The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1872-11-11
Iha Ra.Eleciion Of Kendall.

occasion to look over and ponder some
of the results. Among the most deplora-
BILE of these results, we account the re-
election Of Mr.. Kendall to Congress. He
is not in political accord with the senti-
ments of the people OF the State, nor
with the party in power in Washington;
and his return to the House is most foul
and unnatural tits not, nor it can not
come to good. During his two years in
the House, he accomplished nothing to
speak of, except to introduce chimerical
propositions which hang where he left
them il the committee rooms.
Knowing the temper of the people
that they were almost as q body for Grant
The iobbers who were worthy followers
of Greeley, and they who had speculative
projects which they feared Goodwin
might not favor, set about manufacturing
a Fictitious popularity for Mr.. Kendall.
They represented him as the good Mr.
Kendall-the honest Mr.. Kendall-the
faithful Mr.. Kendall: the while it was all
talk-not a notable act in his Congress
sional ~career'to base their encomiums pm.
But some had seen what could be done
that way, and had private reasons for
their action; while others acted upon the
Democratic policy of an effort to gradu-
ally obtain a standing in Congress. Re-
publicans were deluded into the snare,
in some cases. Aid which they did not
need was exchanged to their candidates,
for votes for Kendall. All in all, Ken
dali is returned by a majority, in the
whole State, of about 100, while the
Grant Electors are successful by about
1900.
A letter from Virginia apprises us OF
some of the proceedings and causes con-
tributing to Goodwin's defeat. He had
made a handsome canvass Of the State,
discussing the issues of the day; had
aired the ~pretensions Of our Congress
man; had presented the Republican
aus in excellent light; had shown him.
self an able DICTATOR, whereas formerly
he had been known only as an upright
judge, a fine writer, and a true friend to
the workingman. When he returned, at
the closing of the canvass, to Virginia
City, he stood conceded on every hand
the successful man; for he had worsted
his opponent wherever they met. But
the insidious workings to which we have
alluded were active. His friends had
thought it at the first a hopeless canvass,
but they had changed their minds. But
when the election came on, committee
men, interested politicians, volunteered
and hired strikers, seemed to have been
seized with q panic. Each interest
seemed to be suddenly inspired with the
idea that its favorite, to succeed, must
trade votes with the Kendall men. Com
mittee members, and Republican workers
who are now heartily ashamed of it,
turned votes to Kendall which belonged
to the Republican nominee. Sutro, Re-
publican, put workers in the field for
Kendall, and used all his influence with
his large force of employees in the same
direction. James G. Fair, with o large
force of workmen, turned loose upon
Goodwin; and, with such influences, and
no lack of money, Storey county was
turned, with its great Republican pre-
ponderance, against as true and gallant a
Republican as aver carried the war for
God and the Right into the imminent
deadly breach. Charley Goodwin stands
to-day, by the untrammeled voice of
the people of Nevada, their choice for
Congressman; but by the dirty machina-
tons of the corruptionists, the tricksters,
the dealers in human cattle, he stands
swindled out of the place to which the
people had called him. But there S
thunder in the clouds yet, and these
things will yet be righted.