Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-06
THE CALIFORNIA EI.ECTION-THE
LESSON OF THE RESULT.

For the third or fourth time tn
Republican party of the Pacific
States have been heavily enousl
handicapped by the appropriately o
the Central Pacific Railway Compan.
to be defeated. The Gorham cam
paign in 1867; the Tritle campaign
in 1870, and the struggle which la:
Just ended are striking examples O
this result. The thing illustrated
would seem to be, That nobody car
afford to go before the people asking
their suffrages without first declaim'
ing, and then making an earnest
show of, his enmity to that corpora
ton. The question is Immediately
suggested, Whether the hope and
prospect of success is worth making
this concession to popular preJu-
dice? The professional Office seeker
and the demagosue will not hesitate
to reply in the affirmative: The man
who values his self-respect will re-
fuse to occupy such place, even
though he may entertain grave fears
of tine besetting dangers of the
Great Monopolies of the country
and be too steadfast in his notions
of honor and personal integrity to
be at all the servitor of any over
reaching or cosrupting interest.
But both sides in any open and rec
ogaized issue are forced to occupy
extreme grounds there is no time
for nice distinctions in such con-
test as this which is just ended and
the issue once made, the participants
in the action which is to decide it,
must, whether or no. come to be re-
garded as partisans of one side or
the other, and be recognized either
as Railroad Men or Anti Railroad
Men. A standard is set up and the
rallying to that standard, and not
the utterance of professions, is what
is required. There is much of pre-
iudice run wild in this the mad
ness of the hour" is what prevails !;
and results come with the force and
unreasonableness of o surge. In
the case before us the presence and
prominence of demagogy is what
strongly deters many honest advo-
Gates of the absorption Of the great
railways into the Government from
lending aid and sympathy to the
cause of Governor Booth. His CO.
quetry with Democrats and Boilers,
and his open and avowed sympathy
with such conspirators as the con-
ductors of the Independent Press ;;
his violation of voluntary pledges,
and his evident willingness to play
the part Of a political time-server;
Lis willingness to sacrifice the Re
publican organization to secure his
own advancement; these things have
kept away from his standard many
Republican who is quite as honest
as heis in entertaining a sense OF ap-
prehension of the growing power Of
the Great Corporations of the coun-
t.y.
II the professions of the Directors |
OF the Central Pacific Railway are
honestly made, land we do not
question them they do not ask that
any Senator or Representative in
Congress shall be other than OF an
unprecedented mind, so far as their |
interests are concerned but the |
misfortune is that in the struggle |
which must always follow any nomi- |
nations made with reference to an |
issue wherein they have shown an
interested part, the lines are so
strongly drawn, opposition and sup
port make such bitter enmities and |
such uncompromisable rivalries, that
practically. itself, the Central Pacific
Comnanv looms mn into the most |