Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-08-04
After Omce.

Give an unprincipled and scheming Cali
fosnia politician taste of Office, and no
barriers interposed by party u.ages and
customs can check his unholy AMBITION
Their thirst for the influence and spols of
office is equal to that Of the Bengal Tiger
for human blood, and the public are regard.
ed as their Legitimate prey. The means to
obtain coveted position that would enable
thisciass of politicians TO successfully con-
sumase their schemes of self. agrandizement
at the expense of the public, are seldom
sorupled at. Attaching themselves to the
dominant party, they attend their meetings
and give utterance to the prayer of the Fox
they enter the conventions of the party
upon whom they have quartered themselves,
with loud-mouthed professions of fidelity to
their GLORIOUS and Heaven born principles
and ask the party to endorse them with
nomination, work for it, pray for it. implore
the delegates individually and collectively,
to sustain theni--promse position to aspi-
rants and bright yellow gold to the avari-
cious-speak of their eminent services in the
ranks of the party aud their devotion to its
interests. Use all the appliances that an
ambitious, selfish, unscrupulous and shrewd
mind, backed by the love of gain, can invent
So long as such men can control the party
and make it subserve their private aims
and for their own advancement, their devo.
tion is, professedly, the most exemplary. But
there are times when the selfish schemes and
unscrupulous measures Of such men become
too transparent to be concealed by their
professions. and the party whose cause they
have espoused is sometimes too honest and
conscientious, in the discharge of their del
egated duties to the country and themselves,
to endorse them with nomination
1t is then that these schemers show the
fasity Of their professions, and by exhibit
ing an inordinate desire for official position,
show the correctness of the party in refus-
ing to endorse them. and sufficient to con-
vince a discerning and intelligent public
that their object is something more than an
honorable and laudable ambition to serve
the public. They repudiate and denounce
the action of the party to which they are
indebted for whatever OF eminence they may
have acquired, and starting for leap or
race. rely upon the strength of the opposi-
ton, with what strength they can draw from
their former political associates, for their
own triumph, and for the defeat of party
for whose success they are bound by every
honorable consideration to labor. 1t is
lamentabe fact, but one that experience has
nevertheless shown to be true, that the mi
nority party, are too apt to concentrate up
on such men, merely for the purpose of de-
feating their political opponents, without
properly considering the qualification and
fitness for the position of the men they thus
sustain. or the influence their elevation will
have upon the public prosperity. 1t is bad
political faith for men who have submitted
their claims to convention of their party,
and then refuse to abide the decision, and it
may we'll be questioned whether those who
are politically dishonest, can.be in healthy
condition morally. The political party who
thus pander to the selfish schemes of men,
sacrifice their principles for temporary
discontinue of their opponents an6 place
unprincipled and designing men in power