Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-25
SPEECHES OF REPUBLICAN CAN.
DIDATES
AT Reno. Nevada, Friday Evening.
October ii. 1873

TIE meeting was very large and enthusi
astic and the first speaker was tha Repub
| licsn candidate for Congress,
II. N. DaSgett-
FrUo,C-citizens We are here, as in
days Of old, to take counsel together fol
the good of the nation. On the 4th Of
| March next there will be a Democratic
majority in the United States Senate. In
the House of Representatives our enemies
have now a majority of some thirteen.
The Democrats will strain every muscle to
| main tain this majority, and thus secure
control of both Houses of our National
Congress. One of the principal purposes
which they have in view in SO doing, is to
maxi the attempt to impeach President
Hayes and GUST him from the seat in which
you placed him by your ballots. Think OF
it, fellow citizens, to unseat the man whom
you American people have seated or, fail
ing n that, TO throw the next election int
the House, and place a man tainted with
treason in the chair made sacred by the
martyred Lincoln Are you prepared for
this? | know that you are not. Twenty
nine hundred millions of rebel claims are
now knocking at the doors of Congress,
and if the Democrats succeed this Fall,
the trucking Northern element OF the
party will open the doors to them at the
command of the Southern Chivalry. Are
you not afraid to trust these men? am
no coward, but am afraid Of them.
] AM NOT a DEMOCRAT,
And have never been accused of being
one. even by Mr.. ". E. F. Deal. Thank
God that charge has never been laid at my
door l believe Democracy to be funda-
mentally wrong. There may be good men
who are Democrats ! believe that there
are, but the theory Of itself is wrong.
Since the foundation of this Government
two theories have struggled for suprem-
acy. The first was the anti-Federal idea
represented by Jefferson. 1t was danger
GUS. Opposed to him were host of Fed
eralists. prominent among whom was
Alexander Hamilton, the greatest man,
believe, who ever lived. The Jefferson
theory was based on the dissipation of
power from the central government to the
States, from the States to the counties,
from counties to cities, from cities to indi-
yiduals, and from individuals to
GOD ONLY KNOWS wHEREi
The Hamiltonian theory demanded a
strong central government, government
strong enough to protect itself and its cit
lLSuH db lOLuS duu dDEOdU ANe1bucI lu6d
was, perhaps, safe in the ultimate, but the
Democratic theory was certainly utterly
in its ultimate execution. You
may see the workings of the Estate |
Rights doctrine in Mexico and the South |
American Republics. Mexico has had |
fifty constitutions within the last century, |
Ind disturbance and revolution is the |
normal condition of the country. That is
Democracy run mad. That is Democracy
n its ultimate. We see it worked out
light there. Do you want TO see the ex-
tried in this Republic? 1 do
lot. and therefore it is that say, although
he Republican party may not be perfect
10 party can be, as no individual can be-
should be reasonable to myself if l did
lot declare that / could not be Demo-
rat.
There is a plank in the Democratic
,latform adopted at Carson which en-
Iorses hard money. If the Democrats of
Nevada are sincere in their endorsement
f hard money, they differ very materially
rom their brethren in other parts Of the
ountry, and as am seeking 8 national
flee 1 am privileged to meet my oppo-
ents on national issues. All over the
last the Democrats are forming coalition
nth the Greenbackers. It is strange, this