Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-12-29
The Bo,, from the Convention.


Convention, yesterday, withdrew from
that body, and published in the Erening
Bulletin card, setting forth their reasons
and " grievances" in the words following,
to wit:
Ind ,chereas, A majority of the alleged
Delegates to this Convention have assumed
an ungererous attitude towards the under
signed, a minority, by perfecting, what is in
political parlance termed a slate for officers,
which it is their evident intention to force
upon us
The charge about that I" slate" may be
all very true, and it may be all creature
of the fancy of the seeding delegates.
But one fact, however, Is very certain !;
and that is that the gentlemen who COM
plain of the proceedings had III the Con-
ven,ion, and evinced their disgust thereat,
are not properly constituted for delegates
to political body, nor fitted by expert
ence 20 represent with much force their
constituents, in the subtle strategy, which
is the mode of warfare ever resorted to by
dabblers in the filthy pool" The course
pursued in the Convention and to which
these parties, at altogether too late an
hour, took exception, was the appoint
mcnt of certain Committees, to whom
were delegated certain powers, rather
more extended than is perhaps generally
customary in such bodies. Here, if any
where, the cutting and drying process,
took effect, and the "slatc," if any, was
made out. The question upon the ap-
pointment of those Committees, was stated
by the Chair in the usual parliamentary
manner, and then, if ever, was the time
for those delegates, or whomsoever disap-
proved of comforting those powers, to have
interposed their objections. If they saw
therein the cat in the meal-bag, then or
never was the time for them to have
spoken, and stated their discoveries or
their suspicious. But, if we are correctly
informed, those questions were put and
carried by vote of three-fourths of the
Convention. If so the appointment of the
Committees and the exercise of the powers
delegated to them, followed as natural
consequence, and all the acts of the Con-
vention, naturally resulting from the affir-
native vote on those questions, was the
act Of the whole Convention, and that
these parties found themselves out in the
cold, Is their misfortune, and no crime of
the other thrce-fourths of that body.
When the Committee on Nominations
made their report, and the question on the
adoption of that report left the whole
matter open for discussion as to any wrong
supposed to have been attempted. One
of the minority did, it appears, speak to
the question, and. from all accounts, was
listened TO with attention. He failed to
satisfy the Convention that anything was
wrong, and the Convention ratified the
nominations made by the Committee.
This immense indignation of the minor
ity is 1.-THE old thing" that everybody
who has ever had aught to do with Con-
ventionS has become accustomed to. In
this instance, however, the flare up appears
to be more absurd than ordinarily is the
case. One-fourth of the Convention
accuse three-fourths of the body of a COM
bination to defeat the wishes of the mi
nority. They declare that the powers
conferred on the Committee were too arbi-
trary. Why did they not oppose the ap-
pointmcnt of the Committee, and the dele
CATION of those powers To get up at a
later hour, when the whole subject matter
had been finally disposed of in parliament
tary form, and announce the discovery of
a mares nest, is poor way of evincing
ones political sagacity, or fitness to take
part in Nominating Convention. 1t is
not what is expected by the people of the
delegates they elect to represent in such a
body.
The powers conferred upon the Com
mittees were perhaps extraordinary-yet
these delegates who complain, consented
to the delegation of those powers. As
far as we are able to learn, everything
was conducted squarely and in strict &C
cordance with custom. If the nominal
tons made were in accordance with any
preconcerted scheme, that scheme was car
ried out in a manner that left it an easy
matter for those outside the plot to have
defeated it. If they had not the wit to
perceive it, their own stupidity is alone at
fault. The nominations appear to US to
have been fairly made, and we consider
them binding upon every member of the
Convention, and the party which that
Convention represented.
Col. CRADLEBACGH.-The Union Coun-