Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-09
PINNEY.

upheaved the tamping with which Mr.. Pinney
has kept down his attending dynamite Of
defamatory explosives seems to have been
premature-if anything the rogue says can be
credited at all. He is reported by Post
interviewer as having said that the statement
(Which first appeared in the Sum- was written
and taken to Washington by an English
friend of his He tried, he says, to stop its
present publication but it was telegraphed
notwithstanding his efforts. But the purpose
of the whole project and statement seems eyl-
dent Look at the scope of the attack. 1t
strikes at pretty much the entire Republican
organization in California, through its Chiefs.
Viewed from political point of view the pur-
pose seems very palpable. The Senatorshlp,
the Secretaryship, the Custom House and
the Mint, these together with Hon. H. F:
Pages Congressional incumbency are all
assailed 1t is clearly to be suspected that
the mine thus exploded was constructed for
the purpose of destroying at once the intiu-
ence and future prospects of Senator Sargent,
Secretary Gorham, Collector Shannon, Con
gresham Page and all their friends. The
scheme is a bold one but does it not over
reach itself! Is it at all likely that these far
reaching charges will be sufficiently sustained
to entitle their author to any credit whatever
We can readily believe that Pinneys state
ments came to the surface prematurely, so far
as his own and his associates plans are con
cerned They are filed at Washington. II
would seem as if Pinney had lodged them
there for the two-fold purpose of having al
arsenal from which to fusilade Gorham, Sa"
gent ct al, and to get himself off from Fed
e1al prosecution He must be tremendous Y
fortified if his arraignment be not proven too
weak to withstand the counter thrusts which
the strong men whom he has assailed viii
visit upon it. Sargent stands as well in
Washington as any man who is known there.
He served long and usefully III the Commip zee
on Naval Affairs 1t will take some very
strong supports to sustain this absquatrlatOr's
assault upon him. Some years ago a Senator
in Congress instituted a course of procedure
looking to Mr. Gorhams BUSTING from the
Secretaryship. The prosecution was pre-
posterous failure. Since that time he and
another Senator have had quarrel. Gorham
got up in Union Hall, San Francisco and
denounced that Senator in a most scathing
philippe. He defied any and all his enemies |
to assail his character or his acts or his his |
tory. He invited the closest searching ard |
excepted nothing, not even his mosc secrec |
Ill
danger from such an onslaught as this by Mr..
Pinney are not like to exhibit so much temer-
ity Also Gorham stands admirably at
Washington. He has the respect of all part
les. He has been in office more than nine
years and has disbursed millions. He pays
the Senators he furnishes all the stationery
for the Senate he handles vast quantities of
Government moneys; his hands, are filled
with the very gravest responsibilities He
invites research and criticism 1t will be
very remarkable if Mr.. Pnneys attack upon
his good name finds any vulnerable place. AS
10 Bill Carr, "They little know who leave
lin out" The surprising thing is that SO
shrewd fellow as Pinney should have had
he temerity to assail Carr. He ought to
know that Bill is one of the strongest, clear
and most impregnabe man in
California Is it not probable that the attack
IN Carr was one of the conditions of the sup
port which evidently stands behind Pinney to
hield him from the consequences of his
eturn! But it is not improbable, indeed,
hat these wholesale accusations may work
n injury to the party and the individuals
gainist which they are directed In too y
many cases an accusation is almost as bad as :
conviction. The human mind is not over I
haritable. But we are glad to see that Mr.. /
arr means to have there charges against 7
imself thoroughly sifted. He is very !
borough and very energetic man. He is =,
that is called long headed. There is not
nything at all weak or slipshod in his man. 7
er either of attack or defense We note /
nat Ex-senator Stewart is his counsel There
some brawny strength there. If, as ,
sported, Carr has expressed determination
, have it out, thoroughly, with all his defam
IS, in the Courts, there will be some highly G
teresting revelations forthcoming. Be
Ire of that
As the horrid blast of war sweeps with hot u u
lentless breath over the dominions of the Il
lltan, the faithful student of Christian civ