Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-11-24
THE PREDICAMENT IN THE SENATE.

causes Oh lnlS pllgnV are, DTleHy stateu, DIS
follows
I. The inexcusable absence of Senator
Sharon of Nevada.
H. The death of Senator Morton of In
diana.
III. The Ku klux khan in South Carolina.
" The Ku klux khan in Florida.
V. The illness and necessary absence of
Senator Blaine.
VI. The folly of the Republican majority
in not having, long ago, admitted Kellogg to
seat as Senator from Louisiana.
VII. (And this should have been stated as
one of the first causes); the demoralizatinn
exercised upon the party and the country by
Hayes and his agents
Sharon stays in San Francisco because of
his personal interest in the game of "Who
shall supply San Francisco with water?" His
private matters swamp his political and Off
cial duties. He is at poker table and don't
dare leave for fear of the tricks that will be
played upon him.
Morton's death helps Dan Voorhees, to
voice in determining between the Lost Cause
and the Cause of the Nation. Of course he
sides with the Confederacy
The Ku klux khan of South Carolina having
secured Hayes for an ally and driven Cham
berlain out of the State, are now using Grand
Jury as machine wherewith to destroy Re-
publican Representatives and bring to dis
graceful terms a Republican Senator. If Pat
terson is guilty of what he is charged it is
compromising felony to let him escape upon
any terms. To barter off an indictment for a
seat in the Senate is almost as bad as to bar
ter off Carolina and Louisiana for seat in
the Presidency.
Conovers poltroonery is no excuse for a
condition of affairs in Florida which is nothing
but a surrender to the White Liners free
handed fAtriot in the White House in place
of hypocrite who is handcuffed by the An
jacksonville jailors would put stop to such
highwayman-ike outrages.
Senator Blaine, will, we trust, be in his |
seat in time to prevent Republicanism becom-
ing Lost Cause. Perhaps he regrets having |
so far paltered with the rebels in 1875 as to
cause the defeat of the Force Bill
The procrastination and delay the shilly |
shally policy of the Senate in not admitting
Kellogg, long since, is only too painfully evil |
dent.
Hayes by his course toward the South by
the very fact Qet alone the terms) of the
Wormley Conference by his determination
with the Southern Democracy and disdain Of
the Southern Republicans has justified Patter-
son and Conover in their shamelessness. He
is as much worse than they as his position,
his responsibility and his example are more
influential and important than theirs.
There is possibility that the threatened
disaster may be temporarily averted If
Sharon will take the cars and use his power
(Which is entirely available) to have himself
taken across the continent by the speed of
special train and clear track, he can get to
Washington, even now, in time to be of some
avail to his doom threatened party. Will he
do it2
The Senate of the United States never was
so disgraced as by the intrigues which have
been conducted between the negociators for
their votes and Senators Patterson and Como
YER Patterson is under indictment for what
may be termed political felonies in South
Carolina Butler (of the Hamburg Massacre
is knocking at the door of the SEN ,
ate for admission to that body. If Patterson -,
will vote for him, Hampton and the rest of
the South Carolina ku klux will let him off
with nolle prosequi. Their terms are, But ..
Ter or the Penitentiary 1t matters not that
he is the victim of foul conspiracy Gas Small .
also is): the rebels have been restored to
power in Carolina and they will not relax t
their grasp Conover is not. like Patterson, T
under indictment; but his head is in the tt +
5ers mouth and he trembles for his life But t.
er or Confscation are the terms of his diem d
ma. These et-baggers can, by the timely s.
show of courage which we suspect they do Il
not own, save the Republican party from the f
oss of the upper branch of Congress. 1t is r.
possible, as we have limited, that Blaine and n
Sharon may arrive in time to prevent the con- W
ummation of the ku klux conspiracy. But
1ayesism; the ku klux death; corruption
f the most loathsome description, and apathy VI
7hich is without either parallel or excuse are OF
nut too likely to precipitate the catastrophe 81
THE GOOD, GOOD RUTHERFORD! m