Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-27

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tatives.
The Virginia Chronicle gives at length
the proceedings OF the meeting at Virginia,
on Thursday evening, upon the reception
of the news that the Committee of Four
teen had reported against the WOODBURY.
bill. We make the following extracts:
Yesterday afternoon, when it became
known that the Committee Of Fourteen
had reported against the WOODBURY. bill,
the excitement in this city, which had all
day been intense in anticipation Of just
such action, then began to glow to q white
heat, and citizens called upon the Commit
tee of Twenty-thrce and asked that an in
dignation meeting be called as soon as
possible. Arrangements were speedily
made, and the following hand-bill printed
MASS MEETING TONIGHT
REBUKE THE KNAvEs-LET THE PEOPLE
SPEAK
Every consumer and taxpayer OF the
Comstock is invited to attend the anti-rail-
road mass meeting tonight, in front OF
Odd Fellows Hall building, at Z O'Clock.
THE COMMITTEE OF TwENTY-TMREE.
1t was suggested that at the bottom OF
the dodger the words, 1.-THE COL are cor
daily invited to be present." should be
printed, but after some discussion it was
decided that such language would be in
cendiary and inadvisable. At 7 o'clock
there was a big bonefire blazing in front Of
the Odd Fellows building, a band was dis
coursing from DR.. Collins balcony, and
crowds of citizens were moving toward
the spot. At half-past seven it is estimated
that over
TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE
We're on the spot. The meeting had been
called so suddenly that little or no prep
aration had been made.
Col. n. II. Taylor, and other speakers,
addressed the meeting, and their fiery de-
nunciations OF the Committee were received
with yells of applause by thec crowd.
JAMES H. GRAHAM
Then read the following resolutions, which
were adopted amid general applause:
Whereas, Every member Of the Legisla-
ture now in Carson was elected on solemn
pledges, made in convention, indorsing .
strong anti-railroad platform, and that we
have now every reason to believe that
many, if not = majority, have been pur-
chased with coin by the hired lobby Of the
Virginia l. Truckee Railroad,
Resolved, That we hereby denounce the
corruption and cowardice Of the Commit
tee Of Fourteen, who have bartered away
the rights of the people, ~ the most dis
graceful and contemplate exhibition OF
mendacity ever perpetrated by the repre-
sontstives Of a free people.
Resolved, That it is the sense Of the tax
payers and consumers Of Storey county
that our representatives now in Carson
vote, one and all. for the passage OF the
Woodbnrn and Lewis bills.
Resolved, That those who violate their
solemn pledges in this respect are meaner
than thieves.
Resolved, That the member from Storey
county on the Committee Of Fourteen be
requested Immediately to resign his seat in
the Legislature, as he no longer represents
his constituents.
"Do you know his manner" cried Mr..
Graham. at is Lame. hat spells Lane;
don't it ?" IDerisive yells and groans and
cries of Lynch him ri
Resolved. That the Storey county MEM
bers who will fall down at this time are
hereby demanded by their constituents to
resign instanter, and never again to show
their honest faces on the Comstock.
Resolved, That these resolutions be at
once forwarded to Carson.
Mr.. Graham then proceeded to say that
he was in favor of the people taking the
law INTO their own hands il they failed to
obtain q remedy for the wrongs under
which they were suffering. You elected at
your last election, by your free SURFACES,
a body of men to go to Carson who pledged
as solcmnly as men could in convention,
that they would every one OF them advo-
cate the passage of some bill to relieve the
people Of the Comstock from this iniquit-
Gus, grasping monopoly, the Virginia Il
Truckee Railroad. Have they done it?
| TC~,a, -f sINnt .Ntsl NJ &hax, baua not
and it is your duty to see that they do it.
1t will be the fault of the people upon the
Comstock tonight, and tomorrow night
and the next day, if that Woodburn bill is
not passed. Applause. II You be men
true to yourselves and determined to make
these men stick up to their pledges if you
are determined to teach them that solemn
pledges taken before the people cannot be
broken with IMMUNITY, you must do it
now. GGreat applause II you do not
these legislative thieves will go back and
take coin and sell you. IGroans. You
know the remedy. lCries Of Hang the
dogs; string 'em up!J If you cannot do
anything else, l say yes, hang them. lap
plause.
Fellow-citizens, the sound in the sand
lots in San Francisco eight months ago was
a terror to the monopolists, and when
Dennis Kearney - applausel-w with his
shrill, clear voice, cried aloud. Hemp /!
hemp hemp p there was not a moneyed
thief that did not tremble in his boots.
Cheers. am in favor of the people-if
there be no other r~emedy-going to Carson
and demanding of them in thunder tones
that they keep their pledges. Wild cheers
and cries Of 1--WE WILL Yes, felllow-citi-
zens, il we have no other remedy let us
organize a band of consumers and pro-
ducers and march down to Carson. Every
man that is willing to take the old trail
and 60 down to Carson tomorrow raise
his hand.
A STARTLING SPECTACLE.
In response to this request, 1900 pair OF
hands Immediately shot up from the crowd
and waved like q forest, while at the same