San Andreas independent., 1858-07-31
The AMADon CoNvEsrloss-Tbe Amador

THE AMADoR CONVENTIONS Amador
Sentinel, in alluding to the differences in the
Democratic party in Amador county, says:
We intend to speak plainly about this mat
ter, and, we hope, truthfully. Wrong was
committed on both sides-by both factions,
for there were two factions-and although one
is somewhat more to blame than the other,
both are much to be censured in the matter.
The party that remained in the theatre had
the decided advantage in numbers and talking
abilities, and certainly made an unfair and in
judicious use of their strength, by perpetrat-
ing gross injustice upon the "other side of the
house. in rejecting and admitting delegates,
which they had no more right to do or reasons
for doing than they had to disband the Con-
vention itself. The party beaten managed
their affairs badly, indeed, or they could have
won their points without division they
were too hasty and acted without tact or in
genuity, bnt, at the same time, were correct in
their complaints; they had grounds for COM
plant, and have yet The fight was not made
in any question of national or State policy, as
was anticipated, but on men. The great con-
test was between men for the spoils of office
the Democratic party of Amador county has
forsaken its landmarks, its virtues, its cardinal
principle. Principles, not men, used to be the
have changed to men, not principles. So Bit
ter was the feeling in Amador county against
certain men, and strongly favorable to certain
Others that principles were forgotten, and the
Democracy was absorbed in the one idea, to
have its favorite succeed. Such conduct as
was manifested in the Conventions held in this
place, during this week, is foreign to Democ-
racy, foreign to principles. justice and equal
rights, and calculated to bury the Democratic
party in oblivion, "unwept, unhonored and
unsung."
GREAT TROUBLE IN AMADoR.-The Ledger
repudiates the late I" Democratic Convention
in that county, and says:
| consider the body styled by some Demo-
cratic Convention was nothing more nor less
than mere cabal, led and controlled from be-
ginning to end by persons whose political
sympathies were but very recently enlisted on
the side of Democratic principles. This Con-
vention committed acts which were anthem
ocratic, high-handed uncalled for, and in di-
rect violation of Democratic usage and Demo-
cratic principles. They acted upon the prin-
ciple that might makes right, and because of
its might elected delegates without hearing
without single particle of evidence being
presented in Convention that they were not
entitled to their seats. The matter of right
was referred to commttee-the Committees
report was received, and without presentation
or discussion of the evidence upon which it
was founded, might carried it through.
Taken altogether, believe the so-called
Convention to have been an imposition upon
the Democracy of Amador county, and can
not and will not lend my support, that of
my paper, for the purpose of fastening its ac-
ton upon the people. do not consider that
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the nominees of the so-caled Convention. 1t
is well known that the Ledger is, and has
been, the only Democratic paper ever publish
ed in Amador county. The Democracy of the
county know whether it has been faithful to
the cause or not-the Democracy, / mean
The so-caled Convention refused to indorse
the Ledger by a vote of thirty-two to twelve,
on resolution offered by the Chairman of the
Convention, Democratic newspaper-bv
that refusal they repudiated it-and hence
there is no principle of right upon which the
Ledger can be expected to support the nomi-
nees OF the so-cailed Convention. In a word,
the so-called Convention refused to sustain
the Ledger, and now | am determined to take
an appeal to the tribunal of the people, and
abide their verdict 1t is for the Democracy
of the county to say whether they will main
tain themselves and their principles, or wheth-
er they will permit those who have always
been their bitter enemies to step in and take
full charge of the helm. T. A. SPRINGER.
To the above, Mr.. P. G. Johnson, associate
editor, demurs, and dissolves his connection
with the Ledger. We copy the statements of
both papers, as their views may somewhat af-
feet the coming Senatorial election, in which
the people of Calaveras county are directly
interested