Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-14

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Republican paper, just as it has freaks
OF protesting pretty much everything
else. After the Republican State Cen
trail Committee had issued its address.
the Chronicle. in tardy and half
hearted way. gave it its endorsement.
This was done in order to place itself
where it might seem to be an authority
in matters relating to the Republican
party of California. The motive dates
from q crude diabolism of the Pixlerian
sort. The De Youngs are the embodi-
ment Of journalistic total depravity, and
Frank Pi1ley is their pocket edition Of
Satan. Sin and the Devil thus acting
in concert can and do perpetrate good
deal of superficial badness. The De
Youngs don't want to do any better, and
Frank can't help being as bad as he is.
Thus it happens that the Chronicle treats
Sargent's announcement of non-can-
didacy as if it were the result Of trade
between the Senator and Secretary Cor
ham. Says the Pi1lerian organ with an
air Of candor and truthfulness which is
calculated to mislead the unwary:
In reply to letter of 7. B. McFar-
land of Sacramento, inquiring of Senator
Sargent his intentions in reference to a
second Senatorial candidacy, he replies
that under no circumstances will he seek
OF accept the position. 1t was under
stood when he was originally elected
that it was the result of an agreement
between himself and Mr.. Gorham. that
N consideration of Gorham 5 services to
Sargent the latter should assist GorhaM
TO succeed Senator Casserly, and in event
of a miscarriage of that plan, Sargent
should give place to Gorham. 1t is be-
Heved in political circles that the decla-
ration of Senator Sargent at this time of
his proposed retirement is the carrying
out in good faith the original compact.
This way Of putting the case is in
tended to effect two objects as well as to
carry on the present purpose of making
as much mischief as possible and to not
lose an opportunity to tell a neat and
plausible lie. One of these objects is to
annoy Gorham, and the other is to COM
pei him to disclaimer. The Chronicle
is rather friendly to Sargent than other |
wise; but when a point of its own is to
be gained the Chronicle knows no friends. !
Now as to Sargent's election in 1872
we know but little. But We do know
Mr.. Sargent well. He is another kind
of man than to let anybody own any part
of himself. There is no doubt that Mr..
Gorham's friends helped Mr.. Sargent
into the Senate. They would naturally
prefer him, who is courageous, hon
orable, manful person to a man like Cor
nelius Cole. The choice was between
Cole and Sargent. The charge that
there was an agreement that Gorham
should succeed Casserly is not borne out
by the facts. Mr.. Gorham's name was
not even mentioned in the contest which
resulted in the election of Booth More
over, George Gorham has never in his
life bartered or traded nor in any man
ner made terms looking to his own ele-
walton to any office. He has fought
harder than any man in the Republican
party Of California for the success of that
party, and never but once in all the
years since the formation of the Union
party of that State with which he had
more to do than any man living or dead,
has he sought or obtained nomin-
alton for any Office. He was nominated
for Governor in 1867. fairly AID honest
". and Frank Pix!ey assented to and
conceded in the nomination by act and
speech. There is TO man IN California |
Who SO richly deserves the highest
honors that the Republicans of that
State have to bestOw, as this same much
abused George c. GorLam, and the
editor Of the Chronicle knows if, and
knows, also, that Gorham is entirely in
capable of ezacting or attempting to ex-
act such terms as are limited at in the
extract quoted from that paper. More
over, with 9Ir. Gorham's conceded
shrewdness, and his known strength in
the Legislature of 1872, if he had been
going to make any terms with Sargent
ef oil he uo11li have taEen fia y,riza |