Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-18

Record of the 18th inst which leads
off with the 70 flowing sentence:
The returns from the Eastern elections
held this month show that party disci-
pline Is fast losing its hold upon the
masses.
Having said this. the R4e1,r! pro
c>e,ls to point out the fact that the
Democracy have made large gains II
Massachusetts,, and that they have
carried New York. Wisconsin. VIZ
GINA AID Maryland bv msiorisieS
ranging from 400 - 5000. Il
the Republican orsaaizat;5a we're
the emily political party N he eoaa-
try. and II the DeDocracy were any
thing short CT regular army Of
political veterans there might be
some Justification Of this introiuc-
tory statement OF our contemporary 5:
but, inasmuch as the facts related
exhibit something quite the reverse
of lack of discipline on the part Of
the Democracy, tie said statement
certainly conveys lamentably i'm
perfect showing OF all the facts in
the case. Bat VIC have called atten-
ton to this matter for another and
more serious object than to bubble
about terms with our friends of the
Record We desire to remind our
Republican friends OF the danger to
be arprehended from coquetting
with the side issues that are continu-
ally being conjured up by the uneasy |
demaSogues who hang about the
skirts Of the great political parties
OF the time. The Democratic party
was like to have lost its life in tam
pering with Vallandigham's "New
Departure prescription ; and what
of vitality i. had left after that vain
it came within an ace of
losing altogether by surrendering
itself to the Possum Policy of its
Missouri doctors and the over-cudd-
ling Of the Bohemians at Cincinnati
in 1872. But the germs Of life have
never been suffered to die ou.-,he
nut and kernel of organization are
sill alive: and round that nucleus as
around a common center all the
loose and vagrant atoms of political :
lie have lowered and sympathisel
and, finally, concentrated. The
lime has not come and will not come.
hose many years, yet, when anv
political leverage will
be exercised by any other agency
han either the Republican or the
Democratic party. Look at the re-
nit in Nevada in 1870. A small
minority of the Republican party.
'vercome at the primaries, bolted
he nominations made at Elko and
defeated the leading candidates upon
he ticket. The result was q Demo
ratio Governor and Congressman- ::
nd some other officers. The dis
racting cry was ':Anti Bank the g
esult was nothing more definite. SO
ar as the Bank Of California was
oncerne,.., than the mild orgies of
town meeting in C2nneetlcut
-ould have been. The Bank {,
al done nothing but to fur fl
ish the stuf1ing for n busbear =
'hich proved a good enough Morgan h
II the Democracy. So with .
[aight's election in 1867, in Califor s. s.
la. It was the result of stampede
ID by catchwords; and Haight's
term did nothing and Of
tempted nothing against the Chi Sc
ese; and as to subsidies, they d
punished as they never fiourished il
efore. A pretty theory will never 50
lin Roadway against hard and
reality. All the glowing
that can be injected into Fl
column of the Enterprise cannot b
Dliterate the fact that whenever N
Their one of the great parties is dis o.