Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-21
As TO THAT,

the nomination of W. N. Stewart for
U. s. Senator, in the Legislature OF
1861. That journal thinks perhaps
to make point Of inconsistency against
Senator Sumner. We can name scores
Of leading men in this county who had
as high regard and expectation on be-
half Of Stewart, three years ago, as had
Senator Sumner; and who now utterly
despiss and detsst him for his conduct
in Office. Did Senator Sumner approve
Stewart as q negro suffrage advocate,
or a. an implement Of the Dutch Fiat X.
r, Cor Not much. Sumner thought,
in common with many others who were
equally deceived, that Stewart would
make an industrious, practical legisla-
tor. Certainly he could not have
dreamed that his candidate would be-
como a negro-suffrageits; and Senator
Stewart gave solemn promise to act in
behalf Of the people against the Dutch
Flat monopolists. 1t is true and
it il notorious-the Enterprise has
not made it moro generally known
than it was heretofore-that Sena.
tor Sumner was Stewards warm
and Jealous supporter in the Legislature
of '64-5-an "ipdspsndent supporter,
for Stewart had vainly s%ndeavored to
defeat him in the county nominating
convention. And it is true that now
| Sumner asserts that Stewart has not
proved to be an industrious, practical
Senator; that he has violated his politi-
cal pledges, as above named; that he
has developed" into a nsgro-suffrage
advocate, and has been found to be not
a Senator of the people of Nevada, but
an agent for the Dutch Flat Railroad
Company. We did have hope at one time
that Stewart would rscuperatO on behalf
of the State, as against the monopolists
but not so. Sumner and many others
who largely contributed to mako Stew
art Senator have confessed themselves
deceived. What Of it? All the more
to Williams discrsdit, aud enhancing
the prospect Of his ignOminious defeat as
q candidate for reelection.
We shall improve q future occasion to
show that W. NJ. Stewart has not been o
true representative of the people of this
State in any respect; and We will make
that fact so clear in the light Of day
that no citizen can mistake it. He has
been humping around the streets Of
Washington in his dry carriage and his
wet carriage, attending tea and cham.
payne parties, to the utter neglect Of
the duties he owed his constituents,
And whatever Of local legislation he has
devised or meddled with, he has botched
and ruined, so far as all practical good
effects are to be desired or looked for
thersfrom. The Radicals " at Wash.
ingtou got hold Of him, looked him over,
measured him after a terms trial, and
then fiattered him into a formal recital
of his father-in-law's dogma,-to let JEFF
Davis and every other internal traitor go
scot free, so every negro was allowed
to vote. Did Senator Sumner or many
who voted with him for Stewart expect
such proceeding on Williams part?
Not much, we think. You may
with as much grace and force arraign
the Republicans in the California
Legislature Of ls6o-6l who voted
for James A. McDougal. This is Will
liam's great misfortune, that instead OF
making a good, practical, industrious,
legislator he has proved to be a person
whose miad-such as it was-becams
"turnsd" on his elevation; and he mus,
needs be q great boa-constrictor, with
the ancient chiefs of the great Federal
Council, and have his Irrational poll.
cies," or be counted as one Of the shin.
ing lights of ultrsism. So it happens
that he has lost his best and most infu.
entail friends here. And whether the
most discreet thing in the world for him
to do is to publish the fact Of his losses,
of this character, we leave him to judge
If he has the audacity and folly to in
sist on being pushed for a reelection,
on the strength of.the Dutch Flat mo.
nopoly, we will show in duo time,
that in his political loppings and his
negles, of his home duties to his con-
s~titueuts, he has entirely forfeited the
confidence and disappointed the hope
once placed in him.