The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-08-03
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d.y evening last. on the subjects OF his stew
srdship and the issues Of the coming campaign.
The effort was the poorest we have ever known
Mr.. Fitch to make. However. for specious
reasoning, transparent sophistry. utter disre-
gard of truth and Misrepresentation Of recorded
facts, we have never known its equal lie
opened by saying that he came. in obedience
10 a custom, to tell as "what he had done aud
why he had done it," and fulfilled this promise
by saying that he was not the owner of any
building lot or brownstone front or other build.
ing in Washington, and that he introduced the
bill for q railroad to the Colorado at the re-
quest of some of his constituents, and that
when he learned the people here were opposed
to the bill. he withdrew It. This explanation
was all well enough-so far as il went. But
he did not tell US about sending bill here to
be Endorsed by the people, and pending their
action on that bill TO which there was no Oh
lection save in grant Of tine) his Withdrawal
Of it and introduction Of that other bill which
the people Of White Pine in mass meeting
unanimously denounced rs pa Stupendia ts
fraud" bill granting every alternate mile
across an area ninety miles wide and over four
hundred miles long--i,lciuding all mineral lands
and mines now claimed but not covered by the
Government patent-which would have gwen
one-half OF all the mines in the thirty-odd
rich mineral districts Of Southeastern Nevada
to railroad corporatiou-or. in other words,
10 the Bank Of California. This second bill
this "stupendous fraud" AIR. Fitch did not
deign to mention. He alluded casually tu his
part lin the ''dramn burlesque would have been
betterl Of Federal legislation and added
that the duty of the Forty-trst Congress was
to reduce taxation without enttiling political
DISASTER; which may be Interpreted, The
people must pay heavy taxes, if necessary to
keep the Radical party in power" In pro.
nouncing, in the middle OF a sentence the
nN mt Mr. ai,h 4
Of pathos into his tone and then hesitated for
the applause TO come in--but not leaf stirred
The speaker congratulated the people TINT
negro suffrage, for one thing, was no longer
before them; he might have forgotten that il
never was before them, as a Radical Congress-
forced II down their thrOats. He said that the
Fifteenth Amendment had disbanded the Ru-
kluI Khan; his co-laborers, the scHlawnps and
carpet baggers III the South fud every grove,
filled with them-wheneyer an election an
Proaches. He ELECTED some applause by call.
ing Napoleon an intcrloper. Fitch Expressed
in feeling language his deep obligation TO the
people of Nevada for sending him To Congress
as that act had wiped out all previous stains
upon his character" ISLANDERS" he termed
them. He claimed the Radical party had "A
clear record and an honorable past, but he did |
not care to look upon the picture. and would |
rather make the coming fight with an eve sim |
gle to the future, and would like 10 have the |
Democrats do the same. He was here an |
preaching the Chinese question. and the Rad |
ical record was very troublesome.) 1t was |
painful to hear Mr.. Fitch when he preached |
the Chinese question: il wRsdistressing TO see |
a man known TO be brilliant and eloqueut |
speaker laundering about and catching at |
straws, hesitating apparently which shore TO /
strike fOr--and we could but wish that for the |
moment, he would throw aside his dissimula-
non, abandon the new policy" shoulder |
the principles of his party and his own life /
% ne IN ma H.,
burst Of impassiOned elOquence on The "uni-
versai fatherhood Of God and universal broth
oThood of man." such as only Fitch could
give, and such rs Fitch cOuld give only on that
side OF the question. He said hc was in favor
OF citizen Chinese citizcn?) labor and opposed |
Co further importation Of SLIUe labor; enumer-
Med those Republican Senators who had on |
posed it, including Wilson, Of Massachusetts,
whose continuance in Office depends upon his |
compliance with the wishes Of his constituents |
who haze recently been powerfully stirred up /
by the introduction of Chinese shocnakcrs
Mr. Fitch, like the Radical papers, admitted |
that this opposition was not from principle bnt |
from policy, aud gave no intimation as To when |
II would cease. He said: II nm for nv coun- !
try and her citizens. am for my race quite |
great change. to he sure since we last heard |
MIN speak. He was opposed to the introduc- |
ton OF any more Coolies; yet proposed no |
remedy, aud admitted that the contract system |
could not DO reached nor disturbed by law. |
After speaking some time on the Democratic /
side oil the question. opposing Chinese inmi- !
grafton in the abstract. Mr. Fitch fioundcred |
over to his own side. aud said 1.-THE iuiouity |
is not so much that Tie Chinese coDe here - but |
that they undersCil the labor market when they
arrive. lie justly characterized the tendeucy
and spirit of the Republican party IN regard |
10 this unfinished work of mOnerelizng our |
government, as Philanthropy run mad
Christianity gone 10 seed" lie said when
asked II "our (Rcpublicanl fundamental doc
time OF the equality OF all men did hot in |
clude Cbinamen." lac would sny no. but gave |
no reasons which might not with equal or even |
greater force he urged against the negro He |
expressed his belief in tho capacity of his own |
race, which is also a new. born fnith-born of |
negro equality. But the most significant e.. |
preston forcshadowing the Implicitly of Fitch |
ana tho Radical leaders, was c0uched in these |
words: 81 Tor we) don't want TO opprcss this |
people, but would not invite them TO come-ns |
COOLIES = During the continuance of the at !
Jack OF blind. staggers. with which Mr.. Fitch |
q peared to DO .nIIlicted while upon the subject
Oh chinese immigration. he never once re. |
iietred to the great barrier which Is nj once |
lnsnrmonntable by and incompatible with any |
ahu MI legislation designed TO check Chinese |
iinnigration--tbe Bnrlingnmo treaty. He |
incidentally alluded. nj one time. 10 provision |
ohered by Democrats in the Senate bending /
Ine manipulation of the treaty, denying Chi |
namen the right of naturiiZation--which pro- |
VISION. MIR. Fitch said, was defeated by Re. |
publican votes. His whole speech on The,
Sh'neso question was wild, shamblipp, point
less, contradictory aud unsatisfactory, aud So