Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-11-05
Some Further AlIusions to "Indc-
pendento Candidates and "Indo-
d.utO DnIifical 0rUanizafi0un.

Some Further AlIusions 20 "Indc-
pendentO Candidates and "Indo-
pendent" Political Organizations.
The Convention system which 10 at
present in vogue with political parties may
be, and doubtless is, liable to many
abuses; but, up to the present time, it
embraces altogether the most practical
and operative manner Of determining the
preference Of, and regulating the combined
and effective aation Of those parties, that
has been discovered. . For it 10 through
the recognized and binding action Of it's
Convention that a party obtains for itself
q government Of systematized action, md
without such organization o party is en-
tirely wanting in any method or regula-
ton whereby to secure certain results in
favor of Its object and its tenets. Or, in
other words, a party, like an army, with.
out absolute and inviolable rules for It's
conduct can never be disciplined and must
be powerless for united action Of any sort.
And we reiterats these fundamental and
elementary truths because, forsooth. they
seem to need repeating to the people OF
Nevada just at this particular juncture.
The independent" movements in this
county, pernicious and %inexcusably as
they are, being but individual acts, are far
less baleful and demoralizing in their in.
huences than the so.called "I~ndependent'
action of certain professed Unionists in
some Of our neighboring counties. In
Douglas and Lyon counties particularly,
is this sor. of prejudicial and destructive
action most ~lamentably manifest. We
cannot ascribe such attempted raids upon
the Union party's organized forces to any
better influenza than the secret workings
of the Copperheads. Certainly, that par
ty Of piratical marauders could not devise
q more alarming method for impairing the
strength and force Of the Union party than
that which constitutes the basis Of these
"~Independent" movements. We are not
sufficiently acquainted in Douglas county
to ~indlvidualize men and msnGuvres
there, but we are only too well advised OF
the abundance Of "Indepsndent' candi-
dates with which the regular Union NOM
inees OF that county are assailed and an.
noyed; and duly organized as the main
feature Of that irregular naming OF aspi-
rants to Office is, It is no less disreputable
and utterly unworthy. in q party point Of
view, than the self-styled "Independent"
project which has recently been given
form and countenance in Lyon county
There 10 no need Of our reiteratng the
statement that we are not overwhelmed
with respect for Judge Haydon-fa,
from it-but unless the Union County
Central Committee could be prevailed
upon to take bis name off tho ticket,
every Union man in that county wal
and 10 bound to give him his support
and his ballot. Such being the fact, Lieut..
Governor Crossman, the present incum-
bent Of an Office to which he was elected
by Union votes, cast for him because he
was duly nominated in a Union State
Convention, is entirely out Of place in the
position which he occupies Of an "1nde.
pendent" opponent Of Hayden for the
District Judgeship Of Lyon County.
In short, no man nor set OF men, pro-
Tossing to act with the Union party, have
any right, or excuse, so long as that party
dominates recognized loyalists and recog.
nized co-operators with the Union organ
~ization, to set up themselves or their friend,
as candidates in opposition to those regu-
lar nominees of the party. And these re-
marks have direct and pertinent application
to a certain combination, designed to in.
jure Governor Blasdel, which 10 said to
secretly exist in Storey County, under the
direction Of individuals who were promi-
nent in the management Of the pr~etentiont
Of the boilers delegation to the State Con.
vention. And we herewith give warning
to independents" here and elsewhere
throughout the State, that in 80 far as oul
public declarations can have that effect
upon their future aspirations, they and
their supporters shall be denied a recog.
milton in any Convention or other stated
gathering Of the Union party.-Carson
dppeol,