Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-09-02

mory Hall Convention had been dele
gates to the jamestown County Conven'
ton, and had participated in its organ
ization and subsequent proceedings,witf
out = murm mr., to its'close. 1t is rather
late now, just on the eve of election, to
discover that its proceedings we're so
nfair,--eepecially endorsed, as they
we're, BY the very paper which has since
become the exponent of their views
Did one of the candidates for Assembly
before the jamestown Convention, and
more recently the nominee Of the Ar
mory Hall Convention for State Soma
tor, recolect that he made speech be-
fore the jamestown Convention, "de6-
ming his position" placing bis claims
before the Convention, and asserting
his submission to its action ? Could one
of the gentleman connected with the
Herald consistently suffer himself to be
placed in nomination at Armory Hall,
with the ink hardly dry from the edito-
rial Of that paper, which declared that
the ticket Of the jamestown Convention
was "the Democratic ticket, repre-
senting Democratic principles, which
should be sufficient to ensure for it the
support Of all Democrats :" Do not
others Of the gentleman assembled at
Arnory Hall recollect that they too
were candidates before the same Con-
vention, and submitted their claims to
it, decision !? We ask do not these gen.
tlemsn of the Armory Hall Convention
stand self-convicted before the Democ-
racy of Tuolumne county? 1t is We be-
lieve, principle of implied honor on
the part Of all individuals submitting
their claims to regularly called county
convention, that they recognize the le-
gality Of that convention, and abide by
its decision they may refuse to enter at
first, but VII en- they have entered and
taken part in the proceedings, from drst
to last, either as delegates or candidates,
it ill becomes them, how feebly soevsr,
to attempt to impeach its organization,
or subAert its decision, and far less
when, as in the present case, the recog-
nized exponent of their views has de-
clared that the <icket there nominated,
eff it does not suit every one, is the
Democratic ticket representing Demo-
cratic principles, which should be sufi-
cient to ensure for it the support Of all
Democrats"
Let US now glance, for moment, at
the only account We have seen published
of any meeting to elect delegates to Ar
mory Hall. wide Sonora Herald, Aug.
1879
After calling the meeting to order,
the chairman stated its object, viz: to
elect four delegates to represent the pre-
cinct in the County Convention, called by
the ''True Democracy to assemble in
the city Of Sonora on Saturday. the 10th
inst.
On motion, the following gentlemen
were unanimously chosen to represent
the precinct in the convention-Ira Alb
bot, J. A. Henry, J. R. Scott and VIM.
Kelly.
Now, it does 80 happen, that Mr.. Viii
liam Kelly is noD, and has been for
long time past, awell known Whig-or,
as he himself declared, when asked the
question on the 2ed August, "I'm a
Wing, sir-right square," Mr.. Kelly,
q resident Of Sonora, is we'll known as
good citizen-but it does seem rather
singular TO your committee that Wing
should be unanimously chosen by "Dem-
| ocratio electors" to represent the "Trus
Democracy" of Tuolumne County in
what purported to be . Democratic Con-
| vention
We now quit an unpleasant theme.
The committee deemed that however
important, ill-directed, or i'll advised
might be the efforts Of . few seceders
from an acknowledged and recognized
Democratic nomination, it became our
duty, guarding with waschful eye the
interests Of the Democratic party in this
county, to give that party plain state