Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-07-09
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FIELDS CANDIDACY.

ticket. We say growing into votes, ad'
v;sedly. for we are not aware OF any
popular favor or strength that he has
lately acquired. Evidently a great deaI
Of money has been spent by His Honor''
friends to advertise him. ANY one whe
reads the Alta, his particular organ,
needs 20 no further than to the columns
of that Journal to see that in booming
him expense is freely incurred. Whole
columns of "solid matter" are especially
telegraphed to the Alta from the East IN
the shape of correspondence or leading
articles borrowed from the New York
Sum or other metropolitan journals to
boom the Judicial aspirant. A goodly
number Of prominent public men from
California, New York and Washington
City are greatly interested in him and
are reported to be making his canvass in
magnificent and seductive style. 1t Is
seldom, in the ordinary flow Of events,
that the people rise up and call by in
SEPARATION for q particular man to bear the
standard in q national, political fight.
Only emergency ~elevates such men.
They are needed as the pilot in a storm
or the captain in the confusion OF war.
They do not seek the eminent place OF
trust or danger; they, consenting only,
are lifted up, and, perhaps. pushed into
it. There has been no call for Justice
Field by the people. A boom, Of what
ever size it may be, has been manufac.
tured for him in q way that the work OF
his manipulators referred to will, at
least, suggest. His boom has further
been made to grow by a act that was
done to destroy it. The legitimate, but
indiscreet. reputation Of him by the
Democratic State Convention of Califor-
mia, the State from which he halls, has
given him . power. morbid though it
be, that he could not otherwise
have had. 1t has made him
able to pose in the attitude Of one
prosecuted, a martyr to local and vicious
prejudice. Before the American people,
whose sympathies are Immediately
aroused by the imputation of foul play,
the most effectual weapon you can put in
the hands of a public mans friends, de.
fensive and offensive, is the plea Of per-
~secutiou. And so Justice Field has grown
to be formidable in the Democratic
National Convention, as 8 candidate for
the Presidency.
It goes without saying that this little
paper is for the Democratic party and
consequently for Justice Field if he
should become the party nominee. We
believe we have excellent reasons for pre-
ferrin gothers to him for the FIRST place on
the ticket ; but being first for the main
tenance of the principles of Democracy
and for candidates afterwards. we are for
His Honor orhnybody else whom our rep
resentativss. now sweltering in Chicago,
may put forward to head our ticket.
Why we do not prefer Justice Field We
will leave to Dur Republican friends to
discuss. If he should be the Democratic
nominee. they will find ont fast enough
where TO strike him.
Apropos of this We feel that it is the
right and proper thing for the Democracy
to rely upon their delegates at Chicago
to represent them and pick out their best
man for the Presidential race. Let NAL.
contents, soreheads and boilers be con-
fined to the Republican party. This dis.
turning element however wholesome they
may be to the nation IS a sort OF political
reaction to level Republican autocrats
and planderers, are not lovable. They
are q crowd not fs 10 tie to, as a general
thing. and they are not any more amiahle
in the Democratic than in the Republican
camp
Hon. David E. BAily received yester.
day morning the following dispatch from
Hon. II. t. Creswell, Austin, Lander
County. Nevada:
Press dispatch says Nevada delegation
is in favor OF Field. Can we not hold
mass meetings over the State at once ex
pressing our dlsapproval Of such misrep
resentation of our party
Mr.. Baily. . conservative Democrat
who goes offhali-oocked, answered
Think not. Am satisfied to leave al
70 the National Democratic Convention
Ii occurs to US that in saying "leay,
all to the National Democratic Conven
tion.s Mr.. Baily left but little to be said
As to the delegates from Nevada we d,
not believe they viii express the senti
ment Of Austin Convention or of tn,
Democracy Of Nevada if they vote 70,
Mr.. Field. But we must remember tina
Nevada comprises only = very small par
of the Democracy Of the United States
The Judgment Of the Nevada Democrac,
may. moreover. be faulty and unsound
Therefore, let rs not condemn our Stat
delegates. unheard. for any Judgment Of
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