Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1884-02-16
FEALTY TO PARTY.

Under the ABOVE caption tue oiiVel
State says:
"Ths Austin Reveille seems to
favor the application of the party
lash and compel Republicans to vote
the whole ticket or be read out OF
the party without hope Of office or
reward. 1t says one man has been
suggested as a delegate to the Ma
tional Republican Convention who
at the last general election is said to
have voted for more Democrats than
Republicans, and it puts the question
squarely by asking, "Is such man
good stuff to represent party that
be threw of on9'"
We certainly hold that such man
10 not fit to 60 to the National Con
vsntion Or receive any reward what,
ever from the hands Of his party.
There is q class of men, and we re-
greet to say they are very numerous
in the Republican party, who when
any allusion is made to party fsalty,
like to whine about the party whip
and pirate of their independence.
Most of these fellows simply want
an excuse to throw the meanest kind
of dirt upon the party simply be-
cause they are not allowed forever
to hold preferred mortgage upon
the party and its work. When every
thing goes their way they are good
Republicans; when they can put all
of their relations on the ticket they
howl for party fsalty and want every
body to fall in line; when, however,
everything is not just as they would
have il, the least mention of party
fealty or party discipline brings
forth from them the talk that no
man alive can crack the party lash
oyer their free and independent
backs. Trace these mems antece-
dents and you will as rule find that
their expressions of opinion are not
the views OF independent, just think
ing men, but the cowsrdly voices of
white. livered, squesling, half-breed
pigs, whose fore legs have Temporal
ally slipped off the swill trough, aad
the instant they get them back their
miserable wall changes to the self
satisfied grunt that q porker gives
forth when his chops lap the swiA
and his jowls swell with it. Most of
all man who has ever received
honois at psrtys hands should as
. matter of decency respect the Or
ganization of the party as it was
then, to see that az far as his individ
nal efforts goes it is just al we'll CT.
Ranized now. Whenever q man who
is indebted to tue party thinks of
skulking and holding back his sup.
port let him reflect whore he would
have landed had Jones, Smith and
Brown skulked when he was run.
ming for Office. 1t is party organi
cation that wins party victories. Sup
pose q soldier in the army was com
handed to advance on a redOubt and
turned about with the remark: mo
General in this army can crack the
military lash over me-" Such fell
low would be quietly led to the rear
and shot. Without organization an
army would be simply swarm of
tramps and certain of defeat; and q
political party which cannot enforce
discipline will be certain to go to the
wall. In the last State campaign
men who ought to have been in better
business snapped off the party and
made disgraceful trades with the
Democrats, which gave us . Demo-
cratic governor and gave the people
of Nevada the worst and least de.
serving executive officer it ever had.
These traitors are spotted and If the
lash Of party discipline cannot be
we'll laid over their backs. the Re.
publican purity Of Nevada had better
reorganizs and place men in COM
msnd who know how to use authority.
Carson Appeal.