The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-06-11
TIE ELKO INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY. JUNE Al. 1870.
Hon. lAan.. Fitch ssd n. chimes. question.


festivities of capital eIistence-the honor
OF diplomatic intercourse-the attentions and
batteries which are the accompaniment. of
place and patronage. He selects the sun.
ny side Of the avenue for his morning
stroll. BE smiles kindly upon the greenbacks
when settling for 5000 per year and mileage:
The easy cushions on the floor Of tho House
At him comfortably. The softened light, fall.
ing from the painted glass overhead. becomes
his complexion. Altogether; Mr. Fitch leads
. comfortable, a luxurious life. He loses no
sleep over the cares Of state. The Alabama
claims, the Indian disturbances, the mining
bills, the tariff. the reconstruction Of the
South, are all regarded with tranquil eye
and cause him but little anxiety. His life is
q pleasant one. What wonder that he desires
70 prolong iti -'-----
Fitch, too, has some ambition. He be-
feves with the poet, .''that there is tide in
the Affairs Of men which taken mt the flood
leads on to fortune" BE has claims to orator.
zeal merit he has spoken piece on several
occasions, and would like 10 speak more.
They were prepared carefully, memorized
painfully, delivered gracefully. II they had
little or no influence in shaping legislation, it
was no fault of his. They were really not in:
tended for that object; but they furnished
good reading matter for his constituents, to
whose unaccustomed eye the show might be
accepted as a scene from real life. Besides
this commendable ambition for personal repu-
tation, Fitch looks hopefully forward to polit-
ical promotion. Nye cannot hive forever and
if he won't die, he may be made to take back
seat at the end of his term. Fitch is looking
at Nye's old shoes, and thinks they will 1T
him. He prefers being Senatorial power
rather than a Representative cypher.
With this inducement to action, it is not
wonderful that Mr.. Fitch should be little
inscriptions. There is an election close at
hand in his district and the result is very
doubtful. The signs of the times foreshadow
\ tremendous political change in Nevada
Votes, Votes. Votes! kingdom for votes that
will set this question beyond peradventure.
To lose this election is political death to Tom
Fitch. 1t is the shutting down ,of all the
splendors Of perspective career; the cloud
settling darby along the east, Just as the sun
is reaching the horizon. We repeat, it is not
that Mr.. Fitch should be little un-
He varied the Mormon vote.
He attempted to secure it by making the loyal
party Of Nevada p1rticeps crininis to the
polygamy of Utah. As the defender of "the
twin relic of barbarism," Brigham would be
bound TO rally the Mormon vote Of Eastern
Nevada to his rescue in the hour OF peril
Fitch had no scruples. He made the dickey
and sold out the sympathies of nine-tenths Of
his party.
new and moro gearful ogre has now
crossed his path. The Chinese matter is
making frightful inroads into his prospects.
His political friends, caring less for this coast
than for Chinese treaties and the enforce.
ment of the Fifteenth Amendment, aro daily
making party record which is bound to
damn the fortunes of the sharpest Radical
politician west Of the Rocky mountains 1t
may do for the East, but it will never do for
this coast. To stay the fatal sentence, which
the people of Nevada are prepared TO pass
upon him, Mr.. Fitch has hIade another
speech. designed, he admits. to convey his
sentiments to his constituents. The speech
was short. 1t was dangerous subject. In
those remarks the Inscriptions politician
comes boldly to the surface. Men have given
Ar. Fitch credit for some candor at times.
The Cinnamon have scared it all out Of him.
He raves, loses his perpendicularity, and con-
tradicts himself. He announces opinions that
he knows have no echo in the Household
trines which, il fully known, would exclude
him from the Republican caueuses In his
agitation, he makes admissions which effectu-
ally refute the substance of his argument. OF
the Chinese, no says to the House: "Only
here can that tide DO stayed. The States Of he
Poetic arc powerieSs 10 legitimdteiy resist t."
Yet in the next breath we are told that, "n
there shall be any desire manifested by the
Chinese to become voters, it is within the
power Of the Pacific States to exclude them
on account OF their ndtiuity or religious belief"
Mr.. Fitch must certainly entertain very
low estimate Of tho intelligence of his con-
or else there was some justification
Tor tho assertion of the Sacramento Union of
asst Wednesday that "scores Of Chocktaw In
iians can be found in all respects the equal of
Fitch" A Piute who could not put sentences
ogsther moro logically than those two or
racts would be murdered for o fool or wor.
shipped for medicine man" . e.
The very bill at which Mr.. Fitch was talk.
ng was to enforce tbs amendment to prevent
ii distinction Of 'Tdoe, color" &C., an amend
mont and bill which this same Fitch aided
o pass. Staring him squarely in the face