Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-09-26
CLIoUERs.

munities is ciqulsm. In cliques IN
reasonable personal prejudices are form
ed and matured, to the detriment of all
true growth, to the destruction of gen.
uine "public spirit" Cliquism, how
ever, prevails far less in the Atlantic
States than formerly, as emigration has
broken up many tendencies to form bet
ter-than-you families,-the boys travel,
the girls go to distant places to school,
and coming homo refuse or refrain from
an exclusive tea-party communion.
The education of the times is schooling
men and women of our East to like the
best of books and folks irrespective Of
miserable couventionalism in introduce
ton. Sectarianism is far less strict in
its social divisions as of yore, in the
older States, as all are aware.
But the cliquism Of the New England
and Middle States was always founded
on a sincere conviction, or prejudicss.
1t was a purely social ostracism which
it carried out, and though d%etestaole in
effect, it bore no comparison in evil to
certain characters Of cliques that have
arisen on this Coast. The great "San
Francisco clique" was founded not on
the noble Pioneer Association-that
would have been something more ex
cusable than the Yankee "circles'
even; it rose from the Vigilance Com
mittee. It has been broken up through
the falling away from it of its really
deceived or misguided members.
Coming way, way down from that
grand clique of the metropolis, we find
in interior towns, in the Pacific States,
little political cliques, that arrogate all
the ability and merit Of every kind to
themselves, and proportionately stigma
ti,e the poor "outsiders." Not to be
misunderstood, in illustration, we will
mention the fact that this county for
several years has been blessed with
a clique that "know it ALL"
observed it ALL" and were
entitled to damn everybody if they
didn't "haye it ALL" politically or
otherwise. Any one who presumed to
disagree to the proclamations of this
select junta of Great Ones-composed
in part of as vile wretchss as ever
breathed-was forthwith denounced as
a kuave or a fool, dishonest and crazy,
etc., etc. This sert of thing has been
submitted to, in most instances, or
passed by, without much reciprocating
notice. Various motives have led to
this real indifference to the claims and
the clamor OF the great Clique in Storey
county politics. Many have had such a
sovereign sentiment Of contempt for the
professional libellers who formed a part
of the clique, that no severity of Islander
could induce them to notice the dogs
or the persons most abused may, at the
time of the utterance Of the ISLANDERS
have been so employed that they did
not have time or opportunity to make
the suitable character Of reply-if there
vas any disposition to descend to the
making of u reply. And so it has hap
peued that the Clique has, though often
and even usually beaten in primaries
aud local elections, gone on from one
"grace" to another, until up to a few
-ea.h. ONO. .hoy- beloved their priv
ilege was to say almost any wicked
word Of others, and assume almost any
attitudes of dictatorship. Recently,
however, they may have gathered the
idea that they were not autocrats, and
the bladder of their conceit has been
rather cruelty gashsd. It only took a
word Of square pointing, to direct the
attention of the people to their shallow
ness, and the absolute audacity of the
~pretensions Of the Cliquers. In fact
they had no claim at all to superior
wisdom or average honesty. All the
force Of their picturings against
others, come from a faint, instructive,
unconscious Interpretation of iniqui-
ty. Thoroughly rotten, in all moral
respects, they had, from the dull throb-
bings Of their own conscience, sugges-
tions of anathema. So they Illuminated.
And it happened, years ago, that they
have started out to denounce and de-
stroy men whom they themselves had
made, by association, distasteful to the
people,-had perhaps made them ras-
cals,-as judges and as associate coun-
sci. It has undoubtedly been a part Of
their scheme to trap judges and others
whom they would ruin into schemes OF
wickedness, and then turn about and
give what wal really States evidence, to
the Clique's great self-glorifcation be-
fore the people. o, such honesty as
they, the Cliques, possessed They
wouldn't corrupt judges, suborn wit
nessss, bribe jurors, plumber q city or
county treasury o, o not they
But these creatures have now reached
the end Of their tsther. Their exposure
has commenced; and the work of their
~outcssting will 60 on until they shall
confess they haSe no shame, or:.hide their
heads under Universal Contempt, for
which there will DO no legislated Am
nesty. It is about time that the infa-
nous characters whs have trotted about
the streets Of our towns, believing
"thst man is a knave" and "that man
is a ool,"-against persons whose shoe
latches they were not worthy to I'M
looss,-sheuld receive their W politi-
cal and social "quietus." Something
like a faint appreciation of their APP
proachiup doom may have come unto