The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-03
STOREY COUNTY MINERS UNION
AND THE AMADOR LEAGUE.

we have read the explanation OF the
Territorial Enterprise respecting the
visit of Senator Phelan t 0 Amador,
but confess to being no wiser than be-
fore. On the contrary, if that is all
that can be offered in explanation, we
are confirmed in the belief that our
correspondent at Virginia was correct
as to the motive of the visit as well as
the fact. 1t is said. in substance, that
the strike in Amador was the result of
a miners league, similar in character
with the labor organizations of this
State; and had the difficulty not been
settled, the whole State might have
become involved in it, creating a ran
cor in this State between the mine
owner and their employees. us it
strange. therefore, says the Enter
prise. THAT Mr.. Phelan should have
been advised to visit Amador in the
hope that he might be of assistance in
compromising the difficulties there?"
Now, this is all very we'll. Mr.. Enter
prise, but it humbugS nobody! The
reasoning is too smooth to be even
plausible. Mr.. Phelan is no doubt a
very diSIntereSted and patriotic gen.
tleman; but Mr.. Phelan is not sufli-
GENTLY self sacrificing to abandon his
business and go to the trouble and ex-
pense of travelling to another State to
intermeddle with something which is
none of his business. His interest in
the welfare of the Miners Union is not
so intense that he has to 90 to Califor-
mia to exert his mighty influence with
the government and people of that
State to prevent a rancortrOm growing
up between the mine owners of Nir-
ginia and the miners. This story will
do to tell to the marines. Though it is
we'll creased. it won't go down. Mr..
Phelan is no such tool as the Enter
prise would represent him. He trav-
els for a purpose. He is a politician,
in the interest of politicians. Poll
ticians make hat kind of a trip
miners do not. except when they
pack their picks and blankets with
them-trifles which Mr.. Phelan did
not stow away in his carpet
sack when he started for Amador. If
Phelan went there to preserve the
peace. as the Enterprise represents,
he ought to have gone a little earlier
in the day, instead OF waiting until the
last drum peat had sounded the re-
treat of the militia, and peace had been
officially proclaimed at the Capital.
No sir, ifthis minister pienipotentiary
went on his extraordinary mission for
strictly mining purposes. he showed
DOC taste in waiting until the AmadOr
miners had gotten out oftheirtrOubleS,
and resumed their work at the old
rates. The Storey county Miners
Union will not feel itself very highly
complimented by this in>inuatinn
agailStthe character OftheirSympathv
The fact is, that the members Of the
Miners Union have no business con-
nectiOn whatever with the Amador
League, and Mr.. Phelan was not sent
there by the Union, but went at the
instigation, and at the expense OF "A
certain political clique i'll the interest
of a certain Senatorial candidate; and
the object of that visit is to stir up and
keep active the prejudices and ami
mnsities engendered by the late strike,
and to use them to assist i'll the eIec-
ton of Booth. That is the whole story
abbreviated, as understood by the
members ofthe Union at Virginia City.
That they should he Indignant at this
abuse of an Office held by their suf-
Rage, is not surprising. The manner
in which the President was elected to
that position, in the first place, was
far from satisfactory to many of
the members. who have often openly
charged that Mr.. PheIan was chosen
by a minority of the Union, by virtue
Of a little sharp practice. However
his may be, that officer is very im-
prudent in reviving these memories
and jeopardizing his position, by as>o-
himself in the special interest
Of any politicians.
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