Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-09-11
The Inhocents i'm Council.

ut Dayton on Friday evening, to
take under advisement tue neces-
sites of the times, and to devise
means to overcome certain crying
evils partly expressed and partly
left to he understood. There were
sprinkled among the Simon pures."
as shining golden coins in heap
OF promiscuons change, a hopeful
number of solid men. These lent
dignity and ON dir Of stability and
sincerity to the gathering. while
the others were sort of confeetior,
or more properly, perhaps. an auti-
septic to the meeting. The convo.
cation was not preceded by any eye
catching announcements or noisy
flourish. and the proceedings
are said to have been calm
aud deliberate. The object of
the whole business. as expressed
by the organ of the movement
flor it begins under the aus.
picious patronage of an influential
newspaper) is to secure for the
county offices at the ensuing elec-
ton none but pure men--men whose
| political records are clear as moon
ia the fall, and whose moral integ-
| rity is unmistakeable as the sun on
n cloudless midday. The ultimate
consideration, however, is still more
broad and comprehensive. 1t
smacks somewhat of an old Demo-
cratic maxim, and is no less than
1.-THE greatest good of the whole
county" The gentlemen who are
pledged to these principles assem-
bled in Odeon Hall aud proceeded
| to business by electing Il A. Young
to the Chair and Battersbey as Sec
rotary.
Several members in the course of
the proceedings rose to their feet
and addressed the meeting. calling
in tones of honest emotion and in
behalf of a down-trolden people
for u revision of certain present
modes of procedure and total
elimination of sundry factors in
our local government. Are we,
| cried they, in this centennial
year of national liberty to witness
the distribution of Offices among
favored few, ana ourselves stand by
the while aud not get us much as
tnothsome crumb from the public
tablet For whose emolument was
this created State, and this coun-
IVA Ii the offices are tn rotate with
in a narrow sphere voters must be
awakened to the responsibilities that
rest upon them, and they must be
| Taught that some men are as good
| and deserving rs others, even il the
| public do not think so. We must,
| gentlemen. h We revolution, and
| the time must come when tue ius
shall be out and the outs shall be in.'
| IGreat applause.
The county officers were duly ar
raisned and condemned. The rot
tenness and venaiity Of their conduct
Tor the past two years was especially
| ppin,ed out and dwelt upon. Several
instances of the lavish use OF public
funds were alluded to with touching
! pathos. After duly dwelling upon
some matters of purity and censtr
| Ing, cohlemning and reprobating All
things pertaining TO publ" manage
ment that bore suspicious of i'm
purity. the resolution point was
reached. The following was the re-
suit:
Resolved, That the people of Lyon
County who are in favor of this
movement meet in caucus in the diff
ferent precincts on Saturday even
ing, September i6, tn elect delegates
to County Convention to BE- held
on Saturday, September 90, ia Oleon
Hall, Dyton, for the purpose of
nominating Il county ticket.
The Republican County Central
COMMITTEES were censured in unspar-
ing terms tor the high handed man
ncr in which they apportioned the
county delegates. 1t appeared from
that superintendent that Silver City
aud the Eureka mill had conaived to
rule the county with an iron hand.
In order that the county might be
held intact and not I've given to the
dogs altogether. the following appo
tionment eff delegates was made :
Silver City, o; Eureka Mill, (; Day
ton, I; Sutro, , p; Churchill, 3; Wau-
buska, /, lApplause.l
On next Saturday evening there
will be another meeting at the same
place, to devise ways and means for
overcoming the enemy and To draw
maps of the proposed campaign.
SECURING AND DYEINa,-T Those
who have dyeing or securing to do
or who have blankets, shawls, furs,