The weekly union record. [volume] (Oroville, Calif.) 1864-1866, 1865-09-23
The State Judicial Election.


The Democrats pretend TO have great hope
of carrying the State st the Judicial election,
and some Of them may believe that success is
possible. In politics it is necessary to keep up
the organization, and to present ticket at
every contest, otherwise the hold Of the politI-
Clans Cd the voters would be lost. Loud oat.
cry and positive predictions of success are
foupd TO be of service IN encouraging the rank
and file TO attend meetings and to go to the
polls. This system of management is prscticed
every year. aud every person of intelligence
understands it. The stump speakers make
their assertion about the strength of their par
~ as boldly as if truth and conscience were
not only disregarded BY politicians, but entire
ly unknown TO them. In 1868, the Democrats
made an industrious canvass, and they were
sure they would elect Downey; in 1864 they
became excited, enthusiastic and positive the
State would go for Mcclellan By large ma
jority but in defiance OF all the Democratic
bluster the Unionis,s had about twenty thou
sand majority each year.
Even if they were sincere 10 their pretended
expectation of carrying the State, every per-
son not in their organization knows that they
have no chance of success. So long as the re-
suit of the war was uncertain there might be
some hope for them, but they were overthrow
as party with the rebellion. Their national
platform fayors an armistice with the rebels,
Justihes al assumption of the rebel debt, op-
poses emanci patton, and sticks to dozen OF
the principal doctrines that were buried at the
capture OF Richmond. To attempt to resus-
citate ideas that have been crushed under the
wheels of revolution and progress is as foolish
as TO try to ill the relics of the mestodon with
new life. The old platform is abandoned, and
the Democrats will never gain anything by
calling attention to it ; but they have nothing
to offer in its place. Many of them are anx-
lOus 10 attach themselves 10 the Admiaistra-
ton and when we consider that President
johnson commands the confidence of the Union
party generally, this implies complete poitI
cal summerSault. At late County COnven-
ton IN Sacramento. John Bigler introduced
resolution indorSing the Presidents reconstruc-
ton policy, aud the last number of the Placer.
vile Democrat, which was ultra Secessionist
during the war, says
1T is impossible to tell what course Con
gress will pursue with regard to the States
lately 10 rebellion. The President has an
nounced his reconstruction policy, and the
radicals theirs. His policy meets the bitter
opposition of the factions which Is mainly re-
sponsble for the sore troubles that have come
upon our country. Should President johnson
have the nerve 10 proceed, and those who know
him best say he is not wanting in backbone,
in spite of their deDunciatlon he may find the
hitherto controlling wing of his party arrayed
against him. Let him remain firm and be will
merit the appreciation of all patriot men. The
contingency may arise when conservative men
will fnd it their duty 10 sustain johnson
against portion of his own party. So far as
his course shall command itself to our support
he will receive it."
This serves simply to show that the Demo
cratic party has no principles, and that as
national organization the Democracy does not
exist. Some of the Democrats are openly in
favor of changing their name and calling them
selves Nationalists" They say Democra.
cy" is played out. But if they had national
platoon and an organization, how absurd to
think of carrying State in which their enc
mics, though divided. have majorities in three
fourths of the counties. The Unionists were
divided at the political election, but will be
united at the judicial. In Sacramento, Santa
Clara, Yuba, Placer. Nevada. Santa Cruz,
Suffer, Solano, Y olo, San Joaquin, HUMBOLDT.
and several other counties. containing in all
onethird of the population of the State, there
were no complete Democratic tickels, although
few Democratic candidates were elected as
the result OF fusion In San Francisco, FL
Dorado, Los Angeles and Monterey there
were two Union tickets, and yet the Demo
Gratis did not elect half their candidates. The
Unionists. on account of the split in their
ranks, and the confusion of local questions,
Il md ,bpla &c
large Union majority. Such facts contain no
favorably prognosics for d Democratic vic
tory. A State which elected sixty Uuionis,s
and twenty Democrats to the Assembly in
September, under circumstances peculiarly ad
verse 10 the Unionist, will not elect a Demo
cratic Justice of the Supreme Court in Octo.
Der. especially when the adverse circumstances
will not effect the judicial election. Six weeks
do not make changes so wonderful as that
Neither are the Unionists so much dissatisfied
with the career of their party in the past, or
so hopeless about its value ia the future, that
they will let it be defeated They have the
strength. ard they do GOT lack the zeal. They
might bolt the local tickets and still be sincere
Union men. But there is no thought of a
split at the State election. Boilers and regu-
lars will all consider themselves under obliga
ton to prove their good faith by earnest work
when the political character of California is to
be decided. While it may be considered GER
tain that the Unionists will carry the State, it
is not less the duty of every member of the
party to see that the campaign is conducted 10
Jealous and efficient manner A majority is
not enough; large majority is needed for the
credit of the coast. Let the Democrats make
all their buster the ballots and not the noise
will decide the result, with Union majority
Of fifteen 10 twenty thousand S f. AhG.
Ho. FoR THE EAsT.-The Salt Lake We
dette, says there is an exodus OF folks from
Montana and Idaho going back to America
this season. John Clark's mammoth train