Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-01
THE THIRD PARTY MOVE II
CALIFORNIA.

Of course we don't like the third
party move in California, its agita
tors being uneasy Republicans lrfi-
tated with An itch for change and
Office and small notoriety and for
this reason it is quite likely that our
opinion loses some of the value that
belongs to a cool, unprecedented. i'm
partial judgement ; but nevertheless
we may be permitted to say that the
! Eoothites and anti railroaders are
rather transcending their limits by
reaching out into the world of polit-
cal atoms in search CT the particles
wherewith to form a new party.
They seem to be forcing things with
an unnatural and uncalled for haste
exhibiting an over eagerness to get
the machinery of politics into their
own eager grasp. If our estimate is
correct and the following statement
by the Sacramento Record be true
the Mckinstry Convention was as
independent of any real, earnest
constituency as the Cincinnati Con
vention of last year. Says the
Record:
Since the adjournment of the In
dependent Convention there has been
some anxiety to know what 1t meant.
The absence of any connecting links
between the people and the conven-
ton puzzles the inquiring mind.
Those who are disposed to favor
new party complain tnat there is
little too much of a change; that
however much the people may want
reform. they do not believe in pop
ular movement which ignores the
people in its inception. The fact
that not a single primary election
vas held doubtless accounts for the
luminosity to the pri
mary system I; but then less than half
the counties in the State were repre-
scented at all. Twenty six ont of
fifty one counties we've unrepre-
scented, and six more were repre-
sented by proxy that is to say, that
thirty-two out of fifty one counties
were not represented by residents at
all. If this was convention that
meant anything it certainly is not
easy to decipher the meaning of it.
So far as any authority goes, quite
as respectable and weighty issue
could have been made without re-
sorting to a call, for the whole pro
ceedings we're cut and dried here in
and the people had no
more to do with the movement than
thew had to do with the last earth
quake. 1t has usually been held
that when q new party comes for
ward it is bound to show something
in the form of credentials; some
thing to indicate that any popular
feeling is at the back of it. The
idea that the leaders of a new party |
would have so little confidence in
the rank and file as to be afraid to
trust the latter with the choice of
delegates to State Convention |
would never have entered the head
of the ordinary politician. 1t was
reserved for the brilliant creatures
who are engineering this Dolly Var
den affair to discover that the easiest |
and best way to found a Peoples
Party was to ignore the people al
together and pack q convention In
the most deliberate manner. To
the pertinent question, who dele
gated these men to make judicial
nominations and organize q new
party? there is no possible answer.
The simple truth being that they |
were not delegated by any body, but |
chose themselves, or were chosen by |
Booth or his agents. Ii ever there
was n one man Convention, a close |
Convention, bogus
held in the world, this
of the Independents was such an
one. 1t was a farce Of the broadest |
kind from beginning to end thin
pretense of popular feeling covering
q put up job Of the most bare faced
description.