Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-07-23
Executive COMMITTEE,

WASHINGTON. ID. c., -, 1875.
DEAR Sn:--In view Of the approach
ing Presidential campaign and the State
elections, which are to occur the coming
Autumn, this committee has been directed
to provide for the immediate and thor
or2h reorganization Of the Republican
party and the circulation Of such docu-
ments as will be essential for tho work.
Assuming you to be Republican desir-
Gus Of maintaining the ascendency OF the
Republican party, and thus securing the
benefits of Republican principles. and to
do this you are willing to contribute TO o
reasonable extent in providing necessary
and legitimate means TO support the Re-
publican party, both in the form OF per-
sonal effort and in the contribution, we
hope you may be willing to send to the
committee S., to BIO expended as
above indicated. The committee desire
to enter upon their duties at once. and Il
is OF the utmost importance that they be
able to make up the list Of contributors
and those who will take an active part In
the work, and to judge the extent OF the
means to be at their disposal by tho 7th
day Of the coming month. Please reply
uuucI CoNeE VI tuo encioseu euNeiope,
and greatly oblige the committee and
your obedient servant,
]. NJ. EDMuNDs, Secretary.
Our object In giving publicity TO this
precious Illumination is to call attention
to the inherent tendency to subvort our
institutions. 1.-Two were under the reign
OF monarch such course Of action to-
ward his satraps might be UNSUITABLE.
But. that a great political party in this
much-vaunted land OF freedom, where
the right Of exercising individual opinion
Is guaranteed to all, should attempt e
shackle the minds and influence the in.
dlvidual oonsciences of its employees,
demonstrates an entire disregard for the
fundamental principles of our liberties,
and argues subvertive and destroy.
ing recklessness relative to our ins,itu-
tions. It is a tacit assertion on the
part OF the Republicans that that party
considers that its employees and paid as
sistants must surrender their individual
Judgments and principles to its DONNA
ton. In plain English the party leaders
assert that in paying their employees TO,
services rendered, they buy them. body
and breeches, and regard them as auto
matte machines to be manipulated n,
they may dictate. A great statesman, o
past era, with prophetic voice once de
clared that the only danger to America,
liberties or the glorious future of th
nation lay in ourselves, that no outsid
Influence could disunite the Union O
destroy our liberties, but that our des
truction would be II ever, the result {
inherent defects. Every American
eager to defend his country, and il
foreign lands or on an alien shore h
sees the Stars and Stripes floating, h
feels thrill OF patriotism in his fran
and exults in the thought OF his birth
right Of freedom. All this is we'll, bu
like the nauseous worm in the heart of
beautiful rose. though all Ia fair without
the elements of corruption are at worl
even now and insidiously attackin,
the very heart of liberty, in weakening
the sense of individual honor and manly
integrity which in oil ages and countrie,
has been considered the groundwork an,
pillar Of civil liberty.