Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1860-05-19
wEANTAGADvERTU UPON THE PROBES.
RIONAT. POLITICIAN

Our text 10 the professional politician Of California.
He is peculiarly Indigenous growth Of this soil
" ours. II the curious one can hover about our
Capital City for short period he will discover the
principal Offices Of State tcnantcd by individuals
who have retained them almost from the initiation
of State Government upon the Pacific coast. lftEal
curious one vii. descend Ia the Metropolis, he
will there learn that the identical class uf men who
occupied official station upon the senbnard ten wears
aHn, are still in unctious and secure poSsrssion Of
the same places, and the recipients Of the sumo
cmoluments. THIS curious creature may travel
throughout our State territory, and, while lingering
for moment at each county seat he will learn that
there a body of men who seem To hold in pcrpc.
tuity orr county offices flhey arc SherifS or Tax
Collectors or County Clerks one year, they may be
deputies the ensuing. But ii is simply trick Of the
trade. Their Temporary humility is hut u success.
fu vile to leap principals into positions in which
they held subordinate rank. The spells Of office
divided pro rata among the same voraciouS crew.
In truth it little matters who holds tho office bv
name, so long rs its fat drps into the destined
mouths. vast amount Of Adroit aud cunning
machinery is constantly in exercise to secure this
official provender 10 the hungry few. A perpetual
syseIn of cozenagc and popularity seeking is in pro-
gresS An officer, whose duties force him in con
tinua intercourse with the people. takes occasion to
tell the purblind constituent that while he would
gladly serve his fellow.citizens another term, he
will sacrifice his prctentons. His deputy, n mar.
velousy proper person. he has heard has proclaimed
himself candidate for the ensuing election. 4
very superior man Is his deputy and is really emit
tied to the position.
This is one portion Of the complex mechanism
that is revolving 10 the manufacture Of succession
If office among the selEcoustuted official crew
The innocent and supplemented often wonder how
delegates from different and distant and dsconncc,.
ed sections ofthe county unite il bv instinct and
sympathetic intention. upon an individual who is
unknown to the body of the convention. Bless your
unsophiStcatcd souls into the shrinking ear Of each
one Of those delegates has been sped earnest culoCv
nf the candidate Of their selection. Each member Of
that convention IS the innocent dnpc Of the adT0it
managers The action of that conrentnn has been
foreStnlled by mntured .f0tSa. They are but the
mole.eycd instruments of mighty power that con.
glomorates about the political headquarters If the
various counties Of our State. And listen to the
cunning drppngs Of that confederaicd band when
nominating conventions have discharged their aborS
and dissolved. o, ii will not do. they say, to can
vass or rcpudatc the action Of the dominating con
vention-a convention which may not reflect the
will of tho people. Thus are nominations not un-
frequently made without the volitinn md concur.
renee Of tho people 1T large. Distascful nomina.
ti"nS ar" thus sometimes thrust upon party and
an insldiNns and Stragetc, an INDECENT and often
dissoue and worthless crowd put forward for party
support The trckstcrS nutwit the honest ntelli.
gent and hard working people, who desire no office
They fatfen upon them, and laugh at their supinc-
ness and easy cnjoIcry.
BY just such questionable means do unworthy and
unreliable men crawl into our State Legislatures
and manage to slime the public wcnl from session
To session indefinitely. In the int,1m between ad.
journmcnts Of the Legislature md the meetings If
Conventions, they affect some honest avocation In
their policy of bcguiling the good public they erect
perhaps legal shinglc; and some have been known
to descend So far as to assume the garh, and slug
gishly apply the tools Of the honest miner. What
better i'll canvass than the rant and bal dcrdash Of
the working.man's candidate: What better than
to cry from hehusings, look you fellow. citizens
! alone can be your true representative, because
am fresh and rocking from the mud Of the pick and
the dirt of the gold washing" From wear to wear
such men, the frothy yeast from the fermentation
of political Chicanery-such men, brainlcSs home
less; with no attachment to the soil with no intcg
rity beyond sefnterrSt and self susianment; such
men make laws for California. M wonder that our
past Legislation stinks Of corruption. No marvel
that our statutes rffetc mass of tangled and
contradictory and incxIicable laws. The profess
sonal politician, relying upon his adroit machinery
for future promotion, himself gangrened, and rot
ten to the core, what he for public sentiment
Public sentiment has nothing 10 do with his success
1t is not strange that such legislators are accessible
to men Of bold and bad schemes. Relying on poll
tics for subsistence it would be more strange they
rcrudiated bride sugared to their palate. 1t is
high time that the good people of California should
awake from their apathy and iner,nesS, aud wash
, from their cyelidS the hood. winkng wcs with
which professional politicians have btdaubed them
1t is time high time that all Offices should be iillod
BY men Of integrity and fair position.
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ENERGErIc.-T Theodore F. Tracy. the genlcmanly
Agent of Wells, Fargo 4 Co., in this city. dispatched
the troops, arms &c, from this city Carson Val
ley in the most expeditions manner. He received
Geographic dispatch from San Francisco authorizing
him To contract fr their tran narration and IN loss