The weekly Placer herald., 1854-06-24
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DEMOCRACY OF PLACER COUNTY.
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Fellow DEMocRArs:-- The following
IS the report of a Committee appointed at
a meeting of the Central Committee, held
in Auburn on the 29th ut., to draft an
Address to the Democracy, which they
beg leave to submit for your perusal.
As most Of you feIlow-democrats, who
reside out of the town of Auburn, where
nearly all the schemes have been .concOct-
ed which now divide the party IN this
county, may not he aware of the original
cause of the difficulty we propose in this
brief article to set them forth fully and
canddIy before you.
In accordance with long established
usages of the Democratic party, at the
last County Convention Central Com
mittee was chosen until the next annual
convention In that convention which Sc
lected them, no opposition was made to
any member placed on that committee,
aud for time every thing went smoothly
on-al acting in concert together.-
Shortly previous to the last election,
your committee had occasion to meet
a majority convened, and on mo-
ton of Col. Mcclure, of Yankee jim,
Philip w. Thomas was elected Chair
t0du. mo uitIlCuItN OCCuiCu III tHC COIj-
mittee until after the election, when a re
fractory and disorganizing spirit began to
manifest itself, owing to the fact that "A
large portion of the committee could not
be induced to join with another portion IN
recommending the election Of a United
States Senator before the proper time, con-
trary, as we believe, to the wishes of
nne-tenths of the people. Indignant be
cause of our refusal to join in this Sena-
tOral movement, portion OF them bolted
from the old committee and issued a cal
for a convention, to he held in the town of
Auburn on the 18th November last
This bOting convention assembled, and
under the guise of democracy, without
explaining the real object Of the movers
who got it up (Which was the endorse
ment of the Senatorial move,) induced a
few sound democrats to participate in its
proceedings, who now hearti Y repent of
their error, and bitterly denounce the
little clique of wire-pu'lers who labored
so strenuously to get up the convention.
After sending their enissaries al over the
County for several weeks, when the day
arrived which was to see demolished the
old Committee, 10 only tocenly -four del
egates made their appearance. = The con
vention was so meagre in numbers, that
orders were given by a leading member
of the trio, to form themselves into a
mass meeting, which is something unu
sual in any regular County Convention.
1t is needless to say that the orders given
were Immediately carried into effect, and
runners dispatched to bring in anybody
and everybody to make as they said, ''a
respectable show" This heterogeneous
mass, thus collected together, took upon
themselves the responsibility of voting
out Of the party certain members OF your
committee, and actually had the audacity
to select spurious committee. With a
portion of the gentlemen who composed
that convention we find no fault. They
were innocently led into it by the arch in
triguers, office seekers and hangers on
who got it up. ...... ...
Another false issue Is attempted to be
raised by these psuedo democrats, viz
That some of the democrats who com
pose the old committee, and the only legal
Que in the county, voted the whig ticket
at the last election. The charge is false
false as the heart is base, which utters it,
that any gentleman composing the com
mittee ever voted other than democratic
ticket. 1t is needless for us to 90 into any
defence Of our political conduct Many
of us have resided in Placer County be-
fore it was organized. We have often
fought the good fight together in days
gone by, and now hope that no misrepre-
sentations of clique, many of whom
have fattened upon the abors Of the
democratic party, can affect your course
in the coming campaign.
But, who are these boilers of demo-
cratic principles, who attempt to read
men out of the democratic party? Why,
they are such men as Philip Lynch, the
reputed editor Of disorganizng sheet
published at Auburn-a man always
ready to do the bidding and dirty work Of
his masters, and who was one of the pub
fishers of the Index, Wing paper at
Sacramento City, and who was the agent
to get up the little convention Of last No.
vember-the author Of the call-nay,
more, after using strenuous eXertions to
obtain nomination at the last County
Convention, in which he only received
six votes, which made him so indignant
that he wished ssthe Democratic party
might 60 to hell, he would never ask them
for another office,' and abused Mr.. Fair
field, his opponent in convention, in un-
measured terms, and on the day of e.ec-
ton actually voted against him and for
Mr.. Crary, one of the Wing candidates
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