Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-13
has CALIFORNIA GONE DEMO.
CRATIC po

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There a be no question among citi.
zens who have any candid reason and
judgment, that, as George Gorhsm ha.
said, the California election was a " fair
beat on principles" Accepting the or
iginal Interpretation given by men more
Radical" than he to his first Coolie
letter, as the definition placed upon il
by the masses, the issue was made, and
upon it the Union party went to the
wall as Senator McDougall said ii
would, on such issue, whenever present
ed.
Harry Mighels, who has just returned
from Gorham's head quarters, and may
be supposed to speak as of the Council,
in his two column Review in this morn
ing's Carson appeal, sayst
"The Democratic party has merely
recovered possession Of its own. The
State of California was born to and ma
tured by that party, and only passed
out of its guardianship at a time when
the loyal men of all parties, forgetting
old alliances, joined hands in the COM
mon cause of Unionism. Fruitful OF
evil designs and of untiriug industry,
the Democratic party has always had a
policy" just as Johnson had one,
while Congress was studying the great
problems involved in reconstruction"
And the San Francisco Dispatch, the
workiugman's organ in that city, says:
stGalifornia is now as thoroughly
q committed Democratic State as there
is in the Union; and the Union party is
a thing Of the past. 1t has been placed
beyond the pale of resurrection, and
can never again aspire to political pow
err. That Judge Currey may be elected
to the Supreme Bench next month, will
not alter the case; for both Democrats
and Union party men will pay but
slight regard to political s%ympathies or
antecedents in voting for such an office.
.Henceforth California will be divided
into the two great political organiza-
tions that existed before the a The
Republican party will absorb those who
cannot cast their lots with the Democ-
racy; and those who had but given in u
faint adhesion to radicalism will slough
of into the ranks Of the Democracy.
The Independent" press and '~'unfor-
tuitous circumstances" have done the
work. The assertion that "a square
vote on the issue between the President
and Congress would result in a majority
Of $4,000 for the latter" is based on
the supposition that all those who re-
frain from going to the polls are rabid
Reconstructionists. The surmise is re-
diculous. Had they been so, they
would have been the very last class OF
citizens in the State to lose their votes.
They stayed away simply because they
belong TO that class Of men who care
but little fer the differences between
Johnson and Congress. They had no
stomach for the ultra measures OF
Thadeus Stevens & Co., and they were
not particularly friendly to the Con.
sentative opinions of the Democracy
But we are confident, that if a con.
sentative Union platform were placed
before the people of California; for vot-
ing decision, tomorrow, there would
be an immense majority in its favor.
If the Union men Of Nevada learn as
much from the California election as
the Democrats of that State learned
from their former defeat, the result will
surely be Uniou.in 1868. So in Nevada.
We are not frightened nor discouraged
by the California election, as we have
the hope of u severe lesson well conned
and pro6ted by, administered to the
people of this coast.