Mariposa Democrat., 1857-08-27
THE sHRIEyAITY.

Democrats, obstinancy and selfishness rule
the hour with the friends of Mr.. Crppen.--
Every true and disinterested supporter of the
noble cause of Democracy must acknowledge,
that the disaffected portion of the party, now
led by disappointed aspirant for office, have
ever refused to consider all measures of an
amicable character, and are determined upon
the possession of absolute power or positive
ruin. Viewed on any side, and from any point
of the political compass, this one-man faction
presents a disorganzing aspect. We have
untedy been contending for supremacy in
Office for the last two years in this County
and now, when the prize for which we have all
been SO strenuously battling is within our
reach, to have it snatched by feeble hands
away, perhaps forever, from our grasp, is pos
itvely mortifying and ruinous. And who will
be to blame in case such loss is sustained by
our party? Surely, none but Mr.. Crippen
and his friends On their heads let the res
possibility rest-for from their hands has the
evil come-out Of their stubborn minds has
sprung the seed Of discord. They may tell us
that Mr.. Crippen had majority of the dele
gates, but it will scarcely be denied, even by
the most rancorous allies of this boiling clique,
that Mr. Pool claimed the precincts in dispute,
and that they were given to him by the minor
itys report, and that this report was received
by the majority of the delegates as correct
That the Merced delegates were permitted to
sit as members Of the Convention by permis-
sion of the vote of the Convention will not
either, be denied, and therefore having a seat,
they of right had voice on the subject of Gre
dentials, especially, as the delegates collective
ly were to vote on the reception or rejection of
the nominee that they came to place before
tho whole body of delegates. When it was
found that difficulty was likely to arise be-
tween Mr.. Crippen's friends and the main body
Of delegates, an offer was made to that gentle
man and his supporters to compromise by
some amicabe arrangement, or to send it back
to the people But they were deaf to the
voice of reconciliation-they were bent either
on having their own way in all things-or
taking such a position as they knew would
jeopardze the triumph of the party in Septem-
Der next Offer after offer to compromise, has
been made on fair and equitable terms, but
with perverseness we have never seen equal
ed, they resolved, and still adhere, to their
resolution to swell the current of dscord and
to defeat the party, because, forsooth, Mr..
Crippen was not placed in nomination before
the people of this County by the Convention
of the 1st. Mr.. Crippen must either be tool
in the hands of few designing or disappointed
office-seekers, or victim sacrificed on the
altar of Know Nothing duplicty. Intelligent
and experienced as we acknowledge Mr.. Grip
pen to be in political affairs, we fear he has
permitted few plotting and cunning enemies
Of the Democracy to misead him as to his true
position, and to whisper words of hope to his
ambitious ear that may never be realized
Force of character in which decision predomi-
mates. will sometimes enable men to surmount
great obstacles that lie in the path to fame, but
then their cause must be just and their motives
pure. lnere are nuhureu, anu PeihaPs
more than hundred men in this County, as
fully and ably qualified by talent, address and
education to fill the office Of Sheriff as either
Mr. Pool or Mr.. Crippen, and we thought
then as we think now, that nothing either in
strength or harmony would have been lost to
the party had some other citizen been selected
to supply the place of either of them before
the Convention. This the friends of Mr. Pool
were willing and at one time anxious to con-
cede, but Mr.. Crippen's friends were unyield'
ing, and were determined no man but Mr..
Crippen should be nominated. And now il
has come to this, and only this, that Mr.. Pool
may be defeated, but Mr.. Crppen never can