Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-11-06
THE CHARGE AGkiNS T
MACK.
The Lyon County Times Rips
il TO Pieces.

Inc last issue OF the LyOi
county Times, the county wherl
, the charges against Mack origi'
mated, thus disposes of the whole
| affair:
The long looked for and much
talked about expose that Joe Dou.
glass and his nephew, William,
have been going to make to down
| G. Il. Mack, the Silver party nomi-
nee for District Judge in this dis
trict, has appeared. 1t IS in the
shape Of a decision rendered by
Ju dye Hawley in the case of j.
NJ. Douglass VS.. J. d. Byrnes, in
which G. r Mack was one of the
COmmi->ioners appointed to as
sess dan s:-es against plaintiff for
running Il tunnel through some
mining ground in Silver City.
The report of the Commissioners
was requested to be set aside be-
cause, as Mr.. Douglass explained
around here, Mr.. Mack was at the
| time he was a Commissioner in
the case was employed by defen-
| dants IN another case. Now let rs
see how that state ment compares
with the decision of Judge Haw-
ley. Here is what it says:
The fact is that this Commiss-
Toner, &C. L. Mack previous to
the time of his appointment, had
acted as an attorney for one of
the defendants, which was I'M
known to petitioners or their at
torGey or to the Court; but it at
Tentatively appears that said
| Commissioner was not regularly
employed for said defendant and
had only been specially retained
to try two cases in the Justices
| Court and that his employ ment
for, and business with the defen-
dant was ended and settled prior
tohis appointment as Commiss-
Toner"
| Notice that it Says previous 10
the time of his appointment he
had acted as attorney for one of
the defen ants. If there is an =
thing wrong about lawyer TAX
| ing a case for one party at one
| time and another party at another
| time there has been no decision
to that effect by any court in the
land. Mr.. Mack has built him
self into a lucrative law practice
by his upcightness in all cases he
has been engaged in. That he
ever did any underhanded work
in any case has yet to be proved,
for certainly this decision of
Judge Hawley's does not so prove.
The Commissioners were dis
charged because it appeared that
the damages were affixed at too
high a figure to suit j. NJ. Doug
lass; but we take it that any dam
| age at all would be too high to
suit. him, in sfact, his claim was
that no damaged had been done,
| and another set of commissioners
did award defendants damag. =.
If there is any irregularity in
anything done by c. E. Mack. as
shown by the decision of Judge
Haw,ey, we fail to see it. Mr..
Mack is a gentleman whom no
such methods as those being
brought forward to defeat him
will harm,in the least withiunprej-
udiced thinking men. He is not
a man for the corporations, there
fore they do not want him. H.
will not be purchasable by any
person if he is elected to preside on
the bench in this district, and the
taxpayers throughout the district
can rest assured that they will
have all Court business attended
to with regularity and in an i'm
partial manner, with no delays to
witnesses and iurymen, and
herewith extra expense, for him
to get into condition to transact
business. The charges against
Mr.. Mack are about the flat
test campaign literature that
has ever been brought to the sur
face in this fight, and they are
brought out at this late moment
so that what little damage they
may do cannot be refuted in the
outside districts.