Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-09-30
TWO CONVENTIONS

The Republican State CONVENTION met
II wiansmucca on the Gath. made its
nominations. and adjourned on the 25th
instant. The Democratic State Con-
vsnton met at Carson On the 2sth,
made It's Nominations, and adjourned
on the goth instant. Regarding these
e~snvsntions and their action. We have .
few words to say. Before the Re
publican Convention met Il was publicly
charged by the Sutre Dependent, then
the only Democratic paper In Storey
county, that the Bank ring bad put up .
slate which would Be forced upon the
convention at winnemusca. that this
slats was in the interest Of Mr.. Sharon,
and would DO adopted. In pursuance
Of this assertion the paper referred to.
gave . list Of nsminsss who, 1t alleged.
had been selected. and would receive
tho Endorsement Of the convention.
Suffice to say. that except the rsnom-
insss, Messrs. Minor and Hobart, but
t,co out Of the ten gentlemen named for
stice, received the place II alleged had
been assigned them. Thus was the
''slats" which the Bank ring was
charged with putting up" treated at
winnemucca. A few words more upon
this subject. 1t was publicly charged
that the delegates from Storey county to
our State Convention were selected by
Mr.. Sharon's managers, and would vote
a. he dictated. The facts are. that In
said convention never did the Storey
county delegates vote sslidly but once.
In the vote for Governor. votes were
cast by ii ON every ballot for Hazlett,
Stevenson and Kinksad. And there
was but little relative change during
the contest. In the vote for Lieutenant
Governor both candidates received votes
from the Storey county delegation. The
same was true Of every candidate before
that body. with. We believe, the single
exception Of the nominee for Congress,
upon which. II We remember rightly, the
Storey county delegation was united.
There wa not the ssmblanos Of q
"slats" in the Convention, and before
the nrst and after the last vote was taken
II wa the generally expressed opinion
that ne Csnvsntien sver assembled 90
free from any outside influence which
could control or influence the selection
Of nominees. There are . few sore
heads. These are. 1t seems, . necessary
evil. Yet there Is no man who CAME
before that Convention for its support
who can honestly say he was unfairly
defeated.
Now to the other and later Conysn-
ton. As in duty bound, sutro's organ
has rsfrAinsd from charging against the
prominent manipulators Of that body
the heinous crime Of putting up q slatsi
yet We venture the assertion that there
never was . convention hsld. in Nevada
or anywhere, where the programme had
been cut and dried moro carefully than
Tor that which adjourned last evening.
Every man upon the ticket nominated.
from Governor TO the lowest Office, with
the exception OF one OF tive small
oficss reserved for Grades" TO carry
cut the general programme, had been
agreed upsn before the convention or
ganizsd. and every one Of those nom
nations were duly ratified by tho con
vention. And the slaughtered candi.
dates may, II il Be soothing to them,
esnsels themselves with the fact that in
attempting TO secure . nomination. thsy
were struggling against the inevitable,
There was nc such thing ~ breaking tn,
slate put up by Williams, Bradley. Hy'
man, Hillhouss and Ellis. We gave tn,
names upon this slate" before a sinsl'
nomination had bean made. The lisi
given Us was reliable. II was author.
~itative. II vas adopted.
We have referred to this matter FOL
tive reasOns. First; that II possible w
might put . step to slandsrous asssr'
tons concerning the action OF the Win
nsmueca convsntion; and second, thai
defeated candidates before the Dem,
oeratic Convention might Be- informed
how they were beaten. We do not OF,
psct any Democratic ssrshsads as rein.
forcsmsnts TO the Republican party,
Their natural place, IL they leave their
old associates. viii Be with the reform
sn. The new party will thus, doubtless,
receive some aecessions from both old
erganizstions. Yet 1t must be confessed
that defeated Democratic aspirants have
much greater casss for " securing" than
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