The Nevada journal., 1856-09-12
u We publish the following address

u We publish the following address
as particularly appropriate to the times.
If there is duty above all others that
should be discharged by citizens it is
that of casting their sufrages for tempe
rate men. This is important in refer
erence to county ofiees-in reference to
the men who are to handle the county
revenues, direct the school system, ad-
minister upon the the estates of the de-
ceased, and perform all the high func-
tions of administration for the communi-
ty. Especially is it important in refer
ance to the men who are to be sent to
make laws TO prevent and punish crime,
and represent the public sense of the
county in the Legislature. a drunken
Senator or Representative is a deep dis
grace, an unabatable nuisance, degrad-
ing the character of the county, and
mischievous to the State. Let voters
think of this, and vote for sober men.
ADDRESS to the Eoters Of California.
Published By order Of the Grand Di-
rision Of the Sons Of Temperance.
FELLOW -ClTIzENs-We do not ap-
proach you to advise you to engage in
new Political organizations. We address
you not as partizans but as citizens who
whatever their political creed, have the
welfare of the State, and happiness of
the people in view as the primary object
Of political action. The time is at hand
when nominations are to be made for
the Offices to be filled in November next,
and we beg to offer few suggestions to
your consideration on the importance of
wise and heedful regard to the charact t.
er of those who nominate and those
nominated for those Offices. Continual
complaints are made that our laws are
bad, their administration uncertain, and
criminals bold and numerous. Daily ax-
perience proves these mischiefs to have
a single source, the use Of intozicating
beverages Seven-eighths of all often
ces are committed by men under the in
fuence of liquor. In public stations, in
the Legislature, ON the Bench, in the of
fee of Public Prosecutor, in every place
of trust men need clear and unobscur-
ed Judgment, and even an hours failure
in perfect sobriety in any officer may
entail lasting and irreparable mischiefs
upon the State in the passage of bad
laws or the perversion of good ones to
evil ends. Is it not then of the first i'm
portance that strictly temperate and So
Der men should be placed in office, and
this can only be effected by filling your
nominating conrentionS with sober and
honest men. In morals as in matter,
like seeks like, and if you permit the Vi
cious and disorderly to control your
primary political meetings and nomina-
ting conventions, those who receive their
favor must be of similar character. This
has hitherto seen the evil The reform
must leap from the heart of the people,
attend your primary meetings, fill your
nominating bodies with good, worthy
and temperate men, and those whom
they nominate will be such as YOU can
sustain without violating your self-res-
pect. We therefore urge upon you to
make every party pure as the best
method of social reformation. We do
not wish to enter the arena Of party
politics, and there will not be any ne
cessity for the creation Of new parties if
you viii purify those to which you be-
long. The interests of the entire peo-
pie are with morality and justice, and
we only ask you to act energetically
and promptly, and thus afford us candi-
dates that may be supported with conf
dence that their fidelity will not fail
when Office is entrusted to their enteg-
rity. To such men we are willing to
trust the fortunes of the State, and from
such alone can we expect the enactment
of good and wholesome laws for the sup
preston of vice and crime, and the ell
ovation of the moral tone and increase
of the welfare of society.
By order of the g. d. S. of T.
L. W. ROBERTS,
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