Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-04-17
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kRDrESSlONAI-PURlTY POLL.
TlClANS.s'
From the Sacramento Record.l

bROrESS1ONAI-PURlTY POLL.
TlC1ANS.''
From the Sacramento Record.l
Professional Politicians has be-
me a favorable term of reprOlch
4 urled" by the Professional Purity
litician out Of office, at his success
competitor in office. Strictly speak
:. politics is the most exalted of all
pfessions. The fact that the term
Professional oliti:ian," which ought
rank rs one of respect with Minis.
of the GOspel'-bOth dealing with
problems Of mans highest good
mid have come to be one of reproacf,
all, is a startling example of the cor
Aptions that have been wrought in
nerican politics by rogues, chiefest
hong whom appears to be the latest
,pring of the system in its bad ma
Srily-the Professionally Purity" va
" of the breed. The freshest de-
klopment concerning one bright eX-
Slplc of this varietv-the Governor
taifornia-comes in the telcgraphic
kmtches from Washington. "Gross
nrcularities" in the Sacramento Dis
kct of the Internal Revenue, are re-
brted bv the special Treasury agents.
Ia leading offender, say they, is the
hisky firm of Booth Il Co. The
I'M. they add, has neglected to keep
Sat record of its traffic which the Gov
nment-i. e., the law-Uquires as Il
Kcck upon attempted frauds OH its
Syeuue. The firm said it was in
rmed by revenue Officer-(dOes not
nmrmler his name, nor him that
&need not keep the book; j. e., that it
Vas at liberty to violate the law, with
~ provisions Of which it proves itself
0eq,iainted. To place Il lust estimate
this statement Of the case, we may
Il assisted by supposing the field of
attion changed. Suppose the field to
Il Boston, and the story to be told Of
Mr. Congressman Butler, for instance.
Then the tale would read, that grave
Irregularities have been discovered in
Ae Boston district; the firm of Butler
be Government book; it says it was
Did by revenue Otlicer-(does not
how who it was that it need not do
D. At this narrative, how would the
FofesSional-puri,y papers--how would
c country-throw up their hands
nd cry with one accord, "TOO thin.
Uen.j min; much, much too thin."
BE fe,r that they would even intimate
\ elief-(we know they would en-
BRITAIN it, that the simple head Of the
lrm had been swindliny. We should
= sorry to have anything Of this sort
Expressed, or even believed. cencern-
lng he Governor Of California; which
ol,ows that there are some advantages
3ct enjoyed by the professional purity
pOli,ician over the mere professional
Dolilician.
Here is another one of this new va
1ie;y of an old breed. The profession
Q-Purity Minute Clerk of the last As
embly refused to give up the minutes
= proceedings kept by him, for trans
hi>>ion to the State Printer; whcre-
pon the Assembly, by resolution,
ile ted him to do so, and then adj
bur;:cl. lie refused to obey the re>o-
nion. and exacted and received Sll3
pr the manu>cript-the property of
be State, which the State paid him to
trpare and which he claimed as his
1wn private property! But the moral
Or legal qualities of this act must not
De confOundcd with those of larceny:
A'Con>ev' the wise it call"
j The profcSSiOnal-pllrity politician has
burned up in Oregon, and II local paper
tluS describes a batch Of him: One is
ss'an intriguing politician i'll Oregon
over since the Territory began; king
of all the professional wire-pullcr>
Hho ever operated here; chief man.
Dyer of the old Salem clique of u;l>av-
Dry memory" Another ''has often
served. or sat rather, in the I.egisla-
Snre. and has been u politician to the
fxlent of his capacity; a regular pro
e e'>ional.' \ third: Ibid perform
furng four years of arduouS service
IN the Legislature the prodigious intel
lect,'al feat OF drawing up and intro
during a dog law, which measure,
however, a dcgcnerage Legislative body
declined to pass. Mr.. - is another
.rroteS>iona!;' a fourth ''is Il small
LAWYER and a very noisy profession
a. \ fifth had not ''in ten years
jaasted bread except it was bought with
money drawn by him from the Fed
eral Treasury. But having lost his po-
snon he thinks reform necessary"
verify one might suppose our
oregon 3 contemporary to be describing
ie candidates on California profess
lohai-Purity ticket, or even one noni-
aled IN the city of Sacramento. In
" thlS, 1t is plainly to be seen that the
professional purity" breed is to be
tecognized as sub-variety of the spe-
pes politician, and diStinguiShable by
disposition not to keep its internal
te'eii'le accounts and to convey" any
public property within its reach.
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