Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-29
THE MARES NEST.

something better to do, the Review went
out cunning and according to its &C.
count bagged whole board of County
Commissioners and the Democratic party
to boot. A pretty good haul for one
shot-wasn't it? considering that the
gun does not carry very far and is apt
to scatter. However, as we have seen
some of the Reviews victions walking
around in their accustomed good health
and it is very probable that on the 5th
of November the remainder will be found
at the polls voting against the adicals,
we fear that the Review has fallen into
the besetting vein of its clique, that of
attending funerals without the essential
features of corpse to take part in the
pageant. Our brilliant contemporary
heads his murdorous onslaught with
quotation credited to Falstaff & Co.
Who compose that firm and where they
are to be found we are not aware, but
we apprehend the Review is following the
example of shakspeare's adepose scoun-
drel, and while it asserts that a whole
hecatomb has fallen beneath its righte-
Gus wrath, the bodies of the slain will
be as hard to find as the "Buckram
men" OF its oleagenous hero. However,
one thing is very evident, that the
Review is suffering from severe illness,
and that from a very dangerous COM
plant, that of surfet. As uttnsil of
convenience belonging to the Radical
party, it has taken without wry face all
the mass of corruption to which that
party has proprietary claim. 1t stood
everything and everybody, from
Cameron and the penitentiary TO Nye
with his saw mill. 1t boggled not at
Bullock, or Scott, or Reed or Clayton
with their many millions of plumber; its
capacious NAV held them all without a
| qualm; bat now comes the Commission
ers of Lincoln County with Court
House, ETC., and then the Review can
stand no more. and ineentinently runs
over with wrath aud sick stomach, and
is now under the doctors hands, gasping
with an alarming attack Of windy cole
and surfeit. Well, under the skillfu
treatment of Jocular Jeems and the Cen
trail Pacific we hope it will recover
Meanwhile We offer it our sincere wishes
for speedy convalescence. Joking
apart, or, MS its friend Goodwin says, to
quit "joshing," We will state for the in
formation of our readers that the Review
on Saturday last published three mortal
columns of what they knew about the
County Commissioners. OF course that
was not much, and they need not have
taken 50 much space telling it; but they
did, and charged the Commissioners
with all sorts of off noes generally, but
particularly that they had built Court
House and it had cost too much. Fur.
ther, that the Board had wasted the
county's money. In order to prove
these huge array of figures are brought
to substantive the charges. AS it sell
dom does to rely too conidingly on as
sertons made by Radicals, we thought
we would examine little for ourselves.
The Review said that when the present
Board took Office that they had the con-
troll of nearly $4,000, Turned over by
their Radical predecessors; that there
were no old debts to pay, and that the
new Board during the first quarter OF
1871 ran the county in debt $S,079 %.
Let us see how this statement squares
with facts rs exhibited by the, County
Auditors books. On referring TO them
We find that on the 1st of January, 1871,
when the present Commissioners took
office, that there were So, $685. 80 in the
several county funds; that the debt of
the county was Sl4,552.37, which after
deducting the cash on hand from the
debt leaves $1l,eS3.47 as the actual in
debtedness. The Review said there was
no debt and nearly $1,000 on hand.
Next it said the Commissioners in the
first quarter of 1871 had run tue county
in debt $S,079.23, while the fact is they
had reduced the debt SO, 904.24. These,
to use the words of Mr.. Richard Swiv-
eler, are "staggerers " Nos. l and g.
Having thus convinced ourselves that
there was no reliance to be placed on the
Reviews facts or figures, We desisted
from further search, --.... ..-
Now about the Court House. This has
been made the subject of repeated inves-
legations by the different grand juries,
especially those in session last June and
August. These bodies were composed
of men of all political leanings. They
thoroughly examined the matter aud
were satisfied that there was no fraud or
peculation of any kind, and so reported.
Therefore, to again use an expression Of
Judge Goodwin's, the Reviews state
ment is all bosh, and it has simply
been looking for eggs in a mares nest.
PLEASE CoRRECT.--The Carson, Ney.,