The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-11-11
POLITICAL CORPsEs.

4 Dean Richmond, one of the managers G
8 the Democratic State Convention of NeH
York, while engaged GA the resolutions to b
Introduced into the Convention, is reported
to have said be would not, as a politician
abe bound to a corpse"-meaning slavery
which he was in favor of treating as practi
cally dead.
/ Aside from its application TO that subjec
in New York, it occurs to US that a little re
Fiction on it by some of the politicians o
California, Oregon and Nevada would no
linflict much damage on the Democratic par.
l ty. There is class of politicians in all these
States who appear to have taken upon them.
selves to do all the engineering aud manag-
ing which the party and its conventions re-
qure to be done. Year after year we have
seen the same old familiar faces, and heard
the same old stereotyped speeches, from the
same old setof politicians and stump orators
who commenced pipe-laying and wire pull
| ing in County and State Conventions twelve
or fifteen years ago.
A large portion of this class of men are now
found leading off or button-holing in the Re-
publican Conventions, but there are plenty
of them still left in the Democratic ranks.
They seem to make it the business of their
lives to be in primary or convention, and
figuring out some political result. If one
would take the trouble to turn over the pro-
ceedlngs of the various political meetings
throughout California since 1850, he would
find a remarkable recurrence of the same
names from year to year. We have in our
eye now, gentleman who regularly for ten
years has been found in certain place in
every State Convention, and at the appointed
time regularly jumps up and nominates Mr..
so -and-so for Secretary. From the regu-
larity of his appearance and the punctHalIty
with which be discharges the duty of naming
the man who shall take minutes of the pro-
ceedIngs, we presume he was predestined from
th e foundation of the world, and set aside by
the Almighty for that portentous purpose.
Many of these men are sound politically, and
are personally able and estimable persons: but
the people are tired OF them. While they are
endeaVOring to serve the party, |
their very names and faces unconselOusly lnlure
and prejudice it. 1t seems Impossible tor an old
politician to apprehend the disagreeeble fact that
he is played out" California is full of those
politicians. We by the Nevada papers that
Nevada, too, overaows with them to the damna-
lion of both parties. The Democracy OF Oregon
we're crippled and their overthrow years ago ln-
'ured by the same mischief. In California the
nomination of Latham, in 1853, was but the in.
lignant protest of the people against the old
'egime. The election of Stanford subsequently,,
was but the continuance Of it. But running Into
he Republican party has not run away from the
Evil. 1t is as operative there now as it ever was
n the Democratic party.
The greatest impeachment now in the way of the
of the Democracy to power in all the
states this coast il the pertinacity with which
hese 'played out" detunct politicians persist in
eaving their corpses in their old places Let
hem realize their position, and having played
heir parts in former days, now stand aside and
be Democracy will take care OF itself.