The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-08-17
REWARDING DISHONESTY

TO say IOr themselves anu WIZ duOpI tnc
expedient of throwing cut a smoke-screen
when the attack becomes too strong and
calls for facts in place of platitudes (Which
method of escaping combat is learned from
a cowardly fish which little children learn
about in schooD, Democratic newspaper
attempts to compare the action of Con-
gressional clerk in writing 900-word let
ter once a week to the home newspapers,
with the activities of state officers who
seek election and others who groom" can
didates at public expense and on commun-
ity time.
Unfortunately, perhaps, the newspaper
in question places the sinister heading
"Rewarding Dishonesty over its article.
This pernicious activity of the editorial
pencil may well call for retraction or ex-
PLANTATION, displayed as it is over the name
of reputable newspaper man.
Who is dishonest-an why-and how?
Is Congressional clerk dishonest because
he writes letter on his own typewriter?
Every newspaper man in private employ
ment does the same thing, If he is able to
do it. Does the Democratic editor struggle
with his arrangement of words until he
comes to believe that it would require
much of the time" of a regular newspaper
man to write column once week?
The newspaper suggests that Congress
sional clerk who does that thing ought to
be debarred for two years from running
for office. The probabilities are that the
correspondent whom the Democrats do not
like very we'll will debar himself for the
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feel sure, accept the penalty which The
Silver State has advocated for office hold
ers, not only willingly but pprovingly
To attempt to compare Congressional
clerk who writes nine hundred words a
week, on his own time and his own ma
chine, in his little old one-room-and-closet
apartment "on the Hip at Washington,
and on Sundays pays his own street-car
fare to take look at the fashionable
Northwest side-to compare him with the
state office holder in Nevada who for years
has spent half his time in playing politics
at state expense, visiting not only all parts
Of his own state, and wearing out eight
Dodge cars year, but visiting many other
states and the national Capital frequently );
with the state officer who draws salary
after he has parted company with Nevada
and accepted employment with another
commonwealth; with the state officer who
publishes most elaborate little magazine
which is of no value except to the political
machine, and which is made to cost much
more than is necessary anyway; with the
state officers who have mismanaged Ne
vada affairs until the state stands disgrace
fully at the head of the list in practically
all matters of per capita debt, expenses,
and taxes; and all the taxpayers get for it
is a pretty picture book entitled Report
of the Highway Department" all this is
ridiculous in the extreme. Ludicrous.
Of course, when the Democratic editor
sees his mistake, he may claim that the
heading "Rewarding Dishonesty" was in
tended to indicate the certain state officers
at Carson City to whom it would aptly
apply, in our estimation, and regarding
whose activities much more is to be told in
The Silver State columns after the primary
election. But the fact remains that one
name of a newspaper man appeared
prominently.
What the Democrat newspaper wants to
camouhage is its own publication, under
fictitious titles of press associations, calcu-
lated to deceive readers, of stuff which re-
cites certain alleged brilliant remarks of
Nevada's Democrat Senator published in
the Record), and declares that immediate
ly after the oratory Nevada's Republican
Senator was "squelched" and retired from
the arena.
Stuff which declares that the Democrat
Senator from Nevada is all the while 'sav-
ing the nation" Saves the state" "saves
the country" "saves the union," "saves the