Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-06-07
SOMETHING POLITICAL.

understand themT The query came along
quite naturally after a brief discussion con-
corning the probable outcome and effect of the
Potter Resolutions. OF course there had been
d ready acquiescence between us that the said
resolutions were the absurdest blunder that
ever was stumbled into. We imagine the
same to be a sort Of tub thrown to the whale
Of Northern Democracy. Sammy Tilden will
dio thinking, as poor old John Bigler thought
in 1855 when the Know Nothings beat him and
elected Nicely johnson Governor of California
that he has been Cheated" TELLING his
woes to Flood Shockley with tears in his eyes,
God Almighty, John" says Flood, "You
talk about being cheated! You never was
elected Governor of California in all your life
We Stuffed you i'll both times!) Clarkson
Potter, representing Sammy's propensity to
90 the wrong way to work and the longest way
round, undertakes to get the country to con-
sent to reOpening the Presidential muddle of
Nlrcn 1877 What an ass the man IS!
Everybody knows that both sides feared war
if they did not effect compromise; andevery-
body ought 10 know that each side expected
TO GET an advantage in the material and polit
ica bias of the majority of the commission.
The Democracy did not count upon Justice
Davs's hunger for a seat i'll the Senate, and
so they lost the game. That's how it came to
stand eight to seven, our lnHg OF course
every man voted his politics That's just
what every person of perspiCacity knew they
would do. Reverse the case. Suppose Til
den counted in-as he we would have been if
Davis had not cared more for six years of his
own in the Senate than to see Little Sammy Til
den occupy the White House for four. Queer
story, that of Davis getting into the Senate,
We suspect.) What kind of figure would
the Black Republicans have made if their
rcrr, s2ntatives in the Senate had gagged
through resolution investigating Croniu and
Blu Jeans Williams with view to proving
tnt, indiana ana Oregon had cast their votes
for ! yes and that therefore -etcetera and
SO f)c.h. Would "Radicalism' have been
Iuai, any stronger or more acceptable in the
eyes os the Repubicl We can imagine the
howl that would have gone up from the com
ton Of the blunderheaded Democracy. The
fac st.ns to be that Potters pottering has
jostled old Money bags Between a Demo
rrat in 3ower and Republican out of power,
M1ney bags prefers the Democrat He is
afraid Of disturbances which viii affect secu-
rites, is the soriid old hulks What this
stupid resolution will do Will not disturb
Hayes, whom nobody cares one farthlng
about, personally; will not therefore do Til
den ANY good; but will unite the Republican
Party and scare money bags into coming our
way. AS we have intimated, the Electoral
Commission BILL for better or worse, was
compromise. Nobody wanted war, and every
body VS. afraid we might have one. 1t was
i touch and go. There were sober, earnest
men in Congress who even went far, be-
fore the Commission was devised, as to be
willing 10 decide the matter by the flip of
copper. Anything, anything fora settlement
that would preserve the peace. And now,
after having scared Hayes into bartering away
the Republican organizations in the South
after securing Louisiana and South Carolina,
and after seating Hamburg Butler in the Sen |
ate and all that, along comes Mr.. Copperhead |
and demands that his claims be recognized. |
The rebels knew better than to rip things up |
this way. But the ''play' is to keep Tilden's
claims to the Democratic nomination in 80 |
all the time red hot 1t was a question of |
appeasiug the Northern or the New York
wing of the party. That's the politics of it.
And they have fired the commercial heart!
Old Mister Money-bags sweats with fear lest
there be "a revolution" The scare is our
gain. Talk about the floating vote 1t isnot
made up, as somany suppose, of the thought
less and worthless 1t is more largely COM
posed Of cold -booded rich men who do not
care one whit for political principles, and who
are always sneering at politicians" but who
got very badly frightened whenever there
comes any danger to their immediate inter
ests. These are scared now. They think that
II war should come the country would be
flooded knee deep with greenbacks and
values would be unsettled And the
chance Is, that these stolid and apathetic
people, frightened at the thought of ga revo-
luton will wake up and vote the Republi-
can ticket. And it is because they have
caused this chance to be pretty good one
that the Democracy, following the lead of