Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-02-16
TO IMPROVE HIs GENERAL
CIRCULATION"

D. W. welty, Senator from Lander
county, in a discussion on Thursday
respecting the newspaper printing of
laws, took occasion, two or three times,
to say that the News and the Trspai'
had emo general circulation outside of
Storey county" What object this
eminent parsonage had in making such .
deliberate and gross misstatement, we
are unable to say; and we do not care
to speculate about his motives. If he
thinks It conducive to his assumed
sauctitnoniousness of character, he can
rise in church meeting tomorrow and
repeat the falsehood. He appears to be
intensely in the interest Of the Governor
-favoring or opposing bills before the
Legislature as the Governor dictates
and is said to be q candidate for the
Office of Supreme Judge, to succeed
Judge Beatty. We should have thought
that common discretion would have
lead him to take another shade; mas
much as the people, If they desire to
continue the dry nursing ofthe guberna-
torial Office from the Supreme Court
Bench, will hardly think it desirable to
make q change at the next general
election.
We happened to know Mr.. D. W.
Welty when a member Of the California
Assembly, where he was noted as a
windy-wordy chap; full Of pre1ense to a
kuowledge-ofit-all, and ofproportionate
influence. We are credibly informed
that no holds his own. His recent ''cir-
culation" outside of the city Of Austin
has only served to expose his forcible
feebleness { representative men from
all parts of the State. The fact has
gained pretty general circulation
and we propose to give it a longer run,
this evening-that he loses a large pro-
portion of his few cases in Lander, on
an opposing demurrer; so defective are
even his preliminary papers, though he
has assumed to be q practicing lawyer
for many years. It is now a matter OF
general circulation, that hei brought
TO bed of a still born bill about six times
every twenty-four hours; while partura-
ton experienced by him twice in the
Same period, producing a Legislative
monstrosity of the weakest circula-
tion," the Senate quietly destroy the
thing, and order the Secretary to put it
in m old raison box, labelled "lndeh-
nitely postponed" One Of the COM
mittee that recently came up to this
county to examine as to the mining rev.
enue, informed US that he heard Senator
Meder advise Mr.. D. W. Welty, in open
Senate, not to introduce a bill prescrib-
ing the time when his family should go
out to teas he-Mr. W.-evinced a
painful disposition to regulate all do
mestic affairs in the State by special
Legislative enactment. It would seem
that there was danger of his attempting
to reduce the ''~circulstiou" Of his W
household by general" statute-ac-
eording to the publicly svowed sppre-
tensions of Senator Meder.
A few years ago the Democrats Of
Austin placed in nomination, and ran
for Alderman, a negro. Mr.. Welty was
the opposing candidate. The negro re-
ceived a majority Of the votes. But the
Board of Aldermen declared the negro
inelligible-declared a ''vacancy," and
installed Mr.. Welty in the negro's or
the vacancy" place. A friend of ours
relating the facts to us-aud the relator
was a man of first rate intelligence, and
a good Union man-met our expression
of approval of the action Of the Board
with: "well, no; Thought so at first,
but changed my mind. The niger
didn't care anything about it; but /
thought it proved to be a id outrage
on the city, that they didn't let the
niger stay in"