Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-10-03

one of the Know. Nothing nominees for
Member Of Assembly from Butte County,
was nominbted for his supposed availability,
and the other, Mr.. Barber, we suppose for
his known unavailability This leaves the
hnow-Nothing party in position to play
the game low down, and by species of po-
litcal bad faith, doubtless well understood
oy Doth nominees, they expect to secure
one Member, and thus tic up the county in
the important measures upon which the
next legislature will be called to act. They
expect to be able, by this manoeuvering to
prevent the voice of Butte County from be.
ing given in favor Of two Democratic I. S.
Senators. They know their utter hopeless.
ness of electing their Know Nothing nomi
nees by fair expression Of the voters Of
Butte County. They know that their pollt-
zeal creed, has become "a stencil in the nos
trils' Of the people, and have, therefore,
changed their name to Fillmore men," ta-
king care however to nominate regular
Know Nothing ticket his will enable
them to approach our foreign voters, and,
perhaps, their Misrepresentation may in
ducc few to vote their regular, proscript-
i've Know Nothing ticket This they will
endeavor to do, and even now boast that
they have Irishmen in gtheir Fillmore
Club" But this game they do not consider
o safe and winning one. They fear total
defeat, even after having shed their odous
name, for they are the same snake. only
having crawled from their last years. skin
Feeling, and knowing that they cannot sue
ceed with their entire ticket, they are will
ling to play for half the loaf, and having
nominated one available man, whom they
desire to elect, they nominate for their sec
ond candidate, an unavailable man whom no
one expects to see elected, and then they
have their wires set for rip into the Dem
cratic ranks. They are now prepared to
trade off Barber to secure a vote for Lathrop.
This was the game practiced upon Mr.. Bar
ber when he was a candidate before, and in
their desperation at the certainty Of total
defeat which now awaits them, it is believed
they will do it again. The ticket appears to
have been nominated expressly for that pur-
pose.
We would caution Democrats against this
movement 1t would be giving them mem
ber, when by adhering to the straight tick
ct, the Democracy of the County will make
n clean sweep, draw black lines around the
odious and proscriptive doctrines of dark
lanternism, and write over the Cayote holes
where their council fires once burned bright.
ly, expunged from the annals of Butte
County.
1t is not their best man that they consider
"availablew Mr. Barber is far superior to
Mr. Lathrop, in point of ability, in his
knowledge of the wants of the county, his
acquaintance with the people. and his long
residence in the county. Mr.. Lathrop has
the advantage Of Icing an old politician.
and of having represented the States prison
county in the Michigan Legislature-has
presided at a meeting addressed by Gov
Foote-been closeted with him, and is, there
fore ''availablen The Know Nothing Foote
party must consider old settlers and per
manent residents of Butte County only as
fit subjects to elect rowing, hungry, raven
Gus, demagogues and political trlcksters to
flee.