Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1868-03-14
COUNTY CONVENTION.

We publish this week the call of the
County Central Committee for Convention
to be held at San Andreas on Wednesday.
March 25th, for the purpose of electing dele
gates to the State Convention on the 3lst
inst The primary elections are to be held
on Saturday, the 2lst, and will be conducted
in accordance with the provisions of Porter s
Primary Election Law. Generally, sufficient
importance is not attached to the election of
delegates, neither at primary elections nor in
Conventions. 1t is a position which is
sought only by aspiring pot-house politicians.
who have their own ends or the interests of
the welfare Of the party at heart are exclud-
ed. In making up the tickets for delegates
it is next to impossible to persuade men who
are not seeking political preferment to allow
their names to be used, while in every COM
munity there is a class of noisy, ranting.
political vampires who are constantly push
ing themselves forward, and if they can by
any means secure seat in Convention,
are in the zenith of their glory. As nat
ural consequence such bodies are usually
composed of class of individuals who are
actuated solely by desire to enhance their
own interests instead of building up and
Strengthening the organization to which they
profess allegiance. 1t is a notorious fact that
the people have nothing to say, as general
thing, in relation to the choice of delegates,
or the nominations which they make in
Convention. Those things are ''put up" by
few who are in the "ring," without any
reference to the wishes of the masses of the
party. To this cause is applicable the NOM
inatlon of SO many OBJECTIONABLE candi-
dates, disrupting the organization and lead
ing to defeat. Delegates to political con-
vention should be chosen from among those
who have no foes to punish or friends to
reward men of good judgment and sound
sense, who cannot be bought for any purpose
whatever, and who will be guided in their
action by proper regard for the welfare of
the party which they represent. When such
men are entrusted with the management of
the affairs Of party, the will of the minority
shapes Its policy and selects its candidates ;
strength of the organization can be directed
to the accomplishment of particular object
as easily as though it were unit. We sim
cerely hope that the Union men of Calaveras
will elect none but trustworthy men-those
upon whose honesty and independence they
can confidently rely-on Saturday next.
Although no nominations are to be made by
the Convention which the delegates will
compose, it is of the most vital importance
that their selection be made in such man.
ner as to give satisfaction to the entire party.
layed; butit will certainly not require the
exhibition of any great degree of tact on the
part of the leaders of the Union party to
harmonize its discordant elements and pre-
sent an unbroken front to the foe this Fall.
No extraneous issues can be brought into the
fight. The Democracy have unmasked their
position and flung their banner defantly to
the breeze. There is no neutral ground, no
opportunity for "soreheadism," Let the
delegates to the County and State Conven-
ytions be men who are impelled by higher
motives than personal aggrandizement, ju-
diciously selected from both wings of the
party, and we have no fears but the vote Of
California will be recorded for the Union
nominee for President