The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-11-01
THE GREAT CONTEST.


The great contest for the Presidency
is rapidly approaching crisis, and ere
this issue of the SILVER STATE reaches
many OF its readers, will, we hope, be,
decided. 1t is greatly to be hoped, for
the welfare of the country and the per-
petuity of our form of government,
that no such issues as,those which grew
cut of the election, of 1876 will arise
this time, and that the election will be
settled without dispute by the people.
No good citizen desires to,ses the farce
of the Presidential election four years
ago repeated. Tilden then had clear
popular majority of over quarter of a
million of votes, and his election was,
conceded for. several. days after the.
election. Then it occurred to the lead
ars of the Republican party that the
Returning Boards of Florida, Louisi-
ana and South Carolina could change
tiie result by doctonng the returns.
Notwithstanding Tilden had lS4 Elec
toral votes, undisputed,. and -maiori-
W.. according. to, the. returns, of the
votes, polled, in. the States named, he
was def,auded out of the office to which
1e was. oonstitutionally elected by the
3bturning Boards, and the Electoral
Gdmmission,> which was appointed to
inquire. into the elections in the con-
tested States, and authorized. by the
Act which created it to do so, yet, by
svote of eight to seven, refused to do.
what it was organized for. To prevent
a like outrage upon the majority from
being perpetrated this time, we sin
aerely hope that, the result of the cleo
tion will be decisive.
The. only questions involved in this
campaign which concern the people of
Nevada are the silver and Chinese
questions. If Garfield is elected, we
believe that his views upon the silver
question will be carried out by legisla-
zion, as the House of Representatives
ID almost certain. TO be Republican.
John Sherman, with whom Garfield is
III accord on the silver question, will be
retained as Secretary of the Treasury.
The Silver bill will be, repealed, and
the principal product of Nevada be-
come, like copper and lead, subject to
great fluctuations in price. On the
other hand, if Hancock is elected and
Congress is Democratic, as it is likely
TO be, IN. that event, silver will be re-
monetized, so that it will command its
full assayed value.
The Chinese question will be settled
forever, if Hancock is elected, by the
passage of an Act to prevent the immi-
grafton of Mongolians to the United
States, except for educational and COM
n.ercial purposes; while, if Garfield is
elected, it will presumably be contin-
ued as it has been, until our great
manufacturing and corporate interests
are conserved in. the matter of labor. :"
It is almost useless, however, to allude
to these important matters, One half,
or nearly one-half of the psople of the
United States pretend to believe that
gallant soldier, who shed his blood for
the Union, is rebel at heart and in
favor of dividing it. up into separate
governments; and as reason can not
dispel political any more than it can
religious prejudices, the campaign has
been fought by the Republicans ON
false issues, and men who are sincerely
opposed. to Garfeld's views ON silver
and Chinese, will vote for. him under
the false impression that the election of
one OF the brayest and ablest Generals
IN the Union. army would endanger the
existence of that which he shed his
blood to preserve.
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