Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-29
eureka Dailp 9entinel.
TRIALS.

into whose mouth q volume of lies was
inQeniously put, our Republican friends
nave lost no opportunity to set their
COURAGE" mill to grinding on whatever
thew have been able to find to pour into
the hopper. John Sherman, who was
chief among those who used Auntie
Pinkston and Jim Anderson, leaving
the latter hungering until death for his
share Of the spoils, and the former to end
her DAYS in q pauper house, is now play
ing the role Of jumping.jack in the
United States Senate part OF the
same melodramatic farce that has been
reset so many times ON the political stage
for the last twenty years. He is ever
rising to his feet, calling for his resolu.
ton to investigate the Danville out
rage" This part in the play John is to
~monopolize, and he is to act it out with
the best show of ea%rnestness and truth
possible. The longer he is on the boards
the better, if the country should have
to be spectators to his acting until the
middle Of July. He and his crowd would
be all the better pleased if the piece
could be run up to election day in No
vember. The Danville "horror" is all
they have just now for their mill. And
that mill must grind, however slowly,
even if, as is true, the most important
interests Of the country languish and go
to ruin for the lack, perhaps, OF proper
consideration in the National Legislature.
The fact that the merchant marine Of the
United States has been swept from the
high seas, and that u commerce exists
only as a thing Of the past, furnishes no
kernels for cracking in the mill. The
upper and neither stone receive no such
matter between them. This is no "out.
rage" ft to be pulverized and blown to
the four corners of the Republic through
subsidized telegraph corporations and q
partisan press. They deity keep this
and other such camels out OF sight for
the people to swallow at some future
time, while they strain at "horrors"
which assume important and prodigious
shapes in their minds only. That they
get toll out of what goes to their mill
there is no doubt, for the public is fond
of humbug, especially that part OF it
which is predisposed to be bilked. But
the mill is gradually losing the name for
fair dealing, q reputation for which some
persons have believed it entitled to. Its
double-dealing, trickery, fraud and cum.
ming are shown up always in time. For
instance, see the result of the investiga-
ton of the previously alleged election
''outrages" in the South, about which
they have howled so Justify, and o n
which the mill has ground so hard. The
notorious Judge Bond even, who is
known as a radical Republican. and
whose methods ON the bench in the cir
cult over which he presides has provoked
much criticism. has recently dismissed
the election cases in South Carolina as
having no foundation nor proper stand
ing in court.
These cases have been nursed with
special care by the so-called Department
of Justice. Not satisfied with the SER
vices Of the United States District At
torney on the spot, a lawyer OF ability
and eloquence and an extreme Republican
in politics, Brewster, Attorney General,
has employed no less than five special
assistant counsel to aid the prosecution:
Dallas Saunders of Pennsylvania was
paid 5000 a month and his expenses in
these cases. He began March 6, 1882,
and stopped recently.
w. w. Ker Of Philadelphia was ap-
pointed Jan. 81, 1882. with q retainer
of 1000 and expenses.
w. P. Snyder Of Pennsylvania was
appointed in February, 1883, at 5000 q
month. to aid the prosecution.
Benjamin Butterworth received a re-.
tainer of 81. o Nov. Is. 1883. Sin the
matter Of the prosecutions of violations
of the election laws pending in South
Carolina, but it does not appear that he
even went to that State or rendered any
service, except TO- draw the fee.
Emory Speer, present United States
District Attorney of Georgia, was en-
ployed as special assistant, but his fee isl
not yet reported.
ALI the cases failed before the juries
that tried them, and the others on the
docket were dismissed by Judge Bond.
From first to last, in all their parts, these
were political prosecutions and nothing
else. That fact was well known through
out the State and to the local District
Attorney.
Now that the trials are all over, and
there is no longer any use in conceal.
ment, revelations are made of an at.
tempted conspiracy in the Jury room to