Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-22


SATURDAY, : JUNE %, 1878.
s.vaRTUE on THE HALF SHELL"
This Is the heading Of an article in the
Enterprise, in which it is sought to be es-
tablished that all the people who favor the
investigation OF the Presidential frauds
are no better than they should be. No
man ever vet saw a brazen woman Of be-
drsggled reputation. who did not turn up
her nose at her better sisters and seek to
drag them all down to her W disreputa-
bic level. 1t is a principle Of human ma
ture, involving the old lawyers advice to
his pupil: "If you have a bad case. abuse
the plaintiffs attorney" This is
precisely the tactics Of the editor
Of the Enterprise. He feels in his
heart that no has a shameless cause,
and instead Of trying to justify it, he falls
to work to smirch the prosecution. He
has not q word to say in condemnation Of
the scoundrels who forged and fabricated
that Hayes might be President. In his es-
timation, these ~rascals are saints alongside
Of Tilden, Potter and David Dudley Field.
Tammany, too, has been guilty Of outrages
which j~ustiies all the thefts perpetrated in
Louisiana and Florida. This is strange
reasoning. 1t is on the principle that two
wrongs make q right. But coming closer
home the Enterprise has something to say
which is not borne out by the facts, SO far
at least as the SENTINEL is concerned. We
quote;
All these people are shocked now at the
very name Of fraud, as something too
dreadful to be described. The editors of
the Silrer STATE and Elko Independent are
shocked, and yet we have a faint recollec-
ton that they each helped serenade Mr..
Cronin as he went East with a fraudulent
commission which they fondly hoped
would defeat the will Of the people of Ore
gon as expressed by their ballots. The ed
itor Of the Virginia Chronicle and Eureka
SENTINEL are also shocked, and yet we
would wager dollars to dimes that had they
been in Winnemucca or Elko when Mr..
Cronin passed eastward with the $500 fur
nished by Governor Tilden's private Sec
rotary, they, too, would nave Joined the
crowd which serenaded the distinguished
Oregonian, and would have SHE'D their
hats as high and cheered as Justify at
sight Of Cronin's nose as did either Judge
Bonniield or Judge Flack.
In REPUTATION Of the charge that we ever
Endorsed the Oregon business, we shall
bring back the record. On Saturday, De-
cember 10th, 1876, the following appeared
in the editorial columns Of the SENTINEL /:
Cronin, the Oregon Democratic Elector,
passed Elko last night en- route for Wash
ington. While the train tarried at the de-
pot the Democrats at that place had the
bad taste to give him a public reception.
We say bad taste because their course can
be construed in no other light than rs an
Endorsement Of the bubble resorted to by
Governor Grover and his advisers to
thwart the expressed will Of the people Of
Oregon. We would like to see 1ilden
President, but we do not desire to see him
succeed on a mere technicality. We are
free to admit that the Returning Boards in
some OF the Southern States have been
guilty OF the most shameless conduct, but
two wrongs never yet made a right. Mr..
Cronin may be q very clever gentleman
n doubtless is, but we submit that this
making q hero ofhim, all the circumstances
considered. is not just the thing. The
Elko Democracy may think this fraudulent
Democratic Elector is q very great man,
entitled TO the special gratitude Of the ma
ton, but they must excuse us if we take
issue with them to the extent Of pronounc-
ing their exhibition last evening ill-ad-
vised and nonsensical.
Does this look like we would have
thrown up Jul hat at the sight Of Cronin's
nose, had we been there? Did the Enter
prise ever say anything as fair on the Pres
idential mnddle? We openly proclaimed
that we would not have the great office on
. mere technicality. The Enterprise takes
it on worse than a technicality by theft,
and then abuses and misrepresents all who
are unwilling to admit the perfect legitima-
cy Of stealing under our form of govern
ment. We fear our Comstock contem-
p6rary is becoming d+moralized.