The weekly Butte record., 1861-07-20
The Jugglers.

I
We predicted a programme for the Seces-
sion Convention held here on the 18th instant,
in our Issue OF the 9th inst. That prediction
was, that the Union or Peoples Convention,
held on the 18th, was to be controlled by the
Breckinridgers, who were TO name the men for
nominees, and if they succeeded, the Conven-
ton of the 18th was to confirm them. The
thing has been done in this wise: The Peo-
pies Union Breckenridge Convention nomina-
ted Middleton, for Sheriff Denkla for Clerk !;
Hutchinson, for Assembly; RoSenbaum, for
County Judge Wells, for District Attorney,
and Hendricks, for Treasurer. These nominees
all, pledged themselves to support the ticket
of the Convention nominating them, and con-
graduated the people that they had taken
the hash Of all political parties. They did not
nominate full ticket. The Seceders Con-
vention, confirmed the nomination of Middle
ton, Denckla and Hutchinson they repudated
Rosenbaum, as not sound on the secesh. Serv-
ed him right he had no business to submit
his name to a second Convention, after he had
withdrawn it from another voluntarily, after a
ballot He was, in honor bound to stand by
the nominees of the Convention into which he
went and submitted his name as a candidate
there is always an implied pledge to do so,-
if the candidate does not express it. They
repudated Hendricks, for Treasurer, on a
close vote because he wonld not pledge him.
SELF unconditionally, to support the nominees
of that Convention. How could he, after he
had pledged himself to support the nominees
of the People Union Convention, and he saw
that some of them had been cast overheard
n man could, that valued bis pledge parti-
Gle. In his remarks, he hinted that he was
not an old enough politician to understand
how he could pledge himself to support the
nominees of two Conventions, when the parties
nominated were in part different, and, OF course,
he believed in standing by the nominees made
in the first. Although the so called Peoples
Convention was hopelessly in the hands of the
Breckinridge Pnilistincs, still, they had not
forecast enough, to make all their men stick,
in the regular Secession Convention Judge
Wells was not repudiated, but, by the beautiful
and graceful motion of the sliding scale system,
he was slid into Rosenbaums place, and nom-
mated for County Judge. 1t was done, ac-
cording to the Judges story, in this way He
found, since the adjournment of the Peoples
| Convention, that the nomination OF Rosenbaum
was not satisfactory to that Convention, and
that the delegates of that Convention would
cordially support Mr.. Wells, for County Judge,
should he receive the nomination from the Sc
cession Convention. Mr.. Wells accepted the
nomination rendered him, with many thanks
and long speech, good part of the substance
of which, we read in the leader of last week S
Butte Democrat, the Secession organ of the
county. How does this place the Judge ?
Last week, he accepted, voluntarily, nomina-
ton at the hands of the Peoples Convention
he called it, in his speech Of Justification in the
Secession Convention, Representative Con
vention. He pledged himself to support the
ticket there nominated. Rosenbaum was nom
mated there for County Judge and he, for
District Attorney. Mr.. Wells now takes his
pledgee's place, and leaves him out in the area
OF misplaced confidence.
1t has been said that " it is better to be
right than consistent :" but where right and
consistency run together, it is far better to be
wrong, than consistent. This conclusion we
have been induced to come to, by the forego-
going feat of daring acrobatic performance
OF the eight nominations made by the so
called Peoples Convention" four have been
confirmed and adopted by the Seceders' Con
yenton, with Slight rar,ation in favor Of
Judge Wells. Now, what will the four do
who have been taken in by the Seccders, with
the pledges they made and gave, voluntarily,
to the other four left out The Seceders
nominated full ticket. Do the four accepted
stand pledged to it? Now you see it,-now
you don't-juggel
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