The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-10-16

ANorHER WHIO VroroRy.- The last
arrival from California brings partial re.
turns ofthe late election for Governor.
State Officers, Congressman. &c. The
returns were not full enough 10 give the
entire news, but enough was known to
give tolsrably accurate guess al the re.
suit. Like Maryland, the people of Cal
ifornia have had trial Of Locofocoism'
and they have spurued it from them. The
~ Y. Tribune sums up the news and the
moral thereof in the following article:
When the State of California was or
ganized, the selfstyled democracy" took
her iLto their own. hands almost as mat
ter of course. They chose their own
Governor and Lieutenant, Members Of
Congress, Legislature and U. S, Sena-
tors, filed all judicial and Executive
stations from their own set, aud seemed
10 act as if they had warrentee deed of
power for all future time.
/ That confidence has probably proved
their ruin. There were among them
several old stagers from Tammany Hall,
as we'll as adventurers from Ohio, Mis-
souri, and other States. They had come
to California to make money fast, and
they had opened particularly rich plG'
Ger in the Government. So each for him
self appears to have determined to "go II
while he was young" and make hay
while the sun shone. They affixed {
magnificent salary to every needful office
and being still insatiate, they invented
new places on purpose to make provision
for the faithful who stood outside will
watery mouths after the first lot had beef
, filed. In short they went straight ahea'
for No. l.. with particularly resolut'
disregard of expense.
There is in any operation Of this SOFT
perilous tendency to overriding. Th'
: machine breaks down from being over
i. loaded. So it was in California. Tn
lucky holders ofihe democratic con
, juring wand used it right and left till it
potency was overtaxed. In serving u
}, the State, they cut their own slices ratt
er too fat. The result, though not full
9 ascerained, is pretty we'll understood
The Wing Governor is certainly eleCtet
90 is probably the whole Wing Stat
J. ticket; so is one certainly; so are probabl
u both the Wing candidates for Congress
y and if the Wings have not the Legislt
p ture and the US Senator, they los
:. them solely by the running OF 'Indepenc
> ent' or half and-halftickets in Sanfrat
l. cisco, Sacramento and few other cour
IS ties. The Legislature might have bee
n Wing, and doubtless acOuLd have bee
but for unfortunate divisions among tn
Wings of the central counties.
The moral OF this result is one whic
} all parties should take to heart. Den
9 ocracy' has collapsed in California, M
y because the People are not democratic
; but because they are so. They refuse
. be swindled and made bankrupt for tn
y benefit of the leaders and managers VIII
. Jumped on the democratic hobby an
Is rode it to destruction. They mean to
Is more economically aud honestly govern
"a ed henceforth. even though that resol'
should expose them to be stigmatized {
10 Federal or by some other equally no
70 rible appellation. There is great de
10 Of common sense over in that same Cal
r. fornia, and who ever expects to ella
: green spectacles upon her and make h
= eat shaviugs for grass will pretty certai
a ly fall short of his calculations. The on
IT,. impotence of regular nominations
there nearly ended Y, Tribune.
10 The Result OF THE MISSISSIPPI Co
70 vENTIoN ELEcTIoN.-All the returns
:" show that the Union men have electt
-. Al. l.. A Al