The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1878-10-13
Dead Iss,,r..

Ihe Keno GdzeffS, IN Its Issue OF FRI
day, while enthusiastically advocating
the election Of Mr.. Daegett. says. .It
Is important that every voter should
realize the Significance Of the coming
election. II is customary for the
weaker side TO cover mp the reui issue
of the campaign with dead issues, and
gain votes through Ignorance"
Now, what is the real issues in the
present canpsign2 II the Eattrprise
and journals Of the snme kidney are to
be believed, the war which ended thir-
teen years ago. is the only issue and the
only mission of said journals is to
grossly Islander every political opponent
aud by vigorous and continuous
Haunting Of the bloody shirt, create
strife and ''tear aInpe the healing
wounds afrcsh." II This is not the live
Issue before the people of Nevada, to-
day, who is it, We ask, 'thut is trying
To- cover up the real with dead ones, to
gain votes through i,uornrce?" At
every campaign during the past thirteen
years, there incendiary Journals have
by pe:siatently enleavoring to arouse
sectional hutreds through utterances,
the malignaucy Of which could only
have been inspired 10y spirit of satan.
ic devilishness. lgbOrc,l incessantly to
cover the real Issues" The creatures
OF corruption, they dare not discuss tho
live ISSUES, and i'll lieu of argument
adopt the more congcnisl luhor uf viii
flying and slanderins every political op.
ponent in measures ui choicest billings
gnte in which they delight to wallow.
The principal shafts nf the Leading
organ Of the party in the State have
been aimed at the Governor; and why?
Because in his candidacy is involved
one Of the 'rval i snes'' which the or
gan would fuin cover with that bloody
shirt. The organ has exhausted the
entire English vocabulary and iar.e
portion Of the dead lauguages in the
use OF cpithet and iEvective piled high
upon the old mans devoted head; why?
The organ has labored assiduously to
create the impression that the Governor
Is in nowiss responsible for our healthy
State Treasury, nor ior any other of the
governmental reforms which have taken
place sinct his incumbency. 1t claims
that the great reduction OF the State
IN nj Ia, L..
treasury from n barren wnste-when
bradley was first elected--to its present
satisfactory and solvent condition, is
wholly attributable to the Virginia
mines, ana all the reforms. b.th fnnn-
cial aud otherwise. it attributes to the
genius of Hobart aud others. With
respect to the treasury proposition, we
w0n!d nsI tie organ what those mines
were doing prior To tho election OF
Bradley, and how it happened that at
the close OF II rule endorsed aud sup
ported by this self sa,ne organ, Tom
Fitch could sarcaslically, but truthfully
exclnim. directing his remarks to some
prominent Democrats in front of the
Depot Hotel in this place, your VIC
tory, however, is u barren one, for we
have left Won nothing but bankrupt
treasury aud ruined credit" The de-
fant exclamation of that brilliant type
Of Enterprise republicanism, was too
true, aud 10 Cover or bradley. aided
and assisted by honest officials of both
political pcrsuasiuns, is due the fact of
our present healthful financial condi.
ton.