The Shasta courier., 1859-06-18
The County Convention.

teing present in person or by proxy. The busi-
ness ofthe Convention was gotten through with
without any feeling of bitterness being engen-
dered, except such as usually follows the sue
cess of one party another in strife for polit
ical or official preferment.
The Convention, by informal ballot, exhibited
a very strong preference for Mr.. Latham for
Governor. This state of sentiment was brought
about in the past two weeks by the result of the
elections in certain leading counties-which re-
suit it was believed, clearly indicated that the
fight was inevitably narrowing down between
Latham and Weller. No sooner had this con-
viction commenced taking hold of the minds of
the friends of Gen. Denver, than they COM
menced taking sides for Latham, in order to
more effectually fight against Weller.
After the delegates to the State Convention
had been elected and instructed to vote for Mr..
Latham, that gentleman, in obedience to the re-
quest of the Convention, came before it and
made few appropriate and eloquent remarks.
In the course of his speech he took occasion
to state the position which he had always oceu-
avowed that, al the time Mr.. Buchanan recon-
mended the Lecompton Constitution. he endors-
ed the position of Mr.. Douglas, and thought Mr..
Buchanan committed an error in making such
recommendation. When however, the Eng
lish Bill' was introduced as compromise mea-
sure, he accepted it, and thought it the duty of
all Democrats to do the same. He also an
nounced himself urequivocally in favor of the
doctrine of non-intervention (by Congress) with
slavery in the States or Territories and that if he
for Governor, he confidently expected to be able
to prove that the Administration and the entire
party are thoroughly and honestly pledged to
that doctrine. These sentiments were cheered
with great vehemence by some persons who, for
months past, have been reading every man out
of the party who entertained them.
The Convention also instructed in favor of
Burch for Congress.
For District Judge, Mr.. Garter carried the de-
legation to the District Convention, against Dain-
gerfeld, by a small vote. The vote stood for
Garter "A; for Dainger6eld 80. Three of the
kind of informality. Two of them for the rea-
son that they were on the same piece of paper.
They were voted by Jack Wilson, as honest
man as lives, who had his own vote and that of
a proxy, and therefore thought it proper for him
to vote his two votes without tearing them apart.
Another gentleman, with three votes, stated that
he put in ballots against Daingerfeld through
For these reasons Daingerfelds friends
demanded new ballot, which the Chairman re-
fused to grant From his decision appeal
was taken, and lost by one vote.
In this connection we have word of advice
to give. The officers of the primary elections
should, in every instance. so soon as the dele
gates are elected, give them the proper written
We have been informed that the
credentials for certain delegates from certain
precincts, ehere elections held, were writ
ten out in this place We have been informed
that enough such manufactured votes were man
ufactured in this town 10 control the Conven-
ton. Without censuring any one for resortlng
to this sort of political " shenanigan" in order
to further the interests of a friend, we mention
it in order to put candidates for County nomina-
tions on their guard We know that this is a
species of political fighting that is resorted to by
politicians generally in these preliminary bat
ties. All sides are put upon their guard by the
universal battle-cry on such occasions, " Ais
fair in war" Therefore the worsted parties
have no right to complain. Nevertheless, If the
Democrats of precinct absolutely neglect to
elect delegates to represent them IN Conven-
ton, they should be forced to go unrepresented.
If, however one single Democrat goes to the place
where and at the time when the election should
be held and all others stay away, we hold that
he himself has a right to hold a meeting-has a
right to act as Chairman, Clerk and the body
of the Conventon-and thus organized, to send
delegates to the Convention called. The neg
ligence of one Democrat or one dozen Demo-
Gratis should not deprive another Democrat of
the rights TO which he is entitled under the fun
damental laws of the party organization.
To "SrESo."-We have an excellent letter
from "Steno," which we cannot publish until |
next week
In reply to the question as to how the delega
ton from Virginia voted the first ten ballots in
the Cincinnati Convention, we have to say, for
Buchanan. Indeed Virginia cast her fifteen
votes for Mr. Buchanan through the whole six
teen baotings.
SEVERE ACCIDENT-We regret to learn that
our young friend, James Keene son of James
Keene, Esq, of this place, on Friday last, at
Millvile, while alIghting from his horse, was