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Show j OVER IN NEVADA. Already the newspapers of our neighboring neigh-boring State of Nevada are beginning to indulge in speculations as to the probable outcome of the fight lhat will take place next fall for the Senatorship from that State, when the question of who shall succeed suc-ceed to the seat of Senator Fair (Tlemn- crat) will have to be decided. , In this connection we find the following follow-ing interesting Washington dispatch published pub-lished in one of our Pacific Coast exchanges ex-changes : j There are two headquarters for Nevada politics one in this city when Congress is in session, and the other in San . Francisco. The little group of Nevadans here held a conference here a few days ago. when the next political campaign in that State was outlined. Nevada promises to be the theatre the-atre of great political interest next fall. The struggle will have two phases. First, it will be spectacular and sensational, for it will be the duelling ground of two angry and revengeful millionaires, who, instead of gratifying their enmity with the rapier or pistol, will seek to overwhelm each other with political defeat. On the other side there will be a vital principle running through the campaign which may excite a fervor like that which thrilled the old Scotch Covenanters. The end of the Btrugale will be the election of United States Senator. The spectacular side of the contest will be the conflict between John W. Mackay and James G. Fair, two bonanza millionaires, who have fallen out. The moral phase of the struggle will be whether the people of Nevada will put up their highest political honor on the auction block (like Ohio) to be knocked down to the highest bidder. It is said by Nevadans who are here (perhaps Cassidy and Fair) that there is a widespread indignation among the people of the Silver State at the reproaoh that is oast upon their oommunity because of the alleged venality of the elections, and it is said that an almost universal desire to redeem the State from this stain will be the strongest feelinr evoked by the campaign. It is predicted that the battle cry of the honest Nevadans will be the pure election of a citizen for Senator. The feeling against electinff men who live in California to be Senators of Nevada is as strong with the better element as the desire for a pure election. This will tmolph,ase of the fih and it is ?uldo?1!tth?.tl.de ualready rising all over the State, which may be so full and strong that all the political structures of the millionaires may be swept away in ruin. The secret hostility between Mackay and Fair is unknown, but that it is intense and bitter is beyond doubt. Fair has announced to his friends that it is his sole ambition to be re-elected. It is said that he has remained re-mained in San Francisco so long after the opening of Congress for his re-election. It is contrary to the etiquette of the Senate for a member to leave his seat to participate in a campaign for his own election, but it is quite customary for a Senator to remain at home until he has put his forces in shape for the election. - j Fair's lieutenants in Nevada are Governor Adams. Judge Belknap and ex-Congressman Cassidy. These gentlemen are already at work doing the preliminary business for the campaign. It has been said that Mackav himself would be a candidate for the Senatorship, Sen-atorship, but this is authoritatively denied. He will support ex-Senator Stewart. Besides Mackay s potent aid, Stewart will have be-hind be-hind him the Central Pacifio Railroad and the Sharon estate. These will be three powerful power-ful influences. The only Republican of great strength who has not been brought into line by Maokay. ia Senator Jones, who is in favor of W. S. Hobart for Senator. The preliminary battle will be for the control of the Legislature. Fair will have to face the-combined the-combined opposition of the home-rulers who have Wren, a Republican, at their head; the ri power of Mackay, who will make a money fight, and the weight of Jones, who has a long term ahead of him. It is predicted pre-dicted here that Fair will go down under all this opposition and that the 'Republicans will control the Legislature, when the battle will be narrowed between the home rulers and the millionaire candidates. - |