The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-26
ABUSE AGAINST ARGUMENT.


to which Office he was elected on the
/. Republican ticket, is known through
cut the State as one of the ablest men,
bers of the legal profession. He is not
...l.;a politician nor a partisan, but claims
the right to think for himself and vote
as he pleases. Believing that his views
on the issues involved in the campaign,
/ and his opinions of the Presidential can
!. ,lidates of the Democratic and Repub-
d. lican parties would be read with inter
d est by citizens who are not so cowed by
+ the party lash as to relinquish the right
= to think for themselves, the SILVER
STATE interviewed him upon these
> subjects. His answers, based upon
the. logical deductions of lawyer,
b who does not bear the brand or wear
q: the yoke of any party, We're clear and
concise, and were given in full, with
out comment, in his own language.
Ills conclusions, reached from care
T. fll analysis Of the facts, were against
General Garfield, who, he admitted
!. was an able man, but a corrupt polti-
clan, He showed from the Congress
j. sional record Of General Garfield that
]; he opposed the Silver BILL the Chinese
/: bill, and the Reagan bill to prevent
discrimination on railroads, in all of
II which questions the people Of Nevada
!. are particularly interested. For exer-
1t cising the prerogatiye of an American
: citizen, to cpisicise the actions of man
!. who aspires to the highest position in
I the gift Of the people of the United
J. States, he is most shamefaHy misrepne-
{, sented and abused by the organ of the
Virginia and Truckee Railroad Com
pany, the Territorial Enterprise. The
organ does not attempt the futile task
= OF refuting any of the arguments al-
:. yanced by General Clarke, but contents
itself with abusing him, and doubtless
many hidebound partisans, who read
tie organ, approve. it's course, and
never stop to consider that its abuse of
!. General Clarke doessnot in any manner
whatever disprove the arguments which
o he advanced against General Garfield.
These men hold up their hands in
"holy horror" aS the alleged intoler-
auce in. the South where they
charge men are prosecuted for express
ing their honest political opinions yet
approve of the course. of the leading
Republican and railroad organ in Ne
!. vada, inA attacking and villifying a
) prominent citizen of the State who is
not allied with any political patty, and
!. seeks no office, but simply claims the
/, right to think for, himself and vote as
K he pleases. Can any reasonable per-
son believe other than that the Enter
prise, and those who approve of it's un-
warranted attacks on General Clarke,
would, if they could, prosecute those
who dared to differ from them politi-
Gally? They are, at heart, as bigoted,
/, intolerant, and proscriptive as the
). "bulldozer, whom they picture with
/; shotguns and bowie knife, in. Missis-
sippi and Louisiana, threatening those
who differ from them politically.
But tbs leading railroad and Repub-
hc.sn organ of Nevada entertained, not
very long ago, avery different opinion
OF General Clarke from that which it
n now expresses. On the 18th of last
March, when the organ did not suspect
that a National Convention would in a
moment of desperation, without refec-
tion, when rent in twain by rival fac.
tions, VINO had fought for their chief.
tains, Blaine. and Grant, in primary
- meetings and State conventions, in
!, every State in the Union, nominate q
!. man whose skirts, to say the least, were
tainted with corruption. it expressed a
very different opinion of General Clarke.
Then it said,
General Clarke has for years sacri,
feed money and influence in fighting,
III the interest of the masses, what he
deemed to be corporate abuses. Nc
pecuniary, political or social influences
haya aypr haa,, a hIn. ~. L.; -,