Daily national Democrat., 1861-07-17
Proceedings of the Sutter County Breck-
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"Some buiks are lies frae end to end,
| And some great Hes were never penneu,
But this which am going to tell,
''' Or Yu5a city.
EDITOR DEMocRAr:-Fearing that no aoler
pen would take the time, or trouble, use
mine to give you few items concerning 'ne
action of the great county convention ol tne
Breckenridge Democracy held in this place
last Saturday. The object ofmy writing Is
to give you and your readers laugh over
some portions that will probably be left out
of the "oficial report"
The great light and leader, in the Parlia-
mentary portion of the proceedings was one
Mr. Harris, our quandom representative
When this gentleman opened his mouth, he
seemed to feel that out of it proceeded the
oil, by the help of which the wheels OF De-
mocracy were enabled to roll. Mark his
consistency.
lie first introduced resolution empower
ing the Chair to appoint committee to draw
up an "order of business" (Which believe
passed.) Shortly after, as he said to save
timc he drew up an order of business him
self commencing strangely enough, with the
nomination of Sheriff and bringing up on
that of Representatives Immediately on its
adoption the Hon. gentleman arose, with the
dignity and appearance of one bearing the
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weight and responsibility of the whole Dem
ocratic party on his shoulders and said: "Alr
Chairman and gentlemen Of this Convention,
| sab, have duty to perform" lie either
did not know that he was out of order, or
else feared that his party could not find
man within its ranks to properly represent
it. He would let it be known in time that
there was a man outside whom he, Mr.. Har-
ris could endorse-"have had several CONVEX
sations on political questions with Mr.. Hol-
| ingsworth, the Douglas nominee for the As
sembly, and believe him to be sound; he is
here to-day, sab, by invitation, and now
move you, sab, that this convention request
him to appear before us, that the gentlemen
of this bedy may examine him." The motion
passed.
Accordingly the chair appointed com
mittee to invite the venerable gentleman be-
fore the house He came, arose before the
convention and asked them what they wan
ted? Then commenced cross-examnation
which ended in Mr.. Holngsworth's endors-
ing the entire Douglas platform. OF course
they had to "drop' him.
They theu proceeded to nominate their
ticket 1t seemed to your correspondent that
some of the aspirants, before the Convention
| fancied they saw the workings of a "Court
House clique" for one Mr. Vaughan had in
tended to run for County Clerk, but when
the time came for balloting he arose and told
the convention the "Court House was too
much for" him. he said, 81 can see the hand
writing on the wall, sir, and it's no use for
me to try, as | would be defeated, therefore
| will withdraw" But such time as they
had over their Representative is seldom wit
messed. Mr.. Quigiy, Mr. Wilcoxon and Dr.
Morse were put in nomination. The last
named gentleman entertained the convention
for whole hour with bundle of old papers
MIR. Quigly being called up, in a few word:
endorsed the Breckenridge platfoam. Mr.
Wicoxon being called up said something
your correspondent don't know exactly what
The ballot resulted in the choi,e ofC Z vii.
coxon, Esq, who was then loudly called for
He "got up and responded as follows "Mr
President and gentlemen of the Convention
[louder'] [hearl] [louderl] thank you for
the nomination, and assure you that | will
make the best race in my breeches" Loud
and continued applause.
Now it is an indisputable fact that all po-
litical races are performed by the BRAIN |
had always given Mr.. Wilcoxon the credit
of possessing some brains, from the fact of
his occupying high position in the county;
but nevar exactly knew where they lay un-
til he disclosed the fact to the conv ention-
He reminds me of soldier whose physi, ,al
organization must have been curious, for he
had breast-plate placed in the seat of his
trowsers to protect his heart.
Yours, etc, An OBSERVER.
Yuba City, July 18th, 1861.