Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-10
MORNING APPEAL.
THE ISSUE.


and paired away with qubbling constructions
of the Constitution and with the subtelties of
Democratic State Rights lawyers bent upon
resuscitation of the Lost Cause2
Let us crystalize this question.
The politics of the campaign might well be
epitomized by a portrait of Grant on one side
and Beauregard on the other; by picture
of the Kearsage on the right and the Alabama
on the left; by the stars and stripes here; and
there the stars and bars
Daggett is not built much either like flag
or flagstaff; but he upholds the banner of
our party, and represents, in very substan-
tial way, the side of loyalty and Union. Deal
is an amiable and accomplished gentleman;
but his education has looked toward Hayne
and Calhoun and not toward Webster and
Lincoln. A man may be very agreeable and
very moral and very polished, and still be
very much inclined to take his seat among
the rebel brigadiers in case of his election to
Congress.
It must never be forgotten that there is a
solid South political South, and that there
is no political North. The Democracy which
comes to us to-day is strained and rectifed
and diluted through secession, Vallandigham-
ism, the by-play of new departures and gen
eral spirit of second thought and makeshift
apology
An old, soied, bedraggled flag of the Union
is always better and more to be cherished and
fought for than any flag of the COnfederacy,
no matter how bright the sheen of its silken
folds or how resplendent its colors
The present effort of the Solid South is to
drive President Hayes out of the White
House.
1t is our duty to see that that effort is pre-
vented.
In a question of impeachment such rs that
which is Swallowed forth by the Potter Com
mittee, we want man who would caucus
with Republicans and Union men and not
with Democrats and paroled prisoners OF war
surrendered by the rebel army.
Moreover, the next Presidency may see
the country sadly in need of one branch of
Congress that shall be on the side of the Re
publican nominee for that great office
"The Nation-as they call it, needs all
the friends that can be rallied to its uphold
ing.
What principle in the polity and life and
purpose of this brave young State does Gov
srnor Bradley's candidacy represent!
Is it Nationalisml He was "born in Vir-
einia and raised in Missouri" and that long
beard of his will never be cut until the indie
pendence of the Confederate States is ack- |
nowledged.
Is it the advancement of education, en-
lightenment and moralsl
Does any man suppose that Bradley knows |
enough to know what is meant by education! |
Is enlightenment embodied in such man
as he!
Does morality need an alliance with dis
loyalty, illiteracy and malignant bigotry, to
be sustained?
What then besides his own utter unftness,
his offensive narrowness and his own and his
advisers shameless demagoguery in dealing
with every question of Statecraft does this
Ignorant and vindictive old mans candidacy
meant
His is personal interest and a personal
candidacy of the most Objectionable char
scter; and saving its odor of disloyalty and its
sympathy with the Lost Cause it has no
higher or better or more presentable sig
ni6cance
1t is a sorry confession of the Democracy
that this wretched personalism, so inconsistent
with every profession of Democracy, is pail
lated on the score of availability.
Look at "the polished Humboldter," John
Henry Kinkead, and compare him with Gov
ernor Bradley!
Here we present you with Republican +
who is every inch a gentleman. He is all this a
BY breeding, by education, and by lifelong '
contact. What convictions do you suppose
Bradley has! BY what else than his blind
md unreasoning prejudces is he actuated and t
governed!
Is it necessary to drag forth from their
native obscurity such traits as those which
distinguish Bradley in order that honesty
nay be sustained and vindicatedl Does the p
air form of Honesty need to be yoked with d
he hideons shape of Ignorance to secure L
ecognition and application to public affairsl .
Men who forget or are ignorant of the ~
hameful circumstances under which Bradley O.
lgned the Cook Bill who are ignorant of or CT