The Nevada journal., 1861-07-12
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JOHN CONNE-s.
The soft she'll Democracy have nominated
for Governor john Conness. of FL Dorado.
A more radical man, and one who will give
the eiiivalry less quarter before or after the
election, does not live in the State We are
glad of his nomination, because he Is true
Union man, and if by accident he should
come to the gubernatorial chair he will be
true to that sentiment, and because we re-
gard him as the easiest man to be beaten of
either of the three prominent candidates
who we're up for Gubernatorinl honors be-
fore the late convention. Downey would
hsve commanded heavy vote from the Sc
cession ranks. from tn, Catholic IRISH, and
fro n hundreds of men in San Francisco
bulkhead bill. Casserly would have been
strong also among the same classes that
favored Downey. Conness insnires no en-
thusiasm among the Catholics from his op-
position to the Catholic school law, though
he is an Irishman, while hris vastly unpop-
ular in San Francisco for his course in favor
of the bulkhead, and cannot, on account of
his long known repugnance to the chivalry,
command single vote in the secession
ranks The nomination of Downey, or per-
hansCasserly. would have tended to prevent
tivkct being put in the field by the hard
shell Democracy The success of Con-
ness forces out another ticket wi;u perhaps
| Washington at the head, at an early day,
and readers the election of Leland Stanford
a certainty if it'never.wa before. The Sc
cessionists cannot possibly command ex-
cFesing twenty five thousand votes il the
! State, leaving about ninety thousand to be
divided between Stanford and Conness.
When we take INTO consideration the vote
of the Republican party last year, cast al
most without a hope of success, and the
numbers Of meu who are with us this year
| who were not last, the election of the entire
| Republican State ticket seems certain And
| so it should be, for there are o-Prinaiples
to divide Union men in tbs present contest.
| The leader of tie soft-shell Democracy is
zone. and no one remains to fill hi; place.
! His distinctive doctrine of popular sover-
e:gn.y is not likely TO come mp fer Judgment
again until the war with the rebels is over.
| To elect Governor on an issue that does
not exists, as the soft shells wessad do, is
sheer folly. The Union question is made
the great issue by the Ssfts in their recent
platform. 1t is an issue the Republicans
NAV legitimateiy make by virtue of ther
political relationship to the Government
and so long as they call upon no one to in
dorse the old parry Platform, but only TO
unite with them in upholding the Constitu-
lion and the laws it does not become any
body oil men 10 raise an ors aniza'ion against
them simply f>r the spoiis alone. For this
fore, We regret the nomination of Conness
as unjust to the Union sentiment Of Tho
State, true Union man though he may be
Tie design Of the party that nominated him
/ is plainly seen. A convention was called
consisting OF more than six hundred men
I and 20 meet on the 4th of July. The auth
ors Of the move sought to give hope to the
declining party by seizng on the Nationa
| b.r.l Il; and with ls.ibers and noise at
empt to revive the dropping spirits of mer
without distinctive principle and w.thout
u head.