Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-09

Personnel OF the New Board.

unwittingly perhaps, wins the respect,
not to say admiration, of that numer.
ous class of society who come upon the
scene of action at SO late a period as to
have the TX pressive term ''Tenderfeet''
applied to them. If this be true, and
it is, OF the ordinary pioneer, with
how much greater, and broader, and
deeper reverence are we wont to look
OF a State, or a county, or a town.
Susan B. Anthony writes that she
cherishas among the proudest of her
early recollections the part she played
in the dedication of Bunker Hill to the
living principles Of eternal patriotism
and equal rights in 1913; and Davy
Crockett says, in his memoirs, that il
is a big thing to found a State, and that
when he appended his signature to the
constitution of Arkansas. he knew hat
| he was doing something that would
live and flourish and bloom in the adj
miration Of mankind through all the
coming ages. With such high author
tiles as these for the importance of
original political acts, what must be
the distinction and enown that is in
| store for the newly elected Aldermen
of the f1ourlshing young city
of the Base Range? Who can
portray the glory that will
radiate from the name of Campbell, or
Haley, or Colerick, or Fisk, or Sven
son, q hundred years hence? The
rapturous grandeur of such fame!
Who a fathom it, or weigh, it or
measure it,. And how are we TO esti-
mate the countless millions of fond
mothers and doting sires who will
then, pointing to these illustrious
names as worthy OF emulation, advise
their aspiring soDs, just entering upon
mans estate, to 'go west and grow up
with the country" and become alder
men of some rapidly growing and
populous mining town. Why, Andy
Johnson (peace to his ashes) never
forgot his aldermanic exploits TO the
day of his death. He commenced
swinging around the official circle
from the post of Alderman Of his
native village, and he kept swinging
until he got to be President; and he did
not enjoy the rare advantage of being
a member of the first Board either.
The first is always the best starter.
There is history and organization and
glory in being first. Those who come
after are great while they have ap-
p~ointments to make and fat contracts L
let, but they soon pass into an oblivion
that knows no resurrection. The pi-
oneer office-holder, the man who has
a hand in putting the craft a1oat on
the doubtful sea of inadequate revenu
and deprecated scrip j. the individual
who deserves to live in the memory
and gratitude OF all the coming gem
erations down to the last syllable of
recorded time. Only think what the
SENTINEL will say on the second
centennial anniversary OF our national
existence, then speaking to a million
or more of constant readers and duly
paid up subscribers! With Whit
pride 1t will recount amid its
- recollections of a busy life the first
municipal election in Eureka, May eth.
1877! How 1t will tell of the ever
memorable and never to be forgotten
scenes and incidents and results ofthat
day. Why, when we shall have sham.
hled down the shadowy vista of time
to the second Centennial, it will be ac.
counted a distinction to have been even
a defeated candidate at EIreka's chart
er election, and neither will there at
tach any discredit to a man who might
have betrayed a weakness for the Judi
cial ermine of a Police tribunal. See
ing, therefore, that the chief actors in
the stirring vents that have lately
racked this community from center to
circumference must continue to live on
and on in the hearts of their
men, getting brighter and brighter, as
generation succeeds generation, know
ing no North. nc South, no East, no
West, one and indivisible. the glory
and grandeur and p%erpetuity of repub-
lican liberty, regulated by law, reflect
ed in every movement and circum-
stance and act, until the political hori-
Zon of this free land of ours shall be
illuminated from one end to the other,
and from Fish creek to Pals .de, some
brief reference to the personnel of our
newly elected Board of Aldermen is
deemed especially proper at this par
ticular juncture:
ALDERMAN CAMPBELL.
The future historian will please OBJ
serve that this ~gentleman's name is
spelled with a p. Mr.. Campbell is the
gentleman who led the victorious hosts
on Monday. He is a native American,
AZ years OF age, more or less, and ran
81 votes ahead of his ticket. Being a
J~acksonian Democrat he is opposed
to internal improvements, and also
to increased taxation. His motto
Is millions for defense but not
a dime for tribute" His aldermanic
proportions are not in a high state of
development, but he yesterday or.
dered a keg of lager beer from the c.
p. Brewery, and by putting himself
on the proper diet he hopes to take
rank as the heavy man of the mu.
nicipal government by the time he
gets ready to qualify and enter upon
the discharge of his onerous duties.
He has never been spoken to on the
subject of the Marshalship.
ALDERMAN HALEY.
AS his name implies, MI. Haley is a
native Of Sunny France. He is a bold
butcher, and owing.to the general and
widespread confidence in the genuine
ness of his sausage, he, too, ran ahead
of his ticket. Mr.. Haley, like Mr..
Campbell, belongs to the reform De-
mocracy, and is equally pronounced