The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-03-19
TONOPAH EDITOR
JUMPS ON SENATE

The Tonopah Bonanza took a good
mans size jump on the Nevada senate
the other day for refusing to remove
Judge Langan from his official po-
sition. The Bonanza editorial fol-
lows:
That the members of the Nevada
senate who voted to acquit Judge
Langan of Irregularities in his Of
flee of district Judge, voted to up
hold crime. is upon the tongues of
vada. Senators Ducey and Miller of
southern Nevada are being soundly
denounced by their constituents,
they knowing that the administra-
ton of the defunct State Bank &
Trust company affairs as handled
by Judge Langan and Receiver Frank
Wildes is nauseating In the extreme
so nauseating that 1t stinks-and
on the face of this fact. they voted
to uphold a man who should have
been kicked out of his office, and
not removed by legal procedure, and
he, with Wiides, should have been
exiled to some unknown isle. where
only poisonous and Shiny creatures
crawl, and where the pair might exc
out an existence of misery and do
harm to none but themselves, and
their final passing into hell would
be unwept, even by the Shiny crea-
lures.
The senators who voted to uphold
Judge Langan should hide their
faces for shame. for by their votes
they have brought disgrace to the
judicial bench of the state of Ne
vada, and have heralded broadcast
over the land that Nevada is rot
ten borough"
On the face of the evidence, Ian
gan, with his poodle, Wildes, were
guilty, and the vote for removal of
the Judge should have been unani-
nous had each senator lived up to
the oath of his office. The same
can be said of the seven members
of the assembly who voted to up
hold Langan. They send forgers,
murederers and bootleggers for COM
hitting crimes and allow gentlemen
judges to carry on nefarious and un-
lawful doings. The action of the
senators who voted to calm poor
Judge Langans feelings. as the mans
conscience had smote him and he
was almost physical wreck. is not
surprising, If our readers will stop
and ponder for a moment. Many
nasty. but true words are being
spoken of them. Better abolish the
state legislature. II crime is to be
condoned by some of its members
or, better still. impeach or unseat
members who would throw their
moral obligations to the four winds.
Even the sob" scene was intro
duced in behalf of Judge Langan
by Senator Harrington of Ormsby
county. 1t was declared that Ian
gan was a physical wreck, and his
friends held grave fears as to the
outcome. Better it would be had
I.angan solved the great mystery
for the world would be better OIL
with him out Of 1t.
1t is said that Senator Miller, OF
Mineral county. is one OF Receiver
Frank Wildes' bondsmen. II such
is the case. In all decency he should
have passed his vote. He well knew
of the sufferings of many depositors
of the State Bank & Trust company
caused by the closing of It's doors
and with the evidence adduced al
the joint hearing, he should have
stated that he believed the jurist to
be guilty, but would pass his vote.
May the ghosts of the dead de-
positors of the State Bank & Trus
company appear each night at the
bedside of Langan and Wildes, ant
upbraid them for their actions II
the defunct bank case.
Senator Ducey, of Esmeralda, II
being damned by many of his con
stituents, and all of the depositor
who lost their lifelong savings II
one or the other of the chain o
banks operated by old Tom Hickey
who skipped to California and woul'
not return to Nevada. knowing tina
some deposition would kill him. an
who died. q few months ago. and !