Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-07
IN OLD TU0LUMNE.
4 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION TwEN'
 TY-sn YEARS AGO.
u.ra-Fi,ssa Miners wns Delighted In A SathertDg of the Boys - msn with stomsShs Inurea to
 Bacon and Flapjack<-


 with stomsshs Inured to
 Bacon and FlaPjsekA npr,ntic- Muiford in San Francisco chroniele-l
 Hot Is the summers day. Very hot But not so heated is the physical stmos- nhsre of Sonora. Tuolumne county. as ihe mentsl The mental? Ay. the moral the immoral. the intellectual Whyf
 'Tis the day of the Democratic conven- ,ion met now twenty-six long years seone-the convention ratifying the nom i5a,Ions of Breckinridge and Lane for rresident and vice president of these then tpited States. but more especially and yi,ally to nominate good sound Demo. crats to certain county oliices-ottices ot importance, because then offices of great
 They are pouring in from Pine Log. from Columbia, Springfield, Shaw's Flat the mountains. Jimiown. MontezumS Chinese camp. Don Pedros. Red noun tain. Hawkins Bar. ha=sh's Flat Nsttlesnake. Jacksonville. stevens Bar; Oak Flat. First Garro,e. secoadd Carrote. the Green springs and Morcasin's creek. They poured in lsst night They poured much down last night. They came clad in long linen clusters. on raw boned mustangs. and nome on foot They are men of mark in their respective precincts, men of inhu- ence. strong men. and fighting men They are men who. day after day.. stand knee deep in the mud of the golden Gllu-
 vial as it Is being sliced away. or waist
 desp iu the river creek stream, laying
 walls and wing dams.
 They have the dinero in their pockets | They have the ore in their buckskins | They have left their ranches their ranch eros their cssas. their Tsmadas. They
 bessride cabsllos-nOt buuOs They are not burros Call one of them a burro, and he'd blow of the top of your cabeza | They disdain the English of their eastern | homes They speak the English trimmed
 with sparish-wiih Spanish learned from
 senors-and senoritas-of course.
 Most of them are -hecled They carry
 stern chassrs-under their linen dusters
 They gre resdy for war. They are on the
 w.rpath The war paint is on their rfaces
 The war whisky is in their stomachs. | They love war They do not exactly
 pray today for 6 shooting scrape But II
 one comes along they are on hand to ci.-
 ioyit
 They are men with hands hard and
 horny with stomschs indurated 10 bull
 beef. bacon and fap'acks They live in los
 cabins of ;heir own building-logs now
 cid and roi;en-logs eft full of creeping.
 crawling things ccntiPedes and such
 the tarantuls burrows near theiI
 deors: the horned toad frisks neal
 by in the June sunshine; the
 rsttiesnake becomes sCciGble and crawb
 down to pay them visits. About
 the noses oi these men al meal times buzz the yellow jackets -uninyiied guests-whose b.te IS worse
 than their bark-lovers of sweet condi menu. apple sauce and molSsses. adjunct 10 the meals of these hard and horny handed men of the southern mines
 Near their doors also is a thickly popu lated tree-s city of red ants-the reC ant of California the biting aut-a dis l ti.ctly smelling. and when crushed. no a pleasant smelling ant-an ant which car
 never bs driven cut of Its place of settle rnent These Democrsts-these men o
 Doc Pedro's and Hawkins Bar and Alge
 r.ne and Poverty Hill-have ofttnne 1, fought hard and perseveringly agains
 ths.e red ants-hlve dug up their holes have poured kettle on kettle of bCilinl water into their city-have psrbOiled
 boiled and otherwise destroyed them b. ? tbe thousand unto tic tens of thousands ! yet ultimately 10 nO purpose there IS
 them no cessation.
 - These are Jimtown Democrats. quart D crushe-s. pocket hunters, roosteTs Q }, Whisky Hill-burrowers from Tab r. mourtain-trsveiers of dead river boiTs f delviug in gravel eternity buried. brinstnl e forth to light bones Of the megatheriur n and iothyosaurus-poOr beasts who non e SEQ. never know their scientific names ]. This gray-shirtsd humble panied. wild eyed man is Allen Oliver ever sanguin |. ] of untold treasure in Table mountain ,r ever sanguine. also, as a Democrat Her be the sutton brothers of Nirginis-tc 1 tlers fighters horsemen and miners good fellows, large story -tellers; ready to s
 up all night. spirits always st high watei though coin in the purse has touched th ' iowes' water mark These are th u men of the river of the IuOlumn'
 of Jacksonville, Stevens bar led mcur e tain. Hawkins Svett's and Indian bar d men of stout hearts and broad feet. sand iS bar diggers. red-dirt singers. wing dam Q side-daTn head-wall builders rock ban a crevicers. packers of their own four an ! lacon for miles over rocky trails from th st bar store Co their cabins. hernits seclude r. in deep gulch recesSes. ugly men whe i water k ~backe17 in upon them from q H river claim below. men worth, cabi d blankets and tools included. say Sl0' ', men never discouraged because the be
 of the river did not pay this year. b' resolved 10 tackle the same old claim th A' neNt-the same old claim which fC Y years from May 10 November, hi i claimed their muscle. their money. the 1e time. their cIedit-snd never did pa and never will
 IL Hard baked and red Is the soil of II I'D hillsides on which stand their cabin ks Muddy and red the ditch water howir re past their doors. Thick. viscid and giu o' inous tue stun deposit made monthly D. their reservoirs ToilsOme the job of 80 Saturday afternoon cleaning it out ID 1 smell of rubber peryadeS their humh
 homes-rubber garments. rubber boot sn rubter pants
 .k Some have shaved themselves in th "a beautiful county convention morn. ,3 country town shave costs Q quarter. , quarter will buy two drinks. Econcu "a G wealth if mol health They have shaw " with dull rezors They have gasht - themselves literally in spots. They ls not miRd this, SO long as they root ol le the siutby beard A little bioOd-lettiI D! does them good Blood tinges their shi 'p collars IL has dried there. A scent ed yellow soap hangs about them. It V De en honest miners shave
 These are the men of the mountain Cd E. of SonOra-dwellers mid snow. ice sl be sugar pines. bear hunters. fox trappel
 road builders, quartz delivers. hill clim ne CTS. loggers. lumberers. sawmilel or dwellers on the North Fork" of [ al Tuolumne.
 s- Americans these, all who pour into
 nora Americans from the bayous ad Louisiana, from the Alabama coito I fslds. from the South Carolina Ri o, swamps and the North Carolina tar [, S esu: Maine lumbermen, Illinois -bT
 men. Massachusetts men, Americans frC 'u Canada, Americans from Ireland Amc
 cans from everyvheTe-but still Am
 ioans
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