The Placer herald., 1870-12-24
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

Ior OuDernatOrlal nSure-heao, pus 81 iAi
they have not "got the color" One fellow
panned out fshy Democrat called 'Sel-by,
who has been selling and buying iron in San
Francisco AID running shot-tower with a
gang of mongolians, and rushed with him in
puddle of dirty waite: and black sand to
bis fellow mongrcls. They put on their nose
pincers, got their heads close to the pan,
shook the water back and fourth, fingered
out Selby, shook their heads and said: why
that's Sslby, the fellow who gave the Dem
ocratc State Central Committee 1000 in
1867, to help them to beat us,-he won't
do, heave him out and try another lead and
overheard went Selby. Just then little
mongrel from Butte county came up with his
pan, saying ne had struck something. An
examination ensued and directly the chap
was fshed out, when one fellow said, "why
l know that chap, that's Jesse Oh! Good
win, from that pesterous little place, Marys-
vile, where Gorham come from, and him
and Gorhan quarreled because Gorham
would not let him run for Congress, and all
Gorham's friends would scratch him, and
besides that don't you rccollect when we were
all Knol0 Noth,ngs We elected Jesse Oh! to
the State Senate and when he went there the
Democrats gave him an important committee
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never opened his head about the red -mouthed
micks, or ths hairy teethed Dutch, and
they all said yes, that's true At this point
another spoke up and said. yes, and what's
that Q doing in his name-it might as well
be OTool, O'Molroe or O'Flaheriy, and I'll
bet colored Cadetship that he is an Irish
man in disguise, and he shan't fool us again.
They then voted that the little Butte
mongrel's lead was not worth continen-
tal-wouldn't pay cent to the pan, and
overheard went Jesse oh! The next pros
pector that arrived was one that had been
down delving in the barren sands of Santa
Barbara and San Louis Obispo He had
the color, sure enough, but on examination
it was found to be too brown for gold, no,
white enough for silver, and no. sufficiently
dark for even black sand When this UNI
bra was detached from the rubbish in the
pan, lie was discovered to be Romaldo Pa
checo, young man rather below mcdiocracy
in talent, without any decided opinion on
any question, and Of thorough MIX and wa
ter composition. The first speaker said he
would have no serious objections to placing
the gentleman, or his picture, which would
be the same thing, in the Gubernatorial chair
provided he could control his actions a, Gov
ernor, except as TO the dinner table, as he
thought he might be trusted there; or, he
would even consent that the young mar
might give bill Of sale of himself to an ex-
ecutive committee, the papers with wink
to be drawn up by Horace Hawes, SO that
the new Governor. considering his cslibcr,
would never know whether he had any rights
left or not-''or any other man" Thi.
brought number two to his feet, who De
nounced the proposition, and said that the
party had been batting the native population
with mixed meat, when they demand pure
"karney" or hog, long enough--that they
had run this man through enough of Offices,
and he defcd any member of the party, let
him be white, black or yellow to tell wha,
this man had ever done, either as rascal OF
otherwise; as for himself he preferred a no
torous rascal to nobody, any time, and the
blood be upon their own heads-his
hands were washed of the whole proceedings
and that if these were the best men they
could pan out, hs would 90 with the revenue
reformcrs which was only new name for
men that was ruled out from among Grant.
thieves. Number three here said that he
understood the little "iddIe de dad" of the
first speaker, that every body knew that
Romaldo was incompetent to be Governor
and that now "the cat was out of the wallet, "
and that No. l should not turn him and hi.
friends out in tho cold, and he also, wa.
done with this last candidate. The fourtl
speaker said that it wa. evident that thi.
last pan furnshed no palatable or dgestible
food, that he could neither read or speak
and that if he was put up the Democrats
would nominate Roach who could both write
and speak English, Spanish and German
and that then all their geese would b,
cooked. Here the other pans were exhibited
and the prospectors separated, each taking
his own little Gubernatorial fgure-heae
home with him.
To be Continued.