The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-07-30
psnoeratie Money to Buila .he cour,Hor,.

The Elko Chronicle makes a bitter, malic.
nant attack upon j. N. Williams. the gentle
man who advanced the money to build the
Courthouse. The real cause of this un-
called for assault is found in the following ex-
tract:
We remember very we'll when j. \. Will
hams used to charge the Red Bluff teamsters
ten per cent. per month. and even fifty cents
day for q single hundred dollars. We re-
member, too, of once having paid him the
last dollar We owned on earth, and of having
TO sell good business, for having signed a
note to j: n. Williams as security for Dem
ocratic friend. s. W. Shaw, Assessor of Teha-
ma county. and of having 10 borrow means
upon which to leave the country in search of
new held and new business in cunse-
quence.
What the public have to do with this SIAN
derous diatribe is not apparent. If Col Will
iAms ever sued Mr.. Butler, we presume he
had a just cause to sue him, or he would not
have recovered Judgment. 1t betokeus n
new era in newspapers when their columns
are to be devoted to vile and malicious as
saults upon individuals, because they have at
some period of their lives asserted their
rights in the courts. We believe that in this
country men have a right to be sued as we'll
as to sue. This furious denunciation is ush-
cred in with the charge that Col. Williams is
Democrat. Very welli If the Chronicle
imagines that it can insult and defame re-
spectacle men in this community simply be-
cause they are Dem Ocrats. it may wake M to
realization of its situation some of these
mornings. If we understand this country.
being Democrat is not yet p snficien: iusti-
hcation for such a reyiling strain Of personal
abuse as the editor Of the Chronicle has gone
out OF his way TO drag into his columns.
Whether Col. Williams is n Democrat or not
We do not know, though we have known him
personally for sixteen years. We should nat
uraily suppose that man If bis good sense
would be Demoemt. but We do know ,bst
he has had but very little to do with politics
and has never been n partisan of any kind.
When it was thought advisable to erect
courthouse, Elko went to him to borrow the
money, and he advanced it according to agree
ment II it was Democratic money that built
the Court House, the Chronicle has so much
less cause for CHASING that building among
Radical assets. Better pay for the Court
house first. Recklessly traducing J. n. Will
liams will not pay the bonds. nor meet the in
!erest; In quoting from the record of the
Board OF Commissioners, i'll our last issue,
We then stated that we had no fault to find
with the Board for making the arrangement
they did, when they found there was no
money in either of the funds to meet the in.
terest due on the first of July. II was n de.
plorable fact that the interest was due. and
that there was almost nothing TO meet IL.
Why the treasury was thus depleted is for
the Radical administration to explain They
nave been taking oui of the treasury the peo-
Pies taxes, aud dividing it among themselves.
while Col. Williams has been paying into the
treasury over twenty thousand dollars. The
only offense that Col Williams sammitted
was in not placing that money in a fund
where these otioials could get hold OF il.