The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-04
CHE a1ew Dailp Appcal.
THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
LEGISLATURE-ITS IMPORTANCE
AND IT'S TENDENCIES.

URE-IIS lMHOHVANCE
AND IT'S TENDENCIES.
We are glad to know that an effort
at securing concert of action
amongst the Republican members of
the Senate and Assembly is to be at
tempted. OF course there will rise a
groan of virtuous suffering of soul
from those outrageously moral pol
lticians who affect to think that
king Caucus is the sovereign cause
OF all our political woes; but how
else the power which naturally be-
longs in the hands of the majority
party in the Legislature can be pre-
served from frittering away amongst
the odds and ends of Intellectual I'M
certainties we are at loss to guess.
There is great need of this prevail
ing and systematic action by Senators
and Representatives in their charac-
ter as partizans, not alone that there
may be a certainty that the two
Houses shall be organized with ex
petition and with an unbroken series
of Republican machinery. but in or
der that the main contest which
comes up for inevitable settlement
the SenatorsLip-may be settled in
the outset of the session and not be
kept dawdling along. cause Of few
erish excitement and an interruption
to needed legislation.
Nothing in the world is of a more
demoral;zing tendency than that sort
of an unorganized, loose iointed con
test which comes under the head of
"a free fight" There will be an in
finitude Of arguments volunteered
by Democrats, Dolly Warden Repub-
licans aud Constitutional Imprac
ticables to prove why there should
not be a Legislative Caucus; bat if
the Republicans who hold seats in the
Senate and Assembly would avoid
the dangers which always exist from
lack of discipline. and would supple
ment the splendid victory for Re
publicanism gained at the polls in
November by not less clean sweep
when the Legislature is called to
gether, they Will not fail to meet in
cancus; interchange views; settle all
minor differences; compromise rival
ries; make fair division of the pat
ronage, and add another bond of
strength and union to the party of
which they are the chosen represen-
tatiyes.
That there will be a dead set by
the Democracy to pick up stragglers
and thereby form the nucleus of an
opposition with which to enter the
Senatorial lists, there is no room for
doubt. The entering wedge is the
gaining OF the organization by
mongrel coalition. That much
gained and the sought for demoraliza
ton becomes pleasantly apparent to
Democrats an1 the marplots who are
their allies and fellow-conspirators
The only sure preventive of these
bad schemes is in caucussing the mat
tiers involved. Organization prom
ises and promotes success; lack of it
presages decentralization and defeat
We may be certain that the minority
will be drilled and organized. Let
it be made quite as certain that the
majority are made subject to not
less effective discipline. There is
not the slightest necessity for a com.
promise with the Democrats and
post naortem Liberals. We trust that
the caucusses called for this evening
in the Senate and Assembly Cham
bers may be largely attended, and
that whatever is then and there done
may be the result of wise and con
sentative councils and add renewed
strength to the Republican party.
OF course, however, there should
not be any action until all the Re
publican Legislators have been daily
notified and had an opportunity to
be present.
ALSO PERsoNAL-NIr. Tibbals, the