Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-10-29
An Unmitigated Liar.

columns of that equally irrespon
sible sheet, The Independent, writing
from this place under date of tn,
Goth, over the nom de plume of "In
dependent Voter" would have the
people of this part of the State be
lieve that the citizens of Silver City
were terribly oppressed and imposed
upon in the person of the editor Of
the TIMES. 1t has been the custom
of the writer hereof to pass by I'M
noticed the barking of such ours as
" Independent Voter" but so many
barefaced lies, incorporated in one
effusion of this luminary-who sub
sists by stealing checks at faro
games, and robbing helpless in
ebriates-demand at our hands a
denial. In order that our readers
may get a correct idea of the
rawlings of this scribbler, we give an
extract
" First, let me pay my respects to
an obscure Matchmaking sheet in
| this county. A few months since a
young man came to this city and
stated that he had been requested,
by several of our leading citizens,
to start paper; that he had been
promised their support on condition
that he publish an impartial, indie
pendent, no-party sheet, and that he
proposed to do it. Immediately the
strings of our citizens purses were
loosened, and their hands extended
to this struggling young man; adj
vertisements came in by columns,
and he was soon enabled to issue his
paper-not weekly, as Re had pro-
posed at first, but tri-weekly. Such
was the encouragement he got"
There is not man in town but
knows the above to be false, from
first to last. There was not man in
Lyon county aware that the paper
was to be published here until the
press and material had arrived at
the depot in Virginia City, and the
proprietor, accompanied by a friend,
came to Silver City to get suitable
building in which to publish his
paper. That was the first notice the
citizens of this county had that a
paper was to be published here.
The young man did not state to
any party that he had been requested
sby several of our leading citizens -
to start a paper, but came to Lyon
county of his own free will, and with
the consent and approval of all
respectable citizens, none of whom
asked what was to be its course. We
now call attention to the following
extract from our Prospectus, which
was also Incorporated in the Saluta-
tory published in the first issue of
the TINES:
We do not think, at this time, it
is necessary tor US to NEEDLE to any
great extent in politics. AS near as
we can come at il, the affairs of the
county are in good handsome and
all of the public servants performing
their several trusts to the satisfaction
of the people. We shall not hesitate
to lift our voice in the cause of right,
n
deem it necessary. AS announced
in our prospectus, the TIMES will be
an advocate of the Republican party
and principles"
Does that read that we made con-
tracts or represented that we would
publish can impartial, independent,
no-party sheet?" During our news
paporial career, as Independent
Voter" says, from Yreka, Cal. to
Fraser River, Montana, Idaho and
Utah and he might have added
Oregon and Nevada, as well as vari-
Gus parts of each of these States and
Territories-we have always pursued
straightforward business, one that
we are not in the least ashamed to
refer to- We defy any man to say
that we have been other than a Re-
publican during all this time.
AS to being the innocent cause of
the forming of the Independent
party in this county, we were not
aware until we read the letter that
the TIMES welded so much influence
in the community. But as we gave
1t birth so we will completely exter-
inmate it, and send its rotten carcass
to swine, before another week
T" Fret till your proud heart break;
Go tell your Slaves how choleric Won are.
And make your bondmen trouble. Must l
budget
Must l observe you?- must 1 stand and
crouch
Under your testy humor? By the gods
You shall digest the venom of your spleen
Though it do split you; for, from this dsy
forth,
III use You for my mirth, yea, for my
laughter,
When you are wsspish"