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Show B Nevada to Reform Divorce Laws H Ono of tho wolcomo results of tlte recent H olection is tho defeat in Novada of tho element H that was instrumental in securing tho enactment H of tho prosont lenient divorco laws of that sta H and which have boon n disgrace to tho stuto and M to all puro-thinking pooplo of tho nation. B Tho author of tho prosont "six months B rosidonco" law, Judgo W. D. Jones of Rono, was B defeated for ro-oloction to tho sonato, by James B Gault, a farmor living on his farm outside of B Rono. Pross roports any that Gault was not B gonornlly known before tho oloction, but when B tho votos woro counted ho dofoatod Jones so B badly that it is said ho hardly know ho was in H the raco. B Which shows that tho peoplo of Novadn aro H determined to redeem thomselvos from tho stigma B ,nt nns l)00n eust uPn tnom v tnoir disgraceful H divorco laws. Thoy have shown rare judgment in B roplacing a foo-seoking lawyer with a solid, H substantial farmor. It can not bo said that the H now sontuor will know as much about tho legality H and tho constitutionality of laws as his opponent, H but certain it is ho will use moro good sense in B passing laws for tho benefit of tho people whom B lie will serve. B Anothor thing that makes tho election of B Gault a sourco for special approbation, is that B country people, as a whole, respect to a higher BSSSB i l " degreothan any other class the marriage vows; and tho ratio of divorco among farmers is lcrwer than among-any other class of 'people. It a Quite natural, then, that tho new- senator from the district which boasts of its "divorco colony" should bo an uncompromising opponent of the divorce evil. As a result tho people of tho country will confidently con-fidently expect a speedy and drastic revision of the divorco laws of Novada. |