Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-09-01
Special Legislation.


tion in public affairs in California, is owing
to the little or no interest felt by the great
mass of the people. Engaged in business
pursuits-their time and attention engross-
ed by the alurements of prospective wealth,
10 nfitingly held forth within the borders
of the golden State, affairs pertaining TO the
public veal are too much neglected, or en-
tirely overlooked, by those citizens upon
whom the burden of government falls. and
who should feel the most interest in secu-
rieg honest competent and faithful public
officers, and pure and economical admin
istration Of the government.
There is not another State in the Union
50 completely stocked with professional Office
seekers, as is the State of California. There
is not another State in the Union so COM
pietey stocked with unprincipled men, who
seek public position, for the wealth, power
and influence such position affords them to
compel the public to advance their private
schemes Taking advantage Of the apathy
felt by the public, these men, skilled in the
art of stealing power from the people with
out their knowledge, pack the primary or
CARNATIONS Of party Disturb one of these
gentlemen in his well-laid plans for self ag-
and trusting in his ability to deceive the peo
pie by the aid of press in the search Of
miserable and precarious existence, and CO.
schemers and subsidized tools, he announces
himself a candidate for whatever position he
desires and too often secures the endorse
ment of the people Hence arises the un-
told evils which have already cursed the
fair fame and crushed the giant energies of
the young and vigorous State of the Pacific
Hence it is that our citizens are burdened
with taxation, cursed and taxed by acts of
special legislation, the credit of the State
destroyed and her treasury plundered.
If the County of Butte has heretofore es-
capped the blightng influence and oppres-
sion entailed by corrupt acts of special leg
islaton, it is owing to the detective vigilance
of her citizens, and not because you have
failed to endorse with your sutfrageS persons
who would scorn to take such undue advant-
age of an unsuspectng constituency. Look
at the records of the Legislature for the acts
of corrupt and special legislation directed
against the industry of our .citizens Ex-
anime the inches and corners of the purlieus
and lobbes Of the State Capitol, to tiud the
autographs of those engaged in these plum
dering schemes to oppress your energy and
appropriate your revenue They will point
to those unscrupulous political tricksters
who, frustrated in their evil designs by the
incorruptible Democracy of the county are
now engaged in denouncing as fraudulent
and corrupt the convention Of honorable men
for refusing to submit to their iniquitious and
plundering schemes for increasing the bur
den of taxation, already weighing heavily
upon the property and persons of our citi-
2ens Emitting these fierce denunciations,
these gentlemen sever the ties of party,
and appeal to the mass Of the people to aid
them in their schemes, and crafty their
morbid ambition for official position and in
Auence. They demand for their plundering
chief the judicial bench of the district, and
the right to tax the property and persons of
those who they ask to sustain them. The
people will be called upon to choose to NOR.
row, between those scalp-taxing plunderers
and those who desire to see the judiciary
kept pure and free from political corruption
chicanery and fraud.