Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-10-16
Z. M. DAGGETT AT RENO.


He Proves That Mr.. Deal has Be.
lied Him, Pays His Respects to
the Railroad Monopoly, and
Shows the Fallacy Of the Claim
that the Democratic Party are
the Friends Of the WOrkingmen.
AT the ratification meeting held at
Reno last Friday evening, r. M.
Daggett, the Republican nominee
for Congress, delivered a telling
speech on the issues of the cam
paign, and paid his respects to Mr..
Deal, his INSCRIPTIONS opponent,
in way quite characteristic of him.
His speech was quoted at length in
the Gold Hill News of last Saturday
evening. From that paper we clip
the following extracts:
THE LABOR QUESTION.
The Democratic party assumes to
be the friends of labor. Great God!
The party whose very foundation
stone was human slavery, who inau-
gurated bloody war to prevent
free labor from coming into compe-
tition with slave labor, now calls
itself the friend and protector of the
workingman! Put your hand, if
you can, on one specimen of Iegis.
latiOn that has ever been enacted in
favor of labor by the Democratic
party. You may search the records
of the country from its birth, and
you will find no such thing. The
Republican party is the friend of
labor. We Northern mudsills are
the ones who have striven to dignity
and elevate labor-not slave labor,
but free, intelligent labor. That Ia
Dor Republicanism favors, because
it is OF and with it. The Republic
can party never has looked, and new
er can look upon the cries of power
ty or the distress of workingmen
with indifference. 1t has ever been
heart and soul with the cause of Ia
Dor, and every intelligent laborer
knows it.
THE RAILROAD BURDEN.
We have many grievances in this
little State from all kinds of rim IS,
small and large, but the king grew
ance of them all is the unjust ex-
actions OF the Central Pacific Rail-
road. 1t is huge devil fish stretch
ing out its tentacles from one end OF
the State to the other. In any coun-
try in Europe the men who acted as
the managers of this road act, would
be assassinated. We ask only jus.
tice from them, and God knows we
should give them payment enough
for that in the profits which they
may legitimately make off us,
When I 60 to Congress 1 shall make
it my business to introduce bill fol
| the protection of the citizens of this
State against the exactions of this
company. If any member of q
committee puts that bill in his coat.
tail pocket, 1 will take my knife and
cut it out and bring it to the light OF
day. 1 assure you, fellow citizens,
that 1 will make pick-handle fight
on this subject, if on no other.
AN EMPHATIC "L1E."
With these words Mr.. Daggett
threw from him to the floor of the
hall copy of the Okolona Miss
States, fairly reeking in sentiments
of treason and disloyalty. The
point made was dramatic and the
audience fully appreciated the sensa
ton, but no person seemed willing
to dirty his fingers by contact witt
the rebellious journal, and it lay un
needed until a charitably disposed
reporter of the Reno Gazette picked
it gingerly up and tossed it back te
the speaker.
Mr.. Daggett referred to pamphlet
circulated by Deal containing ex
tracts from the Enterprise purport
ing to have been written by him, anG
said, "Until the last ten months,
never had control of the Enterpris.
and Mr.. Deal knows it. When h,
charges me with writing the articles
which he has selected for reprinting
he lies and he lies in his throat
and clear to the bottom of his .iaun
diced and seditious liver he lies ! ant
he knows that, too |"