Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-10
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
TFrom the SENrNEL's Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.

EDITOR SENTINEL: The Democratic
campaign was formally opened last
evening by an ablea n eloquent speech
by DR.. l.. G. Shorb, State Elector at
large. Platt's Hall was crowded as it
never was before, fully 1900 being
present, and Of that intelligent class of
ladies' and gentlemen who are not
classed among the rank Republican
rabble. John G. Maynard, the gem
eral manager of our forces, called
the meeting to order, and nominated
John Fl. Baird az President. He was
elected by unanimous accla,natlon.
In short, the orator of the evening,
who was to set the ball in ~inotion, was
introduced and received with the widest
enthusiasm. He said from to night
the curtain falls on medicine and rises
on politics, not to be rung down until
the smoke of the battle of this cam
paign has cleared away. In 1868 we
ffered Seymour to the country, but
he was rejected for Grant; in 1877. we
offered you Honest old Horace Gree
lev" a man "a thousand times better
than Grant; and yet he was rejected;
now we offer yon Governor Tilden, a
better mar than Hayes, and if you re-
ject him, let the disaster of bad govern
ment sweep you from the face of Gods
earth. If the Democratic party is de-
feated, then we may accept with resig-
nation our faith that the days of this
Republic are numbered as with this
century. My only prayer is that our
country be Observation-Disclosures it be
through the Democratic or Republi-
can party, only that it BE- preserved;
and that the people be free-every man
a king-and net ruled by b%ayonets as
in the oppressed South. 1t is for the
people to say how long this chaotic
state of things shall exist. In their
oppression the Radical Congress has
exceeded anything ever attempted by
a Caesar, a Cromwell or a Napoleon;
have not only overturned their State
governments, but confiscated their
and DISTINGUISHED a half mil
lion of voters. Thieving carpet-bag-
gers have plundered those people I'M
the sanction of Grant, upheld by
military, and now the debt of those
Southern States is one hundred mil.
lions moro than that OF all the other
States in the Union combined. To
hear the Radical speakers and read the
Radical "bloody shirt" papers. one
think the rebellion had not
that Grant a fighting in the
Wilderness, and that Sherman vas
marching to the sea in the reir of the
Confederate army. The war has been
ten year. aud the grass has grown
green over the sanguInary fields of
Gettysburg, Malvern Hill, and Chan.
,ellorsville. These men who keep up
he cry OF treason and rebellion never
heard the "rebel ~yell'-they would
have died of fright if they had; but
while the true valor of our land were
fighting for the preservation Of the
these skulking towards, who
now so loudly boast their patriotism,
remained at home robbing the Gov
ernment and the widows and orphans
of Union soldiers,
The misrule of the Republican party
has made the cry of "Tiiden and Re-
form" a necessity. We have had
enough of Grantism, and the election
Of Hayes is but another name for q
third term of Grantism-the most igno-
rant, debased and besotted fellow of
low instincts that ever disgraced the
nation in any capacity. Al associate
of whisky thieves, safe burglars, black
mailers and fast women, was by acct
dent elevated 10 the Presidency of the
States. Lincoln, Seward and
Sumner, the leaders OF the once re-
spectacle Republican party, are in
their honored graves, and it now has
such leaders as Cameron of Pennsyl-
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Indiana, the Sitting Bull of the Senate;
Logan of Illinois, the whisky-thief and
poker-sharp, and-Grant, surrounded
by Babcock, the safe-burglar; Belknap,
who robbed the soldiers of the plains,
and sought to evaae conviction through
the dishonor OF his own wife; the gang
of Dents, Caseys, Kelloggs, and a
legion of swindlers and thieves, who
the life blood of the nation.
Grants administration has brought
the country into disgrace, and for the
first time in our history has one Of our
foreign Ministers been Swallowed to the
dock by a London police officer and
compelled to leave like a thief in the
night; and never before did it occur
that a high foreign Minister must be
taught the proper sense of honor to
revenge his own disgrace, and after
killing the man who seduced his wife.
again lived publicly with that woman
who dishonored his name. These are
a few instances of the leaders of the
Republican partysof to-day; and last of
all, but greatest in villainy, is Beast
Ben. Butler, the spoon thief, who SCOTS
at virtue in woman, and voted in the
Charleston Convention fifty seven
times for jeff. Davis for President.
Upon the modification or repeal of
the Burlingame treaty hangs the veal
or woe of the Democratic party. 1t
came into existence under a Repub-
lican President and a Republican Con
gress. 1t is the outgrowth of the Re-
PUBLICAN party; they have kept it in
existence, and they are pledged to
Chinese suffrage. The resolution in
their Cincinnati platform commits the
party to nothing. 1t is merely to sin
vestigate;" and investigation means
nothing with Republicans. We sent q
commission to Washington; they were
UNDECIDED by the Republican Admin
istration; and California was slapped
in the face by the appointment OF an
other commission to come out here
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