Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1882-01-09
AN ACCESSORY TO MIsRULE
VERSUS suERIFr HANKS.


matter relating to Sheriff Hanks. which
1t doubtless thought very facstious. But
II the Enterprise so considered 1t. people
generally who read the matter did not.
It lacked all the essential elements OF
Jaeetie. 1t was neither witty. humorous.
sportive mol ~jocular. II was simply an
attempt to ridioule an honest, consoien.
tious and painstsking officer. who. in
the discharge Of his duty and at the sug-
gestion Of we'll known intelligent gen.
tlsmen, arrested . man for completely in
the recent murder in Six.mils canyon.
Does the Enterprise think Il 10 further
ing the ends Of justice by publishing
such mattsri Does It not know that
ridicule, or attempted. ridiculs. in press
ing q charge against . public officer 10 not
argument? Does 1t not know that such
Q violent TRADE again. Mr.. Hanks. with.
out substantiating it, charges, amounts
to little else than blsckguardismf Do
not the Enterprise structures show that
the attack on Mr.. Hanks is prompted
either BY vindictive personal motives. or
by an enemy Of Mr.. Hanks who BY some
means has induced the Enterprise to ight
his battles for himi Many persons be.
lisve the latter proposition 10 be the
true one, and that the same party who
s~ndsavorsd to thwart Sheriff Hanks in
his arrest OF the robbers Of Manning's
jswelry. aud to award the credit OF the
arrest OF the thieves and recovery OF the
stolen goods to the wrong man. Is the
person behind the Enterprise scenes now
pulling the string that makes the puppst
dance. The moro thought given to the
matter. the more one 10 convinced Of the
truth OF the last named proposition. A
newspaper that has maintained silence
for a year while official abuses were 60
ing on almost at its very doors, would
not so suddenly have voluntarily assumed
the post Of guardian Of public interests.
There must have been q powerful cause
to have aroused and stimulated the apa-
thstic Enterprise to action in defense Of
the peoples rishts. And II people be-
lievs the charge to DO true that the lib.
eral bsstowal Of official patronage on ONE
hand and the partial Withholding Of ii on
the other is the secret u Of the re-
cent attacks upon Mr.. Hanks by the
Enterprise who shall say they have not
good reasons for their belief
Bat II this il the motive for action on
the part OF the Enterprise in its attacks
upon Sheriff Hanks. ought not the peo-
pie to have something to say in the mat
tsr1 II bestoval Of patronage can
prevent q public journal from exposing
Official misrule. and tho partial with.
holding Of patronage is the cause for
personal attacks upon IN upright and
efficient public officer, ought not the
people to tako the matter in hand ?
When . journal backed by millions OF
dollars permits such petty and selfish
considerations as q trifling amount Of
patronage to silence II against the official
misruls Of its friends and to open its
columns to the vindictive abuse Of an
officer whose whole official career has
been in the interests Of the people and
against bossism and rings, ought not the
people to sustain the officer. and by 80
doing show the purss-prOud journal that
with them justice and right shall ever
take precedence Of i~nsolspce and gOld'