Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-07
MEM. ON CAL. POLITICIANS.

but it seems that we got the figures
credited to the wrong candidate, and
in that particular alone were at fault.
Every true Union man will feel and ex-
press profound regret over the defeat,
and we hope it will be productive Of
such action on the part of the Nevada
Uuionists as will redeem the great cause
we have at heart from jeopardy in this
State. As we have elsewhere remark
ed, the defeat Of the whole Union State
ticket, congressman and Legislators
(mnjority,) was anticipated by very
few persons, if any, on this Coast. The
affair is decidedly fresh, in its totality.
HAIaRr.
Henry H. Hsight will be the next
Governor Of California. Let US look
at him again. Small in stature, a pleas
ant face, altogether = modest "style,"
quite uuobtrusive aud u~upretendiug,
"A gentleman, Il scholar and a DEM
ocrat. One evening in the Sumner
Of 1860, Mr.. Hsight was at the office
ofHsnry Love, There was a homogeneous
gathering -Haight and Love- where
were assembled, Capt. Thomas Gray,
John P. Hale Wentworth, Gilbert A.
Grant, Delos Lake, DR.. B. J. Smith and
about a score Of "youug men" beside,
and there and then was formed the
"Ssn Francisco Young Mems Demo-
cratic Republican Club" This was
before L~iucoln's nomination. The
youthful Captain (Gray) was elected
President of the organization. The
constitution and bylaws, which we
presume are still in the possession of
Capt. Gray, will show that the Club
named WAS a Radical one-for those
days. And we do not hesitate to say,
what we know to be the fact, that that
Club did more to aid in carrying Cali
fornia for .Liucola than did any similar
organization. 1t did not make so much
"demous,ration" as the Wide-Awakes
and the Central Republican Club"
bu, it mad; ~rotes." 1t circulated three
times the number of documents distrib-
uted by the State Committee, procured
the printing and circulation Of several
California speeches, and held several
very effective outdoor meetings.
The most liberal contributor to the
funds Of this Club was H. H. Haight,
and as q "ru,,ler" Capt. Gray has
no. his equal on this coast. Haight
and Gray are old ST. Louis Tom Ben
t~ouites, and Benton said of Gray: "lf
you had remained in St. Louis should
not have been beaten for the Senate,
after thirty years service in it." Haight
and Gray knew how to programme for
votes. No nonsense about them. Gray
went to Washington in 1861, was an
applicant for Collector Of the Port of
San Francisco; was actually appointed
and then overslaughed, through Horace
Greeley's influence in the favor Of a
b~lue-bellied Vigilance Committee, Peo-
Plies Party creature, named Rankin; was
appointed, when the war broke out, as
Depot Commisssry was on the field in
several battles, and received high enco-
miums from General Pope and others;
was promoted to a Colonelcy in his
Department; was appointed Naval officer
Of San Francisco; was ousted by Con-
ness, whose mind had been poisoned
against Gray by some slandering
wretches.
Haight left the Union party when the
Emancipation proclamation was issued;
Gray sustained that proclamation, but
supported Haight on Anti-Coolie and
Auti-Radicsl grounds. We have brought
these two N together, as they are
politically connected, and because the
most efficient supporter Of Haight was
his old comrsde the Captain" Gray
concentrated the nti.Coolie sentiment
10 practical organizations, and then
managed to bring it, solid, for Haight,
whose nomination he secured. Captain
Gray is the " old man." behind the cur
tain, who fixed all those things. As a
political p~lanuer aud manager, he has
not his equal on this coast. He is
knowing as to points and ready and
fertile in '%expedients. Broderick and
Baker aud Edmund Randolph-iu the
Lecompton compaign-publicly an
~nounced that be was the Prince Of polit-
ical s,rategist. And, withal, an hon
est man.
AXTELL.
The Democrats have not for .years
made so good a nomination as this.
Axtell is IN elegant speaker, a man Of
prepossessing appearance, and a man
who has proclaimed his attachment to
the Flag Of our Country, has denounced
the Coufederates as traitors, and de-
clared that their debt must not be recog-
uized, while the National debt must be
paid to the last dollar.
Phelps is a very generally overesti-
mated man,-in reality having no more
ability than Stewart. Yet he was &C
counted a very popular man in his dis
trict, and until within q fortnight his
election was conceded by leading DEM
ocrats in San Francisco, as ure and
certain.
%M'coPPIN.
Frank McCoppin, the newly elected
Mayor Of San Francisco, isa man about
40 years of age; a noble hearted man,
as fond of a joke as a frolicsome boy of
IL. he 10 a son-in-law of Van Ness,
ex-Mayor of San Francisco, and author
Of the celebrated Van Ness Ordinance.
Personally, he is e%minently fit to be the
chief dignitary Of the Metropolis Of the
Pacific. The Bulletin has abused him
ever since he was elected Supervisor
from the Eleventh Ward, seven or eight
years ago, and he has proportionately
enjoyed the confidence and esteem Of
his fellow citizens.
THE TEXT U. s. y.
The Democrats having carried a ma
iority Of the California Legislature-on
Joint ballot-it becomes interesting to
inquire as to who is likely to be the eau
didates of that party for o. s. Senator.
We understand that John Nugent will
return and claim residence for candida
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