Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-03
Ghe Carson 4ailp appeal
CARSON CITY:
Heslnesday.S 3, 1873.

feeling OF opposition to the Posta
Telegraph scheme of Congress i:
sustained in that State, and who are
the active opponents and benefci
aries of the Associated Press mon
opoly-the meanest and most sordid
monopoly in existence-a monopoly
of the news of the day-acting under
this inconsistent and flimsy pretcnso,
The Bulletin, Cal and tnioa, repre-
senting Newton Booths candidacy
for the Senate of the United States,
will make their final struggle TO day
for dominating influence over the
politics of California. A more an-
dacious conspiracy was never entered
into and more supercillious pre-
tense was never set up. These I'M
pertinent pretcnders have the hardi-
hood to ask that the organizations
and vital issues which sustain and
give life to national politics be ig-
nored and that the keeping of the
States political machinery and con-
science be turned over to them.
This attempt at Press usurpation
cannot be too fully compreheuded
by the people. The attempted asser
ton is not tha. of the freedom OF
the Press. 4 ratification of the Ii
cense to SANDER and defame the most
trusted public men of the times is
what is sought. 1t behooves the
people that while they are being
marshaled to resist monopolies, they
do not permit this false and cruel
Tyranny over public opinion to get
itself fully entrenched and estab-
lished. The thing most needing |
conservation and high estimation is
the nature, intent and tone of this
representative government of ours.
The licensed and influential SANDER
ers of the Press have already created
q distrust of Congress and the Gov
eminent in the public mind. That
sense of loyal respect without which
all authority is mockery and de-
basement, is rottinS away under the
repeated onslaughts of the indie
pendent Press upon our public men.
Under the influence of this false and
cruel spirit of criticism, this malig-
nant and character of comment,
popular distrust, most morbid
and sichly distrust of the whole
scheme and method of our govern
ment is growing up. This phase of
the question cannot be too warmly
or too constantly urged. 1t is as
much as any mans reputation is
worth to hold public Office and not
shape his course so as to flatter the
temper and assuage the capricious
fancies of this character-hurting
press. Congress is not a den of
thieves; Senators and Representa-
tives may and do draw their pay and
their "back pay" in strict and hon
est accordance with the Constitution
and the laws the only dishonesty
revealed in connection with the in
yestiSation of that overgrown bug
bear, the Credit Mobilier, was in the
lying Of Colfax and Patterson and
there is a prevailing sense and inten-
ton and habit of honesty in the ad-
ministration OF our public affairs, ,
the gleeful ISLANDERS and sleek men !
dacities of the Associated Press t.
the contrary notwithstanding. We {
have herewith briefly attempted to !
show why the election OF to day is
Of great importance. We earnestly J
believe that a rebuke upon the ma
Ievolent spirit of the press as it is
breathed through the columns of a
lie Union and BuIetin is impera-
lively necessary. Better, vastly bet l
er, the success of the Democratic t
party, even, than that these repre-
of the Organized Tyranny
# Detraction should be given the t
of success.