Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-09-21
NOMINATE UNOBJECTlONABLE
MEN.

No great gilt of prophecy is re-
auired to foretell that, in the coming
campaign, the Democrats will neglect
no effort to carry the State; and that,
in order to secure the return of a
partisan TO the United States Senate
to succeed ]. P. Jones' they will, II
4, necessary, trade their legislative for
their county tickets. This being the
case, the Republicans should see 10
it that their nominees for the Legis-
lsture are, like Bayard, "sans peur ct
j Sans reproche'' without fear and
without reproach). 1t will not do
to nominate men simply because
they are honest, for experience has
proved that, in the legislative halls,
an honest man who has no other
qualifications stands but poor show
of being heard, much less of proving
of any great service to his constitu-
ents. The nominees must therefore
be capable as we'll; and in order to
secure that Class of men it will be
necessary to look to the very summit
of the party. Let none but men of
standing in the community be nomi-
mated. Such men will surely be
recognized by all as beyond the pos
sibility of purchase with few paltry
dollars, and will stand before the
people nnobjectionable in every re-
spect. To elucidate: If we had the
selection of the candidates for the
Legislature in Storey county, for in
stance, we would select such men as
ex-Judges Lewis and Whitman, Jonas
Seeley, r. 8. Mesick, William Wood
burn, E. Strother, F. A. Tritle and
r. H. Taylor; these we would rein
force by one or more candidates apiece
from each of the trades unions in
the county. To the possible pro-
testations of these men that their
private business demanded their per-
sonal care and supervision, VIC would
say: "Fellow Republicans, the Demo
Gratis have already got hold Of the
House of Representatives, and on
the fourth Of next March they will
also gain majority foothold in the
Senate. Buoyed by the hope of
plumber, thousands of claimants of
fraudulent accounts aggregating
hundreds Of millions Of dollars are
Alrsady organizing raids upon the
public treasury. Other evils, too
numerous to expatiate upon, but of
which every enlightened citizen must
be aware, will soon follow. The
Republican party-the party Of the
people, the party which framed and
passed the eight-hour law, the party
which freed 100000 of fellow-be-
ings, the party which has maintained
this great and glorious Union and
thus enabled it to assume the very
foremost rank among the nations of
the earth-must not only come to
the rescue Of the National Govern
ment but, to this end, must first con-
troll our State Legislature. To do
this We know of no surer way than
TO nominate ye. In this hour of
peril the party has right to exact
the most active and jealous co-opera-
tion from 70 to whom it has looked
for advice in the past; and ye have
NO right to refuse it; ye have no say
in the matter. Accept, and ye will
save the party and, possibly, the ma
tion, and will deserve the applause
OF your feiiow-countrymen; refuse,
and ye will be held up to this and sue
ceeding generations a. traitors who
abandoned their country in her hour
of need" All this we would say TO
them, and if they then refused to
shoulder the party banner and march
to victory, We would treat them from
that hour as social outcasts and un-
worthy Of even dogs notice. But
we have too high an opinion of the
gentlemen named to suppose, for an
instant, that they would refuse to
accept the duties thus imposed upon
them. And II they accepted could
there possibly be any other result
than success tfiiae TtE