Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-07-25
THE CARSON MINT.

Yesterday the APPEAL said that it believed
the Chronicle was being used as a mouth
piece by certain discharged employees of the
Mint, to which the Chronicle replies:
We are sorry te see this statement in the
APPEAL, it knows better. The Chronicle doss
not knew even the names of these discharged
employees, and has had no communication
with them.
We are equally regretful if We are in error,
but beg leave to present such circumstantial
evidence as points in that direction. On
Thursday last the Chronicle said:
We have received communication from
Carson in relation to the Mint. The Chron-
icle will publish any definite charges against
that or any other public institution, If the
charges be made by responsible persons, but
it will not make itself convenience for men
who have personal spites to crafty. We I'M
derstand that the author of the communica-
ton in question has been boastlng in Carson
that he could secure the PIT blicatien by the
Chronicle of anything he might write about
the Mint.
Now the man who said that he would Sc
cure the publication of the charges, was a
discharged employee. On Thursday the
Chronicle had the following:
If the employees who were discharged for
calling the governments attention to what
they thought faults in the management will
send copy Of their complaint to the ChrOn
icle it will be given publicity.
On the following day the charges appeared
and the paper asserts that it never received
any communication from a discharged EN-
ploye. While this may be correct, could any
Inference be more natural, drawn from the
journals own language. than that its charges
came from that quarter.
Yesterday the APPEAL stated that owing to
the facts to rsfute the charges, but would
give them in the next issue. On the heels
Of this the Chronicle does not wait for
our answer, but reitsrates the same
charges with comments like this: "No
answer to this question from any
source" In our local columns to-day will be
found complete answers to the charges made.
One of them comes directly from tho mouth
Of Chronicle witness at which the journal
turns and rends him for leading it "into an
error" and "csrroborating the APPEAL. The
Chronicle asserts that Republican newspapers
believe in defending Republican Office hold
ers, right or wrong. The APPEAL believes in
no such thing and its record bears it out in
the statement. If any one can show us any
rsttsnness in the Mint, fer the good of tho
party we will endeavsr to expose the abuses
and not defend or conceal them. The Chro1s-
ieie had the written charges in its possession
and why did it not make them public at that
time2 If it really believed in the rottenness
of the institution then would have been the |
time Of all times to have called his attention
could have been definitely settled then. Ia
stead the paper waits until Mr.. Burchard
has left the city and then comes out with its
charges. Superintendent Crawford had just
undergone a rigid inspection from Mint d.
rector Burchard because the same men who
gained the ear of the paper making the
charges had also written to Washington and
made complaint. The Mint Director came here,
spent several days looking into the manage
ment and reported that everything was ex-
actly as it should be. Now after Mr. Craw-
ford has been fully endorsed by the Director,
is it surprising that he gets "en his
dig" and declines to be tried Immediately
afterwards by the Chronicle. 1t is absurd to
think that depositors will seek redress for
heir grievances through the press when they
have the privilege Of getting it at the Mint orat
The Superintendent is placed :,
N his position as much to guard the interests
# the depositors as the Government. The s
newspapers can give man no redress who {
las lest precious metal at the Mint. He has {
he right to insist that granulatisns from his 4
'ullion be sent to some ether mint, and if his
'ar has been under assayed the Government
avs him the difference Can case be shown r
there such a course has been pursued and ]
he Carson MINIS assay was net verified r
Would the Chronicle have made these charges I
{ continue to reiterate them in the plain face '
f contrary proof, if Presidential campaign b
as not now in progress. a
A RENO paper states that the people about
yramid Lake are keeping sharp lookout for
10 men drowned there few days ago. They g