Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-07-12
THE APPROACHING PRIMARIES.

One week from tonight the Republi-
can party of Trinity county are called
upon to assemble in the various precincts
and elect delegates to the County Con
vention to be holden in WeaYeryille the
Tuesday following, At these primaries
every Republican voter in the county
should be present, and delegates should
be chosen who will truly and faithfully
carry out the wishes of those whom they
are elected to represent. To accomplish
this, men must be elected, not because it
will be a source of personal qualification
to themselves, but rather that they pos
sess, in an eminent degree, the confidence
of the community in which they reside.
The source Of all government is with the
people, and if the people desire the gov
eminent TO be administered by honest and
competent officials, it devolyes upon them
to take the initiatory steps TO that end
There are questions of State and local in
terest upon which the Convention must
pass in the platform to be adopted, and it
is desirable that the platform embody the
true sentiment Of the majority of the
party. To give utterance to these senti-
ments it is desirable that the best citizens
of each precinct be accredited as dele
gates to the Convention, when we can re-
ly that the wishes of the people both in
the choice Of nominees and in the declar-
ations Of sentiment upon matters Of pub
lie moment will be realized.
1t has beon too much the custom in
times past to leave the management Of
the primaries in the hands of those self
ishly interested, and this course of action
has been attended with the logical results.
They were, especially in the smaller pre-
cincts, manipulated in the interests Of
some local candidate who, to secure his
own nomination, did not hesitate to aid
in foisting Ind men upon the ticket,
who were not the choice of the people,
and whose unpopularity endangered the
success of those who were. We do not
apprehend that such will be the result in
the forthcoming primaries and conven-
tion, for the reason that the party vote
in the county is so close that any ticket
made up by =" log-rolling" will be sure
to suffer defeat. To be successful this
year in Trinity county, the Republican
ticket must be unexceptionable, and with
such ticket VIC can sweep the field. And
if such ticket is not presented to the
people for their suffrages in September
next, the fault will be owing to the apa-
thy OF the voters and to no other reason.
The present canvass differs from all pre-
ceding ones in the county in the fact that
so few names are mentioned in connec-
ton with official position. With the eX-
ception of the present incumbcnts, we
hardly hear the name of man proposed
for anything. Thts is due, partly TO the
fact that the contest in any event promis-
ises TO be close one partly, that the
fees and salaries attached to county Off
ccs are not at the high standard Of for
mer years. Yet it is healthy political
sign, inasmuch as it promises ticket
fresh from the people and free from polit-
ical trickery.
Again, in the composition of plat
form of principles, we want conven-
ton Of men each Of whom is capable Of
judging for himself, with none of that
class who stand with open mouth, ready
to shout "aye" to anything, merely for
the pleasure Of hearing the sound of their
own voices. There may be no State Re-
publican Convention this year, and the
various county Conventions will give ex-
preston to the sentiments of the party
upon questions Of general and local inter
est. 1t too frequently happens that in
the adoption of platform the report Of
a committee is adopted without question,
and the convention, though 1t has heard
the resolutions read, finds when they are
published that they were not considered
so carefully as they should have been.
Once more we say to Rcpublicans-ral-
ly in your respective precincts and see
that only the best material you have
comes TO Weayerville as representatives
of your precincts. We do not and must
not shut our eyes to the fact that we have
hard fight TO win and must put forth
every energy to win it.