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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06
The Inter- Oe<ansaysthat "criticism

The Inter- OfeansayS that "crItIc1sm
may hurt the Republican party, but it
never can hurt Republican principles. y
True, true, and its the thing all in a
nutshell. The trouble is, however,
that Republican principles have be-
come the pack horse for quite a large
element in the Republican party that
has already ridden the poor beast to
hide and bare bones. If Republican
principles ran the thing, we should
feel better contented than we do now,
when the Republican party does the
work. We have had such reverence
for Republican principles that we
have made desperate efforts to swallow
the Republican party for the sake of
the principles, that somehow or other,
have come to be lrretrievably mixed
with the undesirable element. We
nave never had the least inclination
to accept Democracy as a substitute
for the Republican party with or with
oat principles. and so we eat crow,
and thank the good Lord even for
crow.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

The following dispatches have been
transmitted here from Mayor Moses,
Of Gunnison, and are very encourag-
ing about the passage of the Ute bill /:
WASHINGTON, d. c., July S, 81.
G. N. Moses, Mayor, Gunnison =
No danger, think, of Congress ad-
journing without passing the bill. 1t
could have been passed two months
ago by proper effort. N. P. HILL.
WASHINGTON. July, S, 'Ss.
G. N. Moses, Mayor, Gunnison -
! Reservation bill will surelypa before
adjournment. Speaker assures me
that shall be allowed to call it up
when appropriation bills are passed.
B. BELfoRD.
WASHINGTON, July S 1881.
G. N. Moses, Mayor, Gunnison =
The bill opening the Ute Reservation
will pass before We adjourn. have
no doubt of this. 1t will be called up
Immediately upon the passage of the
Sundry Civil bill. D. c. HASKELL
Chairman Com. Indian Affairs.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

The Exposition convention held IN
Gunnison last Saturday was acomplete
success. Every mining camp in the
county was represented and the coun-
ty commissioners were present, IN Or
der that they might get the sense OF
the feeling expressed by the people.
1t was first ascertained that the ex-
pense of the pavilion, mounted on
top with a stuffed elk, would cost
s1,725, which was the lowest OF SIX
bids. After that a resolution was
drawn up requesting the county COM
missioners to appropriate, if necessary
not to exceed the sum of $4,000,
when that was amended to $1,000.
A standing vote was required on this
amendment, which was, however, car
ried. 1t must be remembered that
this is the outside limit and we do not
think there will be used even $4,000,
at least it is so understood, that the
commissioners have expressed a will
ingness to not exceed $4,000. After
this the executive committee had to be
appointed and by request of the COM
missloners, it was decided to elect
only two and let the third man be
selected by them. Messrs Howard
Smith, of Crested Butte, S. Richard
son, of Gunnison, and Crawford, Of
White Pine, were put in nomination,
the two former being elected. 1t is
their duty to see that the funds are
judiciously expended and that the
building will be ready to receive the
exhibit and TO astend.,to such other
business that may be necessary to
good exhibit. This committee we
can place the utmost confidence In
their integrity, and now then we want
to 60 to work and get our ores down
so that they can if possible be shipped
by the fifteenth of this month. We
cannot attach too much importance
to this question, as other counties
are doing all in their power to out
strip their neighbors and are sparing
no expense or pains to do SO. Specl-
mems left at DR.. Cornell's Office will
be properly labeled and cared for.
Mr.. McGee, the forwarding merchant,
has volunteer to haul the exhibit to
the depot free of cost, so there is every
inducement for every person who has
mine or prospect to have it brought
before the people.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06
The present rate of coinage would

The present rate Of coinage would
give US IN ten years, $3.50, 900, 900 Of
silver, we now have about los, ,ooo.-
900 OF silver dollars, and total nee
tal!ic money OF S668, ,ooo. 900.
France, with population of 49,
900, 900, has S545, 900, 900 of silver
legal tender coin, and $4,000, 900
of gold.
The United States has population
of over $4,000, 900, and in ten wears
it will reach nearly 7o,ooo,ooo. At
the present coinage we shall not even
then have much over one half of what
France now has, with a population OF
about one half of what ours will be in
1892. Financial disaster has not
come to France, on the contrary she
is prosperous, while Germany by her
unfavorable action towards silver has
passed through terribl: commercial
disasters.
Is it reasonable to suppose that our
present coinage can possibly result in
the fulhlment of sherman's dire
forebodings. An increasein the coin
age ofsllver is IN order, rather than
any curtailment. The silver interests
should have but one united platform.
Unlimited coinage, ratio 1515 to /,
and an international monetary agree
ment.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

Our location IN the Denver Exposi-
tion is right adjoining that of Gilpin
county, and they are going to extra
trouble and expense to exhibit rare
and rich specimens, having glass cases
made and will try hard to gain the
prizes. That being an old county,
no doubt they will show a collection
of many years standing. 1t behooves
our people in order to compete with
our older sister, to strain every nerte.
While they will show some small, rich
specimens, we should make it rule to
get huge chunks of rich ore, such as
we can get from this camp and there
by back up the assertions that we arc
at all times boasting.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06
Senator Hill in his speech nnon III.

senator Hill IN his speech upon the
silver question before the senate, sha,,-
dies John Sherman and the gold ad-
vocates IN most mastery way; and
hls quiet matter of fact manner of
dealing with the subject does not in
the least detract from the vigor and
cogency of his reasonings. We have
not seen in a single speech so COM
plete refutation of the arguments ad-
vanced by the single gold standard
adherants of this country. His refer
ences to England's position in the
monetary world and her relations to
the United States as asilver producing
country and to India and China as
silver markets, are especially felicitous,
showing that even in the present unex-
ampled small demand from India,
arising from the succession OF famines,
that had the United States made its
monthly coinage only $4,000, 900
more instead of exporting it to Eng
land, there would have occurred
very marked advance in the gold price
of silver.
John Sherman, as Secretary of the
Treasury, has repeatedly recommend
ed to Congress the practical demoni-
tization of silver. At first the coinage
of $50, 1000 was to result disas-
triously. Then, as the coinage reach
ed this fatal point, $4,000, 900 was
set for the accomplishment of the dis
NAL forebodings, when silver should
drive the yellow metal cut of the land.
Now we have s116, 1000, 900, and gold
remains in great abundance. Senator
Hill shows conclusively and logically
that not 500, 900, 900 nor 5000, ,ooo,-
900 can possibly produce the results
that Sherman has so often predicted.
Facts and figures talk better than
representations and here the silver
interest is impregnable.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

The biggest Indian in the Demo
cratic party in Colorado is Col. Bar
tow, of the Pueblo News. The way
he goes for the scalps is caution, and
he does it in such clean cut fashion;
none of your botch work. Even his
victims remove their CORY locks with
thanks, thanks, Colonel! Its Jack
Dormer, just now, and Dormer &C
knowledges toeman worthy of his
steel and quietly says, yea and amen.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

Senator Sherman says he is b.
metallist, and that he desires to see
silver and gold circulating side by
side, his BIZ -metaNisn1, however, is of
the sort that is not very acceptable to
the silver interests. He thinks there
would be no trouble if silver was COIN
ed at its present mercantile value of
about IS to 1.-granted. But what
if the market value should drop still
lower? !? or, upon the contrary, if it
should advance, as it is very likely to
do? The silver interests contend
that the present depression is brought
about largely by adverse legislation,
the sales Of silver by Germany, Eng
lands powerful hostility and the ex-
ceptional small demands for the metal
from India, the latter cause and a
very important one is but temporary.
and the effect of Germany's action is
already nearly spent, so that in the
near future it is more than probable
that the gold price of silver will fix
itself nearer the ratio Of 151a to I,
than its present market value. An in
ternatlonal agreement would of course
restore it at once, but if the United
States will pursue an even and determ-
ed policy, circumstances will come
to the aid of silver that will entirely
obviate any temporary disadvantage
under which it now labors.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

We cannot but feel lingering de.
sire still to see Crested Butte wake up.
and we have almost hope that some
thing will happen even now, to make
1t the place nature intended it to be.
There is more material right at this
point, out of which to make large
and thriving town, than any place in
Gunnison county. But material is
dead waste where brains and energy
are lacking. !.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

"Prescious metal miningis the bane
of mankind, and he or they who shall
succeed in devislng a monetary system
founded upon other products than
gold and silver will prove public
benefactor."
Well, this thing has been tried on
numberless occasions. The most
modern, perhaps the most disastrous,
was an effort made by certain thing
calling itself the "Confederate States
of America" and 1t took not many
years to make the thing it called a
dollar, worth nothing at all. We re-
member distinctly of once backing up
double mule team to carry off the
net proceeds, in confederate paper, OF
a sale of one barrel of flour.
The United States also did some
thing of the kind not far back in its
history, and its monetary system bare
ly escaped the mule team state.
France once tried assigrats and with
a result in no wise bene6cent.
What nation on the face of the
earth has not had hand at the "rag
baby" craze? and yet out of all this
effort there has not come one single
"public benefactor. nor is there any
likelihood Of such event.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

Russia is passing through a most
important and interesting political
phase of her national life. Czarism,
the counterpart of Casarism, is to-day
practically dead, and something, the
which, men as yet, may not very dis
tinctly see, must take Its place. As
IN all Europe it is likely that the
church will play prominent part in
the new order. With all other political
or religious institutions of old Russia,
the church, since the time cf Peterthe
Great, has been simply a bureau OF the
government with the representative of
the Car at its head. Amid the blind
maze of palflation and substitutes for
the present unbearable political con-
dition of the state, the people are even
now looking to the church to1 some
measure of relies. The Greek chu-sh
in Russia, has.at its head capable
and daring man, and one who
seems to be thoroughly lmbued with
the liberal IDEAS that have sliced upon
the Russia political thought, and it
will not be surprising, if IN compar-
atively brief time. the nation shall
find some solution of its troubles in
this direction. 1t certainly will not
find such relief directly through the
plottings and machanations of
Nlhilism.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

What is this we hear? that women
lose their beauty in the Gunnison at
mosphere? What libel is this? Our
columns are open to the fair sex, de-
liberately, our columns are open.
We expect food, and that the paper
will run itself for the next six
months, but we will take the con-
sequences. We don't propose to stand
by silently and see Gunnison's "thlng
of beauty and JOY forever" libelled.
We'd "rather be a dog and bay the
moon than sucha Roman" 1t makes
us pale to think of it. but we've re.
solved to face the music. Our col.
umns are open to the fair sex.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06
The Elk Mt. Jubilee Club are ur

The Elk Mt. Jubilee Club are un-
der obligations to the kind people of
Crested Butte for courtesies bestowed,
and especially to the management of
the Elk Mountain House and its
handsome and efficient chief clerk,
w. Fl. HcMullen, who took pains to
make their stay at the hotel both
pleasant and comfortable.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

Col. Jack Dormer is a true news
paper man, nothing comes amiss, any
thing from mule to a dog fight, and
he isn't ashamed to own it either.
The Register: Cal may be gong to the
dogs, but its With tail and head up
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

The New York and Colorado An
thracite Coal Company, organized by
capitalists in New York, has been in
corporated with a capital stock OF
81, 900, 900. There coal lands are in
this county with headquarters'at Crest
ed Butte.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

Ex-Governor John L. Routt, the
chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee, has issued call
for the committee to meet in Denver
at 10 a. m., July goth.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06
THURSDAY, JULY, s, 1884,.
Bring in your specimens.

Work in our mines IS increasing
daily, and the future outlook is very
encouraging.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

ana an international monetary agree
ment.
THE REPRESENTATIVE AMER
ICAN.
We see much written of late about
some of our representatives abroad
not possessing the verydesirable quail
ifcation of being distlnctively Ameri-
can.
The phtaseis not avery accurate one
and yet it conveys to the American,
at least, something that he likes and
in a measure veneratcs. As it is used
by a certain kind of people, more or
less Of the demagoguic school and
distinctively American themselves on
ly In more undesirable type, we
confess to very little respect tor this
Representative American" with his
bluster and brag and meaningless talk
of republican, equality and rights
of man, which to these fellows
generally mean the right of their
particular kind of man to rule and
bluster.
To our rotion such men as Lowell
(the particular American just at pres
ent who does not meet the approba--
tion of these men), Simmer, Emerson,
Motly, Whittier, Holmes and Ban
croft are representative Americans in
the highest and noblest sense, and be-
cause these representative Americans
are capable of an impartial compari-
son of our political and social institu-
tlons with those of Europe and
of representing our country in a
dlgnified, fair minded intercourse
with nations possessing political insti-
tutions quite foreign to our OWE, and
without injecting into that intercourse
the Drawn and brag of our newer life
and civilization, we do not like to
see them disqualified oftheir birthright,
by these distinctively bad Americans,
and simply because these American
gentlemen will not get into the gutter
of our national life. Were it not for
just such men, whose only fault is in
not representing that which is dis
tinctively unworthy in our ration,
America to-day would not stand in
the forefront of progress, liberty and
truth, and had we nothing better than
these demagoguic and ,semi-Ameri-
canized blusterers to represent the
country, we would, indeed, merit the
contempt with which we are often as
sailed by the more refined and cult
vated Europeans.
We believe America is producing
and will continue to produce a finer
type of man than the world has ever
had, and these will be just such ssre-
preventative Americans as are now
being attacked as lacking in that
quality.
The representative American is
as much of gentleman, as refined
and cultivated, as just and reasonable.
as the representative Englishman,
German or Frenchman, and his
supreme and practical faith in the
progress of all men to the verv best
condition and character when freed
from unnatural social distinctions and
dead weights, makes him a superior
man.
We have not reached that degree of
perfection, as yet, where there is MOTH
Ing more excellent than the " great un-
Washed" and moreover shall not, un
til character and worth count for as
much as ignorance, noise and the
multitude.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

California duck coats with leather
strap pockets at A. Heiligen', the
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06

Open the reservation and see wha
a change it will make in our camp.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-07-06
COLORADO IRON WORKS
Manufacturer Of

Engines, Boilers, Rail-
way Cast and Wrought
work, Bridge work, Bolts
and Bolt ends, Building
work, &c. Our manu-
factures of Mining Ma
chinery emb' ace every
kind of machine and
appliance forthe mining
and reduction of ores.
We have had an ex-
perience Of more than
twenty years in the
manufacture and practi-
cal operation of mining
machinery in Colorado
and the Reighboring
States end Territories.
Our facilities are
superior to those Of any :
mandatory in the
West, our works having
been recently rebuilt,
greatly enlarged and
completely equipped.
We invite the investi-
CATION Of mine owners
and mill men seeking
machinery.
We can furnish, on
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-11-04
white Tcn cf Virginia. Read and
Ponder.

1t WIS announced on the streets in Lees
burg during the day Tuesday that Profes-
sor Groener would speak that night at the
courthouse in the interests Of John :.
Wise and Mahoncism. Professor GrCencr
did not come, however, but the evening
train brought one Holland. an oilice-holdcr
in Washington, who hailed, he said, from
Ohio. He is almost white, has Just enough
negro blood in his veins to cntitle him TO
the privilege OF calling himself a NEGRO.
and in these days OF political dcgencracy
profits by parading his baslardy before
negro audiences.
When we first reached the courthouse he
was discussing Virginia politics, and dis
| playing an ignorance of the subject that
was amusing. He very soon. however.
struck out on what we suppose was the
main object of his ySit-to inflame and
! prejudice the negro mind against the white
! people OF the State, and there he was en-
tircly at home. He poured forth a TRADE
OF invectlvc, the bitterness and inflamma-
tory character Of which was unsurpassed
III the palmiest days Of carpet-bagiSm of
lSGS-'69. We are not going TO undertake
! to reproduce his speech-we didn't STAY TO
hear 1t all-but * specimen brick of his
incendiary uttcrances he asked his sable
/ hearers il they would vote for men who had
held their race in bondage for hundreds of
years, who had sold members of their fami-
/ ~ on the block as they did hogs. and sheen.
anu cows, and separated mothers from
! Their children, tearing the infant from her
breast III the prosecution OF their upboly
Traffic. lie would almost sink his soul in
perditlon before he would vote for a Demo-
Graz, and not at all until he had purged him.
| self OF that foul wrong against God and nm
mainly by acknowledging that he was
wrong then, wrong since, and eternollv
Wrons, and the sentiment was applauded
by the negroes present. As this was i'm
mediatcly followed 10y an appeal to the ne
groes TO vote for John 5. Wise, the concIn.
sion Is that Mr.. Wise has gwen the reolIired
assurance and fills the bill.
Further on, Holland declared with mu,h
emphasis that the Republicans could NOT
afford to lose the next House of RenreScn-
tatiyes-that they must have il. The choice
OF the next President might deyolye ,pon
that sody. and if the Democrats were in |
majority they would elect a Democrat
President; and the Democrats once in |
power, ne chains Of StaUery would qqqin
'e Hoeted on ne negroes Of the South, and
ie appealed TO them, as they loved their
antilles and their freedom, to avert this
aiairity 10y voting for John S. Wise.
Another idea adroitly advanced by the
peakes was that the negroes should s,s-
I'm this Malone movement now, and. IL
iccessful, another reimbursement in the fu-
IRE would probably bring them TO the ,
ont; and In the eXuberance OF his feel. /
rs be took occasion to pass Il panegylic
old John Brown, who, he said, was the
eaiest man the Lord ever put on earth.- I
eSdurg Mirror.
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Another Theatre Burned

NEW YORK, November 1.-The Alhamlra
Sporting Theatre, at No. 124 to lbs west
Twenty-sevcnth street, was burned down
tonight. There was no performance in
the theatre, it being closed on account of
the death Of William II. Borst, one OF the
proprictors. Edward Mallahan, his part
ner, resided on the third floor, and his
wife, who was in delicate health, managed
TO escape lust in time to avoid horrible
death. The fire started near the stage. It's
cause Is unknown. No one had been in
the building during the day except the bar
tender The building was owned by Mad
anne sanchcs. The loss is S12,O 900: insured
for $4,000. The theatre was made bv
alterations in three private houses. and was
originally opened rs the Buckingham Pal
ace, q cOnccrt-SaOOn.
Speaking Of the destruction of this thea
ire the Philadelphia Times OF Yesterday
says:
The burning OF the Albambra Theatre in
New YORK is IN no respect a loss TO the
community. Ii was n ilimsily-built tran.
with all the disadvantages and eyils-social'
moral, and architectural-which are 10 be
found III the lowest and vileSt concerns
which pass under the name OF theatres
Ihere was nothing meritorious, either in
the building or in the scenes enacted there
TO counteract the bad features whieh made
lhe concern phgue-spot in the neighbour
hood il infested.
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A Card from Mr.. John &. Wise.

FREDERICKSBURG, November 2, 1857.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
| see in your issue OF November Cd that
a Mr.. j. b. Ward Of Tazewell represents
me as using my defence Of him in 1876 as
an argument for securing votes in Taze-
well, and says: "Now when Mr.. John 5.
Wise was making his canvass here this fall
he tod several people OF the circumstance,
and said rs soon as he found out where
was from he came up and offered his SER
vices free OF charge" The above state
ment is wholly without foundation. pre-
sumo this is Cadet whom | was employed
to defend some years ago by Colonel W. G..
Knight in a regular professional way.
will swear on the Holy Evangclisls that
for several years ] had forgotten the cir
cumstance; that ! never knew or remem-
bercd where he lived; that unless some
body mentioned 1t 70 me III Tazewell |
never thought OF it while there; that did
not volunteer, and was paid for my SER
vices that Ward owes me nothing and |
owe him nothing. and that whether ne sup
ports me or not is matter OF supreme indif-
ference; that | have not thought OF him or
known his name for several years, and re-
gard his card" TO your paper as a cheap
effort TO get his name IN the newspapers ut
my expense. Respectfully,
JOIN s. WISE.
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watch the Rallot-Box.

II you do not wish to apr,,s,y for the APP
pointment Of Supervisors, act under the
Virginia law. Let watchers be selected
for every votlng-place. The Democrats OF
the counties giving large negro maiorities
ought to have these watchers at every
voting-place in every such county. The
law Is as follows;
cater the poll-books are thus signed,
the judges shall IN THE PRESENCE If
DESIRED OF NOT EXCEEDING TWO
FRIENDS OF EACH POLITICAL PAR.
TY REPRESENTED BY TIE PER
SONS VOTED FOR IN SUCH ELEC-
TION) proceed 10 count and ascertain
the number OF votes cast for each per-
son voted for; and the tickets or bal.
lots shall be distinctly read.
Provided that no person other than the
Judges Of election shall handle the bal
lots. - Code Of Virginia Of 1878, page l6o
1t will hurt nobody to insist upon yotu
rights in this matter. No honest election
officer will object.