Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-06-13
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Oar Democratic contemporaries in this
State are laboring hard to gloze over
and under.rate the late Union victory in
Gold Hill. They fully realize the i'm
tense moral effect of our success, and
have no hope Of carrying the State eI-
cept by eounteracting it in some way.
1t would appear that no avenue to this
result is open to them except the broad
and familiar Democratic road of uumiti-
gated falsiication. The following, from
the Silver Bend Reporter Of the 10th
inst, is a fair specimen of the bald,
bare-faced Misrepresentation to which
We have forced them to resort. Allud-
ing to our election, the Reporter says:
The truth Of the matter is simply this: In
1855 Gold Hill gave q majority against the
Democracy Of $50; In 1856, Of 500. At the
late election the Black Marshal was elected
BY only 81 votes; Treasurer, a.. Trustees
First Ward, respectively, "a, 38, and %;
Second Ward, n and SO. BY the above fg-
ures It will be seen that the Democratic gain,
Notwithstanding the prestige Of the names OF
Ulysses and Schuyler, has been enormous.
Storey county stands redeemed, and 10 No.
yember will roll up a Democratic majority Of
Ave hundred.
If that is "the truth Of the matter"
then either Truth or correct figures
have acquired an inordinate habit OF
lying. From official returns contained
in our fles-which arc open to public
inspection-we compile the following
facts and figures. At the charter cleo
ton in 1865 party lines were not
drawn, and T. H. Johnson, ]. D..
Binns and E. E. Phillips-sll Union men
-were candidates for Marshal, when
johnson received l4s, Binns SO, and
Phillips l6 votes, making a total Of 25l
votes cast, out of which, according to
our most veracious contemporary, the
Union party had a minority Of 400 At
the general election of 1866, Blaisdel
received ga and Winters 454 votes,
leaving Blaisdel a majority of 10,
which the Reporter gutta-perchaizes into
3O2. In 1861 party lines were not
drawn, Cummings, Began and Put
nam, the three candidates for Marshal,
all having been Union men, and those
Democrats who ran for Aldermen hav-
ing been put up in opposition to the
regular citizens ticket principally on
the motion of Unionists. But 1t has been
claimed-we think by the Reporter or
q Gold Hill correspondent of that paper
that the Democracy have made o gain
of $50 in this town since the last election.
As Cummings was the leading candi-
date and received, if anyone did, the
majority on which the gain of $50 has
been made, we submit the figures in
that election. Cummings received 435
votes, and his two competitors, Began
and Putnam, respectively, 1874 and 1876
total, $40, which would leave Cum
mings' majority 95. As was the case
in both Of our former charter elections
so in our last, many of our citi-
lens were not disposed to draw
party lines, but we are willing to accept
it and the G~ubernatorial election as
partisan contests and make q fair com
p%arison. For Governor, in 1866, there
were l,O7s votes polled, resulting in a
majority Of ITO for the Union candidate.
For Marshal, in 1868, there were 1874
polled, giving A majority.
We imagine that no person CONVEX
SAINT of the facts will deny that the per-
m%anent, resident population of Gold
Hill was greater two years ago than
now. Tho substantial, working, BUSH
ness population is probably as great or
greater now, but spectators and other
floating population are not near SO u
merous. II is also %undeniAble, that a
canvass in which there is a full State
and County ticket to elect, is calculated
to draw out q much fuller vote than a
mere election Of town officers. We do
not consider It unfair, in view Of the
greater population, the difference in in-
terest felt in q general compared with q
local election, and the more general re-
gard for party lines in the former, to
estimate the legitimate vote Of 1856 at
least 200 above that of 1868. But the
vote for Marshal this year wa loe
greater than for Governor two years
ago. With the knowledge generally
possessed, Of the appliances brought to
bear and the Herculean efforts put forth
to secure q Democratic victory, we can
only draw the inference from the above
facts and figures, that colonization to
the extent Of from 300 to 400 voters was
practised by the leaders of Gold Hill
Democracy. As to the Reporters antici-
pated democratic majority Of $780,"
there is no intelligent, impartial Gold
Hill Democrat who willprofess to believe
anything of the kind, or who will deny
the probability of from $50 to 800 Union
majority. So much for SO much.