The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-09-20
THE POSSUMS.
Their Platform and Ticket.

The courtship which was begun at
Cincinnati between the widowers of the
Democracy and the disappointed spin
s;ers and wallfowers of the left rear rank
Of the Republican party and which led
to the hurried publication of the banns
Of a marriage that was consummated tn
der the paternal eye of Frank Blair Sen,
at Baltimore, was the forerunner Of IL e
lyirgg-in that mas just taken place at Reno
and in consequence OF which We have
presented to US the weak and colc-dis-
tressed offspring whose advent into this
breathing world of politics was an1oun-
ced by that accoucheur of redundant pla-
titudes, ex Attorney General Clarke.
Being deputised so to do, that illustrious
political pundit reported something le SIS
than a bakers dozen of what will strike
the reader as batch of long cut and very
much dried resolutions, the substance
and text Of which is. of course. as fol-
lows: Acceptance of the candidacy OF
Greeley and Brown; sticking, as in duty
bound, to the good old lie about Grant S
= corruption; recognizing the necessity
for turning the government over to such
honest and patriotic hands as Mike Bon
iiitield and Hal Clayton; that the people
should be served, etc: that there should
be 10 tariff except for revenue Horace
tIreeleys pig iron fanaticism TO
toe contrary Notwithstanding that
tof course) Eve are opposed to the i'm
migration of Asiatics," etc, (no Demo-
cratic platform could hold together with
out that's tina. 1--WE are in favor of equal |
ana uniform taxation" (also prompt pay
ments by ex attorneys general and no de-
iaic.tions by District Attorneys, we
SUPPOSED; then, in the tenth resolution.
= Remuneration, by way of inuendo, of
Kendall. for not getting reduction of
the freishts and passenger charges on the
l. z. 4. r., and, finally, a slap at
Jlarkes 5ugbear, the Bank of California,
n the following words:
i.ieventh-We are opposed TO donating money
IT ponds State or county, 10 railroads co-pora-
ions or individuals.
Following these harmless and not bv
ny means dangerously novel nor painful
Y original resolves, that model of person.
virtue and political purity, Mr. Patrick
ienry Clayton, rose and emitted the fol-
,Wirg resolution: II
Resoicsd. That We look with alarm upon the
Eruption which prevades all branches Of the
lbic service: that we regard the elective fran
iise as sacred privilege Of the citizen and that
Is criminal to - Ii the right of suffrage We
:" therefore in favor of a law to be enacted by 7
e Legislature making is>a criminal offeIse for
" person to give or receive any consideration '
money or other valuable thing. for / he purpose
i1iu. nc!ng TIE vote of q citizen at any cleo
u Under the laws of this State.
There is balm in Gilead, Hal CLAYTON q
'i,9 apprehensiye of the wholesale sell d
= out OF the rank and file of the impe- o
lnsous Democracy becomes suddenly O
rlcken with pious zeal for the purity O
the ballot box and wants the next al
.slslature to interpose and prevent ct
oss purely commercial proceedings. to
he danger Is that the threatened selling OF
u take place before the Legislature can o.
gotten together. and when it Is con- IN