San Andreas independent., 1857-06-27
1)olltieal I0pertlsement.
Office Seekers.
CAMPO SECo, June . 1

CAMPO SECO, June Z4tn, 1891.
.Nr. Elitor:-It is really pleasant to watch
the present political struggle for nominations at
the hands of the Democratic party in the APP
preaching County Convention and if the but
ton-hong actions of distinguished aspirants
was the only aughable feature of the campaign
it would afford theme enough for pleasantly
but, the most laughable of all the tricks is the
honest Indignation continually manifested by
some who are forced to answer the question
" Have you. sir. belonged to that odious and
now obsolete faction, the know nothing party p
Far be it from me to oppose the election or
nomination of any one who has been member
OF the Order. for | candi'ily admit that have
belonged to it; and therefore, conscien-
tlousy find no objection to voting for one who
has entered the dark portals of its precincts
and blindly walked through the forms and GER
emOnies of initiation, and taken upon them
selves the eternal and irrevocabe Oatlis of feal-
ty to its creeds and doctrines. 1t would be
contrary to my creed to entertain any such OBJ
jectiOns. But am sometimes Il little mortified
to hear some of those who ,rere the great head
and front of the know nothing party, like Peter
of old denying his Saviour, declaring, in all the
earnestness of an advocate of the cardinal prin-
ciples of christianity, that they never knew the
secret ceremonies of know nothingism; they
never learned the secret signs and passwords;
and never pledged their honor and took solemn
oaths for the maintenance and pcrpetuity of the
dark lantern" doctrines. Then again laugh
at the subterfuge of these rejuvenated demo-
Gratis, and the equivocal eXtremities to which
many of them are rcduccd-and all for office
Take, for instance, my friend VIM. II. Clary, a
high toned, homo able gentleman, who, in the
sanctity of his heart suppose, deems it q
political, if not moral sin to have ever affiliated
wit Aaf, rtx I n al. 1.
denies it, for his candor man and gentle
man is too well known, and too we'll established
for me to believe that he would do So
rather expect that the dear sovcreigns have
never suspected Mr.. Clary's uninterrupted fidel-
lty to the Democratic party. But entire nous,
and by way of parenthesis, | always heard that
he was a Clay Wing before the Know Nothing
order sprang into existence yet ! think if Mr.
Clary were asked the questions Did YOU ever
participate at the meetings of the Know Nothing
Council at Cave City amidst the gloomy dark
ness and rough stalactites of the Care2 Did
you ever preside over the meetings of the dark
lantern clique either as President or vice-Pres-
ldent! Did you not, on account of your trust
worthlness and patriotic devotion to their tenets
receive the nomination for Supervisor of the
IND district and through their influence and
thelr secret signs and grips, get the election in
1893! think he would rather have the noun
talns fall upon him than answer the scrutinizing
Democracy these questions truly and fairly
Take also my friend Nap. Browton, no less
high toned and chivalric but inordnately fond
OF Office and strong on the !" button hole" who
took deep, long draughts of Know Nothingism,
which he would now throw up. Perhaps the
handsome Office he is now filling, at the hands
OF purely Democratic constituency, has va
por-bath-like caused all the evil qualities of
the flesh to strike out leaving his body politically
fresh, pure and healthy. But still Nap. was
good Know Nothing until just before the DEM
ocratic Convention of 1855, when he and Judge
Talafcrro withdrew from the order the one
got nomination for Assembly and the other
got the nomination for the position which he
now occupies.
Take also my good friend Joe Douglass,
candidate before the Convention for nomination,
who formerly walked through private avenues
and dark streets to the secret conclaves of the
secret society, and administered at the sacr.a-
ment of Know Nothingism.
Dave milford, | believe, too, took the first
degree of the Order, and couldn't stomach the
balance-though Dave freely admits what he
calls the error of his ways" Still, lie too ras
a Know Nothing