Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-31
THE EVE or TIE BATTLE.

close. Toby ami Tomorrow and an
o:her day past, AMI we are to BE csii req
/ upon tue field OF strife. Tor v.r:cuS
| causes THIS i.as been the most bitter ami
personally offensive campaign ever
! known in Nevada The most prom'-
neut reason for this bitterness and these
rancorous personalities is in the fact thai
| the opponents OF the Republican party
have had nothing more substantial than
| personal enmity and malignant dc'rac-
| ton on which 20 rest their opposition
| They know better than to fight our rrin-
ciples; they dare not compare records
with US; they shrink from comparison
| of platform; and they seek to cover up
their own deformities and blind the pub
| lie to their own defects by loud and
| persistent course OF abuse and vililfica-
! ton against the representative men oi
the Republican press and party. The
| opposition, then, is nothing better than
| a violent, insensate Lue-aDd-cry. No
body pretends that the candidates OF the
Democracy are any better fitted by natu-
raj gifts or requirements than the Ee-
| nublican nominees; not one OF the OPP
| position orators or journalists dares set
| anv Senatorial candidate against the
field. as the Republican party has virtu-
ally done. In this strugsle-the strus-
Gle for the Senatorship-not even Sutro's
| own paper has the effrontery to set h'm
up as u candidate: and the Democrats
are few and far between who are willing
to acknowledge allegiance to General
Williams. In fact, SO far as the Demo-
cracy are concerned, Kendall states their
plight and purposes exactly. They have
been captured by the Chivalry wing o!
that organization. and their State Ticket
is a Confederate Bill of Fare" The
distinctive politics. having reference to
| National issues, are between the Union
Republican Party and the Secession
Democracy. 1t is tho old, old, ir.epres-
sible struggle of Nationalism against
State Sovereignty. Tho local fight Is
the preservation of Miners Rights and
miners hopes on the one side. and Sutro
and his piratical schemes on the other.
Entrusted in the hands of the EepublI-
can party Of Nevada, then, is the yindi-
,tion Of Nationalism: the preservation
O. the Ioval record OF crIr State in the
: hail. OF Congress; tx yind;catloE q
legitimate enterprises. AID the snsteIta-
.. tio,. oi he vital i,i;t!s sts Of TIE State
against their persistent aud !nplacab.t
: euen.i-s.
= ve ready ior this struggle? II We
! are not ready, can We prepare ourselves
, for the conflict in the brief time now re-
naming? We have taree days only Es-
tween this and the opening OF the polls
The zine for expectation and argument
: has ,,assed; the hours fer work and en-
ersct;. action have arrived. We bc!Iert
that While the enemy have been dcsls!ne
exr!etiyes our friends have been stead
! fa..ly working; that while the busy lab
cratories Of the opposition have beer
coiuius lies, cur faithful friends have
steadily engaged in illustrating th'
i croundIessness of those talsehoods
. and that while the Democracy and lnde
t pendents have been wasting their tim
E in a futile effort to place .heInse,ve
= where they could watch one another an'
4 to bring about & combination whose sol
! object is the spoils OF office, tue Repub
lican party. true to its principles an'
f purposes. has maintained its profession
!. ard kept itself entirely a!oof from al
eu,ang!iug alliances. We believe. then
, that We are prepared for the comm!
Il battle; We believe that our gallant host
n will answer to the call; and We bellev'
n that the 4th of November will see tn
Democracy and their disguised camp
e followers. the Independents, the wors
= defeated rabble that has been visible il
o the political field since the day following
/ the defeat of Horace Greeley. But Il
;. aa ,corS; as if zoe might, but for eae
!; mans efforts, lose the fght'