The Shasta courier., 1858-01-30
Gov. Weller In Hot water.

Gov. Weller In Hot Water.
Gov. Weller has appointed S. II. Brooks, of
Stockton, as State Controller, in place of James
W. Vaudeville, who declined to qualify, having
in the meantime been appointed to lucrative
federal Office. When notice Of the appointment
of Mr.. Brooks was sent into the Senate, it crea-
ted considerable excitement among the old line
Democrats, who were familiar with the name of
Mr.. Brooks as an ardent Know Nothing A mo-
ton was put and carried to postpone the consid-
Grafton of the subject matter to last Tuesday
On Monday night, however, the Democrats of
the Senate met in caucus, and adopted the fol-
lowing resolution by vote of fifteen in the af-
native and four in the negative:
Pesolred, That while we have an earnest de-
to support Gov Weller in his official acts
cannot consistently, as Democrats, indorse
confirm the nomination of S. H. Brooks as
ntroller of this State, and for the purpose of
thdrawal, do pledge ourselves to vote for a
stponement of the Executive Session to We'd
sday at IL o'clock.
We therefore presume the question was not
bated on Tuesday. 1t is thought that the
withdraw his nomination.
The Stockton Republican, the first paper in the
Shte to raise the flag of Weller for Governor,
says the appointment was received by the De-
mocracy of that city with feelings of indigna-
ton. The editor says that the appointment is a
glaring indignity to the whole party; that the
appointee is a most vindictve enemy of our par
ty; that in 1856 he was delegate to the ma
tional Know Nothing convention that nominated
Mr.. Fillmore; that in the fall of the same year
he voted the Know Nothing Presidential ticket
and in 1857 took active and efficient part in
opposition to the democratic county ticket
From this one would naturally suppose that
Mr.. Brooks has no particular claim upon DEM
ocratic Governor for Office. But he voted for
Weller, we presume, and Governor Weller may
think that sufficient evidence of his Democracy.
And why not? Only a short time ago Some of
the very men who now curse Gov. Weller,
thought it political sin of the deepest dye
the objectionable sin-to have voted against
him for the U. S. Senate. Besides did not some
of the very men, who now blame him the most
for appointing to office one who was once a
Know Nothing, set him the example? When
the Committee on Credentials, in the last Demo-
cratic State Convention, unanimously reported a
resolution declaring that no man who had not
voted for Buchanan should sit in that conven-
ton, did not the Weller men, par excellence, vote
it down, upon the suggestion of certain leaders,
tbat . ok g. Al
of neu Democrats in the Convention who were
ardent Weller men? They did. With what grace,
then, do they curse him for appointing to
Office one who was once Know Nothing?
Up to the present time the Governor has made
admirable appointments. Ferris Forman, for
Secretary of State, has given almost universal
satisfaction. True, few personal friends of the
defeated aspirants have grumbled little, but
the party at large approves. If, however, Gov.
Weller thinks that he can cram down the
throats of the old line Democracy such Demo-
cratic pill Mr.. Brooks, and make it stick, he
is not fully informed as to the diagnosis of the
patient.
While saying this we must also contend that
those gentlemen who received the assistance of
Know Nothings in the last State Convention, in
nominating their favorites, are stultifying them
selves by their opposition to the appointment of
Mr.. Brooks because he was once a Know Moth
ing.
The REPuBLIcASs.-In 1854, when the Kan
sas-Nebraska Bill was before Congress, the Black
Republicans and Abolitionists denounced it in