Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-08-25
The Campaign.

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from their Councils, and the dissensions
and dissatisfaction in their ranks, have
gradu lily weakened the tone of vain
glorious boasting of their own strength,
and old promises of defeat, with which
they greeted the Democratic nominal
tons. Their strength had been exhaus-
ted, when their own nominations were
made, and when they had fully prepared
for battle, the trumpet that warned them
to the contest, was the signal of their
defeat. They were their own worst enc.
mics Confident in their strength, each
individual candi late for an office, fully
believed that a nomination by Know
Nothing Council, was equivalent to an
election. This conviction, instead of
making them more careful in making ju
diclous nominations, only increased a
thousand fold the mania, of Office seek
ing. and candidates bartered everything
for nomination, and while the stronger
were willing to buy, the weaker, seeing
no chance for their own nomination, and
feeling that they must have some recon-
pcnsc for the labor bestowed in organizing
the party, were willing to sell. Thus
were their candidates selected both for
State and County officers, without the
slightest regard to their qualifications for
the office, but only as to their ability to
pay for it. As this pay consisted princi-
pally in promises, it was easy to fortelI
who would win. Broken down political
hacks, pot-house pests, systematic wire
workers and tricksters, who fully under
stood the value of promises, and who
could and would make them, fully ana
freely as the air we breathe, with not the
remotest intention of fulfilling one tenth
of them, could in such a race, always
distance an honest man, who would
make no pledges but those he intended
to perform. The pledge of the Order,
that the Offices should be filled by the best
men, was a farce-the assertion, that
they would nominate only those who
were comp" tent honest and faithful, was
a lie. Neither pledge was fulfilled. An
ind pendent journal says "the people
asked for bread, and they gave poul-
tice." With such material of party,
and with such spirit in the nomina tions,
but one result awaited them--defeat,
total, overwhelming defeat Already
they see the handwriting on the wall
Already they feel that their days are
numbered. Already they have given up
all hope of the election of their whole
ticket, and are now bonding their entire
efforts to the success of few names
upon it. But it will not all do. The
pill was too bitter for thousands, who
joined the Order fiom principle, to swal-
low. The Order was too plainly fight
ing for plumber, instead of principle, and
those who desired the latter, abandoned
them when the former was adopted
They have, in fact, shown but one princi-
pie, which is plumber but one incentive
to action, which is plundcr and have
but one hope in success, which is plumber.
Against such an Order, so organized
and so prompted, al men, who are true
Americans, Wings who were so from
principle, Democrats WHO were so from
principle, men who have greater love
of country than love of office, must
unite. There is no neutral ground upcu
which true men can stand. They have
but to choose between principles on the
one hand, and plundcr on the other. And
the choice has been made. Day after
day we receive assurances of aid from
men, whose word will be no vain boast
upon the day of the election. Our can
didates are in the field, and are every
where greeted with the heartfelt svmpa-
thies of the people. The people them
selves are up and doing, and their voices
come swelling up from the mountains and
gulchcs, like the roar Of the avalanche,
filling the hearts of our enemies with
terror and dismay. Despair is depicted
upon their faces, and they writhe be-
meath the uproused Democracy, as the
victim at the stake. 1t is TRUE, they still
maintain a show of battle, but il Is the
last convul.ive effort that bcralJs defeat
Rally then, all We lends of Universal
! Freedom, around the standard Of Democ-
racy. The standard bearers are good
mn and true. We can do battle with
then, in hope and confidence. With
high hops OF IA Veto Y of principle over
plunder-wi b mistaken confidence, that
when successful, the principles Of true
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