Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-22
HIS EXPLOITS IN THE LEGIS-
LATURE OF CALIFORNIA.
The Representations Ee Makes in
Regard to Himself.
HIS RECORD AS A REPUBLICAN IN
wAsHoE COUNTY.
He Says He Has the Cornish Vote in
His Vest Pocket.
HIS PRIDE IN THE SUPPORT he WILL OF
FROM THE "TWIN REiIc."

paper about Hon. G.. G. Powning, from
which we make the following extracts
without comments:
His b~oastfulness runs largely to anec.
dotes Of his own exceeding cleverness in
deception. He regards himself as an
adept in political chicanery, and indeed in
chicanery other than political. Actions OF
which most men would be sufficiently
ashamed to keep silent about, he brags of.
AS an instance of this trait Of this young
man, whom the Republican party has
made itself ridiculous and contemplate
by nominating for so high an office as that
as Representative to Congress, l may re-
peat one exploit which he narrates with
gusto in all sorts of company. Shortly
after his election to the State Senate four
years ago, he told it in my presence and
that of a half dozen others, plainly ex-
pectiDg our admiration. | have heard
him tell he same pleasing story repeated
ly since, and doubtless all who know him
personally have heard it from his own I'M
firing lips. l shall give it in his own
words as nearly as l can recall them, in
order that the verbal style of this little
mountebank may be known to the people
of the State who have never met him:
MR.. PowNING LAT AN EXPLOIT.
ooh, Pm up to tricks! I'm as smart as
anybody, and don't you forget it. l was
knockin' round Sacramento at the session
Of go, and I just said l was goin' in for
some of the pie-and you can just bet
Powning got his share of it. Why, before
I had buckled down to the biz more'n a
week l scooped in S28 a day. Perk Gov
ernor Perkins was in the Senate; knew
Perk like an old boot. I just slid up to
Perk, and says 1, Here, Perk, old fellow,
I want a clerkship in the Senate Perk
said all right, and it wasn't twenty-four
hours before l was down for u clerkship at
$40 a day. Then 1 goes to Boruck, who
was Chief Clerk of the House. Knew old
Marcus first-rate, and l braced him stout
for a clerkship there. Next day I was ap-
pointed as one of the assistant clerks at
SO a day. When I'd got to know the
ropes-and it didn't take Powning more'n
a few days to do that, you just bet-I went
to one of the Senators from my county
Nevada--and got an appointment as clerk
of his committee at SIS a day. This made
S24 a day-pretty cold turkey, wasn't it ?
Then l went to one of the House members
and got a committee clerkship in the
House at 81 a day. making S2S a day.
How was that for g%it-np-an' git, eh?"
But" said one of the group to whom
the present Republican candidate for Con-
gress related this exploit, show did you
manage TO get all these claims allowed by
the Auditor?"
"Oh that was easy enough" replied
Powning with q chuckle Of admiration at
his own cleverness. Easy enough if you
know how to do it. You bet / was too
smart to be caught. You see they'd have
dropped on the racket if I'd put all my
claims in under the same name, 30 | got
ahead of them by changing my name.
The first claim went in for @. O. Powning,
the second for Christopher Powning, the
third for Columbus Powning and the
fourth for Chris. powning. You bet the
son - couldn't catch me I"
This is the same person who was too
young to know what a Typographical Union
was when he went into the Sacramento
Union Office at the time of the strike in
lS70.-Ed. Chronicle.
MR.. PowNlNG's ~TREAcHERY TO HIS PARTY.
l see that in this evenings Chronicle q
Washoe Republican recalls Mr.. Powning's
election from the County Central Com
mittee here for treachery. Every old
Remote who interests himself at all in
politics remembers that incident, which in
n other community would have damned
Powning forever politically. He made
himself extremely odious to his party by
staggering around the streets after Mr..
Boardman had beaten him for the nomi-
nation Of State Senator. proclaiming loud
ly everywhere that 'Boardman was a son
--- and that he (Powning) was
going to beat him, expressing hat deter
mination in language too foul to bear
print. After his expulsion from the Gem
trail Committee he threatened on the
streets a great deal about how he was
going to burn up the sons - -"
but it was quietly whispered in his ear
that his past record would be Investigated,
70 he subsided.l
1t is only the fact that this young per-
son is up for Office that makes it worth
while to write about him, and even SO one
who writes about him, and even SO one
who writes of him feels an annoying sense
of littieness in putting on paper the say
ings and doings of such a whifftt. Next
to his cheek, as l have already said, young
Powniug's chief point of character is his
love of Boosting. The glory of being
nominated has turned his small head and
he has become a monomaniac on the sub
ject of his W consequence. Wherever
he is met he is spouting of himself and
the certainty of his election. Here is the
substance of his representations as he
stands with crossed legs, his elbow on the
counter and his chin in the air:
MIR. powNINa's DEMONSTRATIONS.
"Well, I'll tell you how the cathop will
come out. I'll carry Lincoln by $50 ma
jority, because all the Mormons are down
on Cassidy for his speech against them
and his vote for the Edmunds bill. I've
got the Mormon vote solid you kin paste
that in your hat and say that Powning
says it. Nye will go for me by 100 cold.
I'll beat Cassidy in his W county by 200,
sure. I've got the Cornish vote in my
vest pocket. There are lots of Cousin
Jacks in Eureka. and every one OF 'em is
mine. Pm playing my Cornish parentage
for all it ia worth. The Cornish boys
don't oare nothin' for record or nothin' of
that kind. They won't read nothin'
against me, and won't believe it if they do.
l AZ good as o1en 'em, and don't you forget
it. I'd get 800 majority in Eureka. but
that Cassidy will get some Of the Republic
can coal burners. But l can spare them.
The Cornish vote will give me my 200.
White Pine is mine. because Cleve holds
the racket on the boys there. Elko has a
good many Cornish and some Mormons,
and it'll be mine by 100. Lander is good
for $50. as Jim Farrell is there. He's an
freshman and will pull all the Irish vote
for me-. We're thick. Farrell and me-
used to be in together in the Senate.
Churchill will be q staud-off, but Hum.
boldt will make q Powning record oil
about 1850. Mac Bonuiield is u friend OF
mine. and all the railroad boys will stand
in. Esmeralda will shout for Powning by
about 400. Douglas has plenty Of Nor