The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-07
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rights of white labor and the organ Of the
anti Chinese associations in Nevada, was re-
moved to Elko, five or six weeks ago, where
it has since been published under the name Of
the Elko Independent. The publishers Of the
Register carried with them to Elko their en-
tire stock Of Democracy and prejudice against
cheap labor; but they have become politically
demoralized. Railroad influences, and con-
tact with classes of people seldom met with in
the wilds Of the Humboldt, have done the
work.-Tsritoridl Enterprise. .. ..|
1t would tax the inventive powers Of Dick
ems, Hugo, or Eugene Sue, to originate and
cram into dozen lines a greater number Of
reckless fctions than are contained in the
above extract. The Enterprise has long been
regarded by all candid men, familiar with its
political course, as the most unfair and I'M
scrupulous journal on the coast-a journal
that would unblushingly fathom any depth of
political infamy to gain an unfair advantage
over political adversary; and hence, know
ing it intimately and well, we are not in the
least surprised at the wanton and vicious per-
version of facts in regard to the past and pres
ent political course of this journal contained
in the above.
The statement that the Humboldt Register
and Workingmen's Advocate was at any time
a Democratic paper while sailing under that
title, contains no single word of truth, and
none know it better than the Enterprise. On
the contrary, it claimed TO be, and was,
Grant organ, edited and controlled by
Republican, whose anti-slavery principles were
of much older date than is the Republicanism
of the editor of the Enterprise. The editor of
| the Workingmen's Advocate was a warm and
staunch supporter of Republican principles
when the editor of the Enterprise was shout
ing hosannas in honor of such stout defenders
of Southern institutions as Buchanan and
Breckenridge, ct id genus on,ne; and, unlike
the Enterprise man, he still adheres to his
principles of ten years ago. So much, then,
for the Democracy of the Workingmen's Adj
vocate while in Unionville; and as il was con-
tinued under the same management for the
first four weeks it was published in Elko, the
reader will readily understand just how much
Democracy it carried with it when it went
from Unionville to Elko. After an existence
of four weeks at the latter place as an indie
pendent paper, with Republican leanings, it
passed into the hands of its present proprie-
tors, who were at no time, in any way what
ever, connected with the Workingmen's Adj
yocate, and in no way responsible for the
opinions of that journal. Farther on, in the
same article from which we have quoted above,
this language appears: "All this has been
done in the name of the Democratic party,
and, strange to relate, the late publishers of
the Humboldt Register and Workingmcn's Adj
vocate, who npplauded the mob while driving
the Chinese from Unionville, are opposed to
it." Here again the attempt is broadly made
TO confound the publishers of the Working
mems Advocate with the present proprietors
of this journal, and thereby make it appear
that marvellous change has come over the
| spirit of their Dreams when nothing could be
further from the truth. The editors Of this
paper have never defended the mobbing of
Chinese in Unionville, or elsewhere, as they
do not belong to the higher-law school of poll
teal thinkers, who would convince unyieding
adversaries that their faith is orthodox by ap-
postolic blows and knocks. The present ed
itors of this paper are now, and always have
been, opposed to mob violence in every con-
ceivable form. We are opposed to mob vio-
lence to-day, when practiced against unoffend-
ing Chinese inhabitants; we were opposed TO
the spirit Of mob violence which pervaded the
land for the last eight or nine years, when di-
rected against unoffending Democrats in the
North who could not agree in political senti-
ment with the majority by whom they were
surrounded, and we we're equally opposed TO
that spirit of persecution a few years earlier,
which took delight in mobing the then hated
Abolitionists. We belong emphatically to the
party Of Law and Order" where We nay be
found at our post at oil times and under all
circumstances. but we are not certain that ns
much can be said for the editor Of the Enter
prise, who, from 1850 TO 1860, belonged to the
} pro-slavery, Abolition-mobbing wing of the
unterrifed Democracy, and from 1860 to 1869
played the part of panderor and henchman
TO the ''blood-hounds of Zion," whose bgotry,
violence and Incorporate zeal plunged the
country into all manner of bloody excuses for
the last eight years.
Upon the looming problem Of Chinese emf
grafton and future citizenship, wo stand to-
day just where We have always stood, so far
as judgment and principle are concerned. We
believe now, Ms we always have believed, that
this Government was originally designed by
its founders as government 10 DO admins
tered by white men, for tho benefit Of whit,
men and their descendants forever, and tha