Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-10-05
GEeEGS CASSlDY'S PORTRAIT !!
PAINTED FROM LIFE BY THE
uCHRONICLE" EDITOR.

CHRONICLE EDITOR.
His Mendacious and Corrupt Career
Accurately shown Up.
To-day men who read the Chronicles
studied eulogies of George Cassidy
wonder how a man who mas known
him SO well for years can deliberately
sit down and endorse him as fit rep
resentative for Congress. When the
present editor of the Chronicle lived in
Eureka he had the advantage of close
inspection of Cassidy from almost every
day contact with him. It was under
these suspicious circumstances that on
the Sd day of June, 1878, in the
columns of the Eureka Republican that
he produced this strong and life-like
portrait of George Cassidy, "the
brazen apostle of dishonesty" as fol-
lows:
1t is pretty we'll understood that
George w. Cassidy actually cherishes
hope that the people of Nevada will
send him to represent them in Con-
gress. 1t is not very surprising that
the man should entertain the idea.
The people have already sent him to
the State Senate. A man who, if hon
est, might worthily fill the Office of
;.,t
head turned and his estimate of his |
own importance absurd;y exaggerated /
if suddenly elevated to high and hon
orable position for which he was totally |
unified for lack Of brains, education,
manner and character. Mr.. Cassidy |
has had the misfortune to be thus
elated. His chief aim to political con-
sideration a, the hands of his party is
aptness in the small trickery of a ward
wire puller--the cunning little plots by
which a bar-room statesman fixes
estates" and trades and bargains for the
appointment of himself or friends for
deputyships in city or county offices or
to places on the police force. George
Cassidy's ideas Of craftsmanship have
never risen above this petty and dis
honest level, and he carried those ideas
with him into the Senate chamber.
The most distinguished act of his Sen
atGrial career was the open reputation
of the pledges which secured his eIec-
tion over his opponent who had tie adj
vantage of being a gentleman. The
main issue between Cassidy and the
gentleman was the modification of the
bullion tax. The gentleman believed
that the tax should be modified. Cas-
sidy gave his word of honor to the peo-
pie that his vote should be against any
and on that pledge he was
elected. How shamelessly he fore
swore himself has not been forgotten.
With foolhardiness that showed an ig-
torrance Of even what ordinary honest
nen consider decent, this person who
spires to a seat in the House of Rep
not only broke his word, i
nut glorifed in it and coarsely sneered
It the voters who had elected him on .
lis pledge by announcing his belief c
hat "platforms were only intended to \
'atch votes" A common thief usually d
eels some little shame when detected, !,
md will attempt to excuse his dis p
Not SO with this man Cassidy
Who would go to Congress.
It would be interesting to get at the 4
CLOVIS private thoughts. There was
lever rascal yet that did not consider I.
himself better than the average man. B
cassidy, too, who for money broke his 1
lodged word, and who forgot that he
vas dull, ignorant, gross and vain, had
he audacity to attempt to brazen out of
is villainy, doubtless in his heart flat
ers himself that he is no more than G
theirs, and that the people like himself,
re dead to feelings of honor and de
ency. Congress, indeed! A fine rep
sentative In the halls of the nation,
July u! VIGOROUSLY corrupt, living on
ne fruits of shameful political bargains, Fl
ensely ignorant, vain, corase, narrow,
filing to sell his vote to the highest
idder, and caring no more for what =,
ecent men hold sacred than 2 common |