The Shasta courier., 1867-10-05

WE copy the following sensible remarks
from the Calayeras Chronicle of Sept. 2Sth
We protest against the practice that pro.
tessedly party papers are getting into of
hosting mems names as candidates for Office
before they receive nomination. What
right has journal which pretends to be the
organ of party, got to place any ones
name at the head of its columns. as eandi-
date for position, until he is endorsed bv
the party for which it processes to speak p
None whatever; and the moment paper
does anything of the kind, it should be ruled
out of the organization. Mischief enough
has already been done in that manner, and
1t should be stopped \ paper that has not
editorial brains enough to advocate persons
claims to and qualifications for an office,
without h0istng his name as a candidate for
the position, should never be dignihed with
party appelation. How in the world did
the idea ever get abroad that Bidwell was
the " choice of the people" for Governor p
W no that knows anything about his ability
and record as public man, believes that
t"e people cared any more about General
Bldwell than they do about General"
Freddy Washington or the Emperor Norton?
The truth of the matter is ust this Some
twenty five or thirty COW county and chapar-
raj newspapers, with more zeal than sense,
afraid that they would not be considered
leaders Of public sentiment, hosted Bidwell's
name early in the Spring. Now, the idea
that, because paper places mans name
at the head of its columns as a candidate for
any position, it necessarily follows that be is
the g choice of the people" of that county, is
too absurd a proposition to be entertained for
moment; and vet, when Bidwell was de-
feated, the I" Independent press" shrieked
and howled like hyenas. " The "will of
the people, had been thwarted; " thirty
newspapers - had endorsed him and conse-
quently he must have been the - first choice
of the people" The influence of the press
upon the people, before the Convention was
to educate them in the belief that Bidwell
would be the nominee and as he did not re-
ceive the nomination, many were easily in
duced to believe that he had been swindled
out of it, and the defeat of the Union party
in this State was the result. Not satisfied
with the injury they have already inflicted,
these smart Alecks Of the Press are pursuing
the same course in relation to candidates for
the Presidency. They are hosting Grants
and Sherman's names, and doing their
utmost to induce people to believe that one
of those gentlemen is bound to be the nom
inee Of the Union party. If it happens that
both Of them are beaten in Convention. or
will not allow their names to 90 before it,
the cry will be raised that the - choice of the
people" has not been regarded, and Grant or
Sherman - swindled" out of the nomination.
All that will be necessary then to secure the
defeat of the nominee of the Union party will
be for Democratic papers and one or two
mercenary sheets, called the q" Independent
press, TO insist that some one else was the
- choice of the people" and there will be
plenty of shallow-pated patriots" men
who wrap themselves up in a Sacramento
Union for protection during a thunder storm,
to assist in electing the Copperhead candi-
da.e.