Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-10-06
THE TRUE ISSUES.

The Review calls our attention to some
expressions of the New York Tribune
derogatory to the Democratic party, and
asks us to peruse them. We have read
them long since, both in the Tribune
and in the column of garbled extracts
published in the Alta Of San Francisco,
as also in the New York administration
papers, and now, we ask, what have they
to do with the question before the people?
Who does not know that Mr.. Greeley
has been the lifelong opponent of the
Democracy? Who does not know that
during Mr.. Greeley's extended career as
an editor that he has written many bit
ter and harsh expressions against the
Democracy? All know this; all know
that at the present moment Mr.. Greeley
is no more Democrat than he was ten
years ago. But what has that to do
with the present issue? Nothing in the
world. The momentous question that
the American people are called upon to
determine is not question of party or
previous political combinations. 1t is a
higher, purer and more enrolling one.
The people are required to determine
whether the government of the country
shall be placed in the hands of honest
men, who will administer it according to
the Constitution, or continue it in the
charge of men who are dead to every
principle of honor and honesty, who
deride the Constitution as an obsolete
relic of a past age, and who desire to
substitute a centralized Imperialism for
the republican form of government so
wisely devised by the trainers of the
Constitution. These are the is
sues, and none other. Party politics
have nothing to do with these. The
great party of reform has noble and
patriotic principles to guide it, that are
UNNECESSARILY above the petty strife and
the ignoble purposes of a mere partisan
organization. BY the great and mighty
host of retormers, men from all sections
and parties are welcomed as brothers
without inquiring what they said or did
at other times. The only question
asked is whether they will heartily join
in the effort to restore the government
of the Great Republic to the pristine
purity which was the proudest boast OF
its citizens and reflected the greatest
lustre upon those who enabled it to
reach that proud pre-eminence. Nc
heed is paid to other considerations. The
need of the times, above all other things
is that the dictates of honor and honesty
shall be the ruling principles of those il
whose hands are placed the government
of the country, and until this is acknowl
edged and accomplished all other ques
tons sink into insignifcance Feein!
this in their utmost hearts the Demo
Gratis, with Unparalleled magniminity
forbore to press the minor considera
tons of partisanship, but with a patri
otism unexampled in the history 0
party organizations consented to supper
a man who had been lifelong oppo
nent, but who from his acknowledge,
honesty, ability and spotless characte
they thought would be best able to carr
out those reforms for which they wer
unitedly contenting and deemed s.
vitality essential. OF course no one ex
poets that Grant, his administration 0
its employees can or ever will approve
sentiment so unselfish and so purel
patriotic. But there are millions @
American citizens who do and will sho,
the faith that is in them at the electio
in November, which will be as fatal t
Grant as the Ides of March were I
Caesar.