Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-10-02
WHO HAVE CAPTURED DEMO
CRATIC NOMINATIONS

camp. Anu IL We "eo De
from north Of Mason and DiIon's
lins) We should say net without cause.
The fact il, that the ''high chivs" and
slow chivs" just captured the conven-
ton. and with 1t nearly every Office
worth aspiring to. The ticket is made
up almost entirely Of yellow legged Mis-
sourisns. blue grass Kentuchans and
+. =. va (ss they claim from Vir-
ginia. Not an Irishmm appears upon
the ticket. only n German, Tour
friend Haist) and that for an Office ss-
ssntially non-politieal. But n for
signer appears in the whole list, kittrsii
from Her Majssty's possessions IN
Washington Territory. The head. the
tail. the back. the front, the inside, the
outside, the brains and the intsstines
are ultra-Southern. OF curse this os-
tracism Of Northern Democrats, OF
Union Democrats, Of Irish Democrats.
Of the foreign element upon which the
Democratic party in times past has so
largely depended, produces friction.
Curses deep. II not loud, are freely be-
slowed upsn the Bradley slate, and
many an Irishman and Northern Demo-
crat who has seen himself and friends
ruthlsssly slaughtered by the Bourbons
Of Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri.
vows he will have mona Of it. The old
California contest between ultra
Southern and Nerthsrn Democrats
has been prscipitaisd by the adop-
ton Of the Observation-Disclosures
slate Of Southern frs-satsrs. Many old
Calfornians remember how year after
year the "ehivs' and Northern mud
sills" OF the Democratic party struggled
for the mastery. and how the end came.
Suffice il to say that this ultra element
Of Southern Bourbonism o~verslaughsd
and estracissd every representative
Northern Democrat, until at last when
the war broke out, thrss-fsurths Of the
latter joined the Union forces and help
ped to make up what was called the
Union Republican party.
The Dsmssratic platform may be good
enough. But lrishmsn and Northern
Democrats read between the lines, and read
ing SEQ that, while their votes arc asked
10 aid the Democratic ticket, their rep-
r~sssntativs men are ignored thereon;
that their votes only are wanted; the
"chivs'' propose to occupy the offices
and appropriate the spells. 1t is but
history repeated. Southern Democracy
10 grasping and unfair. II claims every
thing and grants nothing. It asserts it.
self as the only genuine article; its rep
r~sntativss as the only fitting candidates
for Office; and then commands the
"mudsills'' to "stand in" We mis-
take the temper Of Northern and foreign
born citizens who have heretofore acted
with the Democratic party II they allow
themselves to Be thus used by this eI-
rebel element; this class who put Of airs
and attempt to ''gobbls" all the fruits
Of hspsd-for victory. Why, We rsmem-
Der when these same "chivs" Git il only
a few years ago. were crawling on their
bellies before Irish and Northern Demo-
Gratis. praying for a crust. They re-
esivsd the crust. and now, strengthened
thereby. appropriate the whole loaf.
A"Chiyalry" ticket ! Fsush! Where
were these men whom you. Northern
Democrats. Irishmsn and soldiers Of the
Union Army Of the Potomac were voting
for General Mcclellan Away down in
the junglss Of the lower Mississippi. in
the bush; or, here on the Pacific Coast,
loud.mouthsd against the Union, yet
taking care to keep from under fire. And
q ticket composed Of such men. upon
which you have not the slightsst repre-
sentative, you are asked to put in power.
II ever ingrstituds was manifested 1t has
BEEN BY the "ehivalry" element OF the
Democratic partyin Nevada. Owing the
success heretofore achieved to their
Northern and foreign-born allies, they
have boldly and sharply cut aloof from
them, and nominated themselves for
every prominent Office in the gift Of the
people. We do not wonder that there is
dissatisfaction. Were we a Democrat.
born in the North or in . foreign land,
we would consign this Verse than Knew
Nothing ticket to the depths Of eternal
and meritsd defeat.