Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-06-23
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Some time since we produced the OH
cial figures Of our late and of former
elections in Gold Hill, aud fully con-
vieted the Belmont Reporter Of arrant,
barefaced Justification of the record in
that regard. Instead Of becomingly
hiding its diminished aud d~isgraced
head after our inc~ontrovsrtible expo
sure Of its mendacity, it attempts n
feeble imitation Of the cutie fish and
stirs up the mud and ooze which are its
ct surroundings, seeking thus to muddle
our clear exposure. In the Reporter of
the goth, reference is made to u ex-
hibit and the following language is
used:
It Ithe NKwsl also states that our [the Re
| ~porter,s1 figures claiming q Democratic gain
| were incorrect, and goes TO its files to prove
| the truth Of the assertion Lord, Mr.. Neics.
you can prore anything by those papers but
consistency on your part!
Now, Mr.. Reporter, we reiterats the
assertion that our figures were exactly
correct and that your statements were
grossly false. We challenge you to
produce any figures from a reliable
source contradictory of ours, with q
statement Of the source from which
they arc derived. We thus give you an
opportunity to prove your consistency,
which we anticipate will turn out to be
persistence in fabrication. The Repor-
ter goes on to say Of us
You've wallowed "around the circle" q
half dozen times, and will be found this Fall
supporting certain candidates for high posi-
tons whom we intend to prove the greatest
~rascals in the State by those very files OF
yours.
We are consoled With the reflection
that we have consistently kept out of
the wallow of rebel Democracy so o n
genial to the Reporter, and are not at all
fearful of the assaults of our m%endacious
contemporary against any one that We
may see Ct to support in the Union
party. We imagine that the Reporters
sources Of information concerning the
parties whom we are likely to support
are as unreliable and mythical as its
figures on Gold Hill elections. If the
Reporter can quote from u files to
establish our Inconsistency on the suf-
frage question, why don't it do so, in
stead of threatening? Kill US outright,
but, for goodness sake, don't frighten
US to death We assert that we were
the first paper in Nevada to favor me-
gro suffrage as q necessary means
Of loyal reconstruction, and that we
have ever, as now, opposed interior
once by tho General Government
with the regulation of the suffrage in
the States that remained loyal and de-
Tended the Government. We dare and
defy the Reporter, or "any other man.
to gainsay and disprove these assertions.
Some things that we have opposed
while they were still subjects Of sontro-
versy, we advocate now, because they
have been removed from the controver.
sial field and become the established
policy Of the nation by virtue of a fairly
expressed majority vote. If consistency
can only be maintained by revolutionary
resistance to the establishment Of prin-
ciples or measures to which we were
opposed, then it is quite possible that
many instances of Inconsistency may
be laid OF out door. And in all such
cases we take NOR pride than though
we had sacrificed good citizenship and
regard for law and order on the altar Of
consistency.