Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-23
ROUGH ON GOVERNOR NYE.

The Enterprise of this morning has for
its leading article eighteen Reasons for
the Adoption of State Constitution. !"
Seventeen of those reasons are substantial,
and collectively constitute reason enough
why the people should unanimously vote
In favor of the change in our form of
government. Its sixteenth reason, how
ever, appears more like an indictment of
Governor Nye than reason" and, I'M
less the accusations therein contained are
established, it amounts to no reason at all.
It reads:
Sirteenth-We shall get rid of Governor
Nye-the man who vetoed the Specific Con-
tract Act-who pardons cold-blooded muir
derers out of prisnn-who for consideration
secures the release of traitors from duress
| yile-and who with his two and half feet Of
rich Gold Hill ground can afford to laugh, as
he did the other night, at those who are
! forced to eat raw beans in the morning for
breakfast, and for dinner must drink water to
swell them up.
Now, we entertain, and ever have en-
tertained, the most supreme contempt for
the miserable farce of Government un-
der which we are living at present, and
have time and again expressed that con-
tempt in more unmeasured terms than any
other paper in the Territory. 1t IS an
abortion, a nuisance, an anti-repubhcan
nothing, a mere form and shadow of gov
eminent, without an atom of the sub
stance. We are as anxious as our cotem-
porary, "or any other man." to bring 1t
to speedy end. With all this anripathy
to the Territorial form of Government, we
have not, however, that hostility toward
| the Governor that seems to animate our
neighbor. We have regarded Governor
Nye in the light of an Executive officer OF
far more than average ability, industry
and integrity. and it will require some
thing more than vague and general accu-
| sations to shake our confidence in the
man. We join in the disapprobation Of
his veto of the Specific Contract Act, but
are willing to admit that the propriety
and policy of the Act was a mixed ques-
ZION, and one that admitted of variety
| of opinions. That a certain measure of
doubt was involved in the question, is
shown by the various rulings of Courts
thereon, and the anxiety with which a
decision by the Supreme Court of Cali
fornia was awaited.
We believe that with the light and in
struction of such a decision before him,
Gov. Nye would not have vetoed that
Act. Did we believe to the contrary, We
most certainly should not support him,
but we as certainly would not condemn
him. The balance of that treason is
pretty general charge of corruption against
Governor Nye. If true, he is a public
evil and to be nd of him will be very
considerable object. If true, we want to
know it, and being convinced, will join
heartily in his condemnation. We do not
like to believe charges of this nature
against one in whose integrity we have
heretofore fully con6ded, and shall GER
tainly not give any credence to them I'M
less they are made distinctly and specific
ally and supported by proof either direct
or circumstantial. II, in the pardoning of
murderers or the release of traitors, Gov
ernor Nye has acted corruptly-we want
to know it-as to the "bean story, we
don't understand it. If the Enterprise
has facts in its possession tending to show
the corruption of Gov. Nye, its duty to-
ward the people demands that those facts
be stated. We assisted that paper in
freeing the Supreme Bench of Turner,
North and Locke, and if Governor Nye
deserves such treatment, our pen and
press are ready for the task. Until, how
ever, the Enterprise makes its charges
more specifically and tangibly we shall
disbeIieve them, and in the language OF
sr-Judge North, cry " to the issue, gen.
flar,ap ~ tho iSc,,e -