Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-02-09
MR. MASON AGAIN-JUST ONE WORD

the Carson Opera House rs ali apologist for
the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. In criti-
eising his discourse the MORNING APPEAL
sions therefrom. such as failure to call at
teation to the vast profits of that corporation,
its evasions of the law, etc. Being thus criti-
cised, Mr.. Mason, like many another man who
feels himself occupying an attitude difficult Of
explanation, becomes angry and seeks to di
vert attention from his own weak cause by
casting aspersions upon his critic. We do
not choose to answer all of Mr.. Mason pet
ulsncies but will aliude to two OF three of
them, very briefly, as follows;
He denies being candidate upon the Dem
ocratic ticket for the Legislature i'll 1874. All
we can say in reply is that man is known by
tle company he keeps Let's in whose
company he was found during the political
campaign of that year. He was nominated to
the Assembly on the same ticket with Major
NJ c. Gardner and Sam Longabaugh. Both
Democrats The rest OF the nominations were
all made from the ranks of the Democracy,
except the Scnatorship. That was accorded
t, Mr. Lew Dorian, Independent. Warren
Wasson, (Dom,) was a candidate for Sheriff;
Dick Kelly, (Dem) the candidate for
Treasurer; William Patterson, CDem.) was
the candidate for District Attorney; and NJ.
l.. Yager, Dcm.) was the nominee for Su-
perintendent Of Schools The remainder of
the ticket was made up of certain Republican
inyincibles who were g endorsed" We sup
pose it is fair to Mr.. Mason to call this ticket
hybrid if he does not like to be classified
a Democrat Moreover, Mr.. Mason was CON
sidered good enough Democrat to receive
the endorsement Of the Democratic conven-
ton which assembled III Carson on the 18th OF
Dct"ber, 1874
Dir. Mason says he did not seek the nom
nation for County Treasurer III the Repub-
Lean convention ia 1874 Well, all that need
.,e said in reply to this disclaimer is that he
was put in nomination before the Republican
County Convention by his partner, Mr..
Chamberlain, who cast his own vote and those
Of two proxies held by him, for Mason, and
t1at Mason distinctly spoke of himself, half
hour before Harry Peters was nominated as
OF ma jority of three in said Republican
Convention This looks as if he were not
unaware of the fact that his partner had taken
tie liberty to present his name a competitor
with Mr., Peters for the said no.ntuat!"n,
In reply to the insnuation that Mr. Mighcls
aid out to the Democracy in 1870, news
paper which had been given him by Repub
- ia hat
Fad newspaper given him by Republicans or
auy other party; that he was assisted by GER
lain business people (whose advances of money |
he repaid, as per contract, In advertlsiNg), |
aud by certain office holders and others to |
purchase the right to pay the debts incurred !
by Robinson, Barrett and Company, in the |
purchase of the materials of the Old |
P.ute newspaper; and that when he sold out
lis half of the concern live years after, to
Charley Perkins, he had repaid to the bus
mess men of Carson every cent advanced by !
taem to him-except in one instance where
repayment i'll advertising declined
Moreover, if Mr.. Mighels wrong in
selling out his share Of the APPEAL in 1870 |
he thinks he may have atoned for the sin
thus committed by re-estabshing his paper |
il time for the campaign of 1872 and also in
time to support Mr. Mason for Treasurer of
Orlnsby County.
The insnuation or averment (whicheser it |
may be), that Mr.. Mighels voted for or sup
ported, in 1872, any other than the Republi
can nominees to the Assembly is utterly false
and without any foundation in fact, circum-
stance or probability.
AS to the reiterated fabrication that in CD.
posing the Virginia and Truckee Railroad
Company Mr.. Mighels is biting the hand that
has fed him, it need only be said, here, that
the closely related houses Of 3Iason, Huff &
Co, Mason & Chamherln and Mason
Brothers have paid the APPEAL twice as much
money in the last fourteen years as has ever
been paid to it or its conductor by all the
railroads i'll Nevada
In conclusion let us say that bad cause
is oftentimes forced to seek refuge for itself
in evasion and misrepresentation; and that
whatever the not very sanity person who
conducts the MORNING APPEAL is guilty of
(and MAY God have mercy on me, sin
narl') the sins of the ''local'' railroads
against the people reutaln yet unatoned for;
their delInQuencies are not in any manner