Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-11-21
POLITICS.


Political matters have received
mighty shaking up within the past few
months. Singing hosannahs to the flag
and believing Justify for the Union will
no longer suffice to atone for robbery and
plumber. The men who fought to main
tain the American principle that govern
ments derive all their just powers from
the consent of the governed, are no lon
ger designated as traitors, but the party
which in by-gone years claimed all the
virtue and all the intelligence is fast
crumbling to pieces. Indeed "early iipe |
and early rotton" was never more fifty |
applied to anything inanimate than it is
to the Republican party of to-day 1t
has come to pass that the most
loyal of the loyal are crying
out against the party which they
aided TO place in power; indeed, more
serious charges were never made against
the Democracy than are now being
hurled at the Republicans by that portion
of the press which in past years was
loudest in their praise. 1t may be with
the Democracy now as it was with the
Wing party twenty years ago. If SO,
Democrats need not complain OF any loss
except the name OF their party; for al
though the Wing party passed away and
its members sought affiliations in other
political organizations, every principle of
the Wing party was ensrafted upon the
policy of the country by the Repuhli-
cans. A high protective tariff, internal
improvements and banking system
were really the aims of the Republicans
at the outset, as they had been
of. the Wing party during the
years of its existence. Under Republi-
can rule American industry" $50 called)
has received all the protection it chose
to demand; banks have multiplied, and
under the plea of improvements mil
lions OF acres Of the public land have been
bestowed upon private corporations; yet
with all these blessings the people are
not happy-the country is not prosper
Gus. A few years ago man laboring
under the suspicion of having been a
rebel would have been consigned to a
bastile had he uttered such sentiments as
now lind expression Though the Repub-
lican press. As sample, read the fol-
lowing from an article in the Virginia
Enterprise, of Sunday:
1t is no idle freak OF fancy to talk OF
Cesarism when such q state of things
has come to pass. With patricians sit
ting in the capital and proletaries toiling
throughout the land, the appearance Of {
Caesar is not so very improbable an event
This shameful and dangerous condition
of affairs has grown up under Republican
rule. Is it likely that the party which
has fostered the evil will correct it? Tn,
hands of the rulers and the corporations
whose purposes they serve, have to,
strong control over the machinery OF th
organization to render such though
possible. The only remedy consists il
casting aside the enginery, which has be
come means of popular enslavement
and fighting for our rights with such al
plances as we can command If me-
movement had no other mission tina
that of restoring Government to NOR
intimate relations with the people and
director responsibility for its actions
there would be ample necessity for its in
auguration in order to arrest the rapi
tendency toward the formation of gov
erning and governed class. But Their
is not a department of the Govern
ment but requires new and bette
management, such as can only be eS
pected from Congress and Administra
ton in full and fresh sympathy with tn
people. The national finances are bein
managed in the interest of moneye
rings; Civil Service Reform is only tn
catcbword and plaything OF an insincer
Administration; return to specie pa,
ment foreign and domestic policies, Ii
tariff, and all the other measures OF Co
eminent, are degraded from purely pull
lie questions and warped to suit persont
and party purposes. When we complai
Of these abuses, it is very unsatisfactor
to be told that they are mere mistakes
oversights, and that the Republican pa
ty will correct them. Why has it NJ
already done SO? They are not evils
to-day, or yesterday, or of the last yea
They have been growing steadily sine
the Republican party was firmly in il
seat and they will continue to increas
as long as it retains power. The leader
are interested in the perpetuation Of tb
misrule, and the rank and file of Il
party are powerless to countervail then
With the assistance of their allies, Il
corporations, they can foist themselv
upon the people at all times; or if
chance the popular voice prevails al
some anti-monopolist receives nomin
ton, then every influence of the CONT
nation is exerted to defeat him. II Inc
who talk of correcting existing abuses
sincere, there is but one course to pu
sue. Republicans will not go bodi
over to the Democrats, nor Democra
come bodily over to the Republican
But the honest and fair-minded men
both parties will meet upon a midi
ground and by their united exertio
overthrow the politicians and monop
olists. who will surely control them
long as they stand apart in separate {
CARNATIONS.