Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-02
Ths "DemocIacyN and ~fiaiirsad..

The "DernocTacyO and Railroads.
Year after year, the slime honored
principles of the Democratic party" have
been set forth by loud-mouthed dema-
gogues upon the stump, in bar-rooms and
at polling-places, and throughout the col.
umns Of that party's press. One would
think, upon reviewing the acts and deeds
which have been done in the name of the
democratic" party during the past five
years, from the disruption of that party
by those who followed Breckenridge down
to the two conspiracies OF Chicago, and
that other one at Washington which re-
suited in the cold-blooded assassination
of Abraham Lincoln, that the very name
of Democracy" would now so stink in
the nostrils Of the American people that
its simple mention would excite loathing
and disgust. True to it's insidious spirit
of deception and double dealing, its plat
forms here and in California and Oregon
during the past fifteen years, and ever
tory of Utah, have contained that con-
temptible falsehood that the Democratic
party favored the construction of the Pa
cific railroad. For eight years preceding the
Inauguration Of President Lincoln, the
Republic was " blessed" with o "Demo-
cratic" Administration. and California
and Oregon were represented, or rather
misrepresented, in Congress by such
democrats" as VIM. NJ. Gwin, John
b. Weller, Charley Scott, Joe McCorkle,
Phil. Herbert and James W. Denver.
Every one Of those gentlemen who are
alive are nov representative men Of the
democratic party. And what did
any n or all of them eveS do for q
Pacific Railroad When Gwin, who was
in the Senate during all the Congress
sional terms Of the above enumerated
Representatives, left Congress, and when
old Buchanan left the White House
which he had polluted, to sink into
merited obloquy and shame, how much
farther advanced was the project of the
Pacific Railroad than it was when by
the treaty Of Gaudaloupe Hidalgo the
Pacific possessions of the United States
were ceded to this Government by
the Republic of Mexicos Not one single
yard. And yet the Democracy" of Ne
vada have had the impudence to put forth
q resolution favoring the construction
of an Overland Railroad" pro
badly as contradistinctive of a trans
oceanic railroad by way Of Honolulu,
Melbourne, and the Cape Of Good Hope.)
Thank God that the Union party, even
with a wal on their hands, have put the
construction of the Pacific Railroad be-
yond the tender mercies of democratic"
Congressman and democratic" platforms.
But while, with the aid Of the General
Government, the Pacific Railroad is being
built by Black Republican hands and not
of Nevada are praying for the building Of
another line of railway across the Sierras.
What says the Democratic platform with
regard to that project? It does not so
much as pay it the "cold respect of a poss-
ing glance" And even stretching the
imagination SO far as to suppose that the
adolescent hut well read (headed) Mitchell
were in Congress ooh! Oh! and that he
were to start around in the Hobbies with
such patriots as Ben. Wood, Sunset Cox
and old Jimmy McDougal, to help him
to log-roll a bill through that body grant
ing a subsidy and grants of land to the
Placerville road. what does anybody i'm
agine he could do: Why, those old hard
heads, the Black Republicans and Abo-
~litionists who are running this Govern
ment would pat him on the head lat the
risk of burning their fngers) and kindly
ask him, "Sonny, does your mother know
you are out !" They would treat him
with that kindly, patronizing air which is
bestowed upon the pages and errand-boy
about the capitol, but they would laugh
at any precocious lispings of his upon mat
tiers Of business. But, seriously, it is al
most needless to say that if we would Sc
cure aid for Nevada at the hands Of Con-
gress, we must send a man there who can
be admitted into political fellowship with
the majority Of the rcPrcscntatives-and
that man is D. Il. Ashley. BY saying
this, we state the whole argument in a
nut-shell.-Carson appeal.