Weekly Calaveras chronicle. (Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, Cal.) 18??-1874, 1867-10-12
APPEAL
Of the San Francisco Elective Franchise and
Reform League to the Citizens Of California.
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of the San Francisco Elective Franchise ana
Reform League to the Citizens Of California
We have received from the League long
circular with request to publish; but its
extreme length precludes the possibility.
The following is an extract from it. We
commend it to our readers:
For Judge of the Supreme Court, we call
upon you to vote for Judge Currey, As re-
CARDS Mr.. Sprague, of Shasta, We certainly
can say he is a man wholly untried. There
are very few lawyers in San Francisco who
ever heard of his name before his nomination.
However respectable he may be as a man
and of that we know nothing-we have it on
the most reliable information that he has
never exhibited any marked ability in his
profession, and few of you, in any important
case, would probably engage his professional
services; and yet you are called upon to
vote for this unknown and untried man, and
to place him in a position where he may,
with the four Judges now on the bench,
finally determine and adjudicate upon the
lives, rights, and property of your fellow
citizens. With Judge Currey it is entirely
different. For years before his elevation to
the bench he stood in the front ranks of his
profession. He is well known to all the peo-
pie of this State, and in former years was
before them as a candidate for the highest
office in the gift of the people of California.
lie is man of the strictest integrity, and
of the most unblemished and stainless char
acter i'll all the relations of private life. He
has tor four years fulfilled the duties of the
office to which he is now sought to be elevated
IN manner which reflects the highest credit
upon him as jurist and his decisions have
been marked with that learning and ability
for which he has so long been celebrated.
His fitness for the position has been proved.
and his capacity and fidelity is not a matter
Of speculation. He is undoubtedly the
choice of the most eminent members of the
profession. Every unprecedented man will
admit that the defeat of Judge Currey at the
present election would be a great public loss,
and every voter should use his best efforts to
prevent this calamity.
In regard to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, the slightest reflection will show
the necessity of separating this Office from
party politics, by electing the best man.
Among his other important duties, he is re-
quired to apportion the amount of school
moneys to the several counties, and to fur
nish each County Treasurer with his order
on the Controller of the State for the school
moneys of the county. He has to make an
elaborate annual report to the Governor on
the condition of the Schools. He has to
prescribe suitable regulations for the man.
agement of all the Schools, to convene q
State Teachers Institute annually, and pre-
side over their deliberations, and regulate
their exercises, to visit all the Schools, con-
suit with and direct the County Superinten-
dents and in short, he has general SUPER
vision over all our educational interests; and
if this great power he possesses be exercised
injudiciously, partially or corruptly, its ex-
ercise must be attended with the most ruin
Gus consequences to the whole school system.
1t is of the utmost Importance, therefore, for
this much cherished and deeply important
institution that the man to be selected for the
office should be man of tried experience,
of undoubted integrity, and perfectly free
from party or religious bias. The election
of an inexperienced. incompetent, corrupt or
illiberal man, would be very great public
calamity. The candidates are Mr.. SWEET
and Mr.. Fitzgerald. The latter gentleman
is known to us only as a clergyman of the
sect denominated the Methodist Church
South. He may be an efficient and exem-
plary minister in the denomination TO which
he belongs, but that he has the first Qualifi-
cation of learning, experience or ability for
the Office which he seeks, we have yet to
learn nor have we the slightest evidence
that he would either be competent for the
Office or discharge it's duties free from party,
political, sectional or religious bias; and yet
it is proposed to place the immense power,
for good or evil, which the Superintendent
of Public Instruction possesses in the hands
of this untried man, who must necessarily
from his present position and calling, be of
narrow principles and sectional bias. We
have no hesitation in urging on the voters
the election of Mr.. SWEET. He has filled the
office since 1868, and has discharged Its du-
ties to the entire satisfaction of the State.
He is devoted friend to our school system,
and an advocate of every useful reform.
NJ. Y. BRocKLEBANK,
Secretary to the League, No. 627 Sac. St.