The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-28
THE ENTERPRISE AND THE RES
OLUTIONS OF 1898.

growing out of the profits, particu
larry when the office-holder happen
, to be an editor. All that he has t,
do IS to sit back in the editor al chat
and chant the praises of the admins
t~ration that graciously gives hin
bread and meat, diluted with the
auxiliary luxuries suitable to til,
appetite and the position. This i.
the case with our friend of the Terri
torlal Enterprise. He has an easy.
going thing. No matter what Con.
gress and the President do, the En-
terprlse is expected, as a matter OF
course, to blow its horn, and toot its
La"s Dec in the supremest alto.
No n will object to this, for ac-
cording to the present code of politi-
cal morality, few are expected to
abuse the hand that feeds them but
every sensible reader islikely to take
its indiscriminate laudations with a
few grains of allowance. Hence
when the clerk of the United States
Court finds in every suggestion for
an improvement in political conduct
a Democrat at the bottom of it, men
will naturally take his deductions
cum g5d71O sails.
Various resolutions have been
published recently, mostly copies of
the old Republican platforms amend
ed and adapted to 1872, but on some
points conflicting with the practice of
the party IN power. 1t is amusing
to see with what avidity the Enter
prise "goes for them'-swearing
that they are nothing more than
Democratic DISCUSSES, concealing
some frightful design. If some con-
ventlon, not managed by o~ffice-hold-
ers, were to get together and adopt
Chrlsts sermOn on the Mount for a
platform, the Enterprise would at
once denounce it as a damnable con-
coction of the Democratic party to
get Gen. Grant out of off ce. The
and the Omega of that paper
evidently is to get and retain office
and profit. Having got them, its
principal business now is to retain
them. 1t makes very little adherence
what they do SO long as they don't
turn the editor out of the clerkship.
He was placed in office for a purpose.
and like an honestman. as all editors
are. he is bound to see his political
friends out, right or wrong-all of
which is exceedingly correct, but a
worrisome on the facts. The
Enterprise doesn't like the platform
Of the Union Reform Party of Ne
vada, and the Jefferson City resolu-
of the Liberal Republicans,
5eleSraphed the other day, are clearly
incompatible with the complacent
serenity of a Federal offce-holder
lnder the present regime. Conse-
luently a review of those Republican
'esolutlons must necessarily be ]
Wholly devoted to scolding the Dem {
'cr2tic party which is of course res
'onsible for them. Viewed in this l
friendly light they are nothing but a
of the Virginia and Ken
ucky resolutions of '9S, though ,
up by the authors of the
platform, on which Gen. .
i-ant was nominated. This sort of
is very easy and very cheap. I,
lnything which might remotely eff ;
ect the tenure of the Office we hold l.
!, of course, nothing more than the t.
solutions of 1898. That disposes
item without much intellectual :
Hort. 1.-THE Comstock ledge should +
appent to give Quit it would undoubt-
lily be due to the resolutions of 49,:
the Virginia whisky should prove I
i inferior article tits because it was
OF mixed with the resolutions of
s and if the Enterprise should 1