The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-09-16
SATURDAYS PRIMARIES AND THE
CAUSES AND SIGNIFICA OF
THEIR RESULTS.


lar results of the primary elections whicl
were held here and at Empire on Satur
Jay are given in full in our local columns
In SO far as they determined the purpose.
Of the majority of the delegates in III,
County Convention and indicate the Sen
atorial preferences of those who will be
nominated for positions in the Legisla-
ture, they show a clean victory for MIR.
John p Jones. Technically speaking
or, rather, acceding to the technical YER
diet of this election, the Republican par
~ of Ormsby County has declared itself
favorable to TIE choice of Mr.. Jones.
There are some facts and incidents con-
nected with this contest which it will be
not uninteres:ing to refer to and which
1t would be but the weakest folly to ig-
more
In the first place the test adopted by
the County Central Committee was L.
mentally weak and deficient. leaving. as
1t did, an open door for unfairness, eva
oAoAs uAu we 10 ulaflle 10
EAST upon the Committee for their having
adopted no more safe and satisfactory
precaution against Irregularities and i'm
positions upon the party: but the results
If their misplaced hberality only con-
trm us in our long cherished opinion
that party authorities cannot be too strict
II prescribing the qualifications under
which persons may participate in the
partys own elections. We believe that
those who are unwilling to pledge their
support to the whole ticket from Presi-
dent to Constable should not be permit
ted to have a voice in the party matters.
Moreover, We now see for the hundredth
time, the absolute need of adopting the
very excellent plan which prevails in
storey County-that of inhibiting any
man from voting at the primaries unless
he has first designated his locality and
duly declared his political standing by be- |
coming member of Republican Club. |
Look at the fatal looseness of the test |
adopted here. As noted Enclishman
said of an Act of Parliament, lone can
'irive coach and four through it, any
where" There was nothing in this test
which pledged the voter to support the
parties whom he was mos. interested in
slecting, namely, the Republican nom
inees for the Senate and the Assembly:
there was no pledge required that he
would support anybody else but the
'irant and Wilson electors; there was no
means of preventing colonization; and
there was nothing whereby one precinct
IN the County could be protected from
inyasiOns and encroachments from
other precincts That this lamentable
ooseness was taken advantage of by over
Jealous partizans and those of elastic
'onseiences it would be simply q weak :
nd self-distrustful folly to doubt. 1t
nay not be-and, indeed, We shall as
'ume, for the party's sake, that it is not
rue. that the Carson primary was deter
aimed by Democrats from Brunswick
nill and elsewhere; residents of Empire
tho. in honor, had no right to vote here;
Birds of Pray" from Douglas county: O
he unclean spirit of the Democracy as +
list driven out Of the Woods and col a,
red nca-residents who had been bribed \
, vote and work against Senator who il
oted for the Fifteenth Amendment we II
hall give no credence, we say, to these a,
unpleasant rumors, but shall, instead, r
cap Goals of fire upon the heads of te
lose faithless politicians who, two years SC
nee. upon being checkmated in their at D,
mpt to carry the primaries through the
apioyment of mercenaries from the
wer levels of the Democratic party, hs
lied our State ticket and now are rep X,
sented in the hanks of the Postum E,
snocracy; we shall, We say, heap Goals on
fire upon the heads of these and those ma
10 may have been tempted to initiate up
FIR unscrupulousness on Saturday last, m
giving hearty and ungrudsing sup co,
It to every man who is to receive a
at the hands of the Republi- ]
! County Convention that is to meet E.
e on the 18th instant. We propose to call
,ish all suspicious as to an undue in day