Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-10-14
GEORGE CASSIDY'S PORTRAIT (!
PAINTED FROM LIFE BY THE
"CHRONICLE" EDITOR.
His Mendaci0Us and Corrupt Career
Accurately Shown Up.

| tudied eulOgies of George Cassidy
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. 1t was under
these suspicious circumstances that on
! the Sd day of June, 1873, in the
columns of the Eureka Republican that
he produced this strong and Iife-like
portrait of George Cassidy, 1.-the
| braZen apostle of dishonesty,' rs fol-
| lows:
| 1t is pretty well 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. \ man who, if hon
est, might worthily fill the Office Of
Constable would naturally have his
head turned and his estimate Of his
own importance absurd;y exaggerated
if suddenly elevated to It high and hon
Orable position for which he was totally
al IF IL.
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 ward
wire pulIer-the cunning little plots by
which 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 OF 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 diStim pnishe ed act nf his Sen
atorIal career was the open reputation
of the pledges which secured his cleo
ton over his opponent who had the adj
vantage of being 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
modification, and on that pledge he was
elected. How shemelessIy he fore
swOre himself has not been forgotten.
with a foohardiness that shcwed an ig-
norance of even what ordinary honest
men consider decent, this person who
aspires to a seat in the House of Rep
rese natives not only broke his word,
but glorifed in it and coarsely sTeered !
at the voters who had elected him on |
his pledge by announcing his belief
that "platforms were only intended to |
feels some little shame when detected, |
and will attempt to excuse his dis
honesty. Not so with this man Cassidy |
who would go to Congress.
1t would be interesting to get at the
fellows private thoughts. There was
never rascal yet that did not consider
himself better than the average man.
Cassidy. too. who for money broke his
pledged word, and who forgot that he
was dull, ignorant, gross and vain, had
the audacity to attempt to brazen out of
his villainy, doubtless in his heart fiat
ters himself that he is no more than
others, and that the people like himself,
are dead to feelings of homer and de-
,ency. Congress, indeed! A fine rep
resentative IN the halls of the nation,
ruly VIGOROUSLY corrupt, living on
he fruits of shameful political bargains,
lensely ignorant, vain, co1ase, narrow,
willing to sell his vote to the highest
bidder, and caring no more for what
lecent men hold sacred than q common
'trumpet cares for the principles which
guide a chaste woman, and quite as
lead to shame. We would not insult
he people Of Nevada for an instant by
the possibility that such a
nan could be sent to Congress from this
state. 1t is the colossal vanity and
assurance of the man that earns this