Butte record., 1854-05-06
Stockton City Election

lMu AlIeGlIIdll luG average NHlS AlhJpiAty
is about $50. Stockton has heretofore been
considered reliably democratic--her demo-
cratic officers now give place to those of their
old enemy, the whigs-whom they have for
merly met and vauquished in the older s,ates,
and again met and vanquished on the Pacific
are slowly but surely conquering the hith-
erto uneonquerable democracy of California.
Sacramento, the proud capitol of the State,
MarysyiIle and Stockton. have each and all
ousted democratic officers, and chosen wings
in their places-and it has all been done du
ring the session Of democratic legislature in
democratic State. There is no need for the
democracy to leicn ignorance Of the cause, or
for the purchased and seryile tools Of Broder
lex to assert that his election to the U States
Senate will prevent the State from falling into
whig hands. \ person to make snch an as
sertion must be more knave than fool, and yet
the greatest fool in the State. The cause is
familiar to every one, who has paid ordinary
attention to the action Of the legislature.
The people Of California know that it has
been caused BY an unholy clique of political
quacks, tricksters and blacklegs, who, priding
themselves upon their democratic basis as
sembled around the State Capitol, and in
duced portion Of the Legislature to join
them and their subsidized presses. for the
purpose Of swindling the people, ard appro-
priatiDg the public Offices to themselves
That in the squabbling for spois, the inter-
ests of the State have been abandoned-that
brides, threats, menaces and ISLANDERS have
characterized the session of the legislature,
and their time and the peoples money have
been fIittered away in "1oui- i-mouthod accusa-
tons, treacherous schemes and political am
buscades' The people know very well that
the Broderick faction have laughed their viii
to scorn, denounced them as "bolters,' and
held them up for 'stheir subsidized press to
squirt their filth ana venom on.' This is
what is fast hurrying the State into the en-
brace of whggery, and those who assign
other reasons and urge the election of Brod-
erick, as calculated to enable the party to
triumph in the coming election, are only urg
ing the destruction of the party that their
own private ends may be served They can
not deceive the people with the tale that they
were honest in their belief, in urging it as
the true policy Of the party. The admit
ted fact that those papers which have sup
ported the scheme of an election are to be
elected State Printers, shows that they have
supported the measure for their own aggran
dizement. The warnings from an outraged
people as shadowed forth in the recent munic-
ipal elections, are disregarded, and the aims
of the schemers are considered paramount to
the welfare of the party
With the exception of San Jose, the wings
have carried every election that the agitation
OF this question has effected, since project of
the disorganizers was started. The election
in San Jose was claimed as a demonstration
in favor of Broderiek, and yet subsequent
mass meeting at that place, voted 4 TO
against the Senatorial election scheme-thus
showing that whatever may have been the
personal views Of the nominees, they were
elected as democrats, and not because their
| constituents were 1aVOfaDle TO the election OF
Broderick. They have a Senator who has
shown desire to obey the will of his constit-
ents, and they did not repudiate the candi-
dates for their municipal officers, because of
their opinions upon this question. If their
Senator is whig he has been guided by the
sound demcratic doctrine Of Instruction.
doctrine which many elected as democrats,
have refused to acknowledge. Their Senator
obeyed the instructions of his constituents,
and the democratic ticket was elected. Other
Senators and Representatives have refused
to be governed by the instructions Of their
constituents, and democratic administrations
have crumbled before the attack of their an
cient enemy. We commend these results to
the attention of Mr. Broderck, and express
the hope that he will permit. his tools to con-
slider them. They may be able TO find some
thing in them fayoring the Senatorial election
scheme. We frankly confess that we cannot.
GAIT, BLUsTER.-Some Of the late whig
papers which have recently been induced to
! ioin the Broderck crusade are lecturinp the