Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-14
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POLITICAL PLATFORM.

EDITOR SENTINEL: Have you ever
reflected upon the confusion and mis-
apprehension and private scandal, and
even political broils which have arisen
from the improper use OF the plural
pronoun weP Suppose, for instance,
that princes, potentates and editors are
entitled to the use of such iInpersonal
forms of expression, still why should
an outside correspondent attempt to
shield himself behind such an indef-
mite and characterless a pronoun ?
When come to think of IL, would not
the effort appear like a revival Of
those curiously metaphysical disqui-
sitions about the me and the not mes
Or, worse still, might no the constant
use of the not me, as involved in the
impersonal are, so rapidly impair our
self-recognition that restoration of con-
o identity would depend upon
the ability of whistling up some anti
qnated partisan of State wide reputa-
ton +? However, my use of the edito-
rial zee was n dvertent and never in
tended to create confusion. L make
no apology for my youth or want of
political recognition in Nevada. More
over, no credit is my due for a mere
rehearsal OF the political history of
platforms.
Readers Of my first communication
will pardon a DEPRESSION so apparently
impertinent as the foregoing; yet how
often has the world beer agopiZed over
mistaken identity? And how often has
Innocence almost perjured itself by
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table dogtnas of onv%entions? / well
remember in what terrible language
Webster did, on the 10th of May, 1851,
condemn the duplicity embodied in
partisan dogmas. i well remember
the vivid grandeur of that iniimitable
voice, when he cried out, "Yes, sir,
they pledged themselves the candi-
dates to support the glorious Constitu-
ton Of our country, but with a mental
Ie~Serudtion.n Is it necessary, after
fully demonstrating the perfdy and
the partisan character of platforms, to
admit their binding force? Could you
have found a Webster, a Calhoun, or
we're Tyler or Fillmore, Lincoln or
Johnson the instruments of despotic
decrees? Yea, more, is not Mr.. Hayes
"A still more glorious illustration of the
growing disregard (of the rising gener-
alton, especially for conventional
platforms as promulgated in these
days? Hayes stands upon no middle
ground, aud almost his first ACT WAS to
violate conventional pledges, bridge
the bloody chasm, withdraw
the military and restore home
rule to an afflicted people. Who
dervishes of disappointed ambition?
Their bellies, u he sure, are full of
bitterness. But they are yet to learn
that the God OF Israel rules, and that
It's unmanly, unchristian, and IN
patriotic to proloug the oppression of
sister States just To perpetuate party
advantages, and conventional adhe-
sious. We Conservative Republicans
do readily admit that could MIR.
Hayes conciliatory and patriotic
curse have been forecast, he could
not have carried a single State by the
Republican vote. IA then would he
not have carried every Democrat in
every State a. aga inst Mr.. Tilden?
We moderate Republicans are no
quite as much in love with Mr.. Hayes
civil service reform as with. his peace
policy, and herein we may find other
grounds of fellowship with fair minded
Democrats. We are not fully persuad-
tu VI ally collsNltuIloudl IikuI 10 pro-
hibit an official from attending a poll
teal meeting any more tina a circus
or a church, nor to debar his right of
contributing to each or all. In fact,
for one, l am persuaded he is quite
wrong in this one measure, and /
would, on the contrary, tax every of
fetal for the support of his party, and
emancipate the masses. What most
the people now need is honesty i'm the
conventions which nominate can
didates, and frank and intelligent res
olutions or platforms. /, for one, don't
imagine the Republican Convention OF
1880 will make the same mistake as i'm
rs, but tits quite likely it will prefer
to move over to Mr.. Hayes and re-
nominate him. Indeed, he is, and Witt
remain the only aUdiia6te candidate OF
u great party for 1850. A little cloud
may temporarily obscure his pros |
poets in November, especially along
the %jetties of Louisiana, but by admit
ting kellogg and holding Nichols to
his solemn pledges 10 Stanley
Mathews, all will remain as odor-
ferrous as a rose of Araby. Ha