Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1892-10-15
BARTINE on THE GRIDIRON.
A Scathing Review Of his Reno
Speech and His Party.

at the Opera House in Reno, Mon
day evening, and l gladly awaited
myself of the opertunity of h airing
one so renowned as yourself, expati-
ate upon questions of great National
importan and expected you to tell
your hearers why you still carry Re-
publican colors and why the people
should honor you above all others
by electing you to the highest office
in the gift of the State. Before go
ing to hear you l asked myself what
reasons can this man give why the
people should elect any man to office
who stills claims to be Republican!
That you would laud the past of the
G. Q. P, mention, in passing, the
freeing of the negro, praise the Nc
Kinley bill, and, as in duty bound,
modestly speak OF your own praise
worthy efforts to fully remonetlze
silver, Just hint that Mr.. Stewart
was not nearly so worthy of the
high honor as yourself, all Of which
you did, aud, do you know, | thought
you might give the bloody shirt just
one little wave over the bloody
chasm which you did not. Your re
ference to those pure patriots. those
great and God like men, Sumner,
Greedy, Philips and Beecher, as the
founders of the great Republican
party was peculiarly infelicitous.
That they were mainly instrument
tai in forming the Republican party
admit, but why did you not tell
your hearers of the after history of
each of these great men! Let me
do it Cor you. Sumner, in 1868,
opposed the Administration on the
Jamaica question, and thereafter re
pudiated by the Republican party and
press Horace Greedy ran for Press
ident on the Democratic ticket in
1872. On the assassination IF G
field, Henry Ward Beecher s;,o
The Republican party is now a
band If Roman soldiers, sitting on
tie ground throwing dice, to see who
shall have share of the Savior's gar
ments Liberty was imperiled for
party plumber Wendell Phillips
said of your party: Every lover of
liberty should therefore toll pray
for Its destruction
Do not again claim those men as
Republicans of the present day.
That they were such when it was
party with principles, true,
but when it became an organized
band of robbers, whose chiefs traded
in the liberties of their country and
blood of their fellcw men for gold
for themselves, they then heaped up
on it their curses and maledictions,
denounced and left it, and what has
your party since done to recall either
of them, were they still living, to
his former allegiance! Can you telll |
| cannot. You spoke of Republican
principles and Democratic principles.
| challenge you to show single prin
ciple that prevades and is part sof |
either party and | charge in the Ian
gaage of the immortal Beecher that
the leaders of both the cid parties
are nothing now but "a band of
Roman soldiers sitting on the ground,
throwing dice to see who shall have
a share of the Savior's garments.
To name all the crimes ofithe Re-
publican party | cannot in column
article, and suffice it to
say, that during rule of twenty
i've years, your party has degraded
the people of our county from state
Of almost perfect freedom to state of
servitude and slavery more degrad
ing and insupportable than was even
African slavery. They have pollut-
ed the fountain Of justice and by
their decisions; they have corrupted
The people by buying their votes
ithsaccursed gold. till the elective
is lost III our State and our
people are on the very outermost
verge of anarchy as is evidenced by
the acts of two or three men at the
State Capitol who demand, whether
Justly or ubjustly, they neither know
nor care, that an additional tax of
twenty FIVE percent shall be placed
upon the property of every man IN
our county. What law can be more
arbitrary or unjustl And still there
is no escaping its workings except by
revolution. Last year the increase
was fifteen per cent This year it is