The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-12
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WOODS AND FIFTH.

The Portland Bulletin of the 2Stl
ult., in long article under the
head of "the Utah Gang" has the
following in relation to Woods
Fitch and May If the Bulletin had
placed the responsibility of Woods
appointment where it belongs, to
Geo. H. Williams. the article would
have been complete. 1t says:
1t will he shown bv the future
that. taking Brigham and his Elders
at their own special forte. cOncubin-
age. Woods and Fitch will discount
the whole tribe, and rival the opera
tions OF the worst Mohammedan
Prince in Asiatic Turkey. While
for talents and schemes in the &c
cumulation" of the substance of the
people. Brigham fittings collectors
and Church-store sWindles will pale
their inetfectual fires before the laws
rs interpreted by Interested Judges
and enforced by an interested Gov
ernor. Defeated. repudiated and
PLAYED out in their respective States,
our Quondam celebrities of Oregon
and Nevada bctake themselves to
Utah. where. 1t WAS believed, the
already cOu@regated and accumulate
ing elements of social corruption.
political adventure and mining ras-
calitv. swept IN from the sinks OF
Chicago. Omaha and other railroad
centers. or stranded on those ILL
starred shores from the wrecks of
lissolving stage lines and abandoned
army camps. would constitute n con
genial and encouraging community
in which to plant the banner OF their
political fortunes. and where, like
dead bodies cast into filthy pools, |
they would surely rise to the top
when fully rotten. to emulate Clay |
allegorical mackerrl to ''shine and |
stink. and stink and shine. Bank |
rupt in character. wholly lrrespOnsl !
bic in every sense Of the word, and
without the least Recommendation OF
anv sort in the world. unless the
mountebank and the effrontery OF
Satan be recommendations these
men beget themselves to official
position in Utah in the same way
that the contemptible ass arraved
himself in the skin OF the lion and
the thieving wolf donned the array
of the innocent and unsuSpected
sheep. As was expected by every
one who knew of the raid, the ul
innate object of which was seats in
the United States Senate, Woods
had not been in Utah three months
until that Territory is made the
arena of such a squabble to secure
valuable mines and other property,
through the machinery of the Courts :
as to put to blush the trade of the
highwavman and scandaliZe the pub ,
lie service of the whole nation.
Woods had nothing when he was
made Governor of Oregon. but
on IA salary of 81. 800 per
year he managed to huild and equip
/ residence at cost OF SlO,OOO.
visited the States and slOshed up
md down me country generally.
And Notwithstanding the facility
with which Sam May drew warrants
On the Treasury, which were peddledii
around at six bits on the dollar, vet
We think it improbable that Woods &,
.ook any money to Utah. And in #
ess than three months after he has p
set down in the city of the Saints, '
le makes an oath that he is worth =
,100, 900 in that Territory. If it 4
we're not so much like our George, :,
We should be inclined to ask How h,
; that for high?" And inasmuch as RI RI
We have mentioned our polite ex-
Secretary of State, whose kids We're
lways the admiration Of the COM -
non herd, and who drew treasury L
warrants in favor of livery stables r
,d Itbtum we may venture to suggest |
hat the protecting agis of a Cover NJ
.or Of Territory has made Utah a q