Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-09
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

of the trite but sound doctrine of i" princi Piles
not men.
The overrun Of that boosted but useless
type of intelligence which has been wont
to consider only the question to " who
shall appropriate the spoils, might possibly
be turned to good account if it were gently
but firmly changed in such direction as to pro-
out and destroying the paths upon which If,
at all, we must move as people to that des-
tiny which is our common aim
Some inkling of this idea is discoverable
among few in our own locality who are vol
uble in that sort of disinterested advice to
the Republican party, that comes with such
grace and cogency from the great minds that
have habituated themselves to that curious
philosophy which teaches that political success
is properly achieved by voting contrary to
ones professed political prediction.
If such mastery wisdom as this Is capable
of telling Republicans that it is dangerous to
Republican success for the MORNING APPEAL
to advocate the othodox doctrines that have
always constituted the basis of that respect ac
corded to the party by people of every day
sense, we have at least the acknowledge
ment by these cropping wiseacres that pol
itical party must be supported by majority
of votes before it can claim to be successful as
party.
1t may be that such profundity as this en-
titles the pretentious clean noses of our com
munity, and elsewhere, to that unquestioned
control of human affairs which every man who
lives under the protection of this government
has the legal right to aspire to.
But to our mind the Republican party is
Just sufficiently welded to it's own principles
to stand or fall by them; and while deeply
sensible of its lasting obligations to that tony
responsibility which has pushed it into the mi
nority, will nevertheless be so perverse as to
take counsel not merely of those who profess
its principles, but also vote its ticket Fur
thermore, with a reciprocal generosity and
Gisinterestedness of benevolence, the APPEAL
takes this early opportunity to suggest that by
so much as the Republican party lacks in
votes, the greater are the likely supremacies
of those sublime political conceptions that rode
into power last fall as a parasitic growth upon
the body of the venerable and rotten Democ-
racy. Should our friends, D. V. attend strictly
to sheir own political affairs they would add
to the future success of that great system
of combined measures, men, and reform,
which has already made Ormsby County the
home of happy and contented people.
Anent this subject, we are grati6ed to no.
tice that the Enterprise of yesterday took
solid grounds in favor of close adherence by
Republicans to the time honored doctrines
that have made for the party an imperishable
aud illustrious name in the history of political
movements. 1t argued ably to show t hat the
Republican party is entirely distinct from the
various cliques and corporate associations that
have i'll California for so many years sought to
assimilate its substance into their own igno-
BILE blood and fibre. 1t takes the high ground
that no self reacted dictatorship of wealth,
communism, or demagogism shall successfully
control that Republicanism which sprang
from and is the rich heritage and protection
of the People. It's patriotic adviceIto the party
In California will be remembered when our
campaign opens next year in Nevada, and its
stalwart leadership will guide to victory the
party of the Union in 1880, in spite of the
selfish, grasping policy and opposition of the
railroad corporations and " respectable " dem
agogues that have resolved upon its over throw
in the Silver State We are glad to see the
Enterprise so OPPORTUNITY indicating its
rightful claim to prominence in the way of
unqualified, untrammelled and free advocacy |
of genuine Republicanism. If the Republican
Press of Nevada will remain true to the party
there is no danger that the people will not do
likewise.
KILLED ON DUTY.-William L. Moore,
Sheriff of Inyo county, California, was shot |
and killed while trying to prevent fight be-
tween Michael WEIGH and Henry Tessier on
the I'd inst. 1t is not known which party
fred the fatal shot. Both men are in custody