Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1873-03-07
Tne HOLD Mountasneer of Nevada

81 lf0f-- Inc senate. rom &c slump, rom III
politics of the country in which he has bee
for SO many years a butterfly. busy be-
/ and bird OF freedom and if recent Wasl
4 ington rumors be true, from the COUNT vi
self. For tiley say he goes 20 China. He
to saccaed the other Pacific coast fellow
i Low on some such name, who has been tliel
four years and is ready to rotate-as mini.
ter. Not as minister Of the gospel-thoug
NEe would be quite handy at that, as a grea
many sgoosl people who have listened to iii
fcryid eratory can testiiyl,at minister ex
Itraordinary, or plenipotenliary, or resident
or something of that sort. 4.
I We shall miss Nye. We could have bette
epared better. man. 1t seems pity Ii
should have to 60, and that he sIiould civ
place in gonig to Jones, whoever he may be
Jones, as we read in the press, is a person
who in his cups proelains that he ha
''bougflt up the whole damned legislature
An offensive creature of Nevada who talks il
tins reprehensible manner under the int1u
ence Of the flowing BOWLS not Statesman
who can make Nye's place good anywhere
But his remark discloses character. 1t il
base, sordid: unstatesmanlikeI Nye, to be
sure, made similar suggestion some dozel
years ago when Connecticut was having
close election-so the effect that we (neal
ing the Republican partly would ..buy up
the damned state.'' But Nye was speaking
| in political aud patriotic, not a personal
fsense. His proposition was to buy up the
state for great party. Jones bought up q
| legislature Tor his own individual use and
behoof. Without knowing Jones, we ven
ture ro say on the strength of this remark OF
his that he is an unpleasant person. to behold
whom in the seat of the lamentea Nye will
be to the bercayel senate a constant irritation
and pain. f.
Nye was bold mountaineer. Not one OF
the millions Of American citizens who have
been subjected to his dizzy eloquence can
ever forget his glowing and beautiful descrp-
ton OF his .'moantain home beyond the
setting sum-" On all their minds and memo-
lies he painted by bis own master hand in
colors from his own unequalled palette, a
rapt and rotund seraph spanning the S;erras
against the background OF the western sky
For man who had spent so tile time in ii
state, and that mostly in a transient way at
hotel, and the state one that hasn't green
spot tie size of a Mexican dollar in its whole
extent-.he love Of Nye for his mountain
home was something beyond human compre-
hension.
And Nye had twinkle in his eye that we
have no idea Jones has, For aught we know
Jones may be cross-eyed; he seems to',have
a moral strabismns, if not physical. What
Wretched caricature it will. be to have such a
man sitting in Nye's place. Moreover, no
doubt Jones swears. All citizens of that
inhabitable cline swear, They are obliged
to by the thinness of the air. But no man
can swear like tye. He does it so finently-.
it just flows into his conversation without a
ripple. That will be missed too. And then
to think while Jones is shocking senators
with jagged profanity, Nye is doing 1T with
his old smoothness and ease at Hong Kong
to lien Tsin in broken Chinese.
I Does Jones drink, we wonder. Nye never
does Except when he is on the stump and
is urged to by deaeons and that kind of men
who are anxious abaut his threat. The senate
will miss his example, Then, too, in the
matter of draw poker, can Jones pretend to
make his place good? He deludes himself il
he thinks So. For Nye is al man who has
played with Schenck and Grant, and isn't
afraid of four flush. This, however. is not
The Nye who played euchre WithaAh Sin.
That was Bill. This is Jim. But it lie
should ever get asehance to sit down at a
title game of draw with the Mandarins he |
will be very likely toshow them 4some points.
What is.ouriloss is China's gain but the
whole country will sigh as it says farewell to
his bold mountaineer. Shall we ever look
upon his like again ?-Neto York Sun.