Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-26
& E DAILY SENTINEL.
TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1877.
THE DEMAGoGUEs.

If the misguided youth who misrep-
resents men and measures through
that very poor apology for a newspa-
per, the Reno Gazette, can find time
between drinks to examine the Senate
journals, he will discover that both of
Washoe's Senators voted for the COM
promise bill in its early stages.
Why they chopped, we don't know,
unless it was because an immense Pc
tition favoring the passage of the bill
came down from Wasboe signed, as
we heard it stated, by a large majority
Of the property holders of that county,
including, We believe, the ostensible
editor of the Gazette. We dismiss as a
vile Islander the widely circulated, and
generally credited statement that these
distinguished gentlemen would have
stayed with the Compromise bill
straight through to the end, could they
have been assured Of the success of the
appropriation for the completion of
the new State Prison at Reno. We
prefer to attribute their sudden flop to
the eccentricities of greatness. But it
is unnecessary to speculate. 1t is
hardly time yet to begin in earnest
the work of unmasking the dema-
gogues. They will be better able to
stand it after the dog days. 1t will
then be time enough to explain how
it came to be rumored that the Gazette
'soured' because bonanza money
WAS not forthcoming to pay for
its new power press; how certain in
fluences, supposed to have weight
with the "Old Man," would have
been exerted for the approval of the
Compromise if certain mortgages had
beeh lifted and certain gentlemen
'fixed;" how soine eloquent members
"who didn't violate their pledges and
now enjoy the confidence of the peo-
pie" offered to support the compro-
mise, provided the bonanza law bust
ness in this State were taken from
Mesick & Hillyer and given t a GER
tain other legal firm; how General
Bob Clark fought the bill and wrote
feeble editorials for the Gazette, all
because he was getting thousands out
of the State TO prosecute the bullion
tax suits in the courts; how obscure
members in different parts of the
State tried to wiring assurance of
political support for positions next
year which they are incompetent to
fill; how, in short, the Compromise
failed altogether through the indispo-
sition Of the mining kings to supply
the various wants and demands of the
opposition. We say it will be time
enough to give details regarding all
these matters after the heated term
shall have passed. 1t will make en-
pertaining reading, and, our word for
it, w shall "allow no guilty man to
escape"
The whole question, let it be stated
once for all, was one purely of State
policy, about which gentlemen might
honestly differ; and it affords US
plea sure to express the belief that
there were honest men on either side
Of the fight. The repeal Of the bullion
tax law was eve suggested, and not a
ton of ore now taxed would have es-
capped taxation under the Compromise
bill. A Redistribution of certain
grades of ore was all that was attempt
ed. 1t did not affect the revenue of
this county n dime, save that we
could have obtained a material reduc-
ton in the State rate of taxation if the
Compromise bill had become a law.
The taxpayers of Eureka county in
stead of being out anything would have
saved $50, 900 in the next two years.
No member of the Legislature was
pledged to oppose any such law as
this, 1.-THE resolutions of the conven-
tons did not in fact touch the easel
0uO uou tu0 Au0oesous ottoA iuiA &uu
fair discussion and understanding of
the same, been submitted to q vote of
the people Of the State, we believe i'm
plicitly that it would have received the
unqualified Endorsement OF nineteen
twentieths Of the whole population.
Taxpayers are not apt to vote extra
burdens on themselves amply to
punish somebody else.
THAT vas . stirring speech made by
Wade Hampton at Auburn, New
York, ON the occasion of the 25th an
niversary Of the Shields Guards.
Holding up the tattered dag of the old
Palmetto regiment in the Mexican
war. he said that flag pointing to it)
was the first to enter and the last to
leave the City of Mexico. The regi-
ment went to the war 1000 strong and
returned with but 220 men. The blood
of tho North and the South mingled
In that memorable contest, and
should the occasion again arise the
best blood of the respective sections