The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-06-03
WEEKLY ELKO INDEPENDENT.
SUNDAY. JUNE ,. 1877.

ALS 4AIaSlupus
Our readers will esteh glimpse
from the above Of gLat Remocrac,
means In Mississippi, and ought TO re
nlize just the CHARACTER AZ mon VIII
have so suffered from fearPet-bag rule.
II English. French, l!ussieu or Grr
innn Justice had becu dealt out to thcs
men o dozen yenrs ago, Instead o
Northern mercy; Ind somo scores o
them been hung and tAo Fsst h!eel
placed unn4PF military rglo until the.
como to tAs eonelpsiSn f. be discreet
many lives would hnye been saved nn,
tho State Eppnl4l hare been prosperoq
years agR,''-
The EsatsspEiIe having based its esti
mate OF tho character Of NIL Deni9crat,
in thnt Stat. upon The violent artion 9
a nero hRRfH !llfHi Of men, exasperaled e
mnlRess BY the outrageous proceeding
Of the miserable !tiF: f!!.le creature 9ho dnall,
suffered dsa!h 2! their hapls, a little III
siGAt to the charaeteF Of this :. RepuL
lisAR !m!!:a!rE!yF.H5 GhisoIG, would not b.
ont 9t plneee: This man ohisolm was
the Rolitieal aHtoerut Of Kemper coup,
~; md hsi1 Tho Office Of Sherifr fol
spYsE years, nnd dictated tho ectiop Of
bis paaFty. pn the g3!l IF las. June he
WAs p11aaiiniined up,ler oall by the Senate
ea@Mittee aPp9iHtea tR tnyestigste the
elsetiaaaa Of 'A4e preyiggs year in tina.
Rtnte, and t9 Senator Bayard lie de:
e!EFea he had alleA al! lis appoint
MsHts II sneak pTeeps two. which no
RseleeteA for business reasons. The
Ed9lg9" was evidently just the Kind
et man t9 be outraged and bplldozed by
she hl!!alepd.thirsty citizons Of KempeF
eeRRty: Z ri addressing the negroes he
Eaid: la1 DSt.as -s a.-6s +. :
My spceeles to the rolored people
all th9 time wss, tAat I thought thSro
Wpp!d Re M tFpHRle; hPt il there was,
81 let mp aud what few white men there
Was nllapG with inc aud tho whito Dom
Rs5sts fight 1t ont; that Il should he q
s!Faightt-oqt white Rap's lght; didn't
giant tAspi to have anything to do with
shS Aashting; thntit there was nny fight.
les p do wha. few whitc men went
With me would fight; that we didn't
want them g te haVe'anythiiRpg "a ia with
Che Gghting."
TAis ennvass was in 1875. aud not
the trReSlepey Of this
tMAaa'S disposition manifested ON oil oc.
eeasions whom meeting With the slightest
oQFP4p9sitiop, ho appears to have lived
tRTeNgh it al, and was deservedly beat
pR for the position he Ind SO long Ills.
GEAena. Had this man Chisolm icon n
Democrat instead OF q Republican, no
OGeFt IL reflect upon tho president;s
policy by distorting facts in
m Attempt to make political capital on.
" 2 PsI"oual broii. would haya been
made: The facts are well kaewB That
this man wns involved in many per
soatta4l difficulties. ono of which was thu.
TRtle acting Sheriff he Sas guilty of
attempted homicide, and had after IL.
Ebooting of one DaTaon by ono Gil.
ger protected the latter by packing n
Grand Jury aud thus saving hir. from
being indicted. wkiOh led to NJ. eneoun-
ter between hi~sOlf and on, billiard
the particularly OF which wrro given by
himself in the following anguage
"sHys I. rHell Ia that billiard p
He tJudgq Poolo) 80 ys. ! Yes, that is
Dilltard.' and I start ed 70 walk out, and
he snys' Come bnck into tho Office;
'"oSe billiard is a very Ind man; he is
a desperate mo Al md 40 is drank to-day
and ! would ''drisa Yau now 10 try aud
avoid meeting him at all II you can.
Bays l. y DOLE. this ia one of the days
don't loci like 6&h'ing at oil; ! Din :,
got nT.y fight in no to-day ito said.
i don't thihk you want any di(iOul,y
H':h anybody Said I. Il dont.""
The pAStieS subsequently, met in the
street, and Pillinrd, holding pistol IL
his hand, Showered abuse upon CHS,
olm: ~ stayed and took It," said tho
l"RRR, Ike Chisolm, "uptil ! got 6
chance 70 go Heross tho street, aud Their
4HsA pyaclf and came baek, md wo
inst on halfway ground aud / sho
h him, f"
Now IL such o rpfiap as this maj
Fhiaolm hpR out oi his own lnoutl
proved himseli to have been had no
died with his boots on" The fac
would have beoH Clearly demonstrated
ihas aississippi blood wns many dc
QFeeS cooler than the lifO.giving fluic
found In Nevada, Many just such mel
Rs this mississippi bulldozor have 1,
his young SsNto courteS and me. th
game deserved fate, and in no ,ustnnc
h"ro the people Of Mississippi been con
suited by our local authorities ns /
what steps they should tako In dtsnoS
log OF the matter. nor hos tho RrcaI
dent. or the Governor, or oven tho eu
ihori'ios Of tho copptiea adioiuing tho
wherein thcso "oulroses' wero commit
ted. simply, wo ptosumo, because
va" pono Of their hualposa,
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Tux following items pro from .h
Sitter State OF tho sOth ullimo:
a dispatch from Carson To linda