Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-10-17

ALE. D0TEN, a., Editor and Proprietor.
THE PRESENT NEED OF THE RE-
PUBLICAN PARTY.
We are no alarmist. We do not
desire to excite the fears Of Repuo-
licans. Yet the result Of Tuesdays
elections In Iowa and Ohio, and the
probable result OF the judicial election
In California on Wednesday proves
that what We have often said Is near
the truth: That there Is need Of re-
form ; that the people demand 1t, and
that unless the Republican party rises
to the level Of the present needs and
desires-yea, demands-of the people,
it will be shorn Of It's prestige, stripped
Of It's power, and humbled In the dust
Of general defeat. The plain fact 10
land we only reiterate u oft-repeated
warningl that the party organization
is unpopular that the masses have
lost confidence in our prominent party
managers. and that from the highest to
the lowest the offices Of the nation have
been prostituted to personal ends rath-
err than honored by lit appointees and
dignifed by ~capabilisy and honesty.
Our Senators and Assemolymen with
a few notable exceptlons) are Of q low
order Of intellect and sadly wanting
In those sterling traits which give dig
nifty, effect and honesty to legislation.
They have passed laws which rob the
people; they have Disseminated In
favor Of special interests. they have
scandalized their party and the coun-
try by accepting brides; they have
plundered the treasury and deceived
the people ; they have promised re-
form and been more grossly extrava-
CANT than ever. and the worst Of 1t all
Is, they are incapable OF being other
than their record proves them, venal
indolent, below par In Intelligence,
and corrupt In action. And In this
indictment We do not include Repub-
licans alone. Nine-tenths Of the DEM
Ocratic party leaders are In the same
category /; but the trouble IL that the
Republican party, being the majority,
must bear the odlum OF bad legislation
even as 1t has q right to claim
the credit Of beneficial laws and n just
administration. There are many
things which have conspired to bring
about the defeat flor indeed 1t is no.
thing else) Of the Republican party In
Ohio and Iowa. but the main thing, in
our opinion, Is the action Of our last
Congress. There never was a plat
form pledged more strongly to econ
omy. There never was a more sacred
promise made Of reform In the civil
service and retrehchment in our ma.
tional disbursements than that ut Phil
adelphia last year. We should hlsify
ourselves, should insult the intelli.
gence OF our readers, did we not add
that there never vas a worse spectacle
Of broken promises and unredeemed
pledges hung up before the eyes Of Re-
publican electors than appeared in our
Congress last Winter. For u prom
ises of bread we received a stone, for
fish. serpents were offered us. For
economy we had the salary grab and a
proportionally large Increase In all
Government expenses. For our PROM
ises'of civil service reform, we had a
Bingham appointed to Japan. n Ca
sey returned to rob the Custom. house
at New Orleans, and = Boss Sheppard
promoted to be Governor Of the Dis
trict OF Columbia. For local self gov
ernment We have a pack Of Federal
officials with Butler al their head, III
tent o capturing a commonwealth,
and for the elevation Of the judiciary
we have the name Of II DEM
agogue and salary grabber men,
toned for this highest appointive
office in the nation. 1t Is Idle to say
that these outrages tfor they are moth
ing else) do not have their effect
folly to assert that they do not insult
the intelligence Of the age trample
on the desires Of the masses Of our
people and cause discomfort aud dis
ruption Of party ties. Not all the tri.
umphs Of the war a atone for them.
They must be r%epudlated, rubbed out
and the party, II 1t would preserve It's
power. must also keep its faith with
the people. Not u Of all the shin
lug lights, who took Credit Mobllier
stock and dividends, was punished by
Congress; and yet we claim to be
honest. Not a Senator has been ex-
PEELED for bribery aud corruption ;
and yet VIC claim sincerity. The lead.
ers Of the party took the salary grab
and have not returned it and yet we
claim economy. There Is no con-
sistency In this. II is not only wrong
but suicidal. II the Republican party
Is to preserve its force If 1t Is to be
the living party Of the future, 1t must
take an aggressive instead of a defen-
sive attitude. In place Of apologizing
for these infamies It must condemn
them, and in place of keeping their
perpetrators in power it must replace
them by new men. IL will not do to
put old wine in new bottles ; neither
is 1t possible to reform these cor
ruptionists. A change in the leader
ship OF the Republican party Is the
necessity, and It must come.
Or the balloon ascension soon to be
made from San Francisco, the tele.