Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-09-08
THE ELECTION.


The strife, the turmoil, the wrangling,
the hopes and the fears of the campaign
are past, and once more order reigns in
Warsaw" The only relics and memen-
toes of the fierce battle through which we
have passed, are the thousands of surplus
and useless tickets that whiten the streets
in front of the bar-rooms and polling
places, and the glaring posters which still
stare upon US from the walls-ghosts of
departed aspirations of disappointed men.
At the hour when this article is written,
the precise result of the election for county
officers Is not yet known. The vote, if
that of Gold Hill is any criterion of the
county, was much heavier than had been
generally expected, and has upset most of
the sapient and prophetic calculations Of
the political savars who knew, almost to
fraction, how the vote would stand.
The general impression prevails that the
vote between Clark and Gage is very close,
and calculations as to who will come out
ahead are colored by the hopes and fears
of the calcularors. 1t is generally be-
lieved that Tozer is elected County Clerk,
and Fish, Recorder. The prevailing
opinion is, that with the exception of these
Offices, the Copperheads have elected their
ticket. If this should prove to be the
case, the Union men Of Storey county
will be most justly served. They suffered
themselves to be nose-led and pulled about
by the most contemplate and dirty set OF
petty demagogues that ever diSgraced the
leadership of any respectable community.
At the beck and nod of these fools and
knaves, they split the party into frag-
ments, wandered off in petty factions,
and the party which should have
not only swept the field in triumph, but
should have from its visibly overwhelm-
ing strength. have, dsterred even the show
ofopposition fill a prey to an enemy one
third its own numerical force. The re-
suit is good. Hundreds Of as sound
Union men as there are in the county re-
joice in it, seeing that the present morti-
6carion must inevitably result in the per-
manent welfare of the Union Party. If
we have suffered the Coppsrheaas to cleo;
a board of county officials, what then
The duties of those officials are prescrib-
ed by law, and with an honest and capa-
bic Judiciary they can be compelled to
walk the chalk-ine Of that duty. By
electing a few men to county
Offices we have not vested them
with power of attorney to convey the
State of Nevada and its inhabitants in
fee simple to JEFF. Davis-although the
leaders of the copperhead party, in their
public speeches, evinced a very strong
prediction for that rebel and his empire.
Whatever copperheads have been elected
will be compelled to obey the Constitution
and the laws of the land, and TO our mind
and sentiment, il will not be one whit
more revolving to have the laws executed
by the rebel gang, than it would be to
feel that our county government was die
;ated to Us by set of demagogues and
political tricksters, who have been boast
ing and have actually believed that they
held the political destinies of not only
this county, but the new State of Nevada,
in the hollow of their hands. 1t is I'M
necessary to name the dirty tricksters to
whom we allude; their names are on
every lip, and, now that it is too late, they
are eSecrated by every tongue. Those
who suffered themselves to be led away,
and to destroy the Union party, at the bid
ding of these small Drained insolents, have
bought their experience at the price Of
much modification. 1t is not too dear.
Union men being now advised that there
is a foe in the field against whom the
Union party, divided, cannot stand, will
see the imperative necessity of Union
for strength" and will henceforth give a
short answer to the little meddling dema-
gogues who have heretofore distracted the
party with their "rule or ruin" policy.