Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-06
THE CANDIDATES.

Among the most probable facts of the
future is the nomination by the State
Union Convention of Col. Charles A.
Sumner as candidate for Congress. Lyon,
Nye, Churchill, Esmeralda have given
their primary vote unqualiiedly in his
favor; making an aggregate Of twenty-five
votes-mor than sufficient to nominate
on the first ballot, if Storey-as assuredly
it will-adds her quota of Delegates to
the already pledged supporters Of Sumner.
Ormsby county is morally. certain to go
for Sumner; and three Delegates from
Douglas county, at least, will be for the
same candidate, first, last and all the time.
At the same time, we may be permitted to
note the fact that Mr.. .Clagett has but one
outside delegation, elected in his favor,
that of Humbolt nor is there any proba-
bilisy of his obtaining more than a half
dozen. So the fight is set; AND SUMNER
IS TO BE THE IAN
The Enterprise, which has been showing
its preference" for several days past in a
very mean manner, comes out this morn
ing violently in favor Of Clagett and
against the Colonel. We shall not attempt
any retort. in kind. We can afford to be
quite amiable on the present occasion ;
leaving the gall and NORWOOD" Of
speech to the Quarto. The Enterprise will
feel better after the nomination, and if it
is not altogether "unreasoning and mar
row" in its reflections, it will thep see that
it was irrational to suppose that it could
dictate the Congressional nomination to
the Union party Of Nevada. All that the
Quarto has to say against Col. Sumner
has been hawked about the streets for
many days by utterly INSCRIPTIONS char
tiers, and the slurs have lost all their force
as the assertions of fact have readily been
shown to be miserable falsehoods.
Now, we have all along ardently sup
ported Col. Sumner; but we have not
"disparaged" Mr.. Clagett, as the Enter
prise charges. We have occasionally ridi-
culed the idea of his having any prospect
| of success; but we have not even intima-
TED our great objections to Mr.. Clagett.
We have such objections, grave and well
authenticated in fact, and since the Enter
prise has made this a fit time to utter those
objections in plain terms, we now specify
them.
We say it is right that Mr.. Clagctt
should fail, as he has, in endeavoring to
obtain a nomination for Congress at the
hands of the Union party, because he is
of too recent conversion to the Union side
to be trusted with so much of its conf
dence at this important and even perilous
juncture. We have been repeatedly in
formed that he made Copperhead speeches
in Humboldt county as late as 1862.
Among the number of those who have
made this statement we remember Lance
Nightingale, at present Controller Of State.
And numbers of persons can be found
here and in Virginia City who are accus-
toned to express surprise whenever they
hear of Clagett's making a Union
speech" Breckenridge men, Demo
Gratis" before the firing on Sumter, we
might trust; but a Copperhead of 80
should not receive our support. Clagett
opposed the Union resolutions, in the Ne
vada Legislature of 1862 and we have
repeatedly heard Mr.. R. NJ. Daggett, one
Of the present editors of the Enterprise,
denounce Mr.. Clagett in unmeasured
terms for his "Copperheadism," as illus
trated by his amending of the Legislative
Union resolutions Of 1864, 80 as to con
form to Estate rights" dogma. Whether
this las, matter is of any Importance, how
ever,-the action on the '64 resolutions
we hold our opinion somewhat subject to
the Judgment of the Enterprise! Last
Fall, Mr.. Clagett did not come out fair
and square (if at ala on the county
Union resolutions {; and we ourselves
heard him say in the early part of the
campaign, that he could not support the
Emancipation Proclamation portion of the
National platform. So we think the
Union party has done wisely in entirely
discarding Mr.. Clagett's aspirations for
Congress. He has been in Nevada three
or four years; but never in California.
His acquaintance with the people of the
Pacific coast is very limited; while Sum-
ner has been in California and Nevada for
ten years-knows and is known by al
most every prominent man on the coast,
and has the respec, and esteem of the
leading citizens Of this portion of the
Republic.