Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-10-05
SATURDAY NIGHT.

announced political views. 1t is the
correct announcement. When a party
in this country, in time Of peace, is so
composed that it is quite immateriai
what is the character for morality Of its
nominees or professed champions, that
party is thoroughly rotten and is rapidly
and dsssrvsdly going to the dogs en-
tirely. In the great trial Of our civil
war, much of personal moral reproba-
ton and all of mere personal antipathy
has been overlooked by the real, sincere
Union men; though the camp-followers
and the hangers-on Of the party for
office generally, have never hesitated to
resort to Islander against the true men
whom they would defeat and oyer whom
they were determined, if possible, to
make an ofice-triumph. Actual war
has ceased; many of the hypocrites and
libellers who have obtained Office in the
midst of the confusion and in the all
overbearing necessity for a war party
triumph, these cowboys and hucksters
Of the early days of the rebellion, ever
read out Of their own record, are ex-
posed as incompetents, humbugs or
INSCRIPTIONS wretches. And now these
do bawl out: "I am a leader Of your
party; and if have been an unworthy
official, If l have been corrupt in my
place, or if I'm a dirty dog whom no
respectable citizen would allow to cross
his threshold, you must not say so; for
Pm a leader Of your party" Out upon
such talk! And coming, too, from pro-
fessional libellers. They beg, now,
against the unquestionable truth as to
their official record and their private
character. Show that they are not
in any sense the servants or repre-
sentatives Of the people, in the sta
tons to which they have been mistaken
ly raised; show that they have been pet
~ thieves in office; show that by their
ignorance they have excited the ire
irrepressible derision Of respectable as
sociates in place, and they cry out, each
for himself, or through his organ: 90,
you must not expose me; Pm q party
leader; if you expose me, you do it for
spite" And perhaps in their misery
they will turn to others and beg against
their exposure; not by denial-for that
were too absurd-of the truth Of the al
legged showing but by bsseechings:
"You mustbelieve that this is all spite"
And then all the pimps and puppies of
of the particularly wounded and deprs-
eating one may chorus: eyes, its spite,
its spite!"
Now we consider it a wholesome med
itation for Saturday night: this subject
of party fsalty covering personal record.
Again reminding all that we have
no instance of forbearance-far, far to
the contrary-from those who plead an
affirmative now, for temporary deliver
ance. When a party in a State has dis
covered that a person on whom it be-
slowed honors and gave position is
neglectful of his official duties, is I'M
certain in his political standing, is
~treacherous in all minor matters of
politics, is an object of contempt among
those to whose company he has uufor-
tunstely been sent, there is not the
slightest force in the plea forsilence as to
his errors, hi, iuiquitiss and his gross
ignorance, because of party success
Why that is the way to damn a party
| quick and castit into the pit. 1t is pre-
eminently and solemnly the duty Of a
faithful press to give the record Of pub
lie officials as it is, and for the sake of q
true party cause inform the people Of
those facts which will inevitably lead
them to reject applications for r~e-elec-
tons looming from those whose record is
bad. Fsugh! Who says that the Union
party mus be ridden unto its death by
bilks, blatherskites and chamberers?
And all this on the score of party NOR
ale! This comes from those who did
not hesitate to SANDER good men oftheir
own protested party in the time of
war.
And as to 'leaderships.' Are they
leaders who do not know their own
mind from day to day? Are they lead
ers, ftly leaders, whose lack of ordina-
ry information crops out before the
respectable body in which they sit in
such frequent and painfully ludicrous
manner that the laugh of scorn and
pity cannot be concealed from. before
their face? Are they proper leaders
who debauch all matters of legislation
especially concerning their immediate
constituents, so that there is confusion
worse COMPOUNDED where before their
intermeddling there was only some
little dificultyp ALL the whole mat
ter is a-begging. The Union party be-
longs to no man or small coterie of men.
It's success is far from being contingent
OIL the reelection of this or that or
many present candidates and elected
ones, of its ranks, good or bad. The re-
verse is 80 far true: its success in the
future depends upon its giving back
seats to men in or out of station whose
characters, talents and acts do not en-
title them intrinsically to place of au-
thority.
ONE of the grand indications of an
advancing civilization has been the
promotion Of women in the social walks
of life. Can the day be far distant
when woman will bepractically acknowl-
edged the absolute political equal of
man? We think and hope not. The
rapid increase Of students at the medi-
cal colleges for women, the opening of