San Andreas independent., 1856-09-24
ADDRESS
To the Voters of Calaveras County

To the Voters of Calaveras County
We the Central Committee, chosen 10y the
mirers of Calayeras county, respectfully submit
the following facts:
The two great National Parties of the county
have met in Convention and made their respec-
tive nominations, and that each party have lost
sight of the true principles that ought to actu-
ate a Convention iii ma king nominations; that
they have been governed olely by personal and
sectional feelings, to the dctriment of our
should be-Aourishing county,
We hold to the old established doctrine, that
the Office should seek the mau and not the man
the Office. We would furthermore represent
that both parties arc alike deficient In their
great desire for personal preferment and self
promotion, they have left large and respectable
portion of the county without any representa-
ton whatever, and many of their candidates
are forced upon the voters contrary to the wish
and viii of large majority of the two great
parties.
This custom has been the result Of the politi-
cal parties of this county, and Of the effects OF
such political intrigucing we now complain.
In calling your attention to the state of politi-
cal affairs in this State and County, we do not
expect to inform you of any new thing, but to
remind you of well knowa existing evils, and the
measures proposed to remedy them. 1t is well
known to you that through all our political
history, the men who have filed our offices of
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from among the laboring class of our citizens
And what has been the result? You all know,
that we have been plundered in the most bare
faced manner Our taxes have become enor-
nous, our State and County are plunged in
debt and we see no prospect of improvement
under the existing political organizations.
How long shall these things be? How long
shall the people of California be thus misruled?
We answer that these things will go as long
as the people leave The management Of their
political affairs to political gamesters and wire
pullers, and as long as blind adhesion to party
makes them support regular nominees without
regard to their character.
We believe that the great heart of the people
is right, that they wish to see better state of
things here among us, and feel confident If the
honest portion of the community would but
unite for this purpose we should then have
honest men for our public servants.
We want IN en- whose claim to Office is not
that they have served this party or that party,
but men known to be honest, who will serve
the people and the whole people faithfully.
In order to attain this much desired object,
we invite the cordial cooperation of all honest,
well thinking men. We invite you to throw
off the shackles of blind obedience to party, to
be 20 longer controlled by few aspiring politi-
cal de1Aagogues, but to think and act for your
selves as freemen.
We appeal to your sense of moral manliness,
to your love of country and to your pride OF
country, that our State be no longer disgraced
as it has beer heretofore. Now is the time to
act. Let the voics,of the people be heard, and
let the people be represented by men of their
own choice We call upon the miners to lay
down their picks and shovels, the farmers from
their ranches, and the business men from their
honest avocations-to leave their labors for a
time and come to the rescue for in US all power
emanates And if we have had bad rulers the
blame rebounds upon ourselves. Let US not