Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-08-16

the race whose arduous struggles and ex-
haustive outcome illustrate the survival of
the fittest.
Some weeks since in noticing some I'M
favorable comments made by Fred Hart upon
General Common in one of his Carson
by, or at least, concurred in by Mr. Wren :;
and as we had every right to do, we protested
against such attacks. Wren and Hart were
travelling together and comforting together;
and their intimacy as personal and political
friends is notorious. We believed then, as
we believe now, that if Mr. Wren had been
unwilling that Common should be attacked by
his friend Hart, he would not have been so
attacked and we further expressed the
opinion (Which has not been changed), that
the course pursued was an unwise and in
judicious one. In the same article we said
that in few days we should publish an am
pie answer to Harris charges. In the RereUe
of Tuesday last we find the following
Last month the editor of the Carson Appeol
who wants to be Lieutenant Governor
went out of his way to cast slur on Hon.
Thomas Wren for what IRE had said about
Conner i'll a letter to the RereWe from Carson.
He concluded his article by saying that the
charges we made against COnnOr would be
satisfactorily cleared up in few days; and, in
order to give him plenty of time in which to
do so, we have heretofore refrained from
answering his mean little squib The article
to which we refer appeared in the appeal on
tba Of h.. ic fbo
18th of August, and the appeal man is silent.
Has he discovered that the statements we
made about Connor were truel
We cast no slur upon Mr. Wren. We said
what we had to say openly and fairly. We are
quite willing to accord to Mr.. Hart the very
brilliant reputation he bears as a wit and man
of humor; but frankness compels US to say
that Mr.. Wren did not add to his moralstand
ing by selecting the historian of the Sazarac
Lying Club as his travelling companion in his
visit to Western Nevada.
In Justice to the RereiUe it is to be said that
its editor HART takes upon himself the entire
for what was said in the afore-
said letters concerning Connor. This lifts a
tremendous load from our worthy but some
times peppery Congressman
In reviewing what he did say. Hart says:
We said that Connors candidatur was
railroad move This we had from good au-
thority, and it is common talk along the line
of the railroad We said he had employed
Chinese labor in his mines and reduction
works at Oreana. This we were told at Win
nemucca by persons i'll position to know.
If they have lied, then there a great many
liars in Humboldt county. We said that he
was not resident of Nevada This is borne
out of the facts that his family now reside,
and have for several years resided, in Callfor
MIA, and that he has never registered or voted
in this State. We say now that nobody knows
to what political party Connor belongs. The |
record is that the last political Office he held
was by appointment of the Democratic Cover |
nor of California.
We have i'll our possession some letters |
from General Connor ON these matters. They |
ire highly satisfactory to us. In answer to
question If he would permit their publication |
ne said: 81 am willing to defer to your judy |
nent; but my own experience is that misrep- |
,esentation defeats its own bad purposes in |
The end.
Using our own discretion then, we make
he following extract from letter of June 3
concerning residence and eligibility: II hold |
hat having cleaned up my business in Utah,
md for the past sir years directly identified |
myself with mining and reduction of ores in
his State; and continuously a resident for
nearly three years, taken in connection with
he fact that when | have been absent from
he State it has always been in pursuit of my
business, there can be no question of my
eligibility under the constitution. But you
veil know | am not politician. l do not
eek the nomination, nor shall [ reject it, if
ny friends believe my name placed on the
oil will add any strength to the Republican
arty."
In reply to letter upon the charge of
firing of Cinnamon at his Reduction Works
t Oreana he says: '"The Cinnamon were
here employed when becamathe purchaser.
did not discharge them, for they were all
he available force on the ground. Every
hite man who came along seeking an oppor-
unity to work was employed"
Concerning the charges of being a candidate
f the G.. p Railroad, let him speak for him
,lf Says he: I" am not directly or indi-
sctly compromised to or with any corpor-
ton, clique or faction in the State; neither
i'll I be- &c