Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-11
WHY A REPUBLIC m MAY MAKE
AN ALLIANCE TO DEFEAT A
DESERTER.

threaten to overturn and demolisl
all existing institutions and spread
havoc and ruin over the fair fields Of
peace and order, then does it be
hoove law abiding rivals and neigh.
bors of irreconcilable creeds to make
| an alliance against the general foe.
Such an alliance involves no aband-
onment of principles; it is only
making the best terms possible in an
alarming emergency. The Evangel-
ical Alliance was not an abandonment
nor even an abatement of sectarian
lines; it found its motives merely in
the assertion of a common cause as
against common enemy. Thus do
the representative agents of rival
civilized powers agree upon a
system of international laws
as against piracy and the slave
trade. The Sacramento Record of
December states, very cleverly, in
the following, the iustifying circum-
stances of an alliance of forces in
the California Legislature whose
effect it should be to fill the vacant
and long term Scholarships with a
regular Republican and an avowed
Democrat as against the proposition
to abandon the same to the political
nondescripts who have rallied under
the banner of Newton Booth:
Under ordinary circumstances the idea
that Republicans should vote for can
didate not of their party would be unrea-
But the present circumstances
are not ordinary ones. and common rules
willnot apply to them. We nigh. proceed
to show that tie Booth organs, in object
ing to the election Of Democrat by Re
Publican votes, are guilty of the mos:
outrageous Inconsistency, inasmuch as
the argument of the Dolly Nardens has
been from the first the improperly of
rigid adherence to the party organiza- !
lions. In their desperate efforts to make |
he worse appear the better case. these |
journals have under
AIKEN to denounce their own favorite |
heoiy. When Booth wanted to pledge |
for himself, the cry was that
,arty lines were no longer dawn, and
oarty discipline was no longer binding. |
But now that it is apprehended Republi-
ans may carry this theory into opera
ION on the opposite side. it is suddenly
discovered that Republicans ought to
their partisan barriers with
.bsolute rigidity. This kind Of s.ultifv-
Eg argument is, however, SO common
With the Dolly Warden press IS scarcely
o merit our attention. The truths Of the
itUation are besides 50 much stronger
han sophistIies could be that We prefer
D cOnfne ourselves to them. The posi-
ion OF the Republicans IS this: On the
ne hand they have Z Traitor; on the
TIER q Democrat. Governor Booth is
OF merely not friend TO The Republican
lrty; he is its bitierest foe. He is not
lcFely an open foe; he IS that worst Of
Il foes, an apos;ate friend. We hold
nat it is impossible for clea--miaded
nd Conscientious Republicans 10 sup
oEt him; and especially for the reason
hat IN supporting him a premium would
e given 10 political tUrpitude, and the
ldalgenco of INSCRIPTIONS personal am |
ition. Republicans, in supporting
Doth, would be maintaining the irteg-
ty of the course he has pursued toward | ;
he party; would be indorsing the bad
rinciple that man is justified in Seek
IS to overthrow the organization which
onors him. if by SO doing he can fur
Ter his individual aims and aspirations. I
party could not adfn.t the possibility {
such concessions without admitting
lat its own imbeciiity and utter want Of ]
lirit deserved and invited destruction, {
o. can individual members of the party :
ssuIne such an attitude without virtn-
Ily declaring thereby that they think !
.ore of one man than Of the principles {
hich constitute their political creed. 1t
, therefore, we think perfectly clear
lat Governor Booth must be, as a can ,
date, more repugnaDt to sincere Re
lblicanS than any man, whatever his t
,litical faith, who has not played the +
aitor, can possibly be. For Republi- :,
Is indeed there can be 10 thoughts of d
both for the Senate which do not in ]
i've the betrayal of the party through n
It the State. In regard to the mere
Hey of the Issue there is practically an S
on the side of Democratic
for Booth, if elected, would
suredly be os:racised by the Adminis- o
ltion, while Democratic Senator .
'uld command the respect and atten-
n due to the extent OF his pc!iticalc con- 6
tuency. 1t is with the utmost reluc- G.
ice that We canvass the contingency re- ..
red to. But We feel that had the adj
.e of the Record been followed there 81
uld have been no difficulty in electing ri