The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-09-25

Under the above heading we find the
following poetic lines in the Austin
Reveile dedicated to the great Repub.
lican Captain, Roliin NJ Dsggett. ofthe
Virginia Enterprise aud Republican
candidate for Congress-:
Crow is fashionabis dish this year.
aud the Reveise, act ng on the prin-
cible that it is better {, be out of the
world than out of the fashion, eats a
good sized sllce of the unsavory bird
For weeks past we have been gushing
over II. NJ. Daggett like love sick
girl over her first beau-and now we
have got to take it all back. We had
been led to look upou Daggelt a. IA
high minded, honorable man. a martyr
to his Independence of character; AS the
especial object of the venom of the rail.
roads. the BonanZas, the bank rings,
and all the rich aud powerful corpora
tons. When one forms 80 exalted an
opinion of d man MS we did of Il NJ
Daggett, it is extremely notifying
when the force of circumstances changes
that opinion.
Rollin NJ, Daggett. editor Of the Vir-
ginia Enterprise and Republican caDdI-
date for Congress, u short time ago
entered the lists as q competitor for the
Republican nomination for Governor.
There were two other candidates for the
nomination, aud to them he proposed a
plan for the selection of delegates to
the State Conventions. which they &C
cepted, Then one of them withdrew.
GU account Of i'll 18th, and then, Mr. :.
Daggett. finding that he could not win
on the Issue he himself had made, with.
drew from the contest with whine. In
the expressive language of the Com
stocker. he was .'clnched with his own
surclngie, and then sqneaIed like a
csyote Hoist with his own petard !;
beaten for Governor on his own issue.
Instead of abiding the result like man.
he lends himself to u plot put up by
the agent OF the Nevada Branch Bank
at Virginia City TO crush ont the man
who had beaten him bonorably and
fairly. and sneaks over to Eureka to
the Convention and trades, and com
bines, and hoDeyfnngles, and swaps
himself into the Congressional nomina-
ton, plesding for the pittance of half
loaf when bis own act had deprived
him of the whole, aud shoves out of the
field man who had stood his friend
and whose friends bad patted him on
the back and fought bis battles
Some people may deny that Daggett
is BonabZI nominee. but look at the
facts Jonas Seely, than whom there
Is not more truthful or honorable
man in Nevada. stated plainly and
openly in the Eureka Convention that
the election and sending to Eureka of
the so called peoples delegation was
Bonanza job, and tnat their election
was brought about by whisky and
music paid for by the Nevada Bank
and by coin from the vaults of that in.
stitotion. On bed of sickness in the
Jackson House. lay A. q. Cleveland. n
recognized and accredited agent of the
Bonanza Kings. aud be pulled the
strings to which the jumping jacks
danced 10 the Convention. and 20 one
man in Eureka attempted to disguise
or deny that fact.
The Eureka Sentinel, which paper
comes very far from being friend of
Wren's, said in speaking of Daggett's
action: I'VE would rather be Wren
defeated than D1ggett victorious land
every honest mau who knows what
Daggett's course has been will echo
this sentiment.