Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-11-05
A NEW LAW NEEDED.

the state appealing TO the cornish voters 60
vote against him, is piece of political chican-
cry which cannot be classed as a specimen OF
political manipulation. It is something which
the statutes should make crime worthy the
penitentiary.
In June, 1879, Humphrey Synons, police
officer, was murdered in Gold Hill. This decd
| of blood, perpetrated nearly two years ago,
| was indirectly the cause of Beatty s defeat,
but not solely, as another crime, equally
culpable, had to be committed TO secure it.
We have before US a pamphlet charging
Judge Beatty-by insinuation-with an inl-
peachable offense. After Pritchard's con-
victien in the District Court Of Storey county
an appeal was made for new trial This plea
made by Colonel Taylor for a new trial was
! based on the fact that q peremptory challenge
of juror had been refused. Judges Beatty
and Leonard granted a new trial, Judge
Hawley ebiscting. This decision was admit
ted to be good law by the best legal talent of
Nevada 1t Was not a question of the guilt
or innocence of the accused; it was simply
question of law, and decided legally This
| circumstance was seized upon by parties
anxious to defeat Beatty, and the day before
election g pamphlet was circulated, signed by
II. S. Symons, brother to Humphrey Sym
| ons, the murdered man, ia which the follow
| ing paragraphs occur:
When the case came up on appeal before
| the Supreme Court Judge HaWley refused a
| new trial. But the friends Of the murderer
got Judge Leonard to write AL opinion grant
| ing him new trial, in which Judge Beatty,
the present candidate for Supreme Judge,
coacurred, although both Lsoasrd and Beatty
said that tho evidence justified the verdict.
Now, the facts of the case are simply these:
Judge Beatty at the timo intended to be a
| candidate for re election, and tho ex-Congress-
man a candidate for anything he could get
| from either the Republican or Democratic
party, and they all thought that the influence
Of United States Senator was worth more to
them than their honor and manhood and the
English vote combined. The only excuse /
have ever heard for this outrage is that it was
"only fight between the Cornish and
| Welsh and "only Cornishman killed"
This is but a portion of the pamphlet,
| which was also directed against Garfield's
record, and ostensibly to influence votes
against Congressman Daggett These ex
traneeus matters, however, were only intro
duced as blind the venom was intended
for Judge Beatty aud accomplished his defeat.
It is not to be for moment supposed that H.
S. Symons wrote the pamphlet. The skillful
manner in which the writer trod on the edge
Of an actual libel reveals the hand of an at
torney whs used Symons' grievance as lever
to accomplish al UNANIMOUSLY base purpose.
It is not strange that man whose brother
was foully murdered would feel that an in
justice was done if the law delayed in stretch
ing tho murderer's neck, and a man who was
disposed wsuld have little trouble in poisoning
his ear against Judge of the Supreme Court
and causing him to overlook the fact that it
was only court of appeal and not trial
court Had the Supreme Court of the State
denied new trial the Supreme Court Of the
United States weuld have granted it, and
thus justice would have been longer delayed.
We do not bs1ive for an instant that so hon.
orable a man as Judge Belknap would ever
eonnive at SO dastardly piece of business as
WV AIoeASosAVn Va sA1S PnanPAASs. A>oA w We
believe that had the case been explained to
Mr.. Symons he would have allowed himself
to have done so grave an injustice to Judge
Beatty as to have signed the pamphlet. Fur
thermore, we do not believe that the Cornish
population of the State would have voted
against Beatty had they known the real ami
mus of the card. We have held in this paper
before that the murder of Symons was cold
olooded and cowardly, and that the psrpe-
TRAITOR Of the deed did not get his just deseSts
but there are hundreds of men in Nevada to
day who had rather be occupying Pritchard's
cell than to be considered the ambushed in.
stigator of the defamatory pamphlet which
beat Judge Beatty for tho Supreme Judge
ship This pamphlet was not the only one
circulated against candidates, and we hope
that the next Legislature will pass a law max
ing it felony for any man to write, circulate
or print pamphlet derogatory to any can
didate within thirty days prior to election.
If man is accused of crime he should have
time to refute the charge.
A HOWL FROM THE TRAITORS
ORGAN.
The proofs of Sharon's treachery culminate.