Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-07-28
How Nominations are Made.

The Mountain Democrat, one of the oldest,
ablest and most influential democratic journals
in California, has been telling some plain, home
truths about the manner in which conventions
foist unworthy and irresponsible men into office.
Its remarks apply to all parties alike, although
more particularly in this State to the Democratic,
because here it is in the ascendant We heartily re-
joice that our cotemporary has taken this matter
in hand, and hope that the voters will not fail to
make a note of what is said. 1t is the duty of
every member of party organization to do his
uttermost to prevent political tricksters riding in
to positions of profit and trust over the heads and
against the wishes of the great mass of the people,
Let men of all parties apply themselves to the
good work at once, and by selecting good men
men of character and standing in the community,
who are every way qualified to discharge the
duties assigned them-strengthen their party
and contribute materially to the advancement
and welfare of the State. We give below an eX-
tract from the Democrats able article.
"The innocent and simple-heart often won
der why delegates from different and distant and
disconnected sections of the county unite, as if
by instinct and sympathetic intentlon upon an
individual who is unknown to the body of the
convention. Bless your unsophisticatcd souls ;
into the shrinking ear of each one of those dele
gates has been lspcd earnest culogy OF the can
didate OF their selection. Each member of that
convention is the nocent dupe Of the adroit
managers. The action of that convention has
been forestaled by matured fnesse. They are
but the mOle-eyed instruments OF mighty power
that congiomorates about the political head
quarters of the various counties Of our State.
fO hn Of at
federated band when nominating conventions
have discharged their labors and dissolved. o,
it will not do, they say, to canvass or repudiate
the action of the nominating conventional con
vcntiOn which may not reflect the Will of the
people. Thus are nominations not unfrequenty
made without the vOlitiOn and concurrence Of
the people at large. Dstasteful nominations are
thus sometimes thrust upon a party; and an
insdOus and stragetc, an indOlent and often
dissolute and worthless crowd put forward for
party support. The trcksters outwt the honest,
intelligent, and hard working people, who desire
no office. They fatten upon them, aud laugh at
their supineness and easy cajOlery.
BY Just such questionable means do unworthy
and unreliable men crawl into our State Legisia-
lures and manage to slime the public veal from
session to session indefinitely. In the interim
between adiournments Of the Legislature and the
meetings of conventions, they affect some honest
avocation. In their policy of beguling the good
public they erect perhaps legal shingle and
some have been known to descend so far as to as
sumo the grab, and sluggishly apply the tools of
the honest miner What better in canvass
than the rant aud baderdash of the working
mans candidate? What better than to cry from
the hustings, look you, fellow citizens, / alone
can be your true representatives, because am
fresh and reeking from the mud of the pick and
the dirt of the gold washing" From year to |
year such men. the frothy yeast from the fermen-
tation of political chicanery--such men, braness,
homeless with no attachment to the soil ; with |
no integrity beyond self-inteest and selfsustain-
ment such men make laws for California. No
wonder that our past legislation stnks of cor
rupton No marvel that our statutes are an
efete mass of tangled and contradictory and in |
explcable laws. The professional politician, re- |
lying upon his adrot machinery for future pro-
motion, himself gangrened, and rotten to the
core, what cares he for public sentiment? Pub
lie sentiment has nothing to do with his success
1t is not strange that such legislators access-
BILE to men of bold and bad schemes, Relying on
politics for subsistence, it would be more strange
if they repudiate bribe sugared TO their palate.
1t is high time that the good people Of California !
should awake from their apathy and inertness,
and wash from their eyelds the hoodwinking |
wes with which professional politicians have
bedaubed them. 1t is time, high time that all
offices should be filed by men of integrity aud
fair position"
TERRY's CAsE.-The Nevada Democrat-a
Democratic paper-says:
ave venture to say that the records of Judi |
cal corruption will fail to furnish parallel that
in iniquity can be compared to this case; and
Judge Hardy and all others concerned in the
disgraceful proceedings have covered themselves
with infamy. No one supposed that Terry would
ever be convicted, but the public were not pre-
pared to hear Of his being acquitted in open dis /
regard of the forms of law, and iD violation of
we'll established judicial precedents. 1t is stated
that Judge Hardy had set his watch ahead; but
whether he did or did not, bis conduct is none
the less infamous. 1t was his duty, if the witnes
ses were not present at the time appointed, to
order attachments to be issued to bring them in /
to Court For the part Calhoun Benham play ed
in the affair, Buchanan has rewarded him by |
giving him a lucrative appointment. The clos
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