Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-10-18
THE CoNsPIRATORs' COMPACT.


In the Virginia Enterprise of the 18th
inst. Kendall speaks another piece,
which we imagine must prove exceed
ingly indigestible provender for his
brother Dems of the chivalry wing.
Family fights are always bitter, and
Kendall seems to have dipped his pen
in the concentrated essence of yerjuice
and vinegar. The way he lashes his En-
ring brethren is q sight for stepmother.
OF necessity the larger portion of the
outpourings of his wrath relates to
purely personal matters with which we
outsiders have nothing to do. 1t is
very pretty little fight, in which, as the
numerically weaker party will always
enlist the sympathies of the spectators,
Kendall will naturally find more en-
enlargement than his opponents, for he
is fighting numerous clique alone.
There is, however, a matter which has
come ont in this family jar which Is im-
portant, and should not, and we will
take care is not, forgotten. That is the
bargain made between Sutro and the
Democratic leaders of Storey county.
Just what that transaction was we have
not yet learned. What the obligations
were, that were entered into by the high
contracting parties. are not yet known to
the public. Enough, however, to show
that the peoples best interests were to
be sacrificed, can be inferred from the
caution given Kendall by the Chairman
of the Democratic State Central Com.
mittee against assailing Sutro, for the
reason that the Democrats needed
Sutro's aid in Storey county, and con-
cessions must be made. This sub rosa
agreement, thus entered into, might be
very agreeable and profitable to the par
ties concerned, but the public generally
may have something to say in the mat
ter. Sutro's projects concern the whole
State, and not only this State, but every
State where mining enterprise is carried
on. He has made constant and persistent
application to Congress for legislation,
which. while it was special as to him, in
volved the broad area of the United
States in its effects. All Sutro wants is
legislation which will enable him to
trespass upon other peoples property
and compel them to pay him for doing
something they do not want done. That
is the alpha and omega of his desires.
To enable him to carry out this raid on
the Comstock, be besieges Congress,
asking it to pass measures to assist his
marauding purposes. He dare not ask
for more special legislation, for that
would show the cloven foot at once, so
he urges measures general in their char
acter, but cunningly constructed to serve
his particular object of confscating the
Comstock, utterly reckless who they will
affect or what mischief they may do else
where. Now, it may suit the purposes
Of the Storey county Democracy to make
concessions to Sutro; not SO the people
of this State. They do not see anything
profitable or dignifed in the mines of
this State being made marketable com.
modify for the Storey county Democracy
to sell and Sutro to buy. They will fail
to see the expediency of the control of
the vast mining interests of Nevada be-
ing snapped off for the purpose of CIV
ing Wintry Williams lift in his attempt
to reach the United States Senate. But
thanks to the dissensions among the
allied forces, the conspiracy against the
great industry of the State, has come to
light. 1t now only remains for the peo-
pie to properly punish those who
were detected trading off their
valuable material interests. Let the
f sSaa be ss ysSer APs ,R"the 6ands oil
the people, let them use it firmly and
wisely. Let scheming politicians under
stand once for ALL that they can chatte,
about parties and platforms as much as
they will. That they can fix up prima-
ries and manipulate conventions, and
such like tricky and dirty work. They
can indulge their little meannesses in
such matters, but they must keep their
hands off the great industry, on the pros
perity Of which the fortunes of every
man, woman and child in the State de.
pend. They cannot, must not buy or
sell that. Much as the leaders OF the
Storey county Democracy needed Sutro,
and willing as they were to make him
concessions, they will find that bargain
and sale so Rrievous burden that it will
drag them deep down into the darkest
recesses of political perdition,