Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-28

There is something almost sublime IN
the claim of the Republicans that their
party is the nation, and whatever is o
by or for the Republican party is done
by or for the United States. That party
has held the Federal Government so long
that it has come to regard it as the pri-
vate property OF the Republicans, and to
look upon the efforts of the majority OF
the people to recover control of it as little
less than downright robbery. In the ad-
dress Of the Chicago Convention to the
country the Republican party claimed to
have fought all the battles of the war
though most Of the soldiers and officers
were Democrats; to have saved the Union
which was preserved by the valor and
sacrifices of the whole people; to nave
paid off millions OF the public debt-the
money coming from the pockets. OF the
| American people without distinction OF
| party; to have restored prosperlty-it
having been lost by Republican misman-
agement which caused the panic of 1873,
and was recovered in part by the acts OF
a Democratic Congress and in part by a
succession of bountiful harvests which
turned the trade balance in II favor.
The cool audacity with which the Re-
publicans use the government for their
own partisan purposes as though it were
their political machine, and tax the l00,-
600 Federal ofice-holders for partisan
ends as though these offices were their
own political property, is enough to fill
the minds of all thoughtful a I patriotic
citizens with alarm. The latest illustra-
tion of this abuse of power is afforded by
the compilation of a Republican cam
paign document at the expense Of the
General Government by Joseph Nimmo.
Jr., Chief of the Bureau of Statistics in
the Treasury Department. Mr.. McPher-
son, Secretary of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, wanted a docu-
ment containing facts and figures which
ignorant Republican campaign speakers
could cram themselves with and recite
from the stump. Mr.. Nimmo, al officer
of the Government, paid for his time and
services out of the National Treasury,
was ordered to prepare the required state
ment, in the interests of a party which
go
hypoeritically pretends to favor civil
service reform! 1t is of little conse-
quence what the document in question is
designed to prove. The shifting fact is
that the Republican managers called on
a Federal officer to prepare a campaign
document for their use, and he degraded
his position by performing the partisan
drudgery. The baseness of the perform.
ance, however, is deepened by the char
acter of publication, which is designed to
prove by statistics that the South has
fewer capitalists and merchants and man
ufacturers than the North and West, and
therefore, Hancock ought not to be chosen
President. With just as much reason
and propriety it might be proved by sta
tistics that the North does not produce SC
much cotton, rice and sugar as the
South, and therefore Garfield ought not to
be elected to the Presidency. The reason.
ing is ridiculous, and the premises are
absurd. But the whole work is based
upon the black and baleful ~sectionalism
to which the Republican party is com
mitted. 1t is a sectional exhibit, intended
to create sectional prejudice and distrust.
1t is an appeal to the pride, and ambi.
tion, and avarice of the North against
the South, and an insulting fling at the
South because Providence made it the
planting-field Of the nation. the producer
Of invaluable staples Of industry, and
the source Of wealth to the enterprise,
and capital, and commerce of the North.
ern States. But this is Republicanism.
1t claims the nation as it's W property.
1t treats the Federal offices as it's per.
quisites. 1t deals with the Federal off.
GERS and employees as its own hired agents,
and uses them for its own partisan ends.
And it employees the head of an import.
ant bureau in the Treasury Department,
under Mr.. John Sherman, to prepare o
campaign document which is an insult te
the whole South and a base appeal to
sectional passions!
The sooner this Republican party is
overthrow the better for it's country and
all its people. It has held power toe
long already. It has become an usurpa.
ton. 1t means sectional division when
the people everywhere want union. Its
policy tends to war, when the universal
demand of all classes and States and sec.
tions is for peace and goodwill. And il
abuses its trust by degrading the officers
OF the General Government into emissa.
ries to carry out its pernicious and dan,
gerous partisan designs.