Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-29
The Battle in Eureka.
WHAT SAM. DAVIS SAYS OF THE OUTLOOK.
HIS REPORT OF OUR LAST GREAT
MEETING.
An Ode 70 Daggett.

Sam Davis, writing to tho Virginia
! Chronicle from Eureka, under date Of
October "a, has this to say Of matters ON
the Base Range:
The Democracy of Eureka feel in a
happy frame of mind tonight. The big
gest and most enthusiastic meeting Of the
campaign is just over, ard all hands con-
cede that it was the heaviest gun yet fired
in this section. Its echoes will not die out
until the election is over.
w. Il. +. Deal, the Congressional candi-
date, opened the meeting with q speech u
an hour and a half. You should have
heard him. He warmed up to his work,
and beside making an impressive argu-
ment, lifted the scalp off Daggett until the
air was rent with applause.
General Kittrell followed, and for half an
hOur made the smoke rise from Mighel's
hide in q style that carried the audience
before him as a unit. Kittrell's speech was
full OF eloquence and pith, and when he
talks there is no uncertain echo in his
rhetoric or difference Of opinion as to what
he means.
Colonel Ellis closed the meeting with a
ten MINUTES address that rounded off the
affair gracefully and in a style that sent the
crowd home full of the very essence Of
Democracy. Ellis is doing a good work all
through this section.
DAGGETT's Attest.
state it as q fact, that in some OF the
smaller towns in the sagebrush Daggett
has had the cool cheek to tell his audience,
that in case the Democrats ride into power
that there will be bills passed to pay all the
~ntat ,ra ota,r,s and niya ..aab Tnnfalorata
soldier a pension and 900 acres of land.
Daggett's canvass is considered in this Sec
ton one OF the biggest farces Of the cam
paign. He draws crowds, just as Count
Joannes used to in New York whenever he
burlesqued Hamlet. He is known as
.'Bloody-Shir Daggett" all over the East,
and when he turns himself loose on a quiet
town like Palisade or Paradise he showers
explosives. blood besprinkled argument
and Sazarac-tinted assertions, and keeps
the house in a roar.
A MIDNIGHT CAUCUS
Tonight there was a midnight caucus Of
the speakers in the parlors Of the Interna-
tional Hotel. 1t is a hotel of elegant APP
p~ointments. with Brussels carpets, easy
chairs, oil paintings and all the comfort
able appurtenances of a home in lavish
profusion. having the appearance Of a gem
tleman's private residence. Kittrell, Deal.
Ellis, Hillhouse and Mitchell we're round
the fire mapping out routes for the work Of
of the Coming week. No one wanted to go
to Phoebe, over the 800 miles Of horrible
staging. Ellis was pressed. but declined.
Deal didn't want any Of 1t. Mitchell
passed. and finally Kittrell, ~denouncing
them all as carpet knights" agreed to
make the journey with your correspondent.
We start at 5 O'Clock tomorrow, and the
inhabitants Of Eureka are contributing
blankets, Russian overcoats, mufiers and
provisions for the trip.
This county will be the field Of a close
fight. but the Democrats are confident Of
the success of the whole ticket. One more
speech by Daggett or Kinkead will give
them 500 majority.
ODE TO DAGGErT.
Oh when we hear you spout your spout
We cannot help but shiver.
To think you fret so much about
Bill Deals " seditions liver"
g., p. ID.