Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-02
Communicated
Hox Populi !--YOx Deli!

FAcrs WHICH WE DESIRE THE PEOPLE TO
KNOW AND TO CONSIDER.
From the facts already published, the peo-
pie are aware that three men have withdrawn
-5oRed from the regular Union County Cen
trail Committee. Now, we wish TO have the
public understand the exact reason that in
duced these men to bolt When the Com
mittee was first called together, the chair
man, Almighty Bumcomhe Paul, 1--WE have
all, long since, become satisfied that he is no
relative, and has none Of the good qualities
Of Old Paul, or Saul of Tarsus. He went to
Heaven; this modern Paul is travelling in a
different direction.) Well, our modern hero
not having the fear of God before his eyes,
nor the good of the Union party, but being
moved By the spirit OF the d., etc, (you
know,the rest,) stated that the only business
for which the committee was called together
was "to send delegates to Carson to the Ter
ritorialp Convention (which will merely
nominate one Delegate TO represent us in
Congress: thus ignoring the right of the
Committee to take any action whatever in
county matters--the very thing for which the
Committee was created. Ifthere ever was a
time that required Union men to act honestly
and fairly, and to unite, and to forgive, and
forget all past differences, that time IS the
present.
Now, we will give you the facts why Paul
took the above course; He and three Others
had picked and made up Nominating Com
mittee OF some thirty-three citizens Of the
county. This Committee is, according to
their programme, to nominate all the officers
of the county, and to elect a new County
Central Committee. Now, it is well known
that the men who named this nominating
committee have strong preferences for GER
tain aspirants for certain lucrative and re-
sponsible county Offices. Recollect, this
nominating committee was chosen by Paul
and others before he called the Central Com
mittee together-and in making up that NOM
mating committee, eight OF the Central Com
mittee had never been consulted. The
Central Committee, before uniting with
Others was composed Of eleven members. y
Now, we ask every honest, sensible Union
man, If, when Mr.. Paul presented the names
Of that Committee to us for our approval, it
was not our PLAIN and bounden duty to vote
it down We voted it down because we
would have proven ourselves recreant and
unworthy representatives OF the great Union
Party Of this county, had we failed to do so.
We voted it down because, admitting the
men selected BY them to be honest and ire
proaehable, still they were selected by very
few men; those few men being men in whom
certainly the people repose but little conf
denee. We voted It down (as we told them
at the time) because it excluded the great
mass of laboring men, many OF whom were
three and four hundred feet under ground,
from having any voice whatever in selecting
our officers and rulers. We voted it down
because the plan was selfish, exclusive and
aristocratic-and, as you certainly perceive,
we had every reason for believing, it was q
political dodge for elevating to Office the
friends Of these few designing men.
Union men ofStorey county: Your Cen
trail Committee has no preference in regard
to who shall fill or DO elevated to Office, pro-
Fided he be Union man, honest and capa-
BILE. We have no right to select your Off
GERS. That right belongs exclusively to you
This right, which God Almighty, through the
Declaration Of Independence and the Constr
tuition of the United States, gives you, We
have maintained, saved it. to and for you,
and on Saturday next, we call upon you e
come ON. like good and true men and exer-
cise il. Your committee have done then
| duty, and will continue to do SO up to Satur.
day nezt--when all political power passei
| into your hands. e
The Polls will be open. from 10 o'clock in
the morning to 7 o'clock in the evening.
Come out in your majesty and strength =
Select the very best men among you as YOU
representatives and delegates to the County
Convention, and If they fail 70 nominate good
and true and able men for Office, then We
might as wen acknowledge ourselves incapa'
BE Of self-Royernment. JusT1cE.
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