Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-01-07
,s., AND 1873 - FIGURES RE
vERSED.

The result Of the State elections in
,sTa NAV be set down as n crushing de-
iss, of the Republican or Administration
ar,v and as an ever memorable victory
ia Democracy. There is much in il
hat reminds us OF the history of the
vast II seems as IL 1887 was come again.
and by an extraordinary coincidence the
same figures denote 1t, with the excep-
non that the fourth has become the third
in the row. In 1887 the downfall of the
democracy, who had been in possession
Of power for eight years, was simultane-
onsIy with financial panic that over
spread the country, depressing business
and throwing hundreds and thousands
of people out Of employment. For il the
Administration was held responsible,
States which had been the most reliable
for General Jackson, and for his then
inst inaugurated successor, Martin Van
Buren, were carried by the Wings by
large majorities. New York, which had
given Van Bureu in the proceeding fall
$4,000 majority, elected one hundred
Wings to the House of Assembly to 28
Democrats. The reaction was complete.
But the Democrats endeavored to console
themselves by the reflection that the
vote was light, and that thousands of
Democrats stayed at home FROM dissatis-
faction, who, when President or Gov
ernor was chosen, would again come out
and vote the ticket. The result proved
the vanity OF the delusion. 1t WAS the
"oif year" just after the Presidential
contest. Three years passed away, and
A. ia1 t.,a1, n.
opposition to the Democratic Admins
triiion of Martin Van Buren, consisted OF
several organizations, North and South,
but by far the most important OF them
WAS known as Wings. Under that name
everything rallied in 1840 and, although
the vote was half million larger than
ever before known, Mr.. Van Buren, was
voted out by an unprecedented majority,
receiving but 60 electoral votes out Of
294 and carrying but seven States out
of the twenty-six which then composed
the Union Then Democracy, for the
first time, preceived that the results OF
1887 were not momentary. but they ex.
pressed the full aud deep settled convic.
ions Of the people.
In 1873, thirty-six years thereafter,
without the change Of figure, we fnd a
similar state of things. A National Ad-
ministration, elected year before by an
enormous majority, 10 everywhere con-
demned. With this change comes q q.
nancial panic almost like that OF 1887
Strike out the name of Grant and insert
Martin Van Buren, and it is history re-
peating itself. By the defeated party the
same ideas are advanced, that the re-
verses are but temporary. What de-
lnsion they are laboring under the course
Of events will tell The people are going
to combine in 1876, just as they did in
1910. to vote out the Administration.
organization which is the most conspic-
uous, and could do the most in effecting
toe great purposes Of the opposition. II
WAS then the Wing party. Now it is the
Democratic party Hundreds OF thous.
auds who had never been Wings, who
had ranked themselves as States Rights
Democrats, supported the Wing nominee
in the Presidential election of 1910
There is supreme absurbity in the idea
that people are willing to vote who are
and have been Democrats for years, buI
will not do SO II they call themselves
Democrats. There is no such prejudic,
existing against names. People look tS
things rather than to names. They ar
down upon the existing Administration
and will favor that which gives them tn
opportunity of rectifying it. 1t is foil.
to say they will submit to everything
rather than be Democrats. That !
moral cowardice of the worst character
There is nothing in the word Democra
of which anybody is to be afraid.