Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-26

No Man IN Quite Ws Black as He 10
Painted.

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Painted.
Somebody has said that no man 10 as
black as he is painted. The idea is strik-
ing and very suggestive. II anybody starts
to go down there are few but will vol
unteer their help to land him at the bot
tom Of the incline. All the world 10 on
top Of old Bill Sharon just now, and he
has been on top Of a good many himself.
They say that in San Francisco the people
never get tired Of reading about his law
suit with Miss Hill, because they are for
ever on the qui vive for the shots he gets
in the courthouse, to which ingenious re-
porters add the popular spice. Still there
are those who have q spark OF feeling for
the under dog in any fight, and that is
about the way we happen to feel at this
moment on reading q paragraph about
Mr.. Sharon in the Wasp. We have never
had the distinction Of a dozen words with
our ex-senator. but we have felt pretty
well acquainted with him nevertheless.
Why he was elected to represent this COM
monwealth in the Upper House of the Ma
tional Legislature is not q secret. 1t was
less his fault that he occupied q false posi-
ton in Washington and became q laugh
ing stock in consequence than of those
who allowed themselves TO be made ridicu-
lous by his preferment. There is b piece
of unwritten history about Sharon's
Senatorial campaign which embodies
Q good deal about him and about the
ways in which we have mot chosen
| our United States Senators. He had
an interview with one of his manip-
| ulators who said to him: "Mr. Sharon,
you are not popular in that section of the
State. The sentiment there 10 decidedly
agaist you" That's all right" was Mr..
| Sharon's fejoinder, Ego there and manu-
| f~acture' it for me-" And we ave no
| doubt that the old man would ''manufac-
ture'' q verdict for himself in defense
against Sarah Althes ss he in effect, manu-
featured his certificate of election to the
Senate. But, after all, dear, candid
reader, how much worse is he than
you or l would be-in case (the sug-
geetion causes us q sense OF self-con-
fessed meanness) we should ever get
into such . scrape with an adventures,
or ever strike q bonanza and be willing to
spend 1t for Q seat in the United States
Senate? Neither you nor I, being, OF
course, pure at heart and poor in purse,
are ever likely to be SO advertised as a
domestic plague or public calamity. But
to the shading Of the dark outlines. Those
who know ex-senator Sharon intimately
and closely say he Is q man Of his word.
This excludes stocks, in which every man
is Q robber. They say that il he tells you
that he will do so and 30 you may depend
upon him and risk your life on his re-
membering the obligation. They say that
be is personally one man among q thou
sand to tie to. While others occupying
his place of prominence and power never
tell their best friends the truth if a lie is
more convenient or useful, they say his
word is gold. Now, if this be true, and we
believe il is, Sharon Is Q better man than
perhaps, nearly all the rest Of the crowd
that, along with him, have run San Fran
cisco and Nevada for years, ever since this
State had the misfortune to be considered
Of political importance and was.
hence, deprived of her advantage
Of continuing as a Territory. Better
thar those who lay the iattering junction
to their souls that he is the only william
that can be cast for melo-dramatic ex
posture. Yes, better, wen venture, than
the Wasp man who runs his poison sting
into Sharon's wrinkled cuticle thuswise
because venom is the inspiration and the
cheapest product Of his brain-to forege
the possible intimation OF blood-money
or blackmail:
In his progress to the grave that hi
vices have dug for his memory, the de
PENDANT in his lurid litigation "drags a
each remove a lengthening chain" o.
odium, whose every added link is q new
kind OF infamy. We need not seek in the
disclosures Of this trial for the incidents
OF q life that has long been part OF loca
history. His vast wealth was acquired by
manipulation Of Stocks" that softenee
name for crime by which falsehood in
structing credulity enables avarice to brim
its Golfers from the lank purses that thrift
has given to folly. Through the swiftei
destruction of an equal greed and a di
reoter method, this repulsive old man sue
ceeded to the ownership of q hotel al
large % his lust and as ugly as his life
Here he ministered to the needs OF the
public and his own observation-disclosures
for man and beast.