Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-07-15
So pEmocRAT1c ORATOR.

Town Election in Gold Hill, on the LIST
of June last-and we must confess that
ye Democratic orator Of modern times
is quite a curiosity in his way, and he
needs but to be seen and heard to con-
vince any loyal AMI honest man that
his politics is made up Of sophistry, of
humbug, Of a rope Of sand. Before
our Town election we heard such dis
tinguished Democrats as Tom Williams,
old Pitzer, Bob Taylor, Jim Hardy,
when we heard Jim he was bully, and
exactly suited the iat-headed audience
he was addressing-he was so drunk he
could not stand UPRIGHT Hank Mitch
ell, and others. These gentlemen are
preparing to "draw the wool over the
eyes" of voters in the coming campaign,
and deceiving the honest people Of the
country with their buncombe but we
trust no intelligent, thinking man will
permit himself to be led astray and to
vote against the true friends and
principles Of his country and his Gov
eminent. As we have these modern
Democratic orators in our minds eye,
as they appeared in Gold Hill just be-
fore our last municipal election, we pro-
pose to take a typographical photo
graph Of them in o group-(all except
Jim Hardy, who was too drunk to stand
up). The curtain is drawn, and here is
ye modern Democratic stumper: The
orator makes his appearance from the
region Of the clouds, Chat is to say, he
stands on the stage in McCluskey's the
atre, or in front of tho house,
with the illuminated transparency
of tive homer labur'' over his head, J
into q region where the men are all in-
telligent, the women all beautiful, the
fields all marvels of fertility, belted BY
majestic streams flowing from everlast-
ing hills like silvery chains, binding the
rural districts to the hearing mains.
Having apostrophized the men, women,
fields, rivers and mains, our orator pro-
ceeds to apostrophize the Silver State.
Possibly the comparison may have been
made before, but it strikes US as orig
inal, and as souorous as original.
Having achieved this flight Of rhetoric
our orator coudescends to apologize for
| coming down to the level Of his intel
licent and beautiful audience, and dis
cussiug the questions Of the day. He
sets out anew with the startling propo-
sition that "men may change, but
principles never 1.-THE proposition de-
irving force from the history of our
orators own party. But how he makes
his ergo marshal his conclusion we can
not yet understand. How the history
Of this country is the synonym of De-
I mocracy we fail to conceive but we
can understand this marvel Of talent
when be declares that the civil war did
not come before the defeat Of the De-
mocracy in 1860. Here our orator
taught like the old Greeks, by infer
ence, as thus: So long as Democracy
was privileged to WELD both the purse
and sword, it forbore to appeal to the
latter ; but when the people hurled it
from power, it rebelled against the
people. Hence the civil war. He then
goes on to tell his intelligent and fascin-
atiug audience that o real trouble is
taxation. That we have IN enormous
public debt which expressed in 81 notes
would reach beyond the moon and re-
turn to earth. We are surprised at the
moderation Of our orator. He might as
well have said that the debt expressed
in miles would span the chasm lying
between the sun and its outer
most planet. But it is better as
it is. Then We are introduced to the
rich bondholder, clothed in purple and
fine linen and faring sumptuously every
day-so rich-so immensely rich-that
be is exempted from paying any taxes
whatever. We are then introduced to
the poor laborer who pays all the taxes.
This poor laborer is a remarkable man.
He works for q living, is poor, and yet
supports the Government, and pays all
the interest on the bonds. We always
like to be introduced to this universal
taxpayer. He is not peculiar to this
country, we believe but wherever
there are taxes to pay this poor fellow
is badgered out Of his comfort to get
money enough to pay the tax-gatherer.
It is with emotions of joy, therefore,
that we hear our orator declare, that,
standing at the base of Mount David
son, lin Slippery Gulch, even !! he can
descry the break Of q better day, when
property, not men, shall be taxed, when
the shadows shall disappear, the cloud
| of injustice be rent, and through that
rent shall fall the sunlight Of Demo-
cratic victory, clearing the atmosphere
Of foul vapors, AS carbolic acid ;purifes
the cesspools Of cities-we suppose.
Then our orator touches earth. This
noble and glorious result is to come
through the nomination Of somebody
perhaps that of one whom he names O
great statesman, who rises like u spread.
ing palm Il Of the dead level Of Amer.
lean politics. He means-ah, yes, he
means -, a Democratic candi-
date for the United States Senate. Who
else? That there can be no DON to
doubt his meaning be declares that be
is TO finance what the New Testament
is to Christianity. We are glad Ia
know it. How like ye the picture Of
the Democratic orators 2
The You've MES's CHRISTIAN AssocrA.
rloys of the United States, according to
the report read at the Convention in
Detroit, number 10, 900 members. Four