Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-30
DENNIS pR1soo1l,s HoNRsry.


proper province of the public press, and
when dishonest acts can be proven against
aspirants for positions of public trust
their exposure becomes duty. When
the Enterprise set about the work of de-
stroying the reputation Of Mr.. Tozer, had
i, believed the charges it was making to
be true, its cause would have been COM
mendable; but when It's object was not
the protection Of the community against a
bad man, but the elevation of another,
policy if no. justice to the public de-
manded that the person whom it sought
to foist upon them was himself above re-
proach, or at all events not capable OF
being proven dishonest man, By pur-
suing its course of elimination against
Mr.. Tozer, it has instituted comparison
and subjected Mr.. Driscoll's record to a
closer scrutiny than its character can well
stand. 1t has located the scene of Mr..
Toner'S alleged mal-practices in California.
Mr.. Driscoll is also from that State, and
as the ablic records show, did not dis
charge his obligations as a citizen with
that strict honesty becoming man who
in an adjoining Territory is set up as a
pattern and shining mark. Among the
most important duties of citizen toward
the State is the assumption of his just
proportion of the burden of taxation, and
an evasion of that obligation subjects a
man to the Just indignation and contempt
of those honest citizens who faithfully
discharge their duty in that behalf. Mr..
Driscoll was, during his residence in Sac
ramento county, connected with the Bee
office, and, we are informed by persons
who worked in that establishment at the
time, reputed to be worth some twelve or
fifteen thousand dollars. In giving IN his
property to the Assessor he was modest
very modest. In 1853 he reported his
property to that official at $3.50; in 1859
at 81 800, and in 1860 at $77 25. In that
yea. he had money enough to remove to
Nevada and assume the character of a
man of property. So cautious was he
lest his property should suffer any unnec-
essary diminution that he sedulouslY
avoided the Tax Collector, even carrying
his precautions to the extent of employing
a hand in the lower office to give him
warning of the approach of that unpleas-
ant functionary. So successful was he in
his strategy, that when he finally removed
beyond the limits of that State, the public
treasury felt an aching void in the spot
which should have been filled by the State
and county taxes of Dennis Driscon, Esq.
For the establishment of the foregoing
fact we present the following affidavit of
the District Attorney of Sacramento
county:
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 25th, 1864.
By request, hereby certify that d. Dris-
coll is delinquent for taxes in the county OF
Sacramento for the following years and for
the following amounts:
For the wear 1858, Sll.25 and costs Of suit.
For the year 1859, S2O2.SS and costs Of suit.
The above amounts are now due and un.
paid, as appears in the delinquent rolls in my
office. NJ. NJ. EsrEE'
District Atty for county of Sacramento.
{ ~ Subscribed and sworn IN before
SsEAL me, this the 18th day Of August,
~ 1864.
[Stamp.l JULrrs wErzLAR,
Notary Public.
As an evidence of fine order of finan-
eial talent, the foregoing may answer very
well, but as a certificate Of integrity ii
don't amount to much. Mr.. D. aspires to
! a position which would give him very
influential control of the county funds.
| The skill which he exhibits in taking care
of his own money speaks well for his
ability to. guard that of the county Of
Storey, but men of that peculiar style Of
| financial talent are liable to take eccentric
notions of the rights of property. and a
cautious public generally prefers to repose
its trust in men of inferior strategy and
stric,er honesty. Such little biographical
sketches are unpleasant, but the wanton
attacks of Mr.. Driseoll's organ upon Mr..
Tozer have made this cruel retaliation just
and necessary. There perhaps never was
case where the old adage about those
living in glass-houses being cautious about
throwing stones, was more fully exempli-
fed than in the instance of Mr.. Driscoll