Butte record., 1854-05-20
The Political Horizon.

Inc great body OF the democratic party are
becoming aroused, and are canvassing the
proper course to be pursued in order to extri-
cate the party from the embarrassments which
have been thrown in its way by a few who for
merly acted with the democracy, but who re-
Gently united with portion fthe whig press,
and under the lead of Broderick, have en-
deavored to appropriate Offices in the gift of
the people to themselves and their adherents
The determi nation to cast this faction out of
the party is fast gaining strength, and it is
believed that the next State Convention,
by bringing out the choice of the people, and
rejecting the tools of the Broderick faction,
will place the democratic party beyond the
reach of further injury from them
Sacramento correspondent of the Times
and Transcript, remarks that "there are
three parties in the Statc-Dcmocrats, wings,
and last and least, Broderickites and the
last are only formidable to the democrats
when they mingle with them. If they are
kept by themselves, the faction will dwindle
into utter insigni6cancc" This is Just what
we have always contended, having felt
satisfied that the Broderick faction had no
feeling in common with the people-that they
were banded together for the purpose of plum
der, and with the expectation of being able to
control future conventions, and compel the
democracy to sustain them in their inquitous
course, or suffer the election to go by default,
and thus throw the State into whig hands
And to this faction it is of but little moment
whether the State goes democratic or whig-
they being about equally divided-for if those
of the faction who pride themselves upon their
democracy cannot obtain the object of the
combination they will be content to see the
whig party triumphant Men who sell them
selves for political preferment, are not wholly
free from revengeful feelings in case of de-
feat
1t is well established fact that about two
thirds of the papers who have supported the
schemes of Brodericl, bitterly and malignant
ly opposed the democracy at the last election
The change exhibited by the Broderick jour
nails then, may seem strange and unaccounta-
Bile, and for the purpose of showing the modus
oPerdndi of the extraordinary change in the
views of the Broderick journals, we take the
following account of the managerial tactics of
Mr. Broderick, from the Commercial 4drerfi-
ser, now the loudest in his praise, and the
most obsequeous of all the tools in his employ:
Seriously, Mr.. Broderick has achieved
md nyn f11 Of fon ov,1
power which no convention in this state has
yet witnessed. AS a grizzly bear shoulders a
dead ass, he lifted from the ground the drag
gled weight of unpopularity and corruption
which clung about his candidate shouldered
and walked off with it to Benicia, set it upon
its feet, galvanized it and maneuvred an un-
disciplined army of noisy and riotous dele
gates to re- nominate it. against their stomachs
and in spite of their fears. Nine cheers for
Manager Broderick, the Wizard of San Fran
cisco, who by one stroke of his golden wand
has clapped asses ears upon the delegates of
democracy, and converted their mountain
voices into an universal bray, which the free
and delicate echoes of the Sierra will shudder
to reverberate.'
Was it possible that the golden wand of the
Wizard of San Francisco effected the change
IN the views of that and other journals -
Who now wears the ornaments mentioned in
the above extract : and who are s'the dele
gates of democracy" who have converted their
mountain voices into an universal bray p
"Out of thine own mouth will | condemn thee -
The tendancy of the Broderick faction is to
create a court, where those who would rise in
the political world must worship-where the
conscience is scared as with a hot iron''-
and at whose corrupt and venal shrine, the
most adept in intrigue receive their reward
Those who have given their services to the
Court of San Francisco, in the expectation of
their reward hereafter, like the titled though
servile courtiers of Imperial Majesty, consti-
tute an army of hangers on, who are seeking
by their subserviency to its corruption, to
obtain political preferment They have mis-
taken corrupt faction for the government,
and it is a mistake which the people will i'm
prove the first opportunity to disabuse their
minds. The people are yet the government of
California, as this corrupt court with its venal
press and fawning sycophants will soon ascer-
tain. They are becoming aroused to the wick
edness and corruption of those who assume
dictatorship over them, and demand that the
government shall be administered in its purity
and simplicity, with due regard to truth
and justice, and free from the studied systems
of intrigue, and venal training by which this
clique hope to control the destinies of our