Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-04-10
OBSCURE RAWLINGS.

An obscure sheet, by courtesy termed news
paper, that issues from Manhattan almost week
y, its juvenile edtor-also obscure-and its
equally obscure Tonopah correspondent, turn
loose and belch forth against the Bonanza, in
recent issue, making of their rawlings the lead
ing news article Of the sheet. Well. well!
Although we have but little time to bother
with the remarks that appeal to us as the
Snappngs Of a toydog to mastif we must
of necessity, give some trihing attention to the
wild bleatngs
AS an example, the weekly carried through
its ramblngs dark hint that sometime maybe
not far distant, through its efforts, Nye county
will be divided as has been Esmeralda To
this we will give closest attention at a
later date and only remark upon it at this
point to call attention to the youthful aSSinity of
the budding editor.
The Bonanza some days ago, commenting
on the high-handed tactics that had been adopt
ed by the board of county commissioners upon
the advice Of the district attorney in the trans
fer Of the county printing contract stated that it
was not according to Blackstone" The editor
of the ''sheet' in the blushing simplicity of
youth, takes exception to this remark, and as his
authority, mentions that the district attorney is
mot novice in the law-dspensng business.
Possibly no! But greater men than the district
attorney have erred in their Interpretation of
Mr.. Blackstone and of the laws Of the several
states The district attorney may be invaluable
but we never heard Of but man who could
boast of that perfection. We wish to reiterate
that we, in our humble opinion, do not consider
that it according to Blackstone"
The boy editor says ''Now, to have such
representative paper the Bonanza say that
about us is humliating to say the least" Scath-
ing sarcasm this might be called, but for the
fact that later he intmates that the Bonanza
articles certainly did hurt, inasmuch as it
made the statement that his paper was but
little read. He apparently realizes the truth
fulnesS of this statement And we wish to re-
peat that it is opinion that the people of Nye
county are virtually being robbed, when coun-
ty advertising is handled by an obscure week
ly 1t might just well cease advertising
Anent the remarks of the Tonopah CORE
spondent Of the Manhattan Sunbeam, edited by
the youth OF the sweet disposition After quoting
at some length the excerpts from the speech of
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in Reno few days
ago-which, by the way, had nothing whatever
to do with the Nye county printng-he ends
by saying 1.-THE district attorney has not lied
and he has not been tried and found wanting
The contract of Earle r. Clemens is assignable. :"
This contention is eXcuSable. naSmuch as the
SAID district attorney was a party to the sharp
practice by which the trick was turned The
county commissioners not having the common
decency to wait until the dead member had
been buried and his successor had taken his
seat before they, acting upon the advice of the
honorable district attorney switched contract
that had been taken in competition and for
the fulfment of which bond has been given.
The attempted apology for the action of the
district attorney is to be commended, but never
theless it is ll-advised. 1t would have been
much better to have let the dead past bury
its dead. However, with few more years upon
his shoulders the young gentleman, sometimes
called "editor," will probably amass trihe
more experience At least we trust that such
will be the case