The Shasta courier., 1859-03-19
Gubernatorial and Congregational Aspi-
pirants.


campaign. The Generals, Colonels, Majors,
Captains, Lieutenants and Corpefals hare near
ly all been assigned their respective positions
The only thing yet remaining to complete the
arrangements, Is the consent of the rank and
file" With that secured the aforesaid 3" lead
ers" hope to "make their peace, calling an
election sure"
We last week casually announced what we
we're informed was portion of the programme
We will here repeat it. Weller ant, Latham are
to be the opposing candidates for the Guberna-
torial nomination at the hands of the Democrat
&c State Convention. Latham is to be support
ed by the Custom Honse folks Weller will run
on his own strength as well tried Democrat
and faithful Executive. Frank Washington is
to be the candidate of the Latham Custom House
folks for U. S. Senator in place ofDr Gwin and
the delegates to the National Convention are to
be instructed to go for DR.. Gwin for Vice Presi-
dent.
All this looks very well, and, let the contest
end as It may, will doubtless be cheerfuly ac
quiesced in, if not approved by a large majority
of the Democratic party.
Gov. Weller has already been proved. No
man will doubt that he has not made very ex-
cellent nay, an admirable and almost faultless
Governor. Indeed SO far, it is impossible for
his bitterest enemy to point OFT one single seri
GUS blotch upon the face of his Gubernatorial
record that the ehacing touch of Times finger
will not remove in few months, to be remem-
bered no more. Such little black spots as his
correspondence with the Sheriff of Los Angeles.
the citizens of Monterey, and the Sheriff of Shas-
ia, will soon be forgotten. They amount to no.
thing. All men have their weak points Gov.
Weller is no exception to the rule His weak
point is disposition to be joked and Il sold" by
waggish Sheriffs, and made to play fantastic
epistolary tricks before High Heaven Hence
but one argument of weight can be brought to
bear against his nomination for second term,
that is the Democratic maxim of rotation in
Office" 1t is good maxim when sensibly ap-
piled. tits Democratic to favor frequent change
of officials. 1t makes men careful to do their
whole duty honestly, knowing if their record is
not clear that their speedily coming successors
will proclaim the same to the world. But there
are certainly exceptions to be made to this rule,
and no set of men have ever had juster pre-
tence to claim the benefit of that exception than
the friends of Gov. Weller. So much we can
say without subjecting ourself to the charge of
taking sides for Gov. Weller
On the other hand as the leading opponent of
Gov. Weller, we have Milton S. Latham-a
young man of wealth, all acquired in California
by his own exertions, of brilliant talents, of fine
administrative capacity, of great personal popu-
larity with the people, whom, in past campaigns,
he has addressed in every county in the State,
and possessed in an extraordinary degree of the
happy faculty of attracting young men to him.
He is man who completely fills the measure
which Jefferson set up for an official-he is hon
est, he is capable. For years the Custom House
of San Francisco had been under men who,
when Government money was passing through
their hands, could not distinguish between nleum
and tuam. They had " itching palms, and the
gold would stick. Hence the Collectors all went
out as defaulters until Latham received the ap-
pointment So admirably did he conduct the
immense business pertaining to his position that
the Government endeavored almost to force him
to remain in Office. He, however, refused to
main, and left clean record-not blot, not an
error upon the fair page, and not figure which
did not help to prove that his hands were I'M
tainted by the touch of single dollar dishon-
erably filched from the public Treasury. Hence
we say that he is honest, (no one doubts his ca
pacity,) and possessed of great administrative
talent. So much we can say of Mr. Latham
without being classed as his partizan.
So far as the Senatorship and Vice Presidcn-
cy are concerned, the first is teo remote to COM
mence talking about now, while the latter is n
matter about which there will be little or no
fighting DR.. Gwn is the only man in Califor-
MIA who will be candidate for the Vice Presi-
aency. Hence he will meet no organized op-
position.
Before concluding these remarks we cannot
refrain from calling the attention of the pro-
gramme makers to very profound saying of a
very wise Scott
fhe best laid schemes O. mice an men
Gang aft a-gley."
Another philosopher hath said, Z" count not
your chickens before they are hatched,-and
still another, do not holler before you re out of
the woods"
We are induced to repeat these sayings of the
wise by observing that some of the leading De-
mocrats In the State, men of great popularity
with the masses. are entirely left out of the pro
gramme-iguored-" cut" Denver, McDougal
and a dozen others we might name, are not even
distantly alluded to. Now we look upon Gen.
Denver as worthy of the highest honors in the
gift of the people of California Every one knows
him to be both honest and capable And none
know better than the programme makers that
he is second to no other man in point of strength
before the people of this State. We are inclined
to the opinion that this stone which the pro-
gramme builders are rejecting and counting out,
may yet give them some trouble. If Gen. Dem
yer does not seriously interfere with the calcu-
Iations of the various aspirants for Dr.. Gwins
place. it will be his own fault.
THE STEANER.-The mail steamer arrived on
Thursday She brings no news of unusual in
.erest The mails for this place viii arrive here
tonight.