Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-04-08


thousand dollars is to be expended on
the building. Fornty's Press asserted
some time since that the Senator case
would be Investigated that an effort
would be made to ascertain If his seat,
like Caidweus. Pomeroy's and many
others in the Senate, was secured by
purchase This rumor was unfounded,
undoubtedly. The Senator undoubtedly
entertains no fears OF being expelled.
His intention to build at the Capital
warrants that conclusion. He is right,
a man who can afford to spend half
million for seat in the Senate, and a
hundred thousand for mansion, ineurs
no risk of being Investigated by that
body in its present corrupt condition
1t takes less gold notes to charm the
Senate than the people. The silence OF
Senators can bepurchased much cheaper
than were the votes of electors. Silver
State
The foregoing is not of q very
high-toned order of journalism and
yet it is q legitimate reflex Of the
tone Of too many journals Which are
awarded q highly respectable stand
ing. The bitter criticisms Of the
New York Tribune, and the hard,
unjust cynicisms of the Erening Post,
the Springfield Republican and jour
nails Of that school-the 1ndepend-
emit Press, so self-styled-give sort
Of warrant to the kind Of comment
INDUCED in by our Unionville con-
temporary. Those exemplars and
pseudo monopolists Of responsibility
in the fields of.non- partisan, imp r
sonal journalism, furnish forth. in
unmsnly, skulking inuendoes, the
basis of these crude libels-the tend
ency of which would be, if they
found credence anywhere save among
the baser sorts of pot-house states
men, to cause the highest Legisla-
tive body in the Republic to be re-
garded as scarcely better than band
of thieves. And in this connection
let us enter a protest againstthe vile
ISLANDERS which have been cast with
90 loose and lavish hand upon Sen
ator Jones. Let some one of re-
sponsible standing come forward and
father them, or let them be forever
consigned to that silence which is
reserved for exploded ISLANDERS. The
noisesome breath of calumny, assid-
uously blown about by the baser
sorts of Independent and Democratic
newspapers of this coast in some
measure justified the comments and
predictions of the P Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. Jones went to Washington bet
ter known by the libels heaped upon
him than by the quieter statements
of his good qualities, made by the
newspapers that were strenuous to
deal fairly with him. His frank and
manly address before the convened
Houses of the Legislature was dis
torted and misinterpreted. His I'M
equivocal, honest, undisguised aver
ments and strong seif-vindications
we're too much for the weak stom-
achs of the scandal-mongers who
deal out the pabulum which gets
public dispensation through the ac-
cepted oracles of Eastern journalism;
and what he said in frankness and
the fearlessness of free speech was
garbled and misquoted to that ex-
tent that it actually came to be
turned against him as though it were
a confession and shameless justifica-
ton Of fraud, bribery and Legisla-
tive and popular decentralization By
the employment of brides. It is
time that these unfair and unmanly
detractions and demonstrations of
fact were at an end. They no longer
serve any better purpose than to cast
contumely upon Senator Jones in
Washington, and to justify a con
temptuous opinion of Nevada and
her people and representatives the
would arOnnd. Mr.. Jones is Quite