The Shasta courier., 1859-07-02
Misrepresentation Commenced.

do not perceive what the birth place has to do
with mans fitness to be on the ticket. but the
opposition are finding fault with it because the
most of the gentlemen whose names are thereon
were born south of Mason Dixons line, They
have started the tale that ten of the eleven nom-
| inees are southern men. This is not so.
Latham, whom they have set down from Ala
bama, is, as they know, from Ohio He studied
law in Alabama, in the Office of Vice President
King. That is as near as he comes to being an
Alabaman.
Downey, fo= Lisat. Governor, was born in
Ireland, apd raised in the District of Columbia.
He may be claimed as northern man with the
same propricty that he may be claimed as n
southern man. Yet they set him down n; a
firginian.
The remainder stand thus:
Congress, North, j. C. Burch, who, strictly
speaking, is not southern man, but western
man.
Congress, South C. L. Scott, Virginia.
Judge Supreme Court, w. W. Cope, Ken
lucky.
Clerk Supreme Court, G. S. Fairfax, Virginia.
Controller, S. II. Brooks, South Carolina.
Attorney General T. H. Williams, Kentucky.
State Treasurer, Thos. Fndley, Pennsylvania
| Surveyor General H. Higley, Florida.
Supt. Public Instruction, A. J. Monlder, vir-
ginia.
State Printer, C. 7. Bolts, Virginia.
Here we have three-including Governor and
Lieut.. Governor-who cannot be termed south
ern men. We confess that the Convention
showed lack of wisdom in not rendering the
divisional little more equal as between northern
and southern men. We imagine, however, the
Convention never thought about asking as to
where candidate was born. That question
would have been appropriate in a Know Moth
ing Convention, but not in an assemblage of
| Democrats.
However, if the regular Democracy have sin
ned by nominating too many men on their tick
ct from down South, have net the Anti i-Lecomp-
tontes sinned equally by nominating too many
men on their ticket from up North lie. US see
Here we have
John Currey, for Governor, from up North
John Conness, for Lieut.. Governor, from up
North;
R. T. Sprague, for Supreme Judge, from up
North;
Jos. c. McKibben, for Congress, from up
North
D. R. Ashley, for Treasurer, from up Northi
John OMeara, for State Printer, from up
North
Jas. S. Long, for Surveyor General, from up
North;
Elijah Steele, for Attorney General, from up
North.
Here, then, as far as we know, the one ticket
stands: Eight southern men to three northern
men: the other stands, eight northern men to
three southern men. Now will the sectionalists
of the Anti-Lecompton party please say which
ticket has the advantage on this head?
But we are told that our ticket has too many
virginians on it, and the S. F. Ne,es, with great
apparent indignation declares, Eve have yet to
see it proved that California is the mere append
age of Virginia" This objection to candidates
because of their birth place comes with poor
grace from Democrat, and especially from one
who like the editor of the Ners, was born in
Great Britain. But even if it were good OBJ
lection, it does not become the Anti-Lecomton-
ties to speak of it. Look at their ticket: Curry
from New York; Conness, from New York
Steele, from New York; O'Meara, from New
York, and it may be that Myers, or Ashley, or
Pearce, or all of them, are from the same State
With this fact staring them in the face-with a
ticket whose head shoulders and tail are "Tam-
many'-they have yet the impudence to talk of
the q Virginia feature of our ticket
Go to, thou dcceiversl If our ticket is COM
posed oftwo many southern men, yours is equal
ly faulty because of a too great preponderance
of northern men. If too many ''Virginians" are
upon our ticket, yours is equally faulty by hav-
ing similar or greater proportion of New
Workers upon..it. In these two particulars the
tickets counterbalance each other-each being
alike defective.
The funniest thing, however, in this whole
matter, is the fact that the Times, the Republican
organ, objects to our ticket because there are
too many southerners on it-while at the same
time it supports the Republican ticket which is
wholly made up of northern men,