Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-12
THE REAL ISSUE.

ments brought to bear by those who
oppose the adoption of the Constitution
at the present juncture. Arguments
against the Constitution as a Constitution
have pretty much ceased. 1t is being
very generally admitted that the instru-
ment is really a good one, and the most
substantial and influential men among
the ranks of the dissatisfied, openly con-
fess that as a fact almost beyond reason
able controversy. They say that the
Constitution, as prepared by the Conven-
ton. was as near perfect as could have
been framed, and that if the Fright sort"
of men had been nominated e. e. them
selves and their personal friends), they
should have most earnestly supported it.
Some of them even so so far as to say
that they will vote for it even now, tram
mcled and encountered as it is with the
ticket they deem so very Objectionable.
The real fact of the matter is, that the sole
ground of the enmity and opposition OF
the prime movers in the matter is of a
personal character, and that the talk about
precipitancy, economy and taxation of
mines, is all subterfuse- bosh. The cry
that one year, or FIVE years hence, will be
better and more suspicious time for the
adoption of State Government, is sheer
nonsense; and when the objections to the
ticket are urged as one reason against its
present adoption, the nonsense and hum
bug grows ranker and more ridiculous.
Suppose for a moment that the ticket
presented by the Union Convention be
admitted to be really not such one as
the people would desire, and that for this
reason the Constitution be rejected, and
the country suffered to remain in its
present Territorial condition. Suppose
that one year hence, or five years if you
please, the people resolve, as they have
already done, that a State Government Is
necessity. The same course will of
necessity be pursued in taking all the pre-
hminary steps for the formation of Con-
stftution. Members of the Convention to
frame that Constitution viii be chosen in
manner and form precisely as was done
at the recent election. A board of officers
will be necessarily elected to fill the
various offices of the Government, pre-
cisely in manner and form as has been
done in the present instance. The man
ner of nominating party tickets has become
fixed institution, and part of the
machinery of a republican government,
indispensable and unal,erable. The sys-
TEN of primary meetings and County and
State Conventions has been found to be
the only practicable method for the
expression of the popular choice.
Five years hence the people will
express their choice, in precisely the
manner they did last month. Win the
people be wiser five years hences VIII
delegates to Conventions be wiser and
truer to those whom they represent:
VIII there be less of political wire-pulling
and intrigue: VIII men be less ambi-
tious, and will a ticket be nominated five
wears hence, or q thousand years hence,
that will give unanimous satisfaction, and
viii men cease to become sore-headed at
defeat: Are Conventions new and I'M
heard of thing to the people of this Ter
ritory: Is this community of Ameri-
cans born and reared under Government:
every officer of which is the nominee of
Convention, or are they importations from
monarchies where conventions were never
KNOWN Or is it community of boys,
beardless innocents who never, till last
month, knew, or heard, or dreamed of
wiles and plots and plans, such as are the
inevitable attendants of elections under
our form Of Government Either of
these positions, one of which must be adj
mitted by those who talk about that Uto-
plan zone year or five years hence" is
far from complimentary to the honesty
and the intelligence of the present popu-
lation. No. This "years hence" talk
is all delusion and pretense, and if you
will but mark the men who hold up this
specious idea, you viii notice that they
are of class who have been lifelong
schemers and plotters, deep in all the Sc
crets and mysteries of political chicanery
old offenders whose prospects Of rcfor-
nation and transmutation into pure
and disinterested patriots are dim and
dark and doubtful. give years hence
this generation may have died out, but
they are stubborn weeds and they
leaye their seeds behind them, and
there will always be found a plentiful
crop of them in every country where a
Convention is to be held or an Office to be
engineered for. The people have decided
in favor of State Government, and
whether they have it now or at future
day, the Convention system will be an at
tendant "evil" they win have to submit
to. If the Constitution now before the
people is good one, as is now generally
admitted, now is the time to form State
Government. Waiting for number of
years for the world to grow perfect and
pure, is like the Greek fool who sa: down
BY the river side to wait for the water all
to run by so that he might cross dryshod.