Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-26
TOO STUPID AND OBSTINATE.

1OO S1OF10 AMI O6SV1NATE.
The Springfield (Mass.,) Republican
never made a truer suess than when it
said,
"The California Democrats seem to
be too stupid and obstinate to take ad-
vantage Of the division and demoraliza-
ton Of the Union party there"
If at any time we have apprehensions
of an evil result in September next, at
the California election, such fears are
az once dismissed when WI take up q
copy Of the San Francisco Examiner, the
leading and the only " regular daily
Democratic paper in that State. There
are the same siekening old tunes ground
out in the name Of Democracy. There
is the same old bowling for precisely
that character of State Rights that
lead &c the civil war, and justified it
in the minds Of thousands who now
sensibly recognize the literal defeat and
demolishmsnt of their favorite separate
sovereignty" doctrine. In fact and in
short, it is a s%laveocraey advocate, all
through, and does not recognize a
change in the programme Of events. We
are sure that many and many a man,
who has been on the point Of re-
solving to support Il. H. Haighs, has
had his mind fixed in determination to
vote the regular Union ticket, simply
from reading a column Of Ben Wash
ington's in%tolersbly disgusting chivalry
talk. And the California democracy"
the damphools, We are happy to call
them-not satisfied with, or not appre-
ciating what the Sacramento Union and
Bee are doing for them, must start a
chivalry organ in Sacramento, which
commences speech in the plantation
style of q decade ago. And such speak,
ers as Coffroth aud Axtell, whose bur-
den is q d~enunciation Of New England,
are the leading stumpers ofthe campaign
on the side of Democracy" Instead
Of attacking the Union party for mis-
takes or errors-we presume they must
have been guilty Of ~some-they curse
the Registry Law, not for its undeniable
cumbrousness aud compleIity, but for
the principle Of record it is based upon;
and so they surely bring against them
the judgment Of every honest and intel
ligent citizen: Hsight approves the
Registry Law as such, while he objects
to its innumersble "forms," ETC.; but
what is Haight's voice against that, or
compared with that of the bellicosc
Examiner.
No the leaders Of the California De-
mocrscy will not allow their party to be
victorious. So We regard the situation.
They have lost all their sagacious man
ayers, and now we see the remuant of
the party m~arshallsd by such men as
Ben Washington, Zach Montgomery and
Jim Coffroth. Joah Hoge is a mar Of
some political sabs, but beyond being
displayed as a conspicuous igure-head
at their Mass meetings he has not much
part in the Democratic management ;
having a very large and absorbing law
practice. Yes, Joah is a good manager;
he was once elected to Congress, from
the Nsuvoo district, by the votes Of the
Mormon women. Old Henley is a petri-
fed Chiv., and for directing ability does
not greatly surpass Geo. Penn Johnson.
Very few Of the old Gwin wire workers,
even, are left for service in California,
and they, Of his least influential and
efficient couusellors. Some Of them, in
deed, are in the Union party.
We verify fear, chat if the Democ-
racy" Of Californis had acted as shrewd-
ly this year as did the " Democracy of
Storey county, in September 1864, they
would have carried the day, in the midst
Of Union party distractions. But a kind
Providence is SO ordering affairs polit-
ical in the Golden State that it will be
next to impossible TO defeat Gorham and
his tickle. associates. The caudidly
Democratic sheets and the merce.
nary independent" journals Of Cal
ifornia are working directly in favor of
a Union triumph, BY their peculiar
efforts in opposition. If the Union
speakers do not hurrsh for negro suf-
frags and Coolie importation, the "De-
mocrscy" in California will NEE. with
a tremendous defeat in September next.