Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-09-29
rnR CiTY AND rnI c0UxrRY

1 - ~ ANO 10 NVO&A0A
! AeDaeumpseary makss . carious
GlatoDeos d regard 10 eoWuepeople
Ard ~ rlral population and their
moral and political Standing.
Il says the Democratic party 10
strongest in the large towns the
Republican party il the strongest in
the rural districts the towns are
the eenesrs Of crime and immoralitv
the rural districts are comparatively
free from such stains therefore, the
Republican party 10 the party Of
morality and the Democratic party
IL the reverse.
Granting the position that the
Democratic party Is the strongest
in the large towns, what does II
showf It shows that it is the party
Of the people the party of pro
gress aud Of resistance to all ct.
tcmpts to injure free institutions.
Virginia chronicle.
The Chronicle must surely have
intended that last paragraph for .
Joke. 1t must have been 50 intend.
ed or else il belonged really tn some
other article, and got misplaced in
the making up. Its present juxtapo-
sition clothes it with all the charac-
tsristics of . naive Joke. But then
we can imagine the perplexity ofa
Democratic editor in undertaking
the hopeless task Of defending the
Democracy of back alleys, dead-falls.
wharves, Barbary Coasts and disre-
putable places generally in large
cities. That Democracy does most
abound in those places no intelligen,
editor will attempt to deny. To de-
clare that because it does flourish in
those unwholesome localities it is the
party ef the people, is to declare by
implication that the people are gen.
orally disrsputable, that crime lie th-
rule and virtue the exception. The
Chronicle labors very iudustriously
and inselligently for the Democratic
party, and is seldom guilty Of so weak
a defense Is the foregoing. But who
could have an such . cause offered
better plea for the politics Of the
scum of the citiesi The Chronicle
perpetrstes several other dry jokes in
the course Of q half column ar
ticle intended to show that it 10 the
superior intelligence Of city people,
their rrstiveness and unwilling
ness to submit to ill.usags,
that fosters the growth among
them IN Democratic primer
pies AIs re Republicanism 10 Eu-
rope, says that paper, is 10 the
large towns. OF course it Is. Who
ever knew of political movement
taking Its rise in the countryi The
monarchists of Europe operate also
from the cities and towns aud arc
strongest there. The bad element
Of society is always in the cisies and
towns, and in this country that ele-
ment is ninety per cent Democratic.
That is the reason that Democracy is
strongest in those places. and there
is no other reason for il. To saw
that the right sort OF political move
ments origin-te in cities does not
explain the phenomenon. As well
might it be said that scientific ad-
vsncement and all intellectual pro-
gress whatever originate in the me-
tropolis and assign that - I'll. cause
Of the gross ignorance and squslor
that Are side by side with those.
The fact is that country people are
generally free, honest and Repub-
iican, while their brethren Of the
city, as rule their superiors in men,
tality. have with them the lowest
TYPES OF the nationality, who are by
instinct opposed to law and who for
plain reasons are always IN favor of
change of administration They have
nothing to lose by the change and
possibly something to gain. In this
country this element 10 Democratic.
1t would occupy too much space to
tell why it is Democratic The rea.
son 10 found in the character of the
people themselves.
Remember that multitudes yearly
die drunkard's death. Il Rev. G.
L. Fisher.