Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-07-07
IN DEFENSE OF THE MINT.
Only one Paper in California Does
it Justice.

The last issue of the News Lette
: has the following:
A dispatch received from Carson
during the week stated that Inspect
ors Whitehead and Leech, from
Washington, had inspected the U. S
Mint in that city on.charges made BY
San Francisco mining men. They
, left for the east after reporting every
department in excellent condition,
with no discrepancies of any kind,
Superintendent Wright was highly
complimented on his general manage
ment. This is all the space given by
the local papers to an official announ-
cement branding as false, charges
which, when uttered in open court
were deemed worthy Of of loaded
columns with flare headlines. The
thieves of the Carson Mint, as they
were termed, were held up to public
scorn on every possible occasion, and
even the honorable Judge, before
whom the charges were made did not
deem it his duty to check the i'll
tempered and base insinuations,
which, from time TO time were made
against the integrity of the officers of
such an important national institu-
ton as the United States Mint. Peo~
pie unbiased by any feeling of dislike
to the defendants in the Hale and
Norcross case, who, unfortunately
for themselves are wealthy, naturally
ex ected that Judge Hebbard would
have referred in his decision to the
fact that, although sundry charges of
most serious character had been
made during the course of the trial,
that no attempt had been made to
prove them, thereby relieving the
gentlemen referred to Of the stigma
VIII ch rested upon them. But no; in
his Judgment he overlooked all this
beng guided solely in his dellbera
tions, apparently, BY the technical |
testimony Of ore sharps, who knew
is little about the subject uuder dis
cnssion as people generally do who
lose as experts.
The public was given full liberty to
take whatever stock it pleased III
stories about State Senator Williams
business with a United
States Mint by the aid of duplicate
keys, and smuggling the bullion bars
in a buggy along the highway of Ne
rada at the dead Of night. unknown
owners slapped in their deposits of
he untold millions surrepticiousIy
out OF tie treasures Of
he Comstock mining companies and
% on al nausiam. Clap trap of the
lind evidently stood in good stead
# shy tangible proofs offered in sup
,ort of charges against the mill men.
t gave sensational air to the pro-
eedings, assumed the gasping crowd
# ldlers in court room, while ser
ing to injure the political reputation
emporarily of a prominent and re-
pected citizen Of sister State. This
md Of business may find favor with I
ONE kind of people like everything |
lse, while the craze lasts, but cooler |
Judgment will prevail eventually,
hen the whole case will be reviewed a
ON the standpoint of common t
snse. i!
In the meantime the majority Of c
eople, both here and IN Nevada, d
no do not care continental
neither Hale & Norcross and it's b
illionaire judgment creditors in h
-ospectu were blottcd Off the map T
the globe tomorrow, will feel f
clined to congratulate Senator &C
'illiams, who had to stand the al
unit of the onslaught in Judge al
ebbard's court. that he has been al
quilted of most infamous charges s.
ter careful investigation by the 40
liberties at Washington. If he W
IS suffered for the time being, the id
suits of the verdict returned by the oe
perts who have just reported on w
e Carson Mint viii gain him to
ends even among those who were ell
rmerly enrolled under the banner 10
an alleged mining reform. Decent fe
ople all over the world recognize co
Q truth of the Shakesperian maxim
1T the theft of a good name is
lch more despicable than the theft
gold. 1t remains to be seen Fe
ether Mr.. Williams proposes to fol
.ept the vindication Of his charac- plt