San Andreas independent., 1856-12-06
The Next U. S. Senators.

lue NEXT ". -. senator's.
Of the many important measures in
store for the coming Legislature, the cleo
ton of two United States Senators may be
justly regarded as most important of them
all. One of them will be elected toserve
in Congress for four years from the 4th of
March, next, in place of DR.. Gwin, and
the other to supply the term of Mr.. Wei
Ter, for the next six years.
Of course there will be no lack of can
didates before the Legislature, but we do
think there will be dearth of good mate
rial. Many things have conspired in this
State, to keep the most competent men,
from the walks of public life. The
first principle of politics Of fidelity
to party under any and all circumstances
is distasteful to a proud and self-reliant
mind. But few men of great parts have
ambition enough to induce them to sur
render all individuality for the sake of
promotion, and hence all the avenues of
public life are thronged with class of
demagogues, whose impudence and auda-
city are in direct ratio to their lack of
ability and their want Of principle. They
jostle the meritorious off the track, and by
system of buying and selling, and log
rolling, and thimble-rigging, they finally
succeed in foisting each other into high
official stations, where their unblushing
insolence is the only characteristic that
rescues them from contempt. Impudence,
in all its ramifcations, is the great distin-
gushing mark Of this age. Pretension
rides rough-shod over merit, and aspirants
are to be found in all professions, for their
highest honors, whose ignorance of even
the first rudiments would be laughable,
were it not fraught with SO much danger
to both liberty and life.
But in no vocation of life, are there so
many ignoramuses, as in that of politics.
If gambler gets broke, he turns politi-
clan, and runs for an Office If DOCTOR
patients leave him, he forthwith aspires to
cure the body-politic. If three penny
dram seller breaks at the business, he calls
around him an army of old topers, and
modestly asks their support for some pub
lie employment Politics is the last tresort
of bankrupt villains, and patriotism sy-
nonym for love Of plumber. But the mo-
tive most observable in this State, for en-
barking in political cause is laziness.-
IF you can pick out fellow, who has
never done anything for an honest living
since he has been in the State, who lives
On free lunches, or sponges on his friends
and acquiantances, for old clothes and late
breakfasts, ten to one, that this very loafer
will be candidate before the Legislature
for U. S. Senator, or Sergeant-at-arms, or
some Office Of trust and profit, anda huu-
dred to one that he gets 1t.
We have heard quite number Of names
mentioned, as probable candidates for the
U. S. Senate. They may be divided into
seven classes, thus:
Flrst.-Doctors, whose patients are all
dead, and their estates bankrupt.
Second.-Lawyers, whose clients have
silently dropped from their cases, and sub
stituted other counsel.
Third.-Old topers, whose only claims
for political preferment, are their singular
incompetency for any other, their ability to
guzzle, and their strict party probity.
Fourth -Drones in society, who are
good for nothing, never did anything, and
never will.
Fifth. = Upstairs, full of sophronic
splendor, prodigious vanity, and puerile
conceit.
Sicth-Pap-bags, that have been in
office ever since California was State, and
whose first principle it is to tug away at
the public teat, until the power of suction
dies out from repletion like the leach, or
want of material like the vampire
Sevenh.-Bones and Muscles-shoul-
der-strikers with great physical develop
ment, and astonishing mental imbecility
Such is the catalogue of material now
up for chairs in the Senate chamber
Some one of these classes will, in all prob
ability, be selected There is not much
choice between them, and unless some new
men are brought forward, we most piously
calculate, God save our country
There are men in the State certainly
who would wear the Senatorial wreath with
dignity, and confer as well as receive
grace from it's glorious folds. But these
men for the most part, are absorbed in
private business, or else are on the wrong
side in politics, or may be are still un-
known to fame. Our only recommends
ton to the Members elect to both Houses
at this time must be: " Consider well
who you are about to place in the Senate,
and rather than send man there to dis
grace the State, donot send any one at all. /"
True Californian.
BG-. A London Editor says: "Expe-