Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-09
EDITORIAL COMMENT
THAW A DISGRACE TO MANHOOD.

The following is from the trenchant pen of Thieman. in the Denver
Men may be wicked, they may be immoral but all "a pity. all Jul
excuse fades when a man, however wicked or immoral he may have been,
ceases to be a man. What is a nan? He is a human being who endures
the gan; he is n who goes decently and with dignity to the galows,
If need be, for the sake of his secret or his ideals. And that is stn the
standard of American men and they regard as disgraeeful the weakening
Of this libel o n us an-this miserable Thaw of Pittsburg, who would
escape a killers death by the exploitation of the shame of the woman he
married.
The new OF this trial is being cabled all yer the civilized world.
Ard it is a disgrace to American manhood. OF all the cads and scoundrels
shat eve disgraced their country, tms Thaw is the worst! His
mfamy passes belief. No man could enjoy life bought a S he buys
IT, Evelyn is game. Dead game. She endures
the GAM But the man would let her do it! Faugh,
Evelyn Nesbtts letters from Paris ITO friends in New York enthusiast
hcany telling that she and Harry had found a 10 of the "Tenderlotn
bunch" over there and that they fell into the warm arms of New York
shady ladies" at every turn and they yer having great times together
showing the French jewellers what real revelry was like and putting no.
torfous Partisan Joints on "te blnk"-such letters tell the story.
Particularly 40 they tell the story with the illuminating circum-
stances of Harry Thaw and the girl writing Jointly how they truly stag
gered the Dead Rat" And. with a touch of sardonic humor,
Evelyn wrote that she bought Der les at dawn and cooked them in the
batItub. Nothing feeble about Evelyn in the line of revely,
or any other line of being dead game Her letters show.
and the whole story shows, that she was a most puissant factor in the
gntedge notorious life and that she gave those who staked their coin on
her a run for their money that really was worth while.
we're the supple sinews of a Tenderloin queen who at once a tireless
and brilliant and good-humored and patriotic, for she entered with zest
INTO showing notorious Paris that it was feeble when invaded by noto-
gam q q large scale and play her latest pat Of save q the life Of
the scion of notorious Pttsburg millions boldly and powerfully. and
District Attorney Jerome has an opponent worthy of his keen minds
best steel when he assais her role of the broken child wife" who ex-
PLAINS that all this was because she had been taught that no woman was
chaste and she knew no better until good and loyal Harry Thaw e-
planned Il her the true etchics of female virtue in the "Dead Rat" in
Paris. Since then Harry Thaw foorshly killed a man. but
Evelyn is IS game now as when she put the Dead Rat" o the blink
and she stands courageousiy As the broken child wife, as the child vic
rim of rich mems Righteousness, who at last encountering the love of a
big, brave, honest supplemented hero, suddenly discovered her own true
heart and learned that she had been very. very wicked-so wicked, in
deed. that, being inherently noble herself and with a real red heart
under the lavender she refused to link her soed life with his as his
wife. This picture, presented in a celebrated trial in New
York, was planned by a master hand and would be great and conyinc-
ing and good except for the gaping flaw of this noble and beautiful
incident happening in juxtaposition with the Dead Rat" in Paris and
chat the supplemented hero and the weeping heroine filled with alb
s1nthe celebrated the discovery Of virtue by cooking berries-bought at
holy dawn from decent peasants-in their bathtub. Invig-
Grated by this purifying experience, Harry Thaw returned to New York
to clear the moral atmosphere by shedding the blood of Stanford White.
thereby defending the sacredness of the American family and the virtue
of American wives.
Our editorial comment has been that this Thaw case is a Tender
TMn tragedy. Evelyn Nesbi was a peach of the Tenderlon
"a. A gnded peach with tiger sr fpngs and claws. Stan
ford White "a a great a with a weakness OF the Tenderlon side
There are others In defense of America genius,
District Attorney Jerome is showing that Stanford White, while doubt
less immoral was not a monster, but a man who sinned. The
broad issue is that, to save the life of a brutaly rich fool, who COM
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