Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-06-09
THE NEXT ELECTION.
A Vice President From the Pacific
COnst.

Communicated.
The ten-year limit in the Chinese matter
is of no value beyond the fact that it gives
us a breathing s%pell-a chance to arrange
for an anti-Chinese campaign that shall
end only when the Monaghan is not only
forbidden for xH> time to- come here, but
those already here are driven out 80 that
the thrifty and homogeneous European
immigrants can take their places. The
Eastern people generally do not under
stand the terrible significance of a Mongo-
liam flood as we who are face to face with
the first waves Of it do. The Republican
party, the most un%republican of any party
that has ever existed in America, largely
made up Of the bank, railroad and factory
aristocrats, has little or no interest in the
question beyond the fact that its ill-in-
formed members of this class vainly i'm
agine that a cheaper and more tractable
set of laborers can be had from Gilman
short that the coolies are a complete and
satisfactory solution to the vexatious
"labor question:" l take it, therefore,
that the ten-year Chinese bill is not a proof
Of Republican good faith in the matter,
but is intended to influence the
NOtC Vi lhpoiih5 "Sh " IL
coming elections. 1t is needless
to say that neither laboring men or others
OF the immigrants now coming from Eu-
rope, nor ''movers'' from the older States
of the Union, will be satisfied to come to
the Pacific Coast with their families and
substance, with the chance of a Monaghan
flood breaking over them with renewed
fury, after being pent up ten years.
Whatever else may be charged to the
Democratic party, it has shown an Gin
stinctive sagacity," as Benton used to say,
on this question, and never failed to take
the white mans side Of it. 1t is only to
this party that the Pacific Coast can look
with any reasonable degree of pride for a
permanent and proper settlement of the
Chinese question. But this is not all.
Through that party the Pacific Coast must
demand the second place on the presiden-
tial ticket. The Vice President, at the
head of the Senate, is a mighty power. A
Vice President from the Pacific Coast
would be the nucleus of q Chinese opposi-
ton that would result in a victory for US.
As to who our candidate should be, it is
too early to decide, but not too early for
your correspondent to mention a lame.
Samuel M. Wilson, the San Francisco
lawyer, too we'll known On the Coast to
need description, was at the Cincinnati
Convention, cool and ~clear-headed,
as at all times, and in the midst of that
stormy convention devoted himself
chiefly to the Chinese plank in the plat
form, and though he was not able to get
it in just as he desired to, at least did the
best possible among Eastern men who did
not fully comprehend the Importance OF
the matter. Who the candidate for the
Presidency will be no one knows, nor does
any one seem particularly anxious to take
a place that has been for twenty odd years
sure political death for the aspirant, with
one notable exception. No new name has
been mentioned and Tilden never had a
prominent supporter who does not swear
that he will prefer him to any other in
1884 if the breath is in the old mans
body. Wilson would carry the Pacific
Coast and Rocky Mountain States, and the
lucky State of Ohio will not forget that he
is her son. Tilden and Wilson, New York
and California, the two great cities of the
East and West, Joined to right two great
wrongs against the American people-that
would indeed be a formidable coalition. X.