Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-09-24
LETTER FROM REESE RIVER.
AUSTIN, Sept. q, 1872.

AUSTIN, sept. Il, 1914.
Ed. NEWS: l read the E'atrprise
considerably, and Of late have taken
much interest In the GOLD Hill NEWS,
aud have watched with much interest
the Attacks made by the Enterprise on
you, and your manful defense of what
every true, sincere Republican must
concede to be right. I read a long
leader In that paper a few days ago,
which was headed
"Ths Aiienpted Bslt.s
In which the idea was sought to be
conveyed that your paper was on the
verge Of boiling Now. I have no
idea that you contemplate Jdolpg any
thing Of the kind, but In view OF the
way tho Jones crowd have manipu-
lated the primaries and conventions.
and the efforts which they have put
forth to force the masses of the party
to support the zone man power" do
you think It would be doing anything
very re~prehensible If a fellow did bolt?
{ can very well imagine how things
have been conducted In your section of
the State. by what has been done on a
small scale here.
About a week ago a gentleman ar
rived In Austin from San Francisco.
He wa a peculiar looking duck -hav-
ing a bright, restless eye. aud an air
| about him that evidently meant biz.
In a small town like Austin, the ap-
| p~earance Of a stranger at any time ex-
| cites observation, but this particular
| arrival seemed to DO so more partlcu.
larly than others. Seeing an acquaiht-
lnce Of my owa In conversation with
thiS mysterious stranger. | inquired.
Who Is that fellow? "Oh!" lie re-
piled. Hes fellow from the Bay,
come up to run the primaries for
Zones" Now. I WAS aware that the
Republicans Of Nevada were an igno-
rant crew, and incapable of mihaglng
their own political affairs, but | thought
the king" wanted to be United
states Senator too bad to cast this re-
hection upon them, aud therefore could
hardly credit my friends statement
cnncerniug the stranger. After q willie
Mr.. Man from the By, began to slip
around the saloons aud invite the boys
10 Join him In a social glass. and when
the shades Of night would fall, he
could he seen around a dark corner,
with his arm around some good Re-
p~ubllcau's'' neck, and II u person could
have heard the conversation It would
have sounded something like this /:
Now, look here I! jones has got lots
y soap, and he's going to sling her
round among the boys quite lively.
Yer see, them fellcrs down to the Bay.
they know that Lander's a mighty
hard county TO get away with, and
.Au-tin's the county seat, So they'll
have to chuck their money In here,
see ~
Well, this fellow he slid around and
he buzzed. aud button-holed, and held
little caucuses In back room OF sa-
looms. aud pretty soon there was a
meeting called to make up u ticket to
be voted for at the primaries. The
agent from the Bay stood at the foot
OF the stairs, and as the folks appeared
he would now and again touch ON
| fellow on the shoulder and whisper
Don't forget now" They made up
their ticket, aud the Republicans who
were not "in the Ring" offered no OPP
| position. as they knew there Wa :" no
use Of kicking against the prlcks." As
.oon as he had got through with Ills
little job Of putting up II ticket, he got
on the stage and went to Eureka,
where, IN conjunction with u Central
Pacific Railroad detective, he did
some more Of his fine work. He did
not have rs easy a thing at Eureka as
he had here, rs E. j. Ely WIS max
ing u bit Of a scrimmage, aud the agent
had to come out with some OF the
promised coin. by means Of which he
cooked Mr.. Elzy's goose" Every
thing being cooked aud primed, the
Convention came Off yesterday, aud |
venture the assertion that even In the
worst days Of Iam,nany there never
was u nominating Convention held
where it was so apparent that the
whole thing WAS u cooked-up JOB.
There WAS but candidate tor each
nomination within the gilt Of the Con.
vcntion, and the business was hurried
through In indecent ha-te; aud excit-
ed the contempt and disgust OF specti-
tors OF all shades Of politics. They
nominated some good inen; hut they
did that because there WA no compel
ing candidate. but the calculation L! to
trade everything for the legislative
ticket, As they did successfully In 1856
thereby Strengthening as good q ina
~ ever made . track. refer TO
Frank Wheeler. (Red) now OF Gold
Hill. I am aware that Frank Ia u
Jones man, but | think he will drop
Jones like a hot potato before tho cali
vaSS eudS.
The parties who have put up this
thing, ART most Of them men who have
| lived OIL the o~tfscouringS Of politics for
years, aud they care nothing for the
success OF the party, II they can only
lie aud chicane their master into the
| United States Senate. they would
swap Grant, or the Savior OIL the cross.
to attain this end. They openly make
their brags about the money johnny
Jones Is going u spend, aud | under
stand that Ia addition to importing
smart ward politicians from San Fran
cl.co, it Il also the intention to run In
Il lot Of rough. and fighters from tho
same place. In view OF these facts as
a conscientious aud liie.lony Republi-
can. am | forced to support a ticket
put forward by such men and such
means, and Is It any obloquy to Do
stigmatized as II Boiler? BRUTus.
From their decision The aboyo contains .
there 10 no appeal. few OF the facts and az.
Hon. John ?. Jones mr. = tha. taxpayers OF