Iron County register., 1884-07-10
III Pacific States.

The prevalnt notion that Blaine can
carry the Pattie States without an eff
fort is basedhpon scanty information
concerning be political situation on
| that coast. hat Blaine's anti Chinese
speech madehim popular in California
is unauestiord, but the passage Of the
restriction aclin the face of Republican,
opposition nd Republican vetoes
showed the eople of California that
they must lod to the Democratic party
for protectiohoainst the ruinous COM
petition of Asltie labor. Blaine did not
represent the httitude of his party on.
the Chinese qestion; he simply Joined
the Democratc party on that issue.
Moreover, Ea4ern people generally do
not realize tha the Chinese question IS
not agitating he Pacific Coast To-Day
and will not bj the important issue in
the contest of tSS4 that it was in 1880.
Tt is virtually Settled for the present.
and CALIFORNIA; understand perfectly
that the Democrats can be depended
upon to keepI it settled, while in the
event of restdation of Republican SUI
premacy at Washington it would surely
be reopened h statesmen of the HOar
school.
The Chimes question is rarely re-
ferred to not by Californians. The
subject which absorbs their attention
and governs dl their political action is
the rapacity Ii the railroad corpora
tons. The Ihcifc coast is being dev-
astated and laid waste by the gigantic
railroad mono oboly, and the people have
been in turmoil for two wears in their
efforts to headloff the robbers and save
themselves fr1m ruin. The fact that
the ablest and most respectable jour-
nails in Califohia are seriously advocat-
ing lynch law as the only remedy for
the existing Sate of affairs, indicates
clearly that the railroad question is the
one absorbing political issue In that
section.
Blaine is nobriously the friend and
tool of RAILROAD monopolists. His rec
ord is composed largely of railroad
scandals, railroad jobbery and railroad
subserviency. The enthusiastic Blaine
delee alton from California to the Re-
publican Convention was composed OF
men wholly in the railroad interests.
Any anti-monopoly Democrat can
beat Blaine out of sight in California.
Blaine can be beaten there by anybody,
if the Democrats devote themselves to
showing up his railroad record. Cell
fornia does not stand among the Re-
publican States. If not surely in the
Democratic column, she can be counted
as exceedingly doubtful.
AS to Nevada, principles and politics
may be left entirely out of the discus
sion. There are now but 5000 voters
left in the State. and they have no prin-s
ciples. The State is bankrupt, and her
only assets are her three electoral votes,
which are for sale to the highest bidder.
There is no attempt in Nevada to con-
ceal that fact. The votes are for sale
at public auction, and the side which
offers the biggest sack of coin can have
them. Nevada does not care a rap for
the Chinese question, or anv other ques-
tion. Blaine, the devil and Tom Walker
are all the same to her. She sold her
votes to Sharon for half a million, to
Fair for quarter of a million, and is
willing to sell them again for what they
will bring. Nevada is not worth talk
ing about. She ought to vote for Blaine
out of natural sympathy and affinity,
however. Globe.