Butte record., 1856-09-27
The C,nxass In Piumas County.

uldS. lHItltN tAiNNoeA4SN~
and farmers, are not to be gullei into the
support of Governor Foote for United States
Senator, by the election of the know-Noth-
ing nominees So strong is the anti Foote
and K \. feeling in that county. that the
K. Ms could not sustain a Fillmore cam
paign organ, and after few issues, the |
sickly Ki-Y compaign organ weakened
and started for that bourne for which its
party Is deG tined in November, and from
which no K n trareller ever returns. En-
boldened by the failure of the Know Nothing
party to maintain their organization and
sustain their organ, have purchased an in
terest in the ''0ld Mountaineer," and are
bucking their woolly heads agninst the solid
ranks of the Democracy Many who voted
with the Know Nothings last year, are now
at work for Buck and Breck, and the demo-
cratic nominees for county officers. The
balance of the Know Nothing vote of last
year is divided between the Know Nothing
and Back Republican party. Tne result
may be easily anticipated.
Smarting under the utter hopelessness of
the success of their party, the Know Moth
ngs of Piumas are becoming desperate in
their efforts to defeat the Democratic nomi-
nee for Member of Ass mbly, the Hon.
Richard Irwin. The few old political stagers
vino still adhere to the decaying fortunes Of
II NIL f1af
rying Plumas County for that professional
Office seeker and political weather-vane, ex-
Governor Foote, Of Mississippi, who, scent
ing the political carrion from afar, left his
home in the Atlantic States, where had lost
his popularity, exhausted his influence, aud
been repudiated by the people of his State,
to seek for Senatorship in California, if
theywould maintain the organization of their
party and secure division of the State
spoils. Every sane man must feel and kn0ac
that the national battle is hopelessly lost to
them, and it is only with the hope of secu
ring the spoils that few political managers
now seek to fasten upon California the un-
pardonable and foolishly wicked sin Of send
ing two Know Nothings to represent us in
the Senate of the United States, where they
would sit for four and six years, without a
party, without influence, and consequently
unable to secure for our State that hearing
which her interests imperatively demand
But what matters it to men who have only
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for the people to say, in eiecting their Leg
islature, whether they desire to confer their
highest honors upon the used up and rene
gade politicians from the elder States To
carry Plumas County fo- the great Missis-
sippi Know Nothing, it is necessary to de-
feat the democratic nominee for Member of
Assembly, and to effect this, his followers
and wOrshippers in that county are using
every endeavor-peryerting facts and con-
coctng schemes.
We have not seen a copy of the Old
Mountaineer, for nearly ;wo months; but
learn from cur Exchanges that it is part
Back Republican and the balance Dark
LiultIu. hc dlSO ltilu ITOn private
source that late number of that neither
flesh, fish nor good red herring organ,
accuses Mr. Irwin of having sold himself to
Mr. Broderick during the session of 1854,
and refers to the Butte Record as its au-
thority for the charge. Now, we have re-
Gently examined the files of the Record for
that year, and defy any man to find para
graph in it, tending to substantiate such a
charge against Mr.. Irwin. 1t is true, we
opposed the course pursued by Mr.. Irwin
/ during that session with regard to the Sem
torial election; but the Record contains no
such charges against him. as we learn the
article in the Old Mountaipeer refers to-
Mr.. Irwin was elected a member of the
Legislature for the session of SO, and re-
elected again in 81, and established repu-
talon as a working and industrious Member,
/ and should he be returned now will be able
/ to accomplish more for the benefit of the
county than forty such members as the X
/ n. nominee lie favored the election of a
Senator in 81, and beyond this the Know
/ Nothings can urge no objection. The peo-
| pie did not think it was a proper time to
elect n Senator and the matter was postpon-
ed Now there are two Senators to elect.
and, judging from Mr.. Irwins precedents,
he viii favor the election of both the present
session. That is what the Democracy of
Plumas and of the State desire To oppose
the election of Mr. Irwin, is to favor the
election Of two Know Nothing United States
/ Senators from California The Democracy
of Plumas will not be wbeedled into sup
porting such scheme, by the campaign
yarns Of dark lanternsm
Mr.. Irwin did not sign the call for eau
Gus of the legislature until a majority of the
Members had done SO He was willing that
MAJ rity should rule, and will be in the
next session. should be be elected Had the
members of the following legislature been
thus disposed, we should DOW be represented
by two Democratic United Senators instead
OF one.
Since the above article was in type. we
have seen the article in the Old Mountain
eer Speaking of MIR Irwin, the writer
asks--''Has he not been charged with the
high crime of being bought by the Broder-
lex party Examine the files of the Butte
Record of "a" The files of the Record are
open for inspection in this oaice, and there
is no such charge to be found in them. as