its he should be among the first to Offer
his services IN safeguarding it, instead Of running about the country de-
nouncing it IS a grab and a steal. By following the suggestion made he
would give an earnest Of his loyalty to Nevada when the opportunity
offered for the state to secur that to which It nas long been entitled.
But Patt is an opportunst and a poor n att that. Some months age
rs Grant Miller, Socialist candidate or United States senator, puts it HE
(Plat) made n speeches against the bill when it VIZ under discussion in
Nevada.
His newspapers supported university regents and president when
they werev criticised for lobbying for the bill.
"He did not oppose the bill lin any manner whatever when 1t "a un-
der discussion in the winter and spring OF 1916.
Nov in his campaign speeches he opposes the bill"
Miller is opposing the bill, but he is aiding in the promotion Of a
colonization scheme, and that alone is suficient. to account for his antag-
onisn, as it does for the opposition ofo other interest that re practically
in the same line, but Plat has taken up the fight for n reason, because
he thinks the land grant bill is an unpopular measure and fighting it will
ride him into the United States senate, but in this he is mistaken, for al
ready the reaction has set in and it will carry him into political oblivion