Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1878-10-19

! ATTACHMENT OF N-PARTIsANs.-
When the thinking and lsw-abding
people OF the State-throwing aside part
isan prejudices-organized under the
name of Non Partisan. to keep the forma-.
ton of the new organic law out of the
hands of the communistic rsbble train
ing under the banner of Kearneyism,
met and nominated men to represent
them in the Con sttutionsl Convention
for that purpose regarding them as men
possessing high sense Of honor, they
did net think it necessary to bind them
up with pledges as to their course of &C
tion in that body. Relying upon their
honor to act in gssd faith with each other
for the common purposes of the organi-
cation (the defeat of the com munistic
element in the Convention), they were
not loaded down with instructions in
sulting alike to their intelligence and
manhood. However humiliating the fact
may be to our pride, we are obliged to
confess that the conduct of a portion
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Partisan delegates in the Convention has
proven 10 us that we have been eyre
giously mistaken in the estimate we
placed upon their sense of homer. The
perfdy ofthese men becomes more black
in the estimation of hon orable men,
through the fact that no promises were
enacted frsm them-their honor alone
being the security held 6y the people for
their good faith in carrying out the pur-
poses of the organization which elected
them.
That W. j. Tinnin, when lending him
selfto the Kearney faction to defeat
Judge Hoge-ths choice OF four-filths OF
the Non Par.isans-had not ssld out the
appointment of committees to that faction
for their support, in the event sfhis being
elected prssid ing officer of the Cunven-
ton, will be hard 10 make men believe
who have any conception of the .inuosi-
ties in the course of fourth rate men like
Tinnin, who have to depend on manage
ment instead of merit, when seeking
nomination for Congress. The course Of
Tinnin, Howard, and others of that ilk,
at the frat meeting of the Non. Partisans
in caucus, in objecting to any action that
would bind them to vote on the organi
cation OF the Convention with q majority
of their party, prepared us in a measu re-
fer the su bsequent evidences of their bad
faith to the people who elected them.
Defeating Mr.. BorLck, one OF the bsst
qualified mer in the State, for the posi-
ton OF Secretary of the Convention, with
an utterly icoMpetent nam like j. A.
johnson, is another act in the drama of
bad faith on the part of these renegade
Non Partsans, who desire, for their own
future purpose, to make capital with the
Ksarneyites by assisting them to punish
by defeat the man whom they hated
above all others for his bold denuncia-
tons of their revolutionary teachings.
With us, it is no justification for their
action that the NAN elected ia place OF
Mr.. Boruck has always been an opponent
Of Kearneyism. The fact that the COM
munists were moving every lever to de-
feat Mr.. Boruek, shsuld have been reason
sufficient to cause every honorable Non
Partisan in the Convention to rally in his
support.
We hear it often said that there is
runt in every litter of pigs, black sheep
in every flock, and scrub in every family.
That the saying is true as regards SEINE
families, we have living evidence in the
composition of the Non Partisan element
in our Constitutional Convention Butte
County Register.