Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-01
IRONICAL COMPLIMENTS.

Under the head of IAN Honest Show
ing " the Virginia Enterprise is pleased
to compliment the Democracy of Nevada
on the alleged lukewarmness with which
it supports Greeley and Brown, and then
goes on to depreciate the character and
standing of the Presidential Electors
chosen by the Nevada Democracy.
"These gentlemen, the Enterprise says,
comprise the significant triangle: The
base an ex-rebel, the perpendicular
Democrat, the hypothenuse Liberal
Republican. Under such a figure upon
the banner of a party no inscription is
required; no platform needed" Very
true, MIR. Enterprise, none is needed; for
upon your own showing the movement
is spontaneous uprising among men of
all parties to rid the country of the
odious tyranny which has degraded the
Republican party into a mere political
machine to subserve the personal desires
of one man, and seeks through its agency
to place the whole country groveling at
the feet of military dictator This
danger, so imminent, has caused good
citizens of all classes, irrespective of
former differences or party predictions,
to band together to stay the American
Republic in its downward progress to
Imperialism. They wish for the nation
to be Republic not merely in name, but
in fact, They desire to extirpate the
foul corruption which is sapping the life
blood of a constitutional form of gov
eminent. They are also determined to
put period to the wicked tyranny which
has permitted the Southern States to be-
come the prey of the plunderer until the
oppression and wrong has become so
glaring that the honest men of all parties
blush for shame at the monstrous evil
To accomplish this praiseworthy purpose
they support as their standard bearer
gentleman not so much on account of
his political antecedents, but because the
purity of his record for forty years bears
witness that his future acts will be equal
ly as free from the stain of corruption or
dishonesty. The feeling that now per-
vades all true lovers of their country is
that, above all things, an honest and in
corruptible man is needed at the helm of
national affairs to purge them from the
foul and hideous corruption which has
turned the government into a bvword
and reproach not only among the Ameri-
can people, but throughout the civilized
world. The peril is great, the danger
vast and menacing, and therefore men
from all sections are Fastening, despite
their former political proclivtics, to re-
deem the nation from this great and cry-
ing evil. So when the Liberal Repub-
licans and the Democracy of the State of
Nevada met in council and chose men
from their midst who, however much
they may have disagreed in the past on
political matters, are now united in a
common effort to restore to the govern
ment those principles of common hon
esty without which any system of gov
ernmental policy, no matter however
wisely framed, must end in ruin and dis
aster. They have fastened to the rescue
and showed their patriotism and wisdom
by selecting men not on account of their
former political leanings, but because
they were sincere and faithful in the
cause of the reform so greatly needed.
Such being the laudable spirit that per-
vades the united Liberal Republicans
and Democracy, no further platform is
needed to be inscribed on their banner
than that men of all conditions, from all
parties, from all sections, have joined to-
gether for the preservation of the coun-
try and to signify that honesty must be
the controlling principle of the govern
ment. That is their purpose; that is
their motto; therefore they support Hor-
ace Greeley.