Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-10-29
WILL COME BACK.

Cursing and malignant abuse are dan
Berous weapons to those who use them.
They are so apt to come back and raise
their heads at most announcement times
and seasons. For instance, in 1868 Gen
eral Williams was, as he is now, a candi-
date for the United States Senate-he is
always q candidate for something or
other. However, at the time we refer to
the object of Williams ambition was the
Senate. Unfortunately for his aspira-
tions, but fortunately for Nevada and
the country. he did not get votes enough |
and had to take back seat. He was
wrathy, and visited his anger on his
fellow citizens of Irish birth, in the man
ner described in the following extract
taken from the Virginia Enterprise,
which we shrewdly opine is not likely to
make Irish voters very warmly incline in
his behalf:
The arg lment in Ryan case furnished
him desired opportunity to unburden
his heart OF portion of the malice and
hate with which it was and is filled to-
ward the loyal people Of Storey county,
and especially his Irish fellow citizens,
who had then repudiated and laughed at
him, as they will again. His speech was
in his own peculiar style of art. 1t was
vindictiye, bitter and abusive; but while
, upon the head of the unfortunate Ryan
I he poured out the full measure of his
A wrath, yet not until he came to speak Of
the Irish voters could it be seen how
! fearfully angry he was, and how terrible
n could be his denunciation. Then, II
i TRUTH he warmed up to the subject, ant
"a the btterest enemy that Ireland ever hat
" would certainly have been satisfied will
RI the manner in which the doughty Gen
n eral villihed, traduced and held up t.
of detestation the Irish people. 1t is i'm
10 possible, at this time, to give the Who'll
invective, but il was very much to tn
ny following words:
he Gentlemen of the jury" said Genel
Mt al Williams, "the plaintiff, Ryan, dt
=. mands SO, 900 because he was compelle
ny to take q pleasant morning walk of som
Ia fourteen miles. Can anything be NOR
q preposterous? Can you conceive o
It greater audacity? Why, gentlemen
!, Ryan must be of some superior breed o
i Irishmen. He certainly does not belon
to the class of Irish with which our com
d munity is so unfortunately infested
j. is but a few days ago that hundreds @
his countrymen and kind, hundreds 0
= Irishmen, fully as intelligent, and equal
'r ly as good-lookiDg as this man Ryan
" willingly sold their votes in the streets o
!" Virginia at prices ranging from fifty cent
:. to $3.50 a man, and would have throw
~ their miserable souls into the bargain
t. had they retained any right to the dispo
10 sition OF such worthless commodities
/. Willingly, did l say Why, gentlemen
that word wholly fails to describe thei
y depravity. In such crowds did they in
re fest the quarters of the political party t,
9, which, upon principle, they have Away!
i. been opposed, that it became necessary
=. before the election was half done, to bal
forward nn9ars io in order to escape the impor
a0' miserable pit.ancs, ,tk Eish crowdin9
~ :. American citizens. II a whole Irishmal
IL can be bought and is willing to sell him
at self for $3.50, it seems to me that t.
or make one walk fourteen miles ought no
- to command any greater price.
~ The General continued for lonl
y time in the same strain, but the abov,
,e will serve as fair sample of the genera
\ character and substance Of his excoria
j, ton; and that it may not be though
u that We are doing Mr.. Williams an injus
tice, we call upon Judge Whitman ant
Mr.. Deal, Chairman Of the Democrat
o State Central Committee, who wer
q present in court at the time, to bear II
out in the assertion that the remarks of
D. tributed to the speaker are about as b
D pronounced them, and certainly nc
" less abusive of the Irish people. In tn
Ia heat of his passion General William
- spoke his real sentiments toward til
II Irish, and we can but submit to them fc
is serious consideration the single question
lie Can you, as voters, countenance and nj
Z the aspirations of General Williams, b
" whom you have been SO publicly and S
m outrageously denounced, and by whor
lie you are held in such contempt We ar
ia mcuh mistaken in the Irish heart if, o
:, next election day. terrible mo" doe
not answer our question.