The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-08
A DIFFERENT STORY.

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had gone to Amador for political
purposes, to exert his influence rs
the President of one of the Miners
Unions of Storey county, to stir up
bad blood among the miners of SUIT
ter creek, to aid in thedefeat of Gov.
Haight. the Territorial Enterprise
came to his defense and Indignantly
denied that such was the object of
the visit. According to the story
then told, Mr.. Phelan was a very
innocent youth, overlooking with
Astounding charity, and fairly driz-
zling with the tears drawn from his
sympathetic nature as he pondered
over the unhappy consequences of a
"rancor" between the miners of Vir-
ginia and the mine-owners. His
mission, as the Enterprise told the
tale. with tears in its eyes. was that
of peace on earth, and good will
among men," Phelan was another
Howard, another Miss Nightingale,
sugared all over with humanizing
sweetness, to be distilled through
the warlike olfactories which were
shutting the battle from affair on the
banks of Suffer creek. He was a
peace commissioner whom General
Grant had somehow forgotten when
settling the Alabama claims-a ne
elected High Joint who didn't know
JOncs-engaged in the beneticent
work of keeping Mount Davidson on
its perpendicular by playing adouble
game of euchre and drinking Demo
cratic whisky among the Cornishmen
Of Amador. Thus softly sung and
costly cooed the youthful George
Washington of the Enterprise.
Butnow comes one William White.
unknown to fame, but brimful of I'M
necessary candor, and ov~er-zealous
to show his employer how service
able a Demo rat can be when he puts
on the livery of a millionaire-and
the said White being a little awkward
and unaccustomed to dabble in the
high affairs of State, such as making
U. 5. Senators, s~uppressing riots,
putting out ''rancor,' and carrying
California on his shonlders-very
unwittinGly kicks owe the kettle of
fish cooked up by journalistic enter
prise, and hangs on the hooks a little
pot Of his own, containing a very diff
ferent story.
In this communication NJ. wife
Substantially admits oil ttGttis pupsr
charged relative to the purposes of
Phelan'5 trip. Totally ignoring the
brazen denials of the Enterprise, Mr..
White. claiming to be the friend of
Mr.. Phelan, andhis special champion,
now declares that he did go for polit-
ical purpOses-with the express OBJ
ject of aiding to defeat Haight and
elect Booth, and he THE writer in
dorses him in doing 50. The Terri
torial Enterprise therefore might
have saved its consistency had it con-
suited with Mr.. White before it I'M
dertook to controvert the statement
made by this paper. Mr.. White,
We presume, is authorized to speak
for his warm personal FRIEND Mr..
Phelan ; bat when he undertakes to
speak for the Miners Unions of
Storey county, We utterly deny his
authority. That there are many
members of that organization who
repndiate this political interference,
and denounce the political tricksters
who are attempting to prostitute a
noble institution to their own base
advantages, is known to be true by
all who know anything of the MEM
bers. We assure Mr.. White that he
Will soon hear Of some associates
who do not propose to be bought and
sold in the interest of any Senatorial
or Gubernatorial candidate either in