Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-03

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with our national credit the most
favored of any nation in the world.
we have maintained peace with
all foreign States, and vet in doing
so we have submitted to no affront
and have not failed upon any occa-
sion to assert our national dignity.
At once, upon the close of the war,
although our people demanded
peace, and our country was bleeding
at a thousand wounds, we called
Great Britain, the haughtiest of all
the nations of the earth, to an ac-
count tor the injuries she had done
us during our civil war. We OBJ
tanned an ample apology and full in
demnity. This grand result we
achieved without the loss of a drop
of blood; we proposed and obtained
arbitration. The Geneva Conference
forms a precedent which has al
ready saved other nations from war,
and it saved our own. Japan and
Peru followed it, and to-day the
Emperor of Russia is acting as their
arbitrator. Germany was pushing
N w thC wall NllGll S11t pro-
posed it, and the aggression ceased.
Thus to the credit of this admins
tration stands the brightest and the
nODleSt page OF luLeTIaUioiIai row.
In the business of reconstructing
the South, who can say we have not
met with grand success, when we
have accomplished, in less than six
wears, what the Southern leaders
and their friends during the war
told us could not be accomplished
in a century, viz: reorganized So
ciety throughout the South, and
established and put in operation the
machinery of Federal Government
therein, as completely as it was in
operation before the war, and this,
too, we have accomplished without
a resort to force, whereas the asser
tons of the Democratic party were
that if we subjugated the South,
we could not rule it for an hundred
years except at the point of the
bayonet.
OF course, Interruptions to the
administration of justice have at
times occurred in the Southern
States; but certainly nothing less be
expected where nation OF men
subjugated and mutinous, carrying
into the peaceful walks of life the
disorderly habits of men who had
been soldiers for years, were left to
reorganize society in common with
a new race released from slavery,
and who have. as it were, played
but day by the shores of liberty.
| claim, therefore, that as a whole,
in the management of its financial,
foreign and domestic policy, the adj
miniStratjon has met with grand,
almost unparalleled success.
Our States condition is happy and
prosperous; our treasury is full and
overlooking; we owe no debt that we
have not the coin on hand to pay;
our laboring men receive higher
wages than elsewhere throughout
the United States, receiving it in coin
and not in paper money. The gold
in our mines is rapidly increasing,
and our agricultural resources cor
respondingly so. Real estate in our
large cities is three times its value
three or four years ago, whilst at the
same time they have been rendered
permanent cities by being put in i'm
mediate railway communication with
the other cities of the United States.
In the Senatorial contest, which
this election is to decide, ANNOUNCE
ed myself as a candidate, subject to
the will and action of the Union Re-
publican party. | went about the
State and did my best to organ
ize my friends and secure sue
cess. The party has acted, and
placed in nomination candidates for
the Legislature throughout the
State, uninstructed for me or my
opponent, although it is claimed,
and l presume it is true, that large
majority of them are favorable to
my opponent, rather than to myself.
Because this is so, because my oppo-
nent is a representative of great
wealth, and because l support my
party, an INSCRIPTIONS opposition
press assert and argue that | have
been corrupted. The only answer l
! have to make to this charge is to
refer this community TO my past
life, private and official, and if it
can be discovered from any record
that upon any occasion have been
guilty of any dishonest action, or
cast vote or expressed sentiment
not upon the side of the people and
in their interests, then you may at
tach some importance to these UNI
substantiated charges. Politically l
claim that l could have pursued no
other course, honestly, than the one
7 have. By submitting my aspira-
tons to my party l became morally
and politically bound to support
such candidates as my party should
elect. This is the head and front
and sum of my offending. | have
never asked any friends of mine to
go outside any party to serve my
interests, nor do l ever wish to OBJ
tain 1t. l must stand upon the ru-
ms of the party 1 love, which has
honored and trusted me in the past
and to which all history will ascribe
the credit of having preserved our
common country from dissolution
| and destruction.