Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-05

efforts have been expended in denouncing and
ridiculing and accusing honest men, who In
storm and sunshine, in war and peace, have
chung to the Republican flag, and defended it
against those who tried to trail and trample
it in the dust. Some of them are men who,
when they could work themselves into con-
ventions, have attempted to belittle and be-
foul Republican administrations, and to pa
Some of them are men who, by insisting that
it is corrupt and bad for men in Office to take
part in politics, are striving now to prove that
the Republican party has been unclean and
vicious all its life, and that the last campaign
was venal and wrong and fraudulent, not in
some of the States, but in all the States,
North and South for it is no secret that in
all the States officeholders, in committees, in
organizations, and everywhere, did all that
men could fairly do to uphold the candidates
of our party, and that they were encouraged
and urged to do so. Some of these worthless
masquerade as reformers. Their vocation and
ministry is to lament the sins of other people
Their stock in trade is rancid, fiat self-rlght-
eousness. They are wolves in sleeps cloth
ing. Their real object is Office and plumber.
When DR.. Johnson defined patriotism as the
last resource of scoundrel, he was uncon-
scious of the then undeveloped capabilities
and uses of the word "reform." Some of
them sat but yesterday in Democratic Con-
ventions Some of them have sough nomi-
nations at the hands of Democrats in recent
years, and some, with the zeal of neophites
and the bitterness of apostates, have done
more than self prospecting Democrats would do
to Witty and SANDER their Government and
their countrymen. Grant, and all who stood
by that upright, fearless magistrate, have
been the objects of the bitter, truthless as
pensions of these men. And now, opposed
or laggard in the battles of the past, they leap
to the feast They forget that par
ties are not built up by department, or by
ladies' magazines, or by gush. 1t used to be
said of certain Democrats in Massachusetts,
that they wanted by their obnoxious officious
hcoS " heoP lho party III elidC Stdle aS Siudil
rs they could, in order to make the stock
holders as few and the dividends as large as
possible | hope these new-fedged dictators |
ire not aiming at the same thing in New |
York. The grasshoppers i'll the corner of a
ence, even without newspaper to be heard |
II, sometimes make more noise than the focks ,
md herds that Craze upon a thousand hills.
Chinese war of noises has been set up in
he State and beyond the State to drive this
Convention and its members to contend and
livide over certain dogmas, but it is for the
to say what its judgment indicates
s suitable and wise. An important election
5 at hand, important in counties, in Assem-
ly districts, and in towns, and we are told
hat we must not keep within our sphere of
uty, but must find bones of contention to
AIRY schism and discord down into every
,cality, to distract and weaken our party
verywhere. The wisdom of these somewhat
directions is the question before
S. The propriety of denouncing and carping
administrative acts on every small occasion
as not been without advocates. This doc
inc, as sometimes maintained, | believe to
e unjust to public officials 1t seems to me
ublc officers are entitled to Prescriptions in
leir favor, and ought never to be condemned
ntil they and their acts have been fairly tried,
Id then only on clear evidence. For ex
eme license in criticism of administrations,
I'd everybody connected with them, broad F
guments can no doubt be found. Many
light be found in the journal made famous
: the pencil of Mast But convention may
It deem itself chartered ibertine of orac-
ar and pedantic conceits. It may not be- :
we that theories and antagonisms and re-
ntments constitute the duty of the hour
may believe that men who are agreed in all G
e essentials of their faith and of their work
len they are acting for great organization,
ould be willing to form these essentials for
e good of the cause. 1t may believe, and
pc that this Convention does believe, that
Republican should seek to wound or wrong
other by compelling him to surrender his 1t
nvlctions in matters of individual belief
SO, much liberation could not be accorded. NJ
rty action would be abortive.
DIED.