Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-27
q; DEAL AND HIS CARD.

| pay any attention to any misrepresentation
| that might be made of me in the Republican
press of the State, but your article in your
issue of this morning so grossly misrepresents
what | said, and is so entirely at variance
with anything | ever thought or expressed,
that ask you to correct it. There were hun
d-eds of Republicans in the Carson Opera
| House at Carson when | responded TO the call
of the Democratic Convention in a short
speech, who know the incorrectness of your
article, and your own reporter was there, who
will verify what | now state.
What | said was in substance this: "The
| Republican party, forgetting the rights of
! the people and forgetting that the Constitution
| in all its provisions looks to an indestructible
| Union composed of indestructble States, and
| forgetting that under the Constitution the
executive, judicial and legislative branches
| must he kept strictly within their proper
| spheres in order to preserve the nation, had
! in unconstitutional modes attempted to ag-
grandize the nation, as they call 1t, by legsla-
| tive and executive usurpatlon of authority,
| ignoring the fact that the nation itself must
perish unless such attempts were frustrated.
The Carson APPEAL, in its report upon
| which your article is based, did not warrant
your comments, because it did not pretend to
give the context of the speech, but merely in
ferred from a supposed irony in the tones of
my voice when using the expression quoted
that was Democrat of the Calhoun school.
| court fair criticism of my opinions and
public utterances, and have reason to hope
that what you have said arose from the same
misrepresentation that led the reporter of the
APPEAL to Jump at what my opinions were
from mistaken Interpretation of tone of
my voice. Respectfully,
w E. F. DEAL.
The MORNING APPEAL and it's editor are
for fair play and nothing else. We were
present and heard the speech that contained
the phrase about which there is 80 much con-
troversy We have taken pains to consult
several gentlemen of hrst-class standing and
intelligence, both of Democratic and Repub-
lican faith, and they all seem to agree with
us, that Mr. Deal did make very decided
State Rights speech. But it is himself who
has the first right to be his own interpreter.
If he did not mean to convey the impression
that he repudiated the idea of this being "A
Nation, his own disavowal is quite enough.
All We can say in justification of the point
made from our notes Is that we did get the
impression that i'll his expression of The
Nation, as they call it, Mr.. Deal intended to
convey the avowal that, as for himself, he did
not subscribe to the National Idea as contra
distinguished from the so-called " Federal
quibble of the State Rights extremists. We
most emphatically disavow all intention of
doing him a wrong, either in our report of
his remarks the Interpretation thereof. |
These are critical times, in every sense of the |
term and it behooves stump-speakers to be |
exact in their phraseology. The question |
involved in all this difference of interpreta-
ton is this: AS between the distinct princi-
pie that the Government of the United States
is supreme in all national attributes and of
power and authority to sustain
itself against the pretensions and assumptions
Of State Sovereignty, on the one hand; and
the dogma of State Rights affirmed by the
Democratic party, ever since the days of Cal
noun, on the other hand which view of the
question does Mr.. Deal take and declare
There are two very clearly defined doctrines
educated in the law and in politics as he is,
IAN, if he chooses to do 50, clear his own posi-
ion Of all doubt by an explicit declaration of
he views entertained by himself He is
either State Rights Democrat or National
Democrat and it is for himself to make it
,nown upon which side he is to be classified t
There is no middle ground Nationalism
means sovereign national authority. State
sovereignty means the power and right of the
State to assert and maintain its authority and I
is purposes and polity as against the Govern =
nent Of the United States and every other
government. The vigorous assertion of the :
rst prevented the secession of the so-called t
Confederate States; the other inau.urated I
he rebellion and attempted to destroy the {
Jnion. The one acknowledged the authority :
f President Lincoln; the other recognized a
he authority and power of Jefferson Davis. t
n such regard, is Mr.. Deal Lincoln man or II
Davis man. =
San Francisco, Sept. 26.-Dr. G. c. O'Don- t
ell, who was arrested for obstructing the I
treets by exhibiting lepers on two occasions, =
as before the City Criminal Court this morn
lg on hearing of the first charge. He ap-
cared, bringing five Chinese lepers with him -
show the Court and jury. The Court i'm fl
lediately ordered the case continued, and the o
pers were hustled out without ceremony. O
II bseuuently the second CHARGE AGAINST the u