Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-10
AN INTANGIBLE STRAW OF DOLLY
WARDEN COMFORT.

Under this head the San Francisco
Pos. thus ably disposes of the shallov
assumptions Of the Dolly Warden Pres
regarding Sargent and Gorham and tn
acts and attitude Of the Republican
party:
The Dolly Warden papers are strug
Cling fearfully in their endeavors Il
grasp q straw Of comfort from the sea O.
Overwhelming defeat; and they pretend
to have found it in the assumption thai
Cochran and Sargent - have been beat
en- as we'll as themselves. It may appear
cruel to rob them of even this trifine
consolation by exposing its intangibility
but it is as well that they should appre.
| ciate the situation at once, and swallow
their entire humiliation while they are
! about it. Impartial observers, who are
not afraid to speak the truth, must con-
cede that Sargent and Gorhanl have won
gallant victory, even in the face OF the
defeat of their ticket at the polls. They
came to California and found their party
split asunder and demoralized. The
railroad stigma had sunk it SO deep that
many of the Oldest and shrewdest poll
ticians in the State regarded its condl-
ton as hopeless and asserted that it
could cut no important figure in the CAM
paign. Sargent and Gorham as skilled
political physicians diagnosed the case.
discovered the root of the disease and
made bold incision that removed the
railroad cancer from the body polite and
placed their party squarely in harmony
with public sentiment on the leading
local issues of the campaign. They did
not shirk the responsibilities Of the sit
uation, but courageously took the work
upon their own shoulders, willing to
bear all the abuse which they knew
would follow, and that their party should
reap the benefits of the treatment should
it prove successful. The fact that Sena-
tor Sargent presided over the Conven-
ton, and Secretary Gorham nanifestly
shaped the party policy as Chairman OF
the Committee on Platform and Resolu-
tions, was made the most of by their
opponents, and the fact of their party
leadership was no longer questioned or
denied. Every device of Dolly Warden
ingenuity, and every plan 10 arouse old
animosities, was used to bring the Re
publican party and its two leaders into
disrepute: and after brief season the
subject was waived away with Pod
srapian sweep as having been entirely
disposed Of. Senator Booth had I'M
questionably up to this time enjoyed a
large share of the public confidence, and
his influence at the commencement OF
the campaign was undoubtedly great.
That he was a shallow pretender and a
de1nagogue of the higher order was
pretty well understood by thinking men,
but the mask had never been completely
torn from his face, and he dwelt compla
Gently under the shelter OF his own pre-
tensions and the fulsome putery of his
journalistic hackers. To expose this
man in his true light was a task which
Mr.. Gorham assumed, and he did his
work most effectualiy-so thoroughly in
deed that Booth 5 further efforts in the
comprised only the utterance
of mush and milk platitudes III obscure
country villages. His guns were COM
pletely spiked. Senator Sargent, IS his
part of the work, took the bepuffed and
inflated Bidwell in hand, punctured the
bladder of his pomposity, and kept him
busy during the entire campaign endeav-
oring to defend himself against we'll sus-
tanned charges not only inconsistent with
his political assumptions, but with his
professions as an honest man. When
the campaign opened it was generally
that the fight lay between Bid
well and Irwin, and that the contest
would be a close one. The mastery
made by Sargent and Gorham
was mainly instrumental in completely
the Dolly Warden party and
bringing in the Republican party as a
good second, with a strength for the |
coming Presidential contest that is not |
TO be despised. A survey Of the situa- /.
ton after the smoke of battle has cleared |
away, shows Senator Booth without
party, the Independent movement in |
California dead beyond resurrection, not |
4 county in the State for Bidwell, only |
one Assemblyman and one Senator as |
he Dolly Warden representation IN the |
the power of the Independ- |
mt organs gone forever. and che Repub-
lean party strong and aggressive. 1t |
strikes Us, and We have no doubt it will
20 strike other impartial observers, that
sargent and Gorham have not been SO
,ery badly beaten after all. and the VIC
DRY which the Dolly Vardens claim over
hem will call to mind that parallel case
u which John Phoenix held Judge Ames
lown by inserting his nose between
Ames' teeth.