Butte record., 1856-11-29

llers." Have a care,will you, gents.
WE are compelled to admit that
as a community we are retrogading
in morals, and shat our town is in
tested with scores Of idle persons who
obtain a living 9 by their wits, i.e.,
by watching their opportunities to
swindle and steal, and crime is in
creasing most alarmingly. The
question naturally ariscs,-what IS
to be done to remedy this grand evil?
How are we to rid ourselves from
these worse than useless fel ows, these
plaques that have worn their welcome
out in every other town in the State!
Can we improve the matter any by
nstituting a more yigilant police, or
would the evil be abated if the town
was incorporated and a more perfect
" organized police system created !
We ask these questions for the con-
sideration of our citizens, feeling as
we DO incompetent to answer them
satisfactorily to ourselves. But that
something should be done to arrest
the fast increasing tide Of vice and
iniquity that IS daily presenting itself
to our gaze in the crowded police
courts and well filed jail, is every
day becoming more evident. Scarcely
a day passes that we are not called
upon to chronicle the circumstance
that a robbery has been committed,
or brutal assault perpetrated, OF
the enactment Of some other crime.
Apart from thieves and rioters and
midnight marauders, is class Of
shiftless, worthless beings who will
neither work themselves or permit
those who would, to do so without
many annoyances. This class Of
people are more harmless than the
others, but they are certainly most
unbearable nuisances, particularly
about an editors sanctum or a com
positor's desk.
THE FACTS developed by the late
canvass, are intensely interesting to
those who will take the trouble to
investigate the result, and the Leg
islature, before choosing two United
States Senators, should investigate
the causes which have brought about
a somewhat singular, but nevertheless
overwhelming triumph for the De
mocracy. Those members of the
Legislature who will take the trouble
to do so, will not remain long in doubt
as to whom among the prominent
candidates, they should select to rep
resent California in the Senate of the
United States.
In the opening of the campaign,
at the Democratic State Convention
in Sacramento, it was conceded and
notorious fact that, portion of the
party connected with the S. Francisco
Custom House, were all powerful.
They set up, or knocked down whom
soevor they pleased. They nomina-
ted their candidates for Congress,
and for every other position they
chose, until surfeited with the spoils,
they threw off on their candidate for
Clcrkship, and permitted the numer-
Gus friends Of Mr.. Fairfax to nomi-
nate him to that position. There
was a large party in that convention
who desired to see different men nom
mated. They had been beaten in q
convention which they attended in
good faith, and, in accordance with
Democratic usage, with a determina-
ton to abide the result. They went
home, and engaged in the canvass
with true democratic spirit, and ev-
erywhere the State ticket triumphed.
The minority party in the State Con-
yention thus proved themselves dem
ocrats true as steel. They were not
fighting for spoils-but for the Eter-
nal principles of Democracy and Re
publican government. Here, then,
we see the Democracy thoroughly
united and triumphant with a ticket
put forth by the influence Of the Gus
tom House. There was no boiling
at the polls among those who had op-
posed them in Convention.
What are the facts exhibited by
the record on the other side Take
San Francisco for example, where the