Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-11-12
TmE NEw YORK "sUs!"

A week or two before the eieeuo"'
when the New York Sun contained tue
famous editorial which was te~lesrapned
all over the country virtually concedins
defeat for the Democracy. the NEWS
proenosticatsd that Dana was merely
shaping his policy and position so as to
be adj. to say ~ told you so" after the
election was over. And that's just
what hs is saying now. The cleo
ton has gone just a he feared. He
nuds the Solid South and the Demo.
cratic party beaten by . solid North. and
his Hrst editorial in the Sun on the day
following the election Is headed: "How
the Change Of Leaders has Resulted
II commences as follows:
Old General Zachary Taylor said Of his
soldiers In Mexico that they never ap-
pear,d TO know when they were beaten.
We are inclined 10 think, however. that II
these men we're living and members OF the
Democratic party they would be fully con-
scious Of the fact that they were beaten.
and pretty badly beaten.
Dana goes on to politically moralizs on
how different would have been the re-
sult had his man. Samuel ]. Tilden,
been nominated. and the Democracy
had not gone back on their record and
the real rights Of Tilden to that nomina-
ton. instead OF nominating Hancock.
whose principal msrit was that he
weighed $50 pounds. and English. the
biggest skinaint in America, and says :
The man at the head Of the ticket was
all that was said Of him yesterday when We
remarked: General Hancock 10 . spot
lees candidate. an honest man, Q brave
soldier. an i~ncorruptbls patriot. . true
Democrat" He was even, % was said In
proposing his nomination ct the Cincin-
natl Convention. The Superb" but the
event has shown that he was not exactly
adapted to be the candidate OF the Demo-
cratic party for President. In fact. no
man In the country was adapted to that
position under the circumstances save the
statesman aud sage who four years ago led
the party to glorious victory; and although
the fruits Of that victory could not DO
gathered then. they might have been gath.
sred now.
When Q party abandoas its successful
and deserving leaders; when y party al.
lows Its enemies TO dictate who shall and
who shall not DO its nominees; when .
party opens Its campaign by raising Q
white Gag and beating . retreat. that party
has shown itself TO be worthy OF defeat.
such signal defeat a. has Just over whelmed
the Democracy. For ourselves We strug.
glsd against the inevitable from the begin
ming with Q consciousness that no fslly
could have surpassed that Of making any
change In the Presidential ticket which
bad carried the country once. and then had
added to Its previous strength the issue OF
having been illegally deprived Of Office.
Dana has too much to say about
what might have been II Tildsn were
nominated. and how the Solid South
would have combined most sffsctuslly
with . united Democracy in Q we'll
deserved and sweeping victory under
his able and influential leadership. HI
may be perfectly correct. bu. he may a,
well quit belly aching over the matter,
and accept the defeat OF the Democracy
a. among things that had to be. Hin
closing remarks. however. are quit,
sensible; be says;
At all events. whatever the controllini
causes may have been. the Democrats art
beaten. Let them take the defeat like men
The Republicans have undoubtedly don,
many things to carry the country which
will not help them on the road to heaven
but then there have been some practice.
on the Democratic side not altogether
sanity. The past 10 lost in all but the ad
monitions to be gathered from its expert
ancea. The future remains alill open.