Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-09-24
,soyr srTRO's INDEPENDENT

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the Phoebe RscoRD, which contains Inc
rsua, amount of scurrility, venom and
falsehood forwhich the articles pubhshed
in the Independent have now become
famous. Through some cause acc'-
dental or intended, we failed to receive
the number containing the gentle enid
iprs of this self-elected monitor ana as
very few copies come to Phoebe IL was
with some difficulty that we managed 10
sra the precious number that contained {
so many good words for the RECORD
However. Just as we were about 10 re-
quest the Independent to send US an aa-
diiional copy, friend obliged us with
the missing paper. In future, when the
independent calls the RECORD pet names,
we would ask it to be more than ordina-
rily careful that it's valuable admonitions
are puuctually and surely dispatched to
onr address. With these premises, let
us turn to the Independents fragrant
illusions. 1t appears that our Virginia
contemporary is in trouble about 'he
editor of the RECORD, who the lnae-
pendent is good enough to dub with the
soubriquet of "Mr. Hollands young
man." agreeably diversified with the
coenomen of Confederate editor.
Now. really, the Independent is worry
ing itself very unnecessarily win 'n'
savings or doings of the said young
man." IL is with the Phoebe RECORD
that the Virginia Independent has to do,
and not with any member Of its staff.
Here we might as we'll give the hide
pendent this caution--that when it leaves
its proper province Of q critic or advocate
of public men or matters to attack private
persons, it must expect to receive dis
agreeable and unwecome rejoinders
This, it is not our purpose to do at pres
ent, as we believe that such matters have
not the slightest interest for the general
public, are irrelevent to the points at
issue and only serve TO distract attention
from the real question. AS to advocat
ing the election of Mr.. Sharon, we have
done SO for months in the most opeI
and decided manner possible. We die
so long before the Independent was estab
lished, have done SO ever since, and shall
continue to do So We believe, and long
since have said, that of all the candi.
dates who are aspiring to the office OF
United States Senator. that VIM. Sharon
will be the most useful and reliable
representiye for Nevada. We say SO yet,
again repeated. The Independent is
giving its man Sutro far too much import
ance when it says, Like most OF Mr..
Sharon's journalists, his (ED. REcoRD)
chief stock in trade is abuse OF Sutro. y
We have never thought Sutro had an.
political strength or influence with TIL
people of Nevada. We never ever
thought of him as a candidate until il
April last, when we saw letter writte
by him to Mr.. McWilliams, then cit
zen of Phoebe, in which Sutro declare
that it would not do for him for Share
to be elected Senator, and if nothing els
would avail, he (Sutro) would be car
ddate himself. That was the first know
edge we had of Sutro's pretentions, AM
like everybody else, laughed at them
but mentioned in proper terms that h
would be candidate; which We had q
right to do, as the fact was announced
over his signature. Since then WI
have said little about Sutro, We though
he was scarcely worth talking about. W
all know that he was simply an advei
turer, who had project he was tryin
to promote, so that he could make a
immense fortune. That is all he was
and all he is. For all that, we, howeve
never abused, and scarcely mentione
him, until he came to Phoebe al
launched forth against us and everybod
else who will not assist him to fill b
Golfers at the expense of other people
property. So much for Sutro. Nov
for the assertion that the locatofs OF til
Comstock and their successors in intel
est have no property to manage. tn
Independent accused Hollands youn
man" of not knowing anything abor
the subject; he, like all others who hav
lived many years on this coast, kno'
that those whom the Independent call
squatters on the Comstock, have an in
defeasible title against all the world bu
the United States, founded on prior ap
preparation and subsequent development
That these rights are respected by tn
State courts, by the courts of the Unite
States, and by Congress. The policy c
the government has been and still is t
protect and establish those rights, an
give all an opportunity to perfect them O.
easy conditions. Right there is wher
the shoe pinches Sutro. lie wants to com
pei the owners of these inchoate titles Il
perfect them, coupled with condition
that they shall pay Sutro 50 per ton fol
doing something they do not want done.
Sutro last session sought to secure legis-
lation by which to force the owners to
accept those terms. He failed, and he
will continue to fail, so long as there are
enough honest men in Congress to ex.
pose his real purpose.
The Independent says that the whole
capital of the adherents of Sharon is
abuse of Sutro. The exact contrary is
the truth. Sutro has been abusing
Sharon for years abused him at Wash
ington-declared his enmity in the Nc
Williams letter came back with the
same stock in trade-established a
newspaper for the same purpose--and
he is now travelling over the country re-