Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-02
wAR TO THE KNIFE.
Senator Jones and GEN. CIarke I'm.
gagged i'm Bitter Personal Warfare

Jones and Gem. Clarke En-
gagged i'm Bitter Personal Warfare.
ESPECIAL TO TIE SENTINEL
CARSON, Nov. 1.-Since the delivery of
Senator Jones speech at Reno Wednesday
and Carson Thursday evening there has
been great revulsion OF public sentiment
in all Western Nevada. His utter failure
to answer or to explain the criticisms of
Gen. Clarke upon his (Jones') conduct and
record touching the Central Pacific Rail-
road and the Huntington letters, together
| with his failure in the Senate TO obey the
instructions OF the Legislature Of Nevada
upon the Regain bill, and his brutal and
contemplate attack upon Clsrke's char
acter, cost the Republican Legislature
| ticket in Western Nevada hundreds of
votes. Gen. Clarke spoke here last night
to one of the largest aud most enthusiastic
audiences Of ladies and gentlemen ever
assembled in this city. When he came
upon the stage the applause was long and
loud. The General in dealing with Jones
public acts, and these only, scrupulously
avoiding personalities, succeeded in burn
ing Jones to a cinder to the satisfaction of
the large and enthusiastic audience.
Dem. STATE CENTRAL Con-.
In order that this dispatch may be
fully understood. it ia necessary to state
for explanation, that Gen. Il. M. Clarke,
an eminent and well-known lawyer of Car
son City, was nominated on what is known
as the ormsby County Fusion ticket for
the State Senate. His opponent is Evan
Williams. who has the reputation Of being
a fatr and aIfuthla MAJ, for tha V1aaa D-k
Gen. Clarke took the stump and opened a
broad-side upon him as Mr.. Jones' candi-
date, and he went, also, directly after the
scalp OF Mr.. Jones himself, with his char
acteristic vigor and bitterness. Gen.
Clarke is a powerful public speaker and
his words burn. The dispatch indicates
the nature Of his inyectiye. He dwelt
with particular tartness upon the alleged
implication of Senator Jones with G.. p.
Huntington in railroad jobbery in Con-
gress as Brought out by the celebrated
Huntington Letters" produced in the
Cotton trial at SantaRosa, Cal. While Gen.
Clarke was making these speeches in the
western part Of the State, Mr.. Jones was
out in Eastern Nevada. He returned to
Reno determined to burn his antagonist
up. AT that point before a grand aud
fence he started in to 20 for the Generals
scalp. We have a report Of his speech
before us in the Reno Journal. Our
readers would be surprised we're they to
read ii, to find in Mr.. Jones a man so
bitter aud so caustic Of speech; for
hitherto he has been noted on the stump
for his conservative tone and his courteous
expression. His attack upon Gen. Clarke
at Reno and repeated at Carson, was to the
last degree personal. He painted Gen.
Clarke as Il " lecherous masher," a social
leper, and all those other horrid things OF
the sort, and more pointed illusions to the
Generals recent alleged intimacy with
Mrs. Trenmor Coffin, Of Carson, which
| allegation was one of the grounds ad-
vanced by her husband in his plea for
divorce. This statement will serve in q
faint way to show what has led to the war
to the knife between Senator Jones and
Gen. Clarke. 1t is to be regretted on
account Of both these gentlemen that their
| fight has assumed such a character. We
have rather to congratulate ourselves that
out here in the Great East there is no such
personal heat in our politics. Let us con-
| tinue to deal solely with material and i'm
personal concerns. Let Us all possess our
| souls in peace, for the agony will be over
next Tuesday evening. The country will
still be habitsble whichever way the cleo
ton goes. ED SENTINEL.