Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-06-17
HOW THEY GOVERN.


The utter inability of Republicans
and the eminent fitness Of Democrats for
the proper conduct Of Governmental
affairs, is the burden Of Democratic
speeches, the theme Of Democratic edi-
torials. Whether or not these assump-
tons are well founded, we fortunately
have present and convenient means for
correct judgment. In the States of
New York, New Jersey and Ohio, the
assumedly God-given ruling Democracy
hold an iudisputable as~cendancy in the
Legislatures. In all others Of the
Northern States the Republican party
holds the reins. Are nj Democratic
friends disposed to institute a compare
son between the Legislatures of New
York aud Massachusetts, New Jersey
and Vermont, or Ohio and Michigan?
II is universally admitted-even the
most brazen Democratic audacity has
not the cheek to deny it-that the late
Democratic Assembly Of New York was
the most corrupt and debased couclave
that ever c~ongregated outside the walls
Of a State Prison. OF that body We
will say but little, being too charitable
to argue that they are fair representa-
tons even of l~atter-day Democracy.
OF the New Jersey or Camden and Am
boy concern we will observe the Same
charitablcuess, rs it was but a branch
of the other, playing second fiddle to
the New York establishment, taking the
lesser brides and doing tho dirty work
| Of the least potent whore two monied
institutions were in conflict. In the
| Ohio Legislature Democracy has had
full swing aud unlimited sway. The
two greatest living opponents Of Demo-
cratic principles, Pendleton and Vallan-
digham, are nominally the constituents
but actually the omnipotent dictators Of
the policy and acts of the Ohio law
grinding mill. These favored legisla-
tors sit at the very feet Of Gamalicl and
feed on the choicest droppings OF the
inner sanctuary Of Democracy. II any
where, certainly in Ohio, we may expect
to find the rares. evidences of Demo-
cratic superior fitness to rule. Then
lie. us make a pilgrimage to this modern
H.. a.l .an ,.hak 80 ohan oan
The first monument Of legislative
wisdom which attracts III attention is
q resolution to rescind the ratification
Of the Constitutional Amendment. On
tho second, an Egyptian obelisk, we find
a law inscribed which provides for the
closest scrutiny into domestic relations
for the possible discovery Of never so
slight a visible admixture of African
blood" Next We observe the climax
of the bleaching mania represented by
an edict making it q crime for a voter
to inscribe the names Of his preferences
for public Office on other than white
paper. Our attention is next attracted
to a provision for q permanent session,
with an implied threat of revolu-
ton unless the will Of the people
accords with the views of the Ohio
Legislature. And more recently
we find the foot marks Of some
quack, incapable Of maintaining him
self against unrestricted COMPETE
ton, who secures the passage of q law
making it o penal offensc for any person
to prescribe or administer medicine or
perform any surgical operation unless
possessed of a dried sheep-skin on which
a certificate, perhaps false, is inscribed
in a dead language. Under the provis-
ions Of this wise enactment Of these
modern Solomons the favored people Of
the Buckeye State may not, except at
the risk Of fine and imprisonment, grease
the throat of a croupy infant, admins
ter Mrs. winslow's soothing syrup, or
take q dose Of Hostetter for its wonder
full tonic and aperient effects. With
Salisbury, Patterson and Garrett Davis
in the United States Senate, Morrissey
and Jim Brooks in the House, and the
Legislatures of New York, New Jersey
and Ohio as e~xemplars Of their capacity
to rule, it is certainly amusing to hear
Democrats assailing Radical misrule"
and claiming that they alone a re-
store order and q wise administration.