Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-02
"LET Us HAVE AN HONEST DEAL. !,


This is the somewhat grotesque but
pointed title of an article in the San |
Francisco Chronicle, in which that paper |
contends that the people of that city |
shall have fair chance to express their
wishes on the railway subsidies and the
city government generally. This was all
right enough, but it struck us as rather
singular that the Chronicle wished to
confine the fair dealing to the limited
area of the city and county of San Fran
cisco. What is good as general princi-
pie of popular government would apply
with equal force to national affairs as
well as municipal. Why can We not
have little of the square deal " APP
piled to the latter? Why is it that the
Administration is allowed to exercise the
mighty power of place, backed by the U.
S. Treasury, to secure the election of
man who has shown himself incompe-
tent in every way to fill the great Office
with which he has unfortunately been
entrusted? Why cannot American citi-
zens be allowed to exercise their privi-
leges as electors without the interference
and intimidation of Federal officials and
Federal bayonets? Why are the Radical
Governors of certain States allowed to
appoint all the officers of registry or
election, to control the registry and re-
fuse or accept qualified voters just as
within, interest or prejudice may dictate?
In short, why the course recommended
by Radical journal as fitting to be pur-
sued in municipal election should not
be applicable to that for the highest Of
fee in the gift of the people is hard to
tell. Here is the advice of the Chronicle
Let them stand upon their merits
but let there be no bribery; no tampering
with votes or returns. Let us consider
the proposition cooliy and temporarily
let us vote Understandings; and after an
honest result is obtained, let the minori-
ty abide that result.
~ tIIC NtbihNIoIi0, VIC cummings, anu
the other Wallets de place of the President
were to do this, and he were to do like
wise, we believe it would do more to re.
store the era of good feeling than all the
suspensions Of habeas corpus, Ku Klux
Acts and the other pet appliances of the
odious arpet-baggers. But this is where
the trouble lies: Grant and his followers
dare not do it. They know, well know,
that if a fair expression of the popular
will is ever obtained, out they go, carpet.
baggers and all. With them it is a strug.
gle for life or death. They do not care
for their party or their country; all theil
attention is devoted to their miserable
selves, and so long as their persona
ends are gratifed all the rest can shift
for itself. They are aware of all this
and therefore every officer of the Gov
eminent, from the President to negro
Postmaster, is pressed into service
Place preferments and the national purs,
are held out as bats to the wavering
Frauds of the most gigantic character ar
unhesitatngly resorted to, and whel
these will not answer intimidation ant
actual force will take their place; the las
| most certainly will occur in all the South
. ern States. So our friend the Chronicl
5 will find that the great obstacles in tn
| way of the fair deal " are the man an
t his supporters, whose reelection to tn
> chief magistracy of the nation that pape
so earnestly advocates.