Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-12

A Most Enthusiastic Political
Gathering.
THEY AWAKE THE ECHOES II
EUREKA CANYON.
AN M EMsE CROWD.


Last night was a glorious evening for tn
Democratic mass meeting-a trife too col
for outdoor talking, hence it was tina
many had to go away; but as man,
as could pack inside the Courthouse
upstairs and down, upon the seats ant
ratings, in the aisles and on the floors, il
the windows and against the walls, every
where were men and women. Even befor,
the bonfires COMMENCED to blaze at the J
roads of Main and Bateman streets, tn
the house was filling, and by the time tn
brass band had played two or three tune
| upon the street the hall was we'll filed, ant
when the musicians started for the speak
er's stand then the rush commenced tt
hear Ogden Hiles and Father McGrath, o
Virginia.
Sunday mornings SENTINEL announced
Ogden Hiles, but at the time no one knew
that Father McGrath was to be on hand.
About 1880 o'clock the Chairman Of the
Democratic County Central Committee
entered the hall, followed by the speakers,
The band had preceded them, and as they
entered the sweet strains of national and
popular airs were ~discoursed, and the i'm.
mense %concourse OF people assembled
stamped and clapped their hands for five
minutes or more before order could be re.
stored. AT last George W. Baker arose to
introduce the first speaker,
OGDEN HILEs,
A young orator from Virginia City, who
was received with cheers. Mr.. Hiles waited
not on the order of iowery speech, but
got right down to his work in good plain
English, and said that by the providence
of God and the votes OF the American peo-
pie, we will win this fight. Applause.
This is a Union in fact, as well as in name.
All those who would lead the country to
ruin all those who have had the run of
fat Offices so long all those who know
aught but a life Of task, and ye shall re-
%ceiye," these are the men who have hoisted
for their leader in the on-coming fight the
hero of Credit Mobilier, De Golyer and
many other disreputable affairs.
Mr.. Hiles started with a comparison be-
tween the Two candidates of the two great
parties of the country. The Republican
party has nominated one who is unworthy
and unfit for the Presidency. 1t is not
necessary to argue to prove Garfield's con-
nection with the Credit Mobilier and De
Golyer briberies. His guilty connection
with the Credit Mobilier transaction is
established by his own partisan friends, as
appears by the report Of the Poland COM
mittee. 1t is not by his connection with
the Credit Mobilier and De Golyer brib-
cries that his ~unfitness is shown. The
whole Of his public history shows him to
be a man devoid of that highest attribute
of the statesman-moral courage. In in
tellectual power, in broad and statesman
like comprehension, he is superior to most
leaders OF his party; but he always leaves
his conscience in the keeping OF his party.
In seeing and pointing out the right way
he is a leader; but he is always a follower
Of those who are pursuing the wrong.
In 1876 be went to Louisiana as a visiting
statesman, to watch the counting of the
votes in that State. Before going to
Louisiana he wrote to his friend Hinsdale
that the service OF visiting statesman, to
which he had been appointed by President
Grant, was distasteful to him, because he
then believed that the Republican party
intended to count the Hayes Electors in
and the Tilden Electors out, regardless OF
the vote actually cast at the polls. Gar
field, with this apprehension weighing
upon his mind and conscience, went to
Louisiana, and at the call of party leaders
assisted the Returning Board in giving an
air Of respectability to the blacklist crime
ever perpetrated upon a free government.
But this is not all. After his return
| from Louisiana, when the celebrated Elec-
| toral Commission Bill was brought for
ward in the House of Representatives,
| Garfield, from his place on the floor,
| denounced it as being unconstitutional.
He declared that there was not a shadow
| of warrant for such q law in the Constitu.
ton and voted against its passage, but
after its passage he tool a seat upon the
tribunal which the bill created. Moreover,
| when it was before the House for discus
| sion, he declared that the bill contemplated
the going behind the return Of the Floridf
and Louisiana Returning Boards, and in.
| quired into the methods by which they
arrived at the conclusion that the Hayes
Electors had been elected. But when ht
became a member Of the Commission, hs
| refused to do that which he had declared
the law of its creation contemplated
that is, to go behind the returns and ascer
tain whether the Returning Boards hat
obeyed the Law in making up its returns
that the Hayes Electors had been elected.
Again, when the Democracy complained
and justly too, that the Federal Law, which
provides for the election of Deputy Maj
shals and Supervisors Of elections in Ger
tain cases, was unfair and unjust, becausI
the Democratic party was not represented
or recognized in the appointment OF sucl
offices, Garfield admitted the business O
the complaint and announced himself q
being ready at any time to vote for
proper amendment to the law, and whel
...ob ~ pna,Ipnank was nronoaa6 ha 70
fused it his support.
Again, when the country was agitated b,
the discovery of the stealthy, surreptitiou
characterization of silver. by a Republican
Congress in 1872, Garfield, before the Con
gressional election Of 1874, promised hi
constituents that if elected his voice an
vote should be for the reconciliation q
silver; but hardly had he got back to Cor
gress before he was heard ~denouncing tn
silver dollar as a cheap, nasty and dishor
est dollar He declared that the measur
to remonetize silver was a "piece OF dii
honesty SO vast as to render the achieve
ment illustrious."
Again, when the measure popularl
known as the Fifteen Passenger bill, whic
was intended as a restriction upon Chimes
immigration to these shores, was propose
in Congress, Garfield objected to the bi
and voted against it, because it did M
contain a provision that the Chinese go
eminent should be notified Of its passas
before 1t should take effect. And after
had been reported back from the Senat
with the very amendment attached whit
Garfield himself had suggested, he sti
persisted in opposing the bill, and vote
to sustain the veto Of Mr.. Hayes.
1t is no wonder that Murat Halstea
the leading Republican editor Of the Yves
only a few months before Garfeld's nom
nation, denounced him as a ''hypocritic
charlatan," and on the first day Of q
meeting of the Chicago Convention h.
stead said: zone Of the most contemI
ible things thus far at Chicago Is the cls
ter about Garfield; he has not a record
which to run for the Presidency" Al
vet this Ia the man whom the Republicl