Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-08
pm observation-disclosures of Milan,
Modes, md Retiring, Whitman.

politics have not yet all "passed in their
checks" L'audace! L'awdace! tujonS
raudaee" was the motto Of Dauton, and some
of our countrymen have SO far committed the
lesson of the great French revolutionist as to
cause the philosophical and uninterested So
journers among US to believe that the Age Of
Brass has entirely superseded the ages of
iron and silver. The Virginia Union of this
morning declares its first choice for U. S.
Senator to be B. C. Whitman, a cow-county
lawyer, who, packing his carpet.bag, left So
lano county, California, last summer, in time
to vote at the November election; who made
one or two tolerably clever speeches during
the late canvass, in one OF Which, at Gold
Hill, he graciously informed US that he Sup
ported Abraham Lincoln as a choice Of evils"
and who, on the strength OF this and sup
posed popularity acquired by presiding
promptly at County and State Convention,
now announces himself, or causes himselfto
be announced as a candidate for the U. S.
Senate.
Whitman is not entirely unknown to fame.
He was the Know Nothing candidate for Con-
gress in 1857, and the Democratic nominee
for Supreme Judge in 1861, and in both cases
was unanimously beaten BY the people, as he
will now doubtless be beaten BY the Legisla-
ture. The reasons given by the Unlon for
supporting the modest and retiring" are
that che has been quietly engaged in the
practice of the law t0itholtt business con,lec-
tion with those great companies" etc.; that
Eve need Senators at Washington who will
be DISQUALIFIED both by circumstances and in
clination from acting as the advocates Of any
particular local interest or theory" that we
need men who twill go there untrammeled
BY business obligations or professional rela-
TONS" and that the "modest and retiring i"
has not participated in the struggles which
have engendered so much ill-feeling in our
midst during the past two years"
1t seems to US that all these reasons given
BY the Union are so many reasons why Mr..
Whitman should not be elected. A man who
"has not participated in our political strug-
giles may be better entitled to the position Of
Senator than those who have labored to build
up the Union party, but we don't see it. A
man who is '' disqualified" BY the " circum-
stances of short residence and entire ig-
norance from acting as "the advocate Of any
particular local interest" may be good man
to officiate as Senator for community whose
property depends upon successful advocacy
Of local interests, but we fail to observe It..
A lawyer who has been 4" without business
connections" with "those great mining
companies" whose existence has been the
cause of the creation Of the State of Nevada,
NAV be therefore peculiarly fitted to represent
us in the U. S. Senate, but we need a magni-
fying glass to discover it.
We have few words Of advice for which
we charge nothing) for NJ r. Whitman and
all other political adventures who propose
TO air their "vaulting ambition" BY endea-
| yoripR to turn successful summersaults into
the u. S. Senate. 1t is TO larry in Jericho
until their boards be grown" To stay in
the country long enough to find out the diff
ference between an acre Of oats and ton OF
silver sulphurets, between moving machine
and prospecting shaft, before assuming to
REPRESENT people whose varied necessities
| can ONLY be learned by long residence and
untirino observation. We need for our Sen
ators men who have grown up with the
country, who have been identified with us in
all our struggles, who can say Of Nevada that
it is
"The yery fountain from which my current runs
wbpre either must live or have no being"
It's only such who can truly represent
Nevada whoever may be chosen.
We think the modest and retiring" mis-
takes his mission and greatly mistakes his
time. Ability to preside over Nominating
Convention, and to achieve there a warmth
~ feeling toward himself by Jealous profess
SONS of patriotic disinterestedness and dis
inclination for any office, may be clever bids
for popular favor, but the price is hardly
large enough to bring the toga. If we must
aieet az Senator man who has expended
neither time nor money in building up the
Union party and creating the State. If we
must choose for that high position some per-
son who knows nothing Of our varied inte-
res and our varied requirements, we can pro-
badly find some ADLER and more patriotic per-
son from some Of the grass lands Of Califor-
mia, who will be willing to pack his carpet
baR, come over here and make one or two
speeches in consideration of Senatorial
certificate. V1RetN1us.