Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-07
q A TALK; Nowi

in an editorial which is no less q regular
"leader" of that paper because n Of the
editors finds it available or convenient to
afix his name thereto. challenges us on
the score of " broken faith with the Union
party" We might have "been lead to
expect the secret" assaults Of the Enter
prise conductors on this score, but we
did credit them with sufficient sagacity not
to make such q charge openly. Whatever
others may think, it ill-becomes-it be-
cometh not at all-that sheet, above all
others on this coast, to pirate Of broken
party faith. Not OIL purely professional,
but on purely personal grounds it grossly
attacked Tom Fitch, when nominated for
Congressman, and hoisted the lame o
Col. Cradlebaugh as their endorsed candi-
date for that office. 10, consistency,
where is thy Jerefyr" And except 1t
could carry its own clique preference"
it did a worse thing for the Union party
than throwing a nomination after it was
made could be. 1t made base assaults
upon the private character of D. R.
Ashley, and it attacked Col. Sumner with
willfully false statements of his political
views on certain much mooted points, and
attempted to depreciate him in regard to
mental qualifications which he possessed
as all the community knew-in infinite
superiority to the Enterprise conductors
and their preference. Square talk, now
that the election is over And the gen.
eral tone of that sheet, we submit to every
candid and informed judgment, has not
been out and out tor the Union party.
Advocating negro suffrage n week, it
assaulted a man in the Union party as of
that same opinion, when he had quite a
different one upon a record of many years.
We do not forget these things; and the
Enterprise cannot, in.tho language Of the
Democratic" platform, "remove them
from the scope of discussion" We say,
distinctly, on the plain record, that the
Enterprise cares naught for the Union
party's success, as q party 7; only seeking
its own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. That it has
failed remarkably in many notable in
stances, in most all of its special personal
ambitions, is so much to the credit of the
party i. desired to make subservient to a
small cotsris Of whom it was the spokes-
man. ...n
Now then, a word about the conduct Of
the News as a Union paper. We estab-
lished this journal as q Union paper,
with no bounden or implied obligation
to any particular man or set OF men in the
party. As i. was commenced. SO has it
been conducted. We can well afford to
leave to the judgment of the Union men
of Storey County, to the Union men of
Nevada, to our contemporaries on this
coast, whether or no we have been true in
the advocacy Of the principles Of the party.
w know we have been, 30 for as u
conscience now morally enlightens our
judgment. We shall continue in this
path Of fidelity to the loyal cause. And
we shall sustain the creeds and nominees
of the Union party if the former are consis-
tent with present platforms, on the main
questions, and the latter are men fit for
the positions named for them. We I'M
dertake to say, after many years Of edi-
torial life, that we can readily forego all
personal or professional" objection, to
any candidate, which do not go straight
to the home interests of our people.
We have placed Mr.. Daggett's name at
the head of our columns. There he has
been duly announced the nomine of the
Union County Convention. We express
u personal disapprobation Of his selee-
ton, on the emphasized word MORALITY.
We have sacrificed much for the party (;
that we don't cry about, nor brag. But
we do not go upon an iron bedstead when
we edit a Union journal nor will we
permit our public school interests to be
sacrificed in u silence within the party
unbroken by our solemn and earnes, pro-
test. If Mr.. DaggGt is elected Superin-
tendent of Public Schools, we shall have
considerable, and a very just and proper
satisfaction in the knowledge that while he
had all of technical party support
from our paper, the people OF this county,
and he himself understand that we indi-
vidually deemed his choice unwise and
fraught with injury to our educational
system and privileges and prospects.