The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1858-1864, 1862-08-09
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The Republican fusion Convention which
assembled in Oroville Oh the 5th inst. ignored
the claims of the Douglas Democrats who met
with them entirely. They found no place on
the platform adopted wherein TO stand. They /
have no representation upon the Assembly
ticket. 1t may be claimed that F. NJ Smith. (
Esq, is, or was, Douglas Democrat Such
is not the fact. 50 fer as his past political &C.
ton is concerned. He was a Breckenridge
politician, a member of the Breckenridge Co.
Convention of last year, indorsed their plat
Senatorial candidate, but withdrew bis name
and subsequently withdrew from the party
His uext appearance. politically. was in the
position Of a delegate from the Republican
County Convention which assembled in Oro
vile in June, to the State Convention which
assembled at Sacramento on the 18th of the
same month That State Convention placed
Mr.. Smith upon their State Committee, and it
was il that political position that he appeared
before the County Convention on Tuesday last,
when be was nominated for the A sembly-
The Democracy should not forget his bitter
denunciatioDs, in 1889, of that lamented pa
triot and statesman. Stephen A. Douglas.
/ But for such men as Mr.. Smith, who canvass
ed the country 10 deuuuciation of Mr. Douglas,
[ it Is not improbable that q different result of
/ the Presidential election might have been ef-
fected, and the patriot Douglas might then
have been chosen the Chief Executive of the
nation and the country saved the horrors and
3evastations of the war now being waged for
the preservation of constitutional government
in America. Who does not remember Mr..
Smiths energetic advocacy of the claims of
the traitor Breckenridge to the Presidency in
1860 and bis fierce denunciations of the pa
triot Douglas, as the demagogue, who was re-
sponsibe for all the then existing troubles
And yet he is presented By the Fusion County
Convention as a Douglas Democrat, and ex.
pected to carry Douglas men with himself into
the fusion Republican party. Who does not
remember the anathemas that Mr.. Smith, with
Others Of lis party, heaped upon Senator
Vance for voting for Senator McDougall, the
only one of all the candidates for Senator be-
fore the Legislature Of 1861, who addressed
them in favor of maintaining the Union. Mr.
McDougall took a firm position for the Union,
was elected by Mr.. Vance's vote, for this he
was denounced by Mr.. Smith, who endeavored
TO succeed him with the Breckenridge party
and failing to obtain the nomination, left his
party in disgust, performs a Hanlonian feat of
political zampilloerostation, forms fusion par
ty of his own, and is presented by ii as the
decoy duck " to catch Douglas votes Is
there friend of the lamented Douglas in
Butte county. who ever heard Mr. Smith say
a word in favor Of Douglas until after his
death Is there one in the county who did
not, during the canvass of 1860, hear his fierce
and bitter denunciations of Douglas, and bis
feeling harangues in favor of Breckenridge
Is there friend of the lamented Douglas in
Bate county who can vote for Mr.. Smith,
without doing violence to his sefrespect, and
without expecting to hear the rattle of the
patriots bones as they turn in their coffin, and
to see his spirit burst the ponderous marble
jaws of his sarcophagus to rebuke such viola
ton of The right of suffrage.
The other nominee for Member of Assembly,
Mr. Moore, Of Hamilton township, is an old
line Republican-a quiet, unobtrusive, good
citizen, of no particular force in any direction.
If elected, will occupy seat in the Assembly
answer to his name. and assist bis party to
carry their caucus measures and nominees
He may be relied upon to do no particular
harm Of his own volition, if elected.
As the convention Endorsed the resolutions
of the Republican State Convention, and its
nominee Mr. SWEET, the election of Messrs.
Smith and Moore, will, of course, be two votes
for Park, for United States Senator, should
be be the nominee of the Smith and SWEET
! Republican party, which would be two votes
in favor of the Fremont policy Of conducting
the war, in opposition to the declared policy
! of the Government