Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-07-11
rnE INDEPENDENTS N EUREKA.
For some three weeks past a "call,"

THE INDEPENDENTS IN EUREKA.
For some three weeks past q "call,"
signed ostensibly by a number OF eiti-
zens OF Eureka. has been Published in
the CUPID. calling upon the people OF
that fiourishing town to meet at the
Court House on July s. 1874. to organ
lie an Independent party. onthe even
ing in question, q vast coneourse OF
ninety persons assembled. and after a
formal organization, an indictment Of
the Republican and Democratic parties
was read and a platform adopted. The
resolutions therein perform obsequies
over the Democratic party, which, II is
alleged. has died Of its own corruption.
and propose to place the Republican
party in the same grave without a monu
ment (this last is the most IN
kindest cut Of ally. and to re-
member both parties only for their
past good deeds. They formally
declare q severance from both the DEM
ocratic and Republican parties Zone a
cold corpus and the other to be i'm
mediately c~remated), and proclaim the
new party the salt Of the earth. They
deneunce the caucus system as n fraud
and q humbug. and place primary cleo
tons in the SAME category; advocate the
nomination Of only honest, capable and
incoruptible men. but forget to- say
how tho latter is to be accomplished
without either a caucus or primary cleo
ton. By the way. this Is a fatal omis-
sion and is the rock upon which all In
dependent parties stumble. They have
thus far failed to find any substitute for
the caucus or primary election as a
means Of selecting candidates. The
platform then discusses the railroad
question and takes the identical ground
occupied by the Republicans OF Illinois
and Indiana In their conventions. held
last month. and exactly the position long
since taken and now held by the leading
Republican papers Of Nevada. The
platform being adopted. speeches were
made by q few disinterested non-ofice
seekers. some Of whom according to the
Sentinel from whose very full report OF
the meeting we compile this e%1tract) are
residents OF Eureka county. and others
like our own Elliott are emigrants from
the more progressive and purcr realms
lying east Of the Rocky mountains.
They appealed in passionate accents to
tho free and noble electors Of Nevada
not to be longer bound down in the
mmacles wherewith those Republican
and Democratic tyrants-Bradley. Ho-
bart. Schooling. Minor, ct d.-had fet-
tered them. not to allow the State
Treasury to DO longer depleted by such
n set OF political corruptionists, but
arise in their majesty and hurl from
out the temple OF freedom those infam-
Gus money changers, Thee. Hale and
Mike Wager who had turned the afore-
said temple into a den OF thieves. AL
these flaming truths and much more did
these patriots hurl at that vast audience
OF ninety e free and Independent elect
ors." At least these are the. ideas wa
gather from reading the reported speech
es-oi course we do not quote their ex-
act language. Then came the ''call to
the unconverted." Not Baater's. but
Miss Dolly varden's. And tho vast au-
diencs remained spell-bound; no frantic
rushing to the anxious seat to sign the
mystic parchment which should make
them truly independent. Out Of the
ncour only Ave desired to be reliev-
cd from the manacles which CALLED. the
shackles which fettered their free love-
ments. How blind is man! How little
IL he able to appreciate the good things
which the gods provide! Only Ave free
and independent electors in Eurekal
Well may " despair of the pcrpetuity
Of the Republic when such utter indif-
ference Is manifested by her citizens.
Doubtless we shall hear Of more enthusi-
asm in Carson to-day. where in spite Of
Sutro's advice ii is alleged the indie
pendents will gather themselves to-
getaor.