Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-03
p1s1NTEREsTEp AnYIoH.

contest, and make a clear field for fair
combat between the. Union men of this
county and the Copperheads, TO the end
that the latter might be wiped out after
the manner of a shotgun, we are con-
strained to admit. Who the seE-sacri-
ficers are to be, in such case, seems, how
ever, to be the rub. The friends of each
of the candidates earnestly suggest that
course to the supporters of the others, but
all hands cling to their own pets, like
grim death to a deceased contraband.
They talk " turkey" to themselves all the
time and "crow" to the Indian. Yester-
day, Col. Howard published his formal
withdrawal from the canvass, in the doing
of which we conceive that his course was
dictated more by wise notions of economy
than any great amount of self-immolation
on the altar of patriotism. His card ap-
peared first in the Pi,as; whereupon that
paper, which is the sole supporter Of the
" Regular" ticket, with Coryell at its head,
says:
"The card of Col. Howard breathes Of a
high moral principal and devotion to the BEST
GOOD of the country, and we trust that his
self-sacrihcinS example will be followed by
Messrs. Gage and Day, who, by their selfish
action, are using every effort to elect Cop
perhead ticket"
Very disinterested advice. The Pi'ts IS
of course only actuated BY "a high moral
principal and devotion to the best good Of
the country" Its principal however Is
the principal candidate on the Irregular"
ticket. So far, however, from being a
"high moral principal" we look upon
Coryell as being about the tcorst "good"
on the ticket. Neither Gage nor Day
will be likely to listen to the voice Of the
charmer of the Piuts, nor lay themselves
upon the altar of which Aleck Coryell is
the presiding divinity. If that individual
comprises the "best good of the country,
they don't see it.
The Enterprise sees the thing through a
glass eye of altogether different hue.
It takes Towards card for text, but the
sermon it breaches therefrom differs vastly
in conclusions from the Piwts. 1t says:
"If Coryell is a good sound Union man,
he will follow suit; for he is altogether too
smart a politician not to know that he has
no earthly show against Stephen Gage, the
choice of the people"
Coryell will, of course, own to the soft
impeachment of being "a good sound
Union man." He heads the regular +"
Union ticket, and as there is now full
blown Irregular" Copperhead ticket in
the field, Aleck has nothing to hope from
his old OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. We doubt,
however, his being "smart" enough to
see that he has "no earthly show against
Stephen Gage" and the mass of the regu-
lars seem to be afflicted with the same sort
of blindness. if blindness it be. The
signs of the times fail to indicate any
probability of his availing himself of the
disinterested advice of the Enterprise.
The Union next breaches from Towards
last dying speech and confession, and
sings a sweet song to Mr.. Day. Not
only that gentleman's present good, but
his future welfare and happiness is the OBJ
iect of the Unioa's kind solicitude. 1t
says: ...
"If Mr.. Day is truly loyal, as we presume
he is, not having heard it questioned, we do
not see how he can let selfish considerations
overcome his patriotism at time like this,
when his continuance in the field as an indie
pendent candidate is seriously imperilhng
the existence Of the party TO which he be-
longs. His persistence in running. under the
circumstances, can only result in laying him
on the shelf for all future time; for he can.
not compete with either Of the other candi-
dates, and his conduct at this crisis goes on
record against him for future use"
That "Mr. Day is truly loyal is ad-
mitted, but the conclusions Of the Union
do not follow in natural sequence. There
is no argument in favor of Mr.. Days
Withdrawing from the canvass for the as
sistance of either Coryell or Gage, that
cannot be applied with equal force as a
reason why both those gentlemen should
withdraw in favor of Day. Neither Co.
ryel nor Gage come before the people,
bearing the impress of any authority that
the Union party, as mass, acknowledge.
The Convention that nominated Coryell
was repudiated by hundreds of the sound
est loyal men in the county before even
the primaries were held. That Convex
ton was no more the Convention of the
Union Party Of Storey County than was
the Buzzard's Roost that nominated Nc
Clellan the other day at Chicago. The
body of men that nominated Gage. was
conclave packed by A. B. Paul. and was
Star Chamber humbug unknown to the
political usages of free people in modern
times. The Regular" Convention was
an assemblage of thirty odd men and the
Star Chamber a private convocation Of
perhaps twice as many individuals. Their
nominations have only the force Of recon-
mendations, and any attempt to claim
for them any higher character is mere
browbeating and insolens arrogance. Mr..
Day had more men at his back, by ten
to one, on the day his name was hoisted
in this paper, than composed either of the
packed masses that seek to rule the Union
party by their diesa, which that party are
no more bound to respect and obey than
the people of San Francisco those of the
crazy hummer Emperor Norton. The
hundreds of citizens Of this county, sound
Union men all, who profsred their aid
and support to Mr.. Day with the full
knnwledoa of all The y1ouers of kheee NOM