Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-07-30
A CONGRESSIONAL ADDRESS.

The Virginia Enterprise is fighting
hard, very hard, to make the people be-
lieve that the office-hoiders and Legisla-
tors of the Republican party are trust
worthy. 1t is a struggle, and We doubt
greatly whether the Enterprise will be
successful. In a late issue, that of the
25th, it refers to the address of the Re-
publican Congressional Committee, in
approving terms. OF course it had to
do this, but it must have been severe
task to accept as truth and bolster up the
assertions of a set of inscriptions
tricksters, whose deeds have made the
very name of a Congressman a synonym
of duplicity, of a betrayer of trust, of
anything but that which is decent and
respectable. That majority of the
present Congress should have had the
audacity to unite in public address to
their fellow countrymen is surprising.
One would have thought that common
decency would have urged them to col
lect their plumber and stink of into their
holes like any other men, whose con-
science, if they had any, would teach
them to seek the deepest, dunnest, dark
est shades of obscurity. A set of men
who could designate Shepherd Is stealings
of millions as keeping accounts loose
ly;" who did not impeach Richardson;
who allowed Durell still TO sell justice by
the yard, or pound, if you please, over
the counter OF the United States Courts
of New Orleans; who grabbed an
amount of plumber under the plea of back
pay. salary, etc, that they had not cour-
age to retain. though they had yillainy
enough to appropriate; this Congress,
the forty-third that has assembled since
the independence of the United States,
the creatures of the popular will. the
servants OF the people, after passing a
law, threatening with unconstitutional
pains and penalties, those who shall dare
denounce its evil deeds, dares to come
before the people with an address ask
ing for a continuation of their power
to betray their constituents and
an opportunity to effect another grab.
We are inclined to believe that their
fippant impudent loquacity will not
win. The people have had enough Of
them, and those who used and supported
them. 1t Is not question of party or a
mere difference of opinion. 1t is mat
ter of simple, common, downright hon
esty. There is nothing more involved.
A large majority of the present Congress
has stigma attached to them that will,
as it ought, follow them to their grave.
That first they voted themselves an I'M
reasonable improper amount of remu-
neration, that under the circumstances
no honest man should have dreamed Of
accepting. Next, because their constitu
ents choose to criticise and condemn
this shameful swindle. they tried 10 muz
zle their mouths. to stife, to gag, ia
smother the almost unanimous express
sion of public opinion, that they had be-
trayed their trust and We're no more
worthy of public confidence. Yet this
body of men, including the very head
and front OF these offenders, presume to
address the people, and the Enterprise
quotes approvingly from their lucubra-
tons. The Enterprise had better read
the Newgate Calendar. and in the last
dying speeches and confessions con-
tanned in those volumes, it will find lit
erature nearly akin to the precious docu-
ment with which a majority of the pres.
ent Congress insults the country.