The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1909-08-21

men by O close vote aud went to the /
acting mayor. MCGOWAN. for his sig
nature. the law providing that In the
absence from the city of the mayor
the president Of the board OF aldermen
shall become acting mayor. MCGOWAN
ordered q public hearing on the meas |
ure for a certain future day. The day |
arrived. bat MCGOWAN did not con-
duct the hearing. Something else ar
rived al the same time. that some
thing else being the actual mayor.
George B. Mcclellan. Acting Mayor
MCGOWAN did not even attend the
hearing he himself had called.
II appears that Mcclellan, away
back In the Adirondack woods. far
from telegrapns. railroads and news
papers. still got word of what had
happened and. in ride almost as
sensational as that of Vice President
Theodore Roosevelt down Mount Mar
cy in the same region, the chief execu-
tive OF our biggest city broke out of
the brush and took the next train for
New York Everybody knows what
happened The hearing was held and
the bill was vetoed When the rail-
reading process was started to get
the code through during the mid
summer vacation II appears that in
some mysterious manner provision
was jimmied in that the measure
should go into effect at once. The
mayor had only Intended to kill part
of the code, but that extra artistic
touch decided him to kill IT all.
The most surprising thing about this
whole affair is that Mcclellan should
have done so meritorious an act. No
body expected it. How could they?
4 Here are two good deeds Mcclellan
has performed in the last few weeks
the firing of Bingham and the veto of
this hollow tile building code. The
day of pleasant surprises Is not past.
There is hope for the world If Nc
Clellan can rise to such heights of
virtue there is nobody so far gone that
he cannot be reclaimed. These two
| things: Either that the millennium is
coming when everybody will be good,
or--with especial emphasis on the
"or"--George b. Mcclellan is a candi-
date for reelection. And here is the
amusing part of it. Everybody in
New York thinks 1t is because his
honor wants another term. Nor does
that imply that they are cynics. It
only implies that they are acquainted
with Mcclellan.
1t is like Eugene Fields boy Bill,
who lest fore Christmas was as good
as he could be- Just before election
politician IL MISC good. ri may sound
uncharitablc to ascribe such motives
to our honorable mayor, but we who
have lived under his government can
naturally be excused from believing in
his sudden conversion to saiatship.
And to bear out our Interpretation a
Mcclellan boom for mayor is just now
being started This may all be coin
cidence, of course, but we who live in
/, the immediate vicinity have sus-
picion that IL the face Of the coinci-
dence could be seen 1t would look sur
prisingly like that Of Pat McCarren.
; McCarren wants to get even with
Murphy also to prevent the nomina-
ton of Judge Gaynor, also to serve
, certain other private and political ends
b all of which could be accomplished by
the veto of this code bill and the re.
nomination of Mcclellan. So do moi
$ be surprised If Little Mac" becomes
t factor In the present fight.
Recurring to Gaynor, the Tammany
candidacy of that gentleman has taker
trifie more definite form. Dan Coha
lan-the same Sachem Cohalan of tn,
hollow tiles--recently visited thu
Brooklyn justice, so runs the story
and offered him the nomination. Thu
reply Of the justice is not known. Ont
significant fact about 1t all Is tina
Gaynor intended to go to Europe an(
announcement was made Of that fact
e but for some reason he changed bill
: mind. OF course, Cohalan denies tn
i interview, but the World, the Pres
: and other papers state with greater O
q less positiveness that the tender wa
It made. Is it possible that the frame-ul
!, Is to be Murphy Gaynor combination
$ against a McClellan-McCarre comb
v nation? That is the way some keel
Y observers size up the situation, and
4 admit that the suggestion is at leas
n interesting. Personally l do not be
e lteve, however, that Gaynor will &C
II cept a Tammany nomination, an
l. imagine that Murphy's candidate wi
u be some man like Justice Bowling.
Coroner julius Hamburger, who ha
IS been In Office SO long that nobOd