Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-02
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ganization for their own narrow, selfish puf-
poses; failing in that, they have bolted the
| organization (the Union organizatioH9, ana
1 are now attempting 10 ruin it; all because
! they could not force down the threats oil
majority Of the County Central Committee a
Nominating Committee selected solely BY
themselves. The actions and assumptions Oh
these men show great deal ofereckless am
bition, and but little 1nodesty on their part.
| One Of them having been among US only
| for the short term Of seven or eight months,
the other having been most ingloriously de-
feated in a recent election. We 'now pro-
pose to give the public, fully and fairly the
history and proceedings Of the Storey County
Central Committee, Of which these worthless
were members: On Wednesday evening last
| the first meeting Of our Committee was held
eight members present. A. B. Paul 1.-THE
man who must be all or nothingl, OF course
took the chair. He stated the only objectoi
the meeting to be to devise some means, OF.
take some course to send delegates 70 the
Territorial Convention to be holden IN Car
son City, August 10th prox. This, the Chair
stated twice, to be the only business ior
which the. Committee was called together;
| Whereupon, Mr.. Frizell took the toor, and
| addressed the Chair and Committee to TINS
effect: Reviewing the history Of the Union no
party Of this county for the past year---exs
planning the difficulties, causes and reasons
| why the party was at the present time a.
yided into factions stating at the same time
that there existed some three Central Com
mittees in the county that we were on the
eve OF important elections that before TINS
| Committee took any steps whatever, our
| FIRST duty was to extend a friendly invitation
| to all these committees to meet US on
Saturday evening, July 30th, 1854, and
made motion accordingly. The worthy
Chairman then for the first time disclosed
his patriotic plan. He called one Of the Com
mittee to the Chair, and taking the floor pro-
ceeded to pull from his pocket long, dirty,
| and suspicious-look paper, and read the
preamble, (the same as publishedl WHICH
contains neither good sense. good English,
| or common decency !; but is the appeal OF
low, cunning mind, to the preiudices aud
passions Of the people. The paper contained
| the names Of some thirty cirizens OF the
county to be appointed by us as Nominat-
| ing Committee for the county, TO select all
county offieers-in fact, WELD all political
power Mr.. Almighty B. P. proceeded to
| advocate the measure with the voice and
| look of man who knew and felt that he was
attempting to perpetrate great political
wrong. The committee. at once thought
there was something deeayed in Denmark
thought they saw the shadow of q huge
Ethiopian in the fence I; the idea Of cat
| concealed under pile Of meal, fitted before
the imagination of the committee. The
committee had no objection to the gentle
men named as Nominating Committee, and
no objection to the plan in general. But the
committee did object TO Mr.. Paul and Mr..
Earl, or Mr.. anybody, he, she. or it, (although
there are many women who have much
clearer idea of political matters in general,
of political economy, or political honesty
than either Of the above named gentlemen.)
Drawing made up paper on them, any
person will see at a glance that the pre-
| cedent was unprecedented and we think
unheard OF. The paper was opposed by
Frizell, BrannaH, Dohle and Winton. The
paper was favored BY Earl and Bolnn. The
| Almighty in the Chair. The reasons assigned
| BY those opposing was that we had no poll
| teal precedent, for such a procedure; that
it was unjust and impoiitic; that it favored a
| few, principally aristocratic individuals, but
excluded the great mass of citizens, many OF
| whom were three or four hundred feet under
ground working in our mines, any of whom
might never see the paper, from having any
voice, part or parcel in the choosing Of our
officers and rulers. It was further urged
that before we did anything, our first duty
was to attempt perfect harmonizing of all
| the Union elements in the country; this
| done, we would then proceed in that way
and manner which might seem best, not
being sticklers for any. All this was done
with the kindest feelings. and with respectful
courtesy. The same proposition in vari-
GUS shapes, was voted down at least three
several times during the evening. The
Committee adjourned with the best feeling
and understanding, after passing the resoiu-
ton offered by Mr.. Frizell, to wit: To ex-
tend friendly invitation TO all of the other
committees to meet at the time as above
| mentioned, and there and then settle all past
| differences, and once more fraternize; and
then, and not till then, proceed to adopt
plans and set measures on foot for the good
Of the Union party. The minutes of this
meeting were not written down as they tram
spired. The Secretary pro tenn, Mr.. Frizell,
being kept busy in combating and defeating
the infamous Vaccinations and measures Of
| Messrs. Paul and Earl. The meeting Com
mitteel adjourned at IL o'clock that night.
| The Secretary, who was evidently much IA
| tigued having been up for week previous
| until u and o'clock at night, either on
Committee duty or in Convention at Carson
| CITY. So he.could not and would not write
up the minutes on that night, but would write
| them up the next morning, submit them to
the Chairman, and have them printed; This
would not do. The indomitable Paul and
Earl must write them up that night, and ac-
cordingly did so. We believe Mr.. Winton
copied some for them. So the two worthy
gentlemen wrote out what suited them, an
| imperfect and garbled statement, to which
the almighty affixed that all-powerful name.
The people of this county never see that
awful name A. B. Paul, or the nom de plume
"Cosmos," but they must tremble and feel
as didth lesser deities when old Jove, or
Jupiter, gave his sanction to some great
measure. Old Homer describes it as follows !:
HIS ambrosIal curis and gave the nod i'lt ~
| The seal of fate the sanction OF the god, )
| High Heaven with trembling the dread signal
| took, - ~ q ~ 7. q. - 1900
| After some of the mighty efforts of this
man Paul, the people of Gold Hill and Vir-
GINA had better examine the qualification
! of Mount Davidson. The same man also af-
| fixed the name of the Secretary to the state
ment. The Secretary here allowed himself
| 70 be imposed upon, and committed q sin OF
| omission for which he fears the Lord will
never forgive him. After which the Score
tary started home TO Gold Hill in company
with said A. B. p, only stopping once By
| the way, at the bar where Jerry Thomas
presides, to give his good friend some spirit
ual consolation. Meantime, the swamp
Angel (Earl, hadlposted off to the Offices Of
the Union and Enterprise, 1--WE forgot, we
should have used a little e, IN spelling enter
prise. No matter, we win attend to that
| delectable sheet hereafterl with smiles all
over his beautiful, face, like an angel who
has performed good deed, to have the pros
ceedings published The Secretary, Mr..
| Frizell, had an interview next day with his
friend A. B. p, and in his Paul's Office
| wrote out a short, concise, and true state
ment Of the proceedings had by the Commit
tee, and submitted the same as gentleman
should do for the approval OF the President
| (Paul), who had to sanction it, for it was
truth. But the approval of truth affected
him (PauD wonderfully and strangely. His
bowels did not yearn, but appeared to pain
him; his nervous system was quite affected
as the coutortions Of his face, now and then
subsiding into a sub-acid smile or grin, show
ing rusty and very uneven set Ct ivory.
On the counter Of the little banker lay a Pc
tition for signatures, the same which the
\ Committee had voted down the night pre-