Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-08-14
Democratic Innocence.

AhS VA cOiAC phpCio 10 oO NGI1
inoffensive and innocent, that they would
not only permit the enemies of the party to
SOW the seeds Of discord in our ranks, but
by timid course, and gen le inclination
favorable to the worst species of opposition,
would seem to encourage dissension and dis
cord, which, il successful, must materially
affect the whole State, District, and County
ticket AT the present time. when every
possible influence is brought to bear in op.
position to our State nominees, and foul mis-.
representation runs riot throughout the
State, it would seem to be the duty of the
Democratic press to unite in quelling insur-
rection and insubordination in every portion
OF the State, by upholding the action of
Democratic conventions, and showing the
necessity of union aud harmony
We would not be captious, or deal discour-
teously with our Marysville contemporary,
the California ErpresS, but it appears to us
that they have exhibited desire to encour-
age the bolting opposition to the regularly,
fairly and honorably expressed sentiments
of the Democracy of this County and Dis
trict, and although they have right to pre-
fer whoever they may please for any posi-
ton, it is hardly consistent in paper sup
porting the nominees of a party convention,
and being sustained as the exponent of a
party, to give the same credence to the as
sertons Of few sore headed boilers, Las they
do to the decision of regularly constituted
convention of the party to which they profess
to belong
In noticing the organ of the boilers in Oro-
county-which organ is an alternate issue
of the Republican paper of this county, and
edited ostensibiy by one who was an appli-
cant for the Office of County Judge, before
the Democratic convention-tke Er2ress
says:
"We know nothing whatever as to the
merits of the controversy, save what we have
heard, first from one side and then from the
other, and we beg the conductors Of the Sex
ton organ, and the conductors of the Lewis
organ, both. at Oroville, to take no otfense
at us when we say that we intend to have
nothing to do with their local differences
1t is none of our business, and we do not in
tend to meddle with it, in any way whatcv
err We're it question affecting the party
at large we should have our say,
We certainly feel under great obligations
to our contemporary for the favorable clas-
sifcation it has given us, and on the part Of
the Democracy Of the county and district,
would render thanks to the FrpTeSS for not
accepting the mere dictum of u sore headed
bolter, and denouncing the action of the De-
mocracy, as expressed by their regularly
constituted, and honora5ly conducted con-
ventions.
1t is certainly new phase of Democracy
to US, to suppose that the local disaffection
of party, which encourages, sustains. and
furnishes the sinews of war to an opposition
press, does not affect our State ticket.
When the Democratic press of the State
give credence to such pie-bald authority, in
preference to the action Of the party to
which they belong, some anxiety for the
success of the State ticket, it seems to us,
may well be felt Had these boilers been
endorsed by the convention, before which
they presented themselves, not murmur
would have been heard Such things only
occur, when unprincipled and hungry Office
seekers, fail to have their morbid appetite
for spois satisfied by the people