Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-09
POWERFUL "REAsoNs,"

SNAo hot SuPPOIt W. NJ DtehaIt Ava
United States Senator. If it did so, We
venture to say that not many of its read
ers saw those reasons" or if they did'
did not recognize them by that NAME
With the exception of the simple statement
that Stewart had not sufficient educa-
ton" the Union did not pretend to state
a s;nole fact adverse to that gentleman,
and tba, charge was so ridiculously alb
sr-d that the Union, for Its own credit,
had better left it unsaid. We're Mr.. Stew
art some obscure and comparatively I'M
known person, like Mr.. Whitman, for in
stance, the Union might have taken ad-
vantage of the popular ignorance, and
have succeeded in deceiving them upon
the point. 1t happens, however, unfor-
tunately for the purposes of that paper,
that Mr.. Stewart is perhaps better known
throughout the entire State of Nevada
than any other man that can be named.
He is known to the whole people of the
State as the leading lawyer of the State,
in whose care and to whose legal wisdom,
fidelity and energy, have been and still
are entrusted the heaviest Irrigated inter-
ests in the Territory and State of Neva-
da. For the Union to impute ignorance
or want of education to such man is
simply absurd, and carries its refutation
with itself. The Union is not, at this
juncture, addressing the masses Of the
people; and paltry charges, such as IN
popular campaign might succeed in crea-
ting fvore of false and unfounded pre-
iudices, are entirely thrown away. In the
matter of choosing United States Sena-
tors, the people have delegated their pow
ers to their representatives in the State
Legislature, and the primG .tacie suppose
ton is that they have elected men TO that
body possessing the full average amount
of common sense, and tolera6lc knowl-
edge of the qualifications of men so prom
inent in the community as to be named in
connection with the United States Senator
ship. There is a strong probability that
at least nine-tenths of the Legislature OF
this State are personally acquainted with
Mr.. Stewart, and that the other tenth
know him well by reputation. Such men
will be very unlikely to take the naked
word of the editor of the Union that MIR.
Stewart is an ignoramus. The balance of
the "reasons" are nothing more or less
than a pack of surmises, inuendoes and
inSinuations, such as can be manufactured
Gd H6itHm at moments notice by any
scribbler, and are utterly impossible as
they are unworthy Of refutation. The
"reasons" given yesterday were that
Stewart was a man of indefatigable in
dustry and indomitable energy IN carrying
to successful issue whatever work was
placed in his hands. It did go so
far as to say that in the capacity
of a lawyer he was "unscrupulous." The
precise definition and application OF that
word, as applied to any of Mr.. Stewards
acts, was not given. Taking for granted
its own assertions of his indefatigabili-
ty," industry" etc, the onion argued(O
that Mr.. S. might possibly, and. therefore,
probably would be as likely to use those
qualifications against as in favor of the
interests of his constituents. That man
of that positive energy of character which
the Union comedies to Stewart, might, II
he chose, do more harm than a fool, is
possible. but that he would be likely to do
so, is the broadest and widest surmise,
and a contingency of which We have no
serious apprehension. The foregoing con-
stitute the sum and substance of the
"reasons given in the Union Of yester-
day; the " reasons" of this morning are
of similar character and similar force. 1t
commences at the outset by stating that
the first Constitution was defeated because
Stewart was the head and front of the
Constitution party. 1t then says that in
the recent elections Stewart & Co.'S slate
was carried out yet the Constitution
was adopted and the Union ticket triumph
antly elected. We don't see the point
made in the combining of those two prop
ositions. The Cnio" then proceeds (as
one in all of Stewards secrets) to state
the balance of that gentleman's pro-
gramme. It tells its readers exactly who
are to be appointed to such and such
offices paying his unnamed colleague the
compliment of being a wooden man and
tool of Stewart. To assert that all this
programme of the UniO" is parcel of
the sheerest balderdash, is merely to state
fact patent to the eye of any man Of
sense who will give the subject halt
moments consideration. The worst enc
nv that Mr.. Stewart has in the nation
will not accuse him of being fool. The
men whom it has named in connection
with him, baldwin, Clagett and Tride')
are men of full average shrewdness, and
as little likely as any party that we know
to tell tales out of school," especially
to anybody who trains in the company Of
Church s Co., who confess to chronic
hatred and opposition to Stewart. II
Stewart had just such a plan as the Union
talks about, and should carry it into
effect, it would suit us well enough, and
we don't know that the people of the
State Of Nevada would be much aggrieyed
or injured thereby. But one thing is very
certain; and that is, that whatever Stew
arts plans may be, the Union knoscs moth