The daily Butte record., 1858-07-29

Ten Of the Democratic candidates for del :
sgates " the State Css,sstion, have pre-
sessel against the primary election ct Sas
Frsssisso % the 10th Jolly. en- the grounds
that many votes vers rejected because those
Offering them had ssowed an oppositios TO
the Kansas policy Of the Administration.
AMI that unusual and Unauthorized tests of
Democracy were applied to voters by the
officers Of election that persons in the EN-
ploy Of the Federal Government were
brought into the city and permitted to vote.
simply because they were thus employed
and without regard to their fitness under
the party test-;hot the mode Of conducting
the election, by the rules for the govern.
ment of the primary action Of the party in
the county, were entirely disregarded in
some Of the districts by the ju lges aud in e
spectors-that improper mesus we're en-.
ployed by persons holding Office under The
Federal Government TO secure the elsctios
Of q factious ticket known as the Lecomptsn
tcket-that larg. fund was raised by
levies on those holding Federal Offices. and
distributed at the polls and elsewhere, to in
6uence votss--that Federal officials swarmed
about the polls and lavished promises and
abuse to crush out well-known Democrat
for entertaining opinions adverse to the
new tests they desired to establish.
The charges set forth in the protest are
fully sustained by afidavits. and the deter.
m'nation is to contest all those who have
been unfairly returned. The San Fraucisoo
Times 0ndependenD speaking upon this
subject says:
The interference Of Federal officials,
and the use Of the money Of the Government
to buy votes. with all independent and hon
orable men, will DO held sufficient justi6ca-
ton for refusing to recognize the delegates
in tho interest Of the Administration. In
one Of the Districts-the second Appraiser
Kane and gang Of Custom House employ
ses, took possession of the polls and hold
them oil day. to the exclusion Of hundreds Of
honcst voters who had refused to be bought
with the money that had been raised by
forced assessments upon those holding Office.
la tho Fifth District Frank Washington and
bevy Of pap faced cornorants, made sim
liar attempt TO take the ballot. box in their
keeping, allowing only those to vote who
sustained the Administration. They were
largely eutnumbersd. however, by honest
voters, and as consequence the Custom
House ticket in that District met an inglo.
rious defeat Whilst Washington and bis
allies we're thus engaged, superintendent
Hampstead aud Postmaster Weller were
riding from polls to polls, cheering on the
minions Of power, and distributing money
freely among all who could thus be inhu-
encsd. Never in the history Of San Fran
cisco did corruption stalk abroad so boldly
as on the day OF the late primary election,
and never before did Federal officials o. un-
blushingly seek to control the expression Of
the popular sentiment. To quietly acquiesce
in result thus brough. about, would be TO
degrade the American freeman to the level
OF the European serf. md leave him without
solitary right that he could call his own.
Tho people owe ii TO themselves to rebuke
the little man Of the Mint. and the portly
man OF the Custom House, and in no other
way can this be 80 effeetually aocomplishe ed
rs by refusing to recognize an election th at
was carried. not by the f,rce Of numbers,
but by the use Of Federal gold"