Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-09-30
THE STATE PRISON DIFFICULTY.

Toe latest phase Of this foul blot on
the fair fame OF our State is the publica-
ton by the Virginia Chronicle of the
25th Of q statement signed by nine
men formerly employed as prison guards.
This document corroborates nearly all
the charges that have been preferred
against Colonel Hyman, and is dated
March 18th, 1876. Tho Chronicle Gays
the statement was sent TO the Carson
Appeal last March for Publication, but,
il believes, was never printed. This the
Appeal most yehemently denies and
says
IL We had received il we should have
published it, If for no other purpose than
to prove by facts and credible witnesses
that it is a tissue o. stupidity malicious
miscellaneous.
By the way. we notice that communi-
cations touching these prison matters,
though addressed to u. get by our Office
into the hands Of the Governors friends
and thence into the Storey county news.
papers. We are not oyer. particular
about the delivery OF letter or two, but
when the miscarriage gets to be regular
thing and the Governor and bis staff and
Secretary take to using our communica-
| tions in this irregular way we begin TO
suspect that they have detectives and 60
betweens in other places than IN the
State Prison. The Governor Eiko let
ter. the Enterprise says, was addressed
to the Appeal. Bat we saw 1t Tor The
first time in the Enterprise. So with
this rigparoll about the fare at the
Prison. 1t bears the date OF last March
and is addressed to the Appeal. As
above stated, last evening is the first
time we ever laid our eyes on it. Itsear
marks warrant the suspicion that, like
the Governors Elko letter, it was inten-
tionally diverted from its course into a
Rubernatorial pigeon hole whence it
might be drawn whenever wanted to in
jure Mr.. Hyman.
As to this foolish letter. II proves alto
gether too much for the Governors side
of the fight. Its purport is that the
| signers had, the most OF them, been
| guards for two years at the Prison and
that during that time the prisoners were
sbamefully underfed. II they tell the
truth they were silent for two years
when such silence made them accesso.
ries to the act charged, and Governor
Bradley as the head Of the Prison Board
was entity OF an almost criminal com
plicity with the Warden in thus starving
his prisoners-for. il the Prison coult
be thus subjected to mismanagement il
the vital matter Of the daily rations TO-
two long years. the Governor and his as
sociates on the Board must have known
it and connived at it-either so, or they
were gnilty, all that time, OF neglect OF
sworn duties every whit as outrageous as
actual, approving completely.
The tail end Of this communication
has been eked out by some bellyaching
whining. greedy sorehead of an official
as is very plain to see. From first I,
last it is a weak invention OF q discom
fitted gang of conspirators.
This illustrates the state Of feeling a
the State Capital better than we coul
describe it. In connection with the sub
ject it may not be out Of place to sa
that all attempts to give the matter pc
iitical coloring is ill-timed and in yer
bad taste. Justice first, then max
whatever political capital possible 70
either side.