Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-05-12
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The kilograms announcing the result
Of the Illinois Republican State Con-
v%en,iou are worthy Of more than passing
notice. The ticket presented seems to
combine every clemen, Of strength, in
GLIDING, MS it does, some Of the most
itlustrious among the many noble sons
of Illinois who fought the battles of the
Union, together with the ablest and
most popular representatives of the
Irish and German loyalty Of that State.
But the resolutions on the finance
question arc the most Significant, as TO
many they viii be the most surprising
part of the report.
By oft.reiteration il has almost be-
come a proverb that " the Great West'
is inalienably welded 10 the Pendlcto-
nian doctrine Of a ~grecnback payment
of the National debt, and consequent
illimitable expansion Of the currency.
Expansion within reasonable limits is
doubtless of greater advantage to the
great grain and pork producing North
west, than to any other portions Of the
country. Because this 10 and has been
true; because the immense expense In
volvsd in the production and movement
of their crops, required a liberal supply
Of cheap money, Democratic dema-
gogucs jumped at the conclusion that
the Western producers would, in their
desire for reasonable expansion, endorse
that which would DO ruinous and absurd.
That because q paper circulation Of six
or seven hundred millions was advan-
tageous to the Northwest, and because
the people Of that section wero disposed
to insist on a circulation commen-
surate with their necessities, cygo,
argued these wiseacres, they win be
ten times as favorable to Il circulation
ten times as great, and we will, through
their hallueination, blast the public
credit, degrade the national honor, and
plunge our thrifty but deluded victims
into a fathomless sea Of bankruptcy.
When we reflect that the Democratic
party has a foothold in the Northwest,
and that its champions are most numer-
Gus among the noisiest rabble of the
great cities Of that section, il requires
no stretch Of the imagination to con-
ceive that unlimited expansion, repudi-
alton, or any other scheme that would DO
nationally di~sgraceful, should find earn
est advocates there. Nor would 1t be at
all surprising that travellers or tempo
rary sojourners, who heard the clamor
Of tho mob mor frequently than the
opinions of the moro quiet aud staid
producers, should be deluded into u be-
lief that this senseless clSmor. was tho
voice of Northwestern public opinion.
This has, to a large extent. been the
case, aud thence has sprung up a very
general opinion that the Republican
party would have to concede something
smacking Of reputation to the West,
be silent on theisubject, or sacrifice our
hopes of success in that quarter. As
an authoritative and emphatic abnega-
ton of this unjust aud humiliating as
sumption, these Illinois Republican
resolutions. with their unmistakable
ring Of loyalty and good faith, are sig
n~ificant, happily timed and most well
come. With Grant, Palmer and Logan
for their standard bearers, and with q
platform of loyalty to tho Government,
justice and equal rights to all men, and
good faith on the part Of tho Govern
ment towards its creditors, Illinois will
roll up q majority Of not less than 49,:
900 in November.