Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-14
PROMISES AND PERFORMANCES.

With the crocuseS and The daifodils
that announce The coming of spring
will come the avant courier OF the cir
Gus. Dead wall and fence, and bar
room screen Will he cover with Cor-
geouS posie.,, wherein shall be de-
yicted in rainbow tints, he athletic.
and acrohafi,., and Geological wonders
of the coming show. Clowns whose
original wit shall convulso the audi
ence with inex;inguishable laughter,
acrobatS whose Siuuous lornls shall
fash through the air in double and
treble somarsaults, equestrian artists
whose reckless vaultin- on fiery
s.eeds shall excite the wonder of
thousands, athletes who vie with
atlas in bearing burdens, elephants
who dance hornpipes, tigers who abate
their ferccity and own man for a mon
arch, and Iuonkevs who play fantastic
tricks to the music Of mighty bands
amid streams of colored fire-all these
appear in gorgeous procession upon
tho attractive show bill. The old boys
who have before,ime been beguiied
by the circus poster. Will probably
trust Ia its bedizened promises once
again ani drop their trade dollars
INTO the OTiiice IL the canvass. Once
entered, they viii find that the grea;
brass band i only siueaking fiddle.
4 whey ciaEionet, and 4 hoarse and
irregular drum: the tinted lights are
but tallow dips; the tiger has been
left behind; the monkeys chatter in
SORROW and detection; the bounding
>teed is sorry hack, who ambles
around the sawdust so gently that no
equestrian artist could well fall from
his broad padded back; the cannon
halls Of the athlete are of buckskin
stuffed with sawdust the somersaUltS
IF the aarobats are no different from
those of their predecessors, and the
iimping clown perpetra,es his Joe
Miiierism, and lodges the ringmas-
ter's festive whip, in the same ireary
funny style as of yore.
oar Democratic friends in California
have been going through their ben
NAL ring performances. Before the
election they made resonant the land
with their declarations OF hostility n
The bIoated monopoly which was
.,,cI;,rr .I,o l;E, bIooJ If Tho yaor1Ia
In convention and on rostIum did
they promise to reduce fares and
ire.ghts, and suppress eNactions, and
cure the power Of the Central Pacific
generally. There We're guileless ones
who believed in the flaming posters
which Democracy put forth, but, alas
for the vanity of human expectations.
the Legislature has come and gone,
and the performance was-as usual-of
no kin 10 the promises which pre-
reded it. The Railroad magnates
jingIed their shekels in the ears of .
Democratic Legislature, and il event
back" on its pledges under the influ-
'i s-pANatAA .A.iRa
freigh,s have not been regulated, dis |
Elimination in rates has not been pro-
hibited by law, and the only bill
which Inadvertently passed the Cali |
iornia Legislature in antagonism TO
the interests of the Central Pacific |
Railroads. bill to compel the Rail-
road Company 10 designate an agent
in each county ofthe State, on whom
process might be served was quietly |
pocketed by the Democratic Governor.
And so the great tent is folded, and
the lights extinguished, and the show
closed for the season. And next year,
We suppose the time honored swindle
will lie repeated, and probably the
often beguiled public will be quite
ready to be beguiled again. Let the
again crack his whip, and
the posturing baboon renew his GRIM
aces. Whoop Ia great is The power
Of humbug.
A New York Tribune Washington spe-