The Nevada journal., 1856-10-24

States prior to the election. The pre-
diction was that Honest John Bigler
would make his advent among US on the
eve OF election freighted with such doc
uments to prove Buchanan sound on the
railroad question spite the Cincinnati
Platform. The prophecy has been full
filed in different shape, though the
effect and intent is the same.
Were the Democrats men of reading
and reflection, it were possible to give
them some work to do, to reconcile the
apparent inconsistencies in the course of
their candidate for the Presidency. But
as they are bound to go anything blind
to which the name of Democracy is at
tached, it is probable that the clearest
conviction of double dealing on his part
will have no effect on the minds of that
stripe of men who are bound up in party
so strongly that Satan himself would be-
cordially supported if he could show the
totem of the locofoco tribe on his breast
Yet it is strange that reading men
and journalists, too, will publish the
letter of Buchanan to B. F. Washington,
and laud it as an excellent document.
They must be cognizant of the fact
that Buchanan has declared he was no
longer himself but the Democratic plat
form-that he could add no plank to
the platform, nor take one away. There
is no railroad plank in the Cincinnati
platform, and why does James Buchan-
an add one for California on the eve of
| the election Either he never made
the speech imputed to him and published
in Democratic prints as orthodox, he
never wrote the letter to Washington, or
he is most infamous trickster and un-
worthy the suffrages of every honest
| man.
Buchanan is the favorite of Henry A.
Wise, who is death on the railroad and
understands his candidate to be the same.
He was nominated by Virginia, and ac-
cording to Mr.. Brent, the price of the
vote of the Old Dominion was hostility
to the railroad. The South understands
him to be sound upon the question:
Buchanan himself knows that should he
openly profess himself ia favor of the
great work he would be as openly re-
pudiated by the South. If he is an hon
oraole man he wa not by his own in
strumentality occupy a double position,
which if his Washington letter be true,
he is reocuring for himself The loco
focos can take either horn of the dilemma.
That he is adding a plank to the plat
form, or least expressing opinions upon
constitutional question on which the
South is already committed adverse to
the sentiments of the Washington letter,
Buchanan well knows. lie knows that
public avowa' of such opinions would
slaughter him among his now most de-
voted political friends. Yet, here is a
letter over his signature evidently de-
signed for a California market, and
coming so late that no i'll effects can
accrue from it in the anti-railroad States.
Is it not suspicious?
There are men of excellent Judgment
who are thoroughly convinced that the
letter is base and infamous forgery
They believe Buchanan man of honor,
and consequently no such electioneering
trick would be resorted to by him. But
they cannot have taken into considera-
ton his past history. His snaky course
in the bargain and sale" slander de-
fines the character of the man, and no
further evidence is wanted. But the
damnable fraud he perpetrated on Mr..
Clay, in Pennsylvania, in 1914, is addi-
tional testimony that he is given to low
trickery and cunning to which no up
right man will stoop. Indeed, his repu-
tation in this respect is so we'll estab-
lished that hundreds of men who despise
the administration of Pierce and its en-
dorsement by the Cincinnati platform,
will vote for him for the sole reason that
they believe he will prove treacherous
to the principles he is pledged in the
platform to carry out. They look back
upon the pledges and promises of Frank
lin Pierce, by which he obtained the
Presidential chair-all violated in one
short year. Is James Buchanan more
reliable man than he wasa No! ON
the contrary, less to be trusted Pierce.
it is true, had tainted and fallen from his
horse in Mexico, but no one supposed he
| would weaken in the fu1fllment of his