The Nevada journal., 1856-09-12
n The unterrifed and harmonious

n The unterrifed and harmonious
went through the usual annual formula
Of nominating county ticket, on Satur.
day last. The Convention was marked
with spirit Beyoud the usual bach
analian scenes exhibited in the meetings
of the party, there was nothing remark.
able except the rejoinder of DR.. Knox
to the defeat he suffered as candidate
for nomination as State Senator. The
Doctor was sacrificed at the moment
when his hopes were brightest. His
nomination was considered secure, but
the piteous complaints of a defeated
candidate blasted his hopes in an instant
Chase, after being defeated in his at
tempt to get the nomination for District
Attorney, dolorously told the assembled
Democracy that he kind o. reckoned he
had been Democrat long enough with
out having a slice, and they sort O.
reckoned he had. So they took the
bone designed for Knox and appeased
Chase with it.
1t appears that Knox once upon time
voted for a Whig-a Whig speaker,
Stow, the best Speaker that ever pre-
sided over an Assembly in California,
by hundred per cent-and for this un-
pardonable sin he was made to suffer on
this occasion.
The Doctor went to the Assembly,
held up his right hand and swore solemn
ly to do, to the best of his ability, his
duty to the State But he ought to have
known that was a mere farce-that his
duty to his party overrode all oaths.-
He might have been perfectly satisfied
as every body else was, that Stow was
peculiarly qualified to dispatch business
thus shortening session and saving
expense, that he had a voice to be
heard, and the executive will to com
mand order, and that in every respect
he was superior to the miserable, squeal-
ing, go-between, ,merchantable democrat
who was his opponent for the Speaker
ship; but this could avail the Doctor
nothing before aninexorable democracy
to which he had played truant in keep
ing sacred his solemn obligations. They
heaved him overheard, which was not
relished by the Jonah of democracy
He expressed his feelings on the occa-
sion in a somewhat pointed manner
Some part of his remarks must have
been intended for fun or irony, or We
didn't understand him. He alleged the
qualifications of the Wing, his soundness
upon the Nebraska question, &c, as
reasons for voting for him, and indirect
ly allowed that his solemn obligations
were of some account but, as we took
it, in strain of bitter irony, said if he
had known that Stow was Know
Nothing at the time, his oath might have
gone to the ID before he would have
voted for him He brought up the
miners Liberal Ticket" as a prece-
dent worthy for him to follow, where
hundreds of sound democrats had voted
for Wings; and then going through gen
uhexions implored the democracy to
pardon his errors ! This part of the
performance was ludicrous Evidently
the DIR. intended it to be SO. He told
them he had voted for the best man for
a high position once, mindful of his oath
to his country, but that he was willing
to do any dirty work for the party here
after to be elected again, when, having
an eye to the party he would vote for
any fool or rascal-in a horn.
The satire upon the body that defeated
| him was too nice to be seen and felt by
the kind of men who were listening
If the DIR. would only turn agrarian, be
more identified with the interests of the
country, indulge in afew deep potations
to exhibit more strongly his democracy
and afinities to the people, and link in
with some miserable clique, he might
sometime in the next quarter of cen
tury be rewarded for his patriotism by
his party.
NEVADA Sent 7 1876