The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-10-23
JOHN p. JONES' SPEECH IN THE
CARSON THEATER.
Enthusiastic Meeting.

who goes into polltlcal canvass Win a
set speech Gas all, or nearly all speakers
do) to report him too fully; but in order
to be provided with sufficient data of our
own to enable us to comment upon the
principal features Of Mr.. John 2. Jones
address of Monday night we are con-
strained to make Use of the following
rather full report, even at the risk of re-
peating, in substance what has heretofore
appeared in the Enterprise AS IL synopsis
OF that gentleman's speech ut Virginia
City:
Mr. Jones began his speech by abiding
to the fact that his nallie had been before
the people for more than one year and
for that reason, if for no other, he felt
constrained to speak his mini and pur-
poses concerning the great issues of the
day Abiding to the Presidential can
vass the speaker told his audience some
thing Of the history and surroundings of
the Philadelphia convention, the nature
and constituent parts of which he des-
cribed with much force and eloquence;
his argument, SO to speak, leading up to
the prime and overwhelming necessity
for nominating General Grant to sec
ond term in the Presidential Office. In
this connection he took occasion to de-
nounce the kuklu1 assassins of the South
and reiterate the necessity of Grants con-
tInuance in power. He also paid a de-
served tribute to Henry Wiison-alludlng
to his humble origin and glorying in and
declaring himself proud of the institu-
tons which render possible the elevation
of such man 10 high position; and fol-
lowing this, although the gentleman had
said in the outset of his speech that he
had no flowers of rhetoric to spread forth.
he treated his hearers to some very fervii
sentences in portrayal of the glorles of
the nation rs reconstructed and restored.
Of the present attitude of the Postum
Democracy Mr.. Jones said that it had
come mp in mass, pretending to have I'M
dergone baptism in the falth of Republic
canlsm and made believe to have swal-
lowed the principles which it had for
years repudiated- principles embod-
led in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments. He declared
that whomsoever might lead the Repub-
lican party to victory he would always be
faithful soldier in the ranks. OF the
Dolly Vardens" of Ormsby county the
speaker declined to speak i'll terms of i'll
dividual denunciation although Jas he
owned) he had been advised to do so.
He claimed that his Republicanism was
too well established to make it necessary
for him to denounce these parties. On
the labor question Mr.. Jones seemed to
speak as If he had given mnch attention
to the more usual forms of treating this
serious and perplexing problem. Being
had been, Mr. Jones said that if this
question should demand of him "a choice
between Capital and Labor he should be
found standing upon the side of the
struggling sons Of toll. Capital, said the
speaker can take care of itself; and so far
as his vote should influence the matter he
would vote to allow it to do so. OF sub
sides, Mr.. Jones said: believe. that any
body who has any money should be ex-
empt always and forever from any other
tax than that which should be necessary
to provide them with protection and free
dom from misrule Here followed many
strong expressions of protestations
wherein Mr.. Jones showed himself to be
opposed to the system of subsidies and
averse to any taxation to sustain them
Speaking of railway corporations he said
that the power to discriminate in their
rates of freights and travel is where the
danger lies; and here Mr.. Jones expressed
himself in manner with which we do
most cordially sympathise when he said
of the country should be under the con-
troll of the Government. The details of
this arrangement, SO far as he touched
upon that part of the subject coincide
with our views-many times heretofore
expressed.
Mr.. Jones further said that he was op-
posed to voting any lands or money to
any individuals or corporations.
Discussing himself, Mr.. Jones said that
he held that there was no royal road to
office; and he assured his audience that
should he get to the Senate he would not
go through the chimney or back door to
get there; but that he would walk in,
erect, through the front door He brief
" paid his respects to those who have
found fault with the manner of his hav-
ing carried the primaries. OF the apparent
unanimitG with which the Eastern conn
ties have spoken their preference for him
Mr.. Jones declared that such preference
was entirely gratuitous and COMPLIMENTS
ry SO far as he was concerned. OF the