Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-09-24
AN OUTslDR LOOK Ar TIE
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GDITsbh NENbs ug STANDARDIZATION
may appear . little behind the hour.
but my work Is such that I cannot al.
ways stop to talk Of interesting events
just at the time they transpire. How
ever. feeling a deep and fervent inter-
est in the preservation Of the purity Of
our Republican Institutions I could
not forbear attending the Convention
held in this city Thursday last-the
Goodman, Jones and Enterprise Con-
vcntlon. And l had a good time ; en-
joying 1t hugely; I couldn't help 1t,
everything was so we'll arranged, each
piece of the machinery was oiled so
nicely. and d%ove-tailed so exactly.
that an error or even a dlscordant
squeak was literally out Of the ques.
ton. Pieces were spoken with a per-
lection equal to the best efforts OF
Piper's choice troupes, and seldom. IN
deed, have I seen actors perform their
parts better. And wide the Enterprfse)
the entire body was so perfectly har-
monlouI that to be there was an enjoy
able treat | ASSURE you. But then. just
because everything was so thoroughly
arranged, and glided along so glibly.
Won must not for a moment think there
was anything put up about 1t, any
thing .'cut and dried" you know. 1t
couldn't be; Goodman aud Jones don't
know how /; they hayn't htd the expe-
Renee, and George Lammon. Sam Sy-
mons and Sam Hyatt are too honest.
too politically s%crupulou'; you don't
think you could get them to assist In
ANYTHING OF the Kind. do you? Not
mulch. And wlnters-General John
B,-but, pshaw, everybody knows him.
But then It was good, It was jolly, yes,
it was bully. First. Winters was nom.
mated for President, and you ought
to have seen the benign look Of CRATE
ful surprise that beained all over his
face As he went forward, thanked the
Convention for the unexpected hon
or" aud then deliberately took Il piece
Of paper from his pocket and read the
names OF the Committee on Creden-
tlals. But dldu't I enjoy 1t when |
SAW your reporter slip the paper OH
tile Generals stand, copy It, and pass
1t over to the Chronicle man aud
then, what a curlously blank, funny,
expression stole across his counten-
ance when the nice duck from ths
whisky mill oil B street sideled up to
his stand with a bunch Of grapes aud o
boquet Of flowers.
Hardly had the recess been ordered
for the committee to report, when
Lammon, In his haste. goes upon the
stage with a crumpled, dirty looking
paper, containing the entire order OF
business, which looked as though he
had carried It In his p%antaloons pocket
for the two days previous. and the re-
porters had the whole thing copied
long before the is minutes were x
pired. True, this looked a little sus-
picious, but then 1t couldn't be that
there was anything wrong, anything
'.put up" about 1t ; don't tile Enter
mise say there WAS not? And then
my friend Joe tbeg pardon) Goodman so
~iunocently moved to have himself ap-
polluted Chairman Of the Committee OH
Resolutions. Oh, Joe, how could you?
Then came the vote on permanent
President, and Winters innate mod
esty gets the better Of him. and Lam
mon has to put the motion, but | rer-
taInly could not detect much pride In
his looks as the sound Of the five or six
weak "ayes" fell upon his ears, wen
kl,,.,,I fhnrn xttoo no nnnnlInY t.nfn
Then the election of Secretary-total
vote two weak "ayes " aud one good
strong "no." Then Kiug Jones'
tru,npeter reads the resolutions tit
would detract too much from the honor
Of his position to let the Secretary
which were really good-in fact, about
the only good thing done. Among
the first nominations for members Of
the Central Committee was that dele
gate to the State Convention, VITO
Thought the Republican party could
afford to "let Sutro 60 to h-ll ; that
he only had about fifty votes anyway"
and the rest. with two or three eXcep-
tions, were regular old-time wire
pullers-genulne political buzzsrdI;
50 I could not help thinking Jones was
looking out for the future rs we'll rs
the present. But | must hurry Oh, tor
I tind 1t impossible to tell you hnlf the
interesting scenes presented for III
stance, how meekly cheerful Ben
Lackey resigned his elght-year-old as
pirations to be Sheriff, aud was "a
Jones mar" still. Now, | like Ben,
and when I have a job Of collecting
that Is little tough, Ben gets II, ev
cry time but just show me a man you
can make believe Ben Lsckey ever let
up OH n Job he started after until lie
had pocEeted his pay.
And then, tlere was the "Senator
from the Crown Point, coming down
with laundering ~parqnette applause,
until the air around him was thick with
dust ; | allude to him who ran for Pres
ident Of the First Ward Club. Of whom
u colleague, who was earnestly cleo
tioneering for him, said that he 1.-THE
Senator) had bought a house OF him but
could not get the money to pay for II
until Jones came up, and II We could
only elect him President Of the Club
1t would expedite that financial mat
ter considerably. But there are one or
two things about the Senator l don't
understand. One Is, that while he IL
40 persistently looking for a job. that
he don't take 1t when offered. for |
know, of my owl knowledge, Of his
having one or two excellent offers.
And another Is, why he stopped the
Enterprise the morning after the con-
vention, unless 1t was that somebody
did not get a nomination. Aud my
old friend Gus Williams, ono Of the
oldest and bsst citizens Of the county,
and one of the most deserving Of the
party. to b. beaten for the Clerkship
by the keeper OF a keno game, 1t WIS