The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-10-21
GARFIELD AND-wHOy
Senator Powning and Judge whitman
on the Issues of the Past,

NAL Hall last evening, around which a
dozen boys gamboled and some men
discussed the weather and other COM
monplace subjects until nearly o'clock,
when they were invited into the hall,
where several ladies and their escorts
were seated. r. w. Wood, Chairman
of the Garfield Club, introduced
SENATOR C. c. PowNING,
OF Reno, editor of one of the leading
Republican papers of the State, and
one of the watchdogs Of the Treasury.
Mr.. Powning said he must take issue
with the Chair, and regretted there
were no more persons present, as there
would then be more converts. The
election franchise is one of the greatest
blessings bestowed on man, and he re-
GREETED that it was too often abused.
There must necessarily in Govern
ment like ours be two parties. The
history Of the Republican party was
the proadest in the country, sealed as
it was by the immortal Lincoln. 1t
enfranchised the slaves, resumed specie
payment, and there is no question
but what it can do what is
necessary for the country, and
it would again produce Summers,
Stewards and possibly Lincoln. In
the language of our next President. it
was a party of progress. There has
been corruption in the party, but when
it was discovered Grant said, " Let no
guilty man escape" The Government
is now conducted on so honest basis
that not one cent in a thousand was
stolen. The Administration is con-
Quoted more honestly than ever before,
and compared with Lincoln and Grants,
there is much less stealing. The rebel
lion was suppressed principally by Re-
publicans, though assisted by some
Democrats. The Democrats were revo-
lutionary; they threatened to stop
the mails, put out lighthouses and let
the country run itself. This is a con-
test between the North and the South,
and the interests of the country de-
mand the election OF Garfield. While
Grant and Sherman are voting for Gar
field, JEFF Davis votes for Hancock,
EThe speaker did not state when jeff
Davis disabilities were removed, and
the fact is, jeff Davis is not to-day a
citizen OF she United States, snd has
no more privileges than Chinaman
Just arrived from Hong Kong. REP. ]
Lincoln was shot down by rebel assas-
sin, and he does not believe with the
New York Sun, that if alive be would
be with Trumbull voting for Hancock.
Upon the result of this election depends
whether we shall continue to make
specie payments. [Mr. Powning, whose
paper, the Reno Journal, advocated the
reconciliation of Silver and the sup
preston OF Chinese immigration until
Garfield, who opposed both, was NOM
mated, never alluded to the subject at
all. REF
JUDGE B. c. WHITMAN
OF the firm of Whitman & Wood, Of
Virginia City, attorneys for the Virginia
and Truckee Railroad and Sharon and
Warrington, was, next introduced, by
the Chairman. He thanked the audi
ence for the reception given him. He
never felt it so intensely his duty as
now to support the party to which ne
belongs. If it does not conquer, he
will regret it's having spent life or a
dollar to suppress the rebellion He
reviewed the record of the Democratic
party, as he would write it, and though
he might be charged by the Democratic
press of waving the bloody shirt, If he
had a sponge he would wipe every stain
from the CORY garment. There never
would have been an attempt TO secede
if it had not been for the expectation
that Northern Democrats would assist
the South. [This assertion was hardly
raEshed by several prominent Republi-