Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-07
WHAT'S UP9

The Tribune, which singly and alone
battled for Blaine delegates and instruc-
tions and fought the proposition OF send
inc Mackay as a delegate uninstructed,
feels like elevating its tail feathers and
giving a lusty row.-Carson Tribune.
This little self-laudatory paragraph
does not sit we'll on the stomach OF the
Reno Gazette, which, under the some
what ambiguous head-li line "Croaking
Crow" says:
IF the editor of the Tribune could
read between the lines of the resolution
adopted by the convention, he would
feel more like dropping his tail feathers
and giving q lnsty '~'squawk." 1t will
be observed that the resolution only pro.
claimed Mr.. Blaine to be the choice Of
the convention, and left the whole matter
TO the 'integrity and wisdom" OF the SIX
men who are to represent Nevada In the
National Convention. The convention
refused to instruct those men to vote Tor
Blaine, which was equivalent to saying
il was not judicious to nominate him.
We are satisfied with the action OF the
convention: it accords with the view re-
peatedly expressed in the columns OF this
r.per. and we Are satisfied with tho in
dividuaIs as delegates, because we be-
lieve them to be men Of sound political
Judgment who will act only for the best
interests of the party, and they will
learn when they meet all the representa-
tives of the Republican party at Chicago,
that it would be against the interests Of
the party to nominate Mr.. Blaine.
The Gazette says that the delegates to
Chicago from Nevada will see plainly
enough when they get into the conven-
ton that it will not be to the interest Of
the Republican party to vote for the
nomination of Blaine. Freely inter-
preted, this speech means, if it means
anything, that the Nevada delegates,
notwithstanding all that has been said
about the boom for Blaine in this State,
are going to Chicago to vote for some
other man to beat the Democracy with.
Whom does the, Gazette think it will be
to the interest of the party for them to
90 for? We assume to answer for our
contemporary by guess: "Arthur." The
Gazette evidently fancies that the six
votes of this States, now set down gen.
orally for Blaine, may be counted upon
as a solid half.dozen for the present
President.
Now, the Oakland Times, which has
apparently watched the Republican poll
tics in Nevada pretty closely, but per.
haps specifically, says:
The Nevada Republicans, in slang par
lance, have cooked Mackay's goose;'
but in injuring Mackay they have been
guilty of an inexcusably stupid blunder.
We don't believe that "Mackay's
goose is cooked" by the Republican party
of Nevada; it would, in fact, be a good
deal easier for us to think the goose
of the Republican party has been
cooked" by Mackay.
The Enterprise intimates that it was
owing to an oversight that Mackay's
name was not proposed in the conven-
tien, and says that if he had been put in
nomination he would have been chosen
as a delegate unanimously. The latter
part Of this story is doubtless entirely
correct. The former part can't be taken
down without a little salt.
II looks to 'the man up a tree" as
though Mackay's name was purposely
withheld. Had he been elected as o
delegate, it would probably have been
by stipulation; that, while he might 60
to Chicago with the privilege Of voting
for Arthur, the other five delegates from
Nevada should be pledged to Blaine.
This seemed to be the plan and what the
situation required, until the convention
met in Virginia on the Both of April. II
was understood that the sentiment of the
Republican party in Nevada demanded
pledged delegates for the Man from
Maine; and yet there was never a serious
thought Of ~antagonizing Mackay, or Of
objecting to a compromise by which he
should be free to act for himself as an
independent delegate to the National
Convention Of Republican Presidential
manners.
We suspect that Mr.. Mackay will not
be less strong outside of the convention,
the delegates from Nevada being unin-
structed and advised only that they will
respond to the sentiment of the party in
the State if they support the Plumed
knight.
1t looks as though Mr.. Mackay is still
likely to be a power among the ''boys'
at Chicago, and that he may exert him.
self, in the words of the Reno Gazette,
to make it manifest shat it would be
against the interests of the party to NOM
mate Mr.. Blaine"
CALIFORNIA THIRD.
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