Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-27
AYOICE OF HISTORY.

We are not aware of the reason why
the political views of that medical gen
tleman retired from practice and relic Of
Ancient History. DR.. Gwin. should
have been telegraphed to Us from New
York. There was time-(and it is
hard to realize that that past so won
derously remote in all but the lapse OF
intervening time should lie within the
! memories of men now iving)-there
was time when the political notions
of Sanator Gwin. of California, formed
| an element in current opinion. 1t
| makes the man who recalls the fact that
he used to recall them with a certain
| veneration, fearfully odd! With Turk
ing consciousness of decrepitude, he is
impelled to parapbrase the past
feel the old political glow
UnaiGed DER me stealing:
The real e-histOrial
Grand fatherly sort Of feeling
It Is with quite sense of venerable
ness on US. and a misgiving whether our
view may not be tainted with the quar-
ulousDess of age, that we proceed to ex
press doubt to the importance of DR..
OWNS views. or their being entitled
to the distinction of Geographic trans
mission. At one moment we suspect
that that hoary intellect may be fash
ing in noontide splendor when it sug
gests that Democracy has before it "a
hard battle in California;" but the next
moment the thought is quenched as we
read that Il would put our Democratic
majority in that State at IL. 600" Here
is darkness indeed; a seven-fold black
ness of intellectual night. Il think"
(says the doctor-but We sorrowfully
hardly think it) Il think the Demo
Too confident of what? We would fain
know. but grope blindly in the illimit-
able void of speculation. Not confident
of carrying California against Hayes.
We may attempt to conceive a conf
dence such as that. but the effort i'm
agination willis and fu.ters limp and
helpless to the ground. That, at lea st,
falls within the category of unthinka5le
things. 1t is some comfort to know
that DIR. Gwin is cemingto California
forthwith. Then We shall learn what it
is the Democrats here are confident of.
Fill then, we yearn.
We find this. we are slightly astenish-
ed to say. in the Sacramento Record
Union. The queerness of it is that that
paper of all others should presume to
make fun o: the venerable discoverer of |
the suburban delightfulness of Lime
Point. DR.. OWNS mission at Washing |
on has been the promotion Of the
Railway scheme. He has been
he grim. gigantic proxy Of Dave Cotton
I Company-the same being our amiable
Id friend Leland Stanford, Huntington
al. These are in battle array against
Tom Scott. These, seconded by Milton
J. Latham. Frank McCoppin. ex-senator
Iasserly and others, at the Doctors sug-
estion, invited Lamar. Gordon. Ran
ON, Sunset Cox and some more men,
ers of the Confederate side of the House
t Representatives to come to California
nd view out the beauties of the South
m line of railroad. Suppose they had
lready come, and that one Inflated
lorning at the breakfast table they had
,ken up the railroad oompany's organ
I'd seen their venerable sympathiser, en- =
oy and ally thus ridiculed, what would
ave been the result? We shudder as
e contemplate it, But railroad organs, q
Ike railroad steam boilers, will some
mes explode.