Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-16
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Another Interesting Letter from
"Lander Democrat,

"Lander Democrat
AUSTIN, October IS, 1878.
EDrroR SENTINEL: Last Sunday the
gentleman put in nomination by the Re.
! publicans for the Office Of County Com
missioner, long term, celebrated the honor
put upon his shoulders by getting drunk.
and quarreling with every man he met who
did not agree with his political views.
During his celebration, he tumbled into q
saloon where several natives Of Albion were
seated, quietly taking their beer. and wind
ing up by hitting one Of them. The Cornish
man who was hit, jumped the candidate
for County Commissioner, and gave him
such Q hefty beating that he has not done
any electioneering since. The Cornishman
was Immediately arrested, when Charley
Lund and Colfax frantically sought QUO
the Marshal, and bailed the Cornishman
out for licking the man that they had put
up to be knocked down on the 5th OF
November. The Cornishman had his trial
on Monday and was acquitted, and in the
case the carpet-bag railroad Republican
candidate for the Office Of District Attorney
got his work in by ~tiercely defending the
Cornishman. and not charging him a cent,
the railroad attorney not caring for q little
money, as he is the employee Of . heavy
corporation.
MAKING VOTERS.
There has been . big increase in the vot-
ing population Of Lander county. Judge
Mckinney has been holding Court during
the week to naturalize foreigners, and the
Naturalization Committee run in the ma
tives Of England as fast as the Judge could
attend to them. They had . fund from
Virginia to pay for making the citizens,
and the adopted ones did not care, because
it was q free thing. There were about SO
made, and Tommy Triplet Col:ax says 40
Of them we're Republicans. / heard . man
ask him why they were all Republicans,
and he said because they were Cornishmen,
and hated the Irishmen, and the Irishmen
were all Democrats; the Cornishmen were
all Republicans 80 as to be on the other
side.
THE CANDIDATE FoR
Some Of the miners say that Charley
Lund, Republican candidate for Recorder,
always runs around to take men out Of
jail CVGu WHICH uc 10 NV = O4s
! do not think he gets very tired Of 1t only
about election times.
THE DISTRICT JUDGE TRAVELLING.
When Judge McKenncy had fixed all the
new citizens thai were ready TO get their
papers, he went to Belmont to do the same
kind Of business there. but ia coming back
soon to take in the ~stragglcrs In Lander
county. Tommy Smilcr says the Repub-
licans have got an even one hundred more
Cornish Republicans to make citizens.
H cHIxEsE.
There was an anti Chinese Club here once,
but nobody says much about the Chinese
question now, and the Republicans say
that it is played out. The workingmen do
not think it is played ont. and several Of
them say that they are going to vote against
Mckinney because he keeps Chinese help
In his house. MCKINNEY Is very poor:
The county pays him s.. 500 . year, and
he stretches his small wages out by letting
shanties in Chinatown to Chinese window
tappers, but he says he spends all his
money in keering a hotel for the voters
from saltwater and the Humboldt. His
Office does not give him much work to do,
and he says that II he Is elected again he is
going to open some kind Of q store. so that
he can make q living. together with what
the county pays him for being Judge and
his rents from the China houses.
THE WEAK BROTHERS.
General Williamson is q candidate for
the Office Of School Superintendent. They
use him for a kind Of hitching post; also,
as a sort Of poor mans plaster to the spine
of Republicanism in Lander county. He
can be seen at the big corral early in the
day u late in the night, and when q
weak supporter Of the Bonanza racket
enters. he nails him by the arm and weitzes
him to q seat in the rear of the hall, and
proceeds to fill him until his watchful eye
catches the shadow Of another faint-hcart
nearing the door, when he quickly caroms
on the bar with No. l, where Colfax re-
ceives him with a true lovers smile, and a
fluid persuasion that never fails to go
straight to the right spot of the latter-day
Republican. The General by this time has
No. 2 fastened TO a seat, and under a hea w
current OF campaign wind, rapidly shapes
him for the 9th Of November. The Gen
eral thinks the boys ought to vote for him
because he has had twenty-one years ex-
perience In the business. and says that he
came to the West with Judge Mckinney,
Dave Broderick and Tom Wren, all Of them
settling down at Coloma, Ell Dorado county,
California, and immediately went to hold
ing Offices, the Judge quickly showing his
adaptability to the Office Of Chinese Tax
Collector.
GOVERNOR BRADLEY.
There does not anybody here say much
about Governor Bradley, because they
know he has got . sure thing, and all the
talk is about county officers. Some people
are careless how they talk, and q Repub-
lican chief was heard telling another Re-
publican chief. mp in a corner in Triplet 4
Ciark's whisky wigwam, that it did not
make much difference about Bradley bc-
cause he was bound to b. Governor, but
the best thing was to elect the Legislature,
and then they could pass anything they
liked over Governor Bradley's head, and
the old chief could not help himself.
WHO Is LANDER DEMOCRAT"
Tommy 7. Colfax says that LANDER
Democrat told the truth about saying
that If Mckinney, and Billy Clark and
Charley Lund we're not elected, he would
give up that Triplet & Clark's saloon did
not have any influence, bat he said he
would like TO know who Lander Demo-
crat " was, because he wanted 10 bet him
all the money in the safe that Billy Clark
will be elected to the Legislature.
Billy Clark 10 learning TO ssmiIe' lust
like Tommy, and every voter that m
in the wigwam he asks to take a drink.
When Billy received the nomination he
made . short speech, in which he saio,
that II elected, he would go to Carson and
stay there until the adjournment Of the
Legislature. Yours.
LANDER DExocRAr.