The silver state., 1880-10-19

tion On his part, and referred to his
career as State Senator for the past
eight years, and stated that he was the
author of the memorial to Congress, in
structing our Representatives to secure
the passage of the Lieu Lands bill,
afterwards introduced by Mr.. Daggett.
He spoke Of Judge Belknap as an
able, conscientious lawyer, who would
do his duty without fear or favor. if
elected to the Supreme bench.
Hancock and English were as certain
to be elected as the sun rose on the 2nd
Of November. Maine had wheeled into
line with New York, Connecticut and
New Jersey; California, Pennsylvania
and Illinois were waiting to be olsen
thralled. Indiana, which had elected
a Republican ON local issues, would re-
deem herself, and Nevada would east
her electoral votes for the Hero Of Get
tysburg. The West would meet the
East at the Sink of the Humboldt with
800 majority, and the Battle-born State
would be true to the Union and to
Hancock.
GENERAD CIUNIk
Was then introduced, and was loudly
applauded. He said, though not resi-
dent of the State, he was proud of Ne
vada, for what it had done for the
world. He understood Mr.. Wren ad-
dressed the people Saturday night; and
the burden of his song was Governor
Bradley; but if Governor Bradley could
rise FROM his grave, ne would say that
Mr.. Wren and his kind had defeated as
honest man as ever governed Nevada
or any other State. He referred to the
fact that the Republican Legislature III
1879 was untrue to its pledges; not,
perhaps the members from Humboldt,
but the majority of the party. He re-
Gently saw Mr.. Sharon for the first
time, but had long known bin by repu-
tation, and did not think be was the
man to send to the Senate. 1t was
claimed that he built the Virginia and
Iruckee Railroad, but he did it by
getting bonds from the three counties
through which it runs. He employed
Cinnamon to build it until he reached
Storey county, where there was a
Miners Union. That Union said to
Mr.. Sharon that no Chinese should be
employed on the road III Storey county
while there were white men able and
willing to work. Wsuld there were
Miners Unions in every county in the
State, to teach such men as Sharon that
some respect is due to the horny hand
ed sons of toll he asked decent Re.
publicans if they were proud of Sharon,
and what he had done to be proud Of
He did not come here in the interest of
any Senatorial candidate, but to assist
General Hancock; that his friend,
Major Dennis might go home to Massa-
chusetts, where his father and grand
father lived and died, with the elsetor-
al vote of the State for the Soldier
Statesman. The people of Nevada
came here not for its acres, but for its
mines. Garfield did nos want the sill
yer of Nevada made into money. He
voted against the Silver bill in every
stage of its progress through Congress
snd to sustain the Presidents veto of it.
In California as in Nevada, the Chi
sese question is alLabsorbipg. The
people who made these States by re-
claiming them from the wilderness,
should not be obliged to compete with
the barbarie Asiatic hordes. A Gyy of
fire was raised and the fire-bell rang.
The audience rose in confusion, while
the speaker calmly took seat on the
stage. In few moments She excite
mens qaieted; the people who had left
the hall returned, and General Clsnie
ressmed his address, saying, by way of
parenthesis, that he did not believe any
good eitizen, Republican or Democrat,
would resort to anything of that kind
10 break up meeting. .-REP.]
He said Mr. johnson, of California,
a Democrat, introduced a resolution in
Congress to prohibit any part of the
appropriations made for the Vallejo
Navy Yard from being expended Cor Chi
,iese labor. Congress was then Repub-
lican, and MIR. Garfield moved to lay
the bill upen the table, and his motion
prevailed. Mr.. Garfield moved to lay
the Chinese Restriction bill on the
table, but the House was then Demo-
cratic and his motion was then voted
down. The bill passed, and President
Hayes, who occupies the chair the peo--
pie Of the United States voted to MIR.
Tilden, vetoed the bill. The Pacific
Coast delegation urged him to sign it,,
but Mr. Garfield and few preachers
asked him not to do it, and he needed
their advice. They say we are making
the campaign, not on the plane of
statesmen but of blackguards, be-
cause we refer to Garfield s, record as it
was written by Republicans.