Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-23

| hnst Friday night vas masterpiece. ne
press dispatch, a. We respected at the
time. vas garblsd to conceal its effect.
The speech cannot help but give . great
many thousand people on this coast .
better appreciation Of Mr.. Gosham. This
is the way he replied to those who have
called him carpet-baggsr: ''TweDty-
six and half years ago this very night.
the little bark IN which 1 came around
Cape Horn was standing off and on out
side the Heads. and the next day. lad
| of seventeen. landed in this State. y"
He then paid his respects TO the Bulletin
and Cali. and justified his action while
attending the State Convention in the in
te-est Of the Republican party. and an
swerei the apparent surprise of the
above-nsmei journals that he did not
subordinate the interests of tine party to
the interests of the Railroad Company,
in these words: mo man in the State
is more independent than am; no man
frser to express his opinions. What
pubic question have l ever lodged !:
What senseless prejudice have / ever
pandsred TO? Who has ever owned me,
tina, any people should express surprise
that l had done that which l conceived
to be right and just:' His notice Of the
Chronicle ard its editor. Mr.. Pixlev, was
in the happiest and most cutting style.
1t is the best specimen Of good hunored
abuse we ever read. Gorham then ex-
planned his connection with the Railroad
Company, the substance of which is con-
tanned in single sentence. as follows:
The only time vas ever candidate
for office. they the Eailroadl were OPP
posed to NE; and the only time / was
ever engaged III railroad controversy.
Booths detection he said: There was
no need for him nor any other man to 60
outside the Republican party TO fight
against the tyrrany of the few over the
many. The Republican party was born
in u fight against the landed aristocracy
of the slave Ststes-borni in an endeavor
to prevent the free Territories from
being polluted with slavery-xnd
rapidly grew into robust and IT.
resistible champion of the rights OF
man. What need. then, to look for an
other party in which to beat back any
aggression from any source upon tie
rights of any man or any set of mem"
II any have heretofore doubted the gen
uineness of the opposition OF Gorham to
the Railroad Company. this speech of
his must set the matter at rest. He SAYS
he found Governor Stanford lin politics
as well as out of them" He found Stan
ford advising TO weaken the party, and
told him lit WAS plain that certain heavy
moneyed institutions of the country were
looking toward what they deemed to be
the rising sun. They see what they
deem to be the Democratic party coming
into power, and they are willing to see
the Republican party, as far as they are
concerned. perish and die and then
further expressed belief that tho Gov
ernor was mistaken, and, whether SO or
not. it would not change his (Gorham 81 I
programme. He then declared that in |
the apathy in which he found things in
the great city of San Francisco the only |
question he heard upon his arrival was
whether San Francisco should have any
representation il .he Republican Con
ventIon or not and that he determined |
TO do what he could to change such an
order of things. His speech closed with
a review of the platform. 1t makes three
columns, solid. in the Alta,
and every sentence is sharp and
to the point. The courage. independence
and sagacity of the man are apparent
through it all. He declared he was not
and should not be candidate for any
Office, but expressed his right and inten-
ton to work for the Republican party.
and challenged all his enemies to find
anything i'll his record by which that
right could be questioned. The effect
Of his speech is more apparent in the
of the San Francisco press
han anywhere else. The Chronicle does
not attempt to controvert a statement
made; neither does the CGN nor Bulletin.
The Erominer praises its courage, and
he Post insists that if the Democracy
'1pect to elect their ticket, it must be
rom the best material in the party in
he State. After the abuse that has been
ieaped upon Gorham for years by the
Democratic and Independent press of
the way this speech is met by
hose organs is most pitiatle to see.
iorham is a terrible big little man. !
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