Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-09-26
MIR. uAET'S SHARE OF TIE
GROW,

Mr.. Hart, Of the Rereile, does not take
to crow as gracefully as some Of the rest Of
us. His idol was Mr.. Wren for member of
Congress. Mr.. Daggett defeated Mr.. Wren
and the Rereile man is angry about 1t.
This is the way in which he islands in
Grow is a fashionable dish this year, and
the Reeeii!e, acting on the principle that
It is better to be out of the world than ont
of the fashion, eats a good-sized slice of the
unsayorv bird. For weeks past we have
been gushing over Il. NJ. Daggett like a
love-sick girl over her first beau-and now
we have got to take it all back. We had
been led to look upon DaSgett as a high
minded, honorable man. a martyr to his
independence Of character; as the especial
object Of the venom of the railroads, the
Bonanzas, the bank rings and all tie rich
and powerful corporations. When one
forms so exalted an opinion Of a man as
we did of Il. NJ. Daggett, it is extremely
Notifying when the force of circumstances
changes that opinion.
Rollin NJ. Daggett, editor Of the Virginia
Enterprise and Republican candidate for
Congress, q short time ago entered the lists
as a competitor for the Republican nomi-
nation for Governor. There were two other
AA1ltttAttltb y ~ mountainous anu = =
he proposed a plan for the selection of del
egates to the State Convention, which they
accepted. Then one of them withdrew. on
account of i'll health, and then, Mr.. Daggett,
finding that he could not win ON the issue
he himself had mode, withdrew from the
contest with q whine. In the expressive
language of the Comstocker, he was
sscinched with his own surcingle, and then
squealed liks a coyote Hoisted with his
own petard; beaten for Governor on his own
issue. Instead Of abiding the result like a
man, lac lends himself to a plot put up by
the agent Of the Nevada Branch Bank at
Virginia City to crush out the man who had
beaten him honorably and fairly, and
sneals over to Eureka to the convention
and trades, and combines, and honey
fuggles, and swaps himself into the Con-
sressional nomination, pleading for the
p~ittance of q h~alf-loaf when his " act
had deprived him Of the whole, and shoves
out Of the field a man who had stood his
friend and whose friends had patted him
ON the back and fought his battles,
Some people may deny that Dag5ett Is q
Bonanza nominee, but look at the facts.
Jonas Seely, than whom there is not a
more truthful or honorable man in Nevada,
stated plainly and openly ia the Eureka
Convention that the election and sending
to Eureka of the so-called Peoples dclega-
ton was a Bonanza job, and that their cleo
ton was brought about by whisky and
music paid for by the Nevada Bank and by
coin from the vaults Of that institution.
On a bed Of sickness in the Jackson House,
lay A. G. Cleveland, a recognized and ac-
credited agent Of the Bonanza Kings, and
he pulled the strings to which the jump
ing-jacks danced in the Convention, and
no one man attempted to disguise or deny
that fact.
The Eureka SENTINEL, which paper comes
very far from being a friend Of Wren's,
said, in speaking of Daggett's action: 1--WE
would rather be Wren defeated than
| Daggett victorious"-and every honest
man who knows what Dagsett's course has
been will echo the sentiment.