The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-10-20
. A CARD" FROM HON. TOM FITCH

In the Reno Crescent of Saturday
last we find the following card from
Hon. Tom Fitch our candidate for Con
gress.
RENO. October Is, 1868.
Editor Reno Crescent: On my way from
Humboldt to Lander happened to be, for a
few hours, in your town, and have had my
guard of last Monday, entitled Record of
Tom Fitch" The remarks of The
Hon" Benjamin II. Nickerson, which the
Safeguard quotes were made at meeting in
San Francisco nearly three weeks since, but
the editor Of that paper deferred printing
| them until | was announced as having de-
parted for the eastern portion of this State.
| The same remarks were made by the
same person when | was nominee of the
Union party, in Ell Dorado County, Califor-
, mia, in August, 1862, for Member of Assem-
bly,, and after full investigation the Union
men of that county elected me by large
majority. Imade full reply to the charges
of NIckerson then, and have neither the
time nor dispos ition to interrupt my canvass
or weary the patience of the people with an
other reply at this time. Suffice il to say
that an assay of Nickerson's " charges
would yield at least ninety-fve per cent. of
sheer lies. l never broke Jail " or was
s. confined in Jail " in Missouri or anywhere
else in the world, never ran away TO Cali
fornia never "swinded "creditors in Mis-
souri-unless inability to pay through the
misfortune of being swindled myself can be
so designated. have 10 father-in-law.
An er parte Indictment found against me
in Missouri nine years ago for " obtaining
goods under false pretences was after
wards dismissed by the District Attorney,
there being no evidence whatever to sustain
the charge. The Masonic Fraternity know |
all about my expulsion" and l count no
warmer friends, or more earnest personal
supporters than among the members of that
noble order. Nothing-not mere vindication
from calumny-shall drive me into dragging
the secrets or the actions of that order into
the arena of politics.
Against what is false of these stories Of
nine years date l plead nothing but their
falseness. Against whatever Of truth may
arise with ocean of lies, plead the stat
ute of limitations. There are some boyish
follies l could wish to forget, and regret
that the malice of my political enemies will
not permit me to do so.
| have lived in this State going on six years,
and in justice to myself and those depend
ent on me, have sometimes been compelled
to insist upon my strict rights. but | defy
Any IIdu III the "OIlu 10 tfuIt SAY lildl Ill
these years | ever wronged him of a dollar,
1r wiIfully broke promise, or ief, an hon
est demand long unpaid.
THOMAS FITCH.
Mr.. Fitch needed not to make this self ;
from the aspersions cast up
IN him by that wretched, venal scamp, :
Sen Ncherson. He is too well known t
0, ami implicitly trusted by, the loyal
SIS Of Ny.AiA to be injured by the Sian \
iers of Il nan Of such notorously bad :
character a his asSailant. Last year
his fellow, while pretending to be q :
: uiou nan, sold him elf 10 the Copper. a
reads, ana ;erambnlated the State OF !
bred whittier, retailing lies /
gainst George GorEam. When the
'hicago Convention assembled, be had
be sublime impudence to claim the
light to cast the vote CT California
he eloquent Harry Sears, one of the
egitimate delegates, exposed his iLfamy c
nd Nickerson was kicked out of the :,
ouvention. He is now employed by n
he CUpperheads to defame a man who %
gailty of no worse crime than that of Il
eng the most eloquent assailant OF $
'eason upon the Pacific Cast. All ri
( can ask of Union men is to compare !!
ON Fitch with Billy Anderson, his ii
sbel opponent-Billy Anderson who a
I'D the hardlhood to utter the lying ill., al
nuation ia his speech in the Virginia q,
ity Opera House on last Saturday Ell
ght, that Grant was coward, by u
serting his belief that Grant, whose b,
at Vicksburg were con- te
antIy within range of the enemy's re
lllets, bad " never been under hre'- OF
lily Anderson, who is nothing if not be
virulent ecessionist and hster Of 81
yal men and the loyal cause. "
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