Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1906-08-17
How is This Thus.

The short sightedneSS OF some o1nce
seekers is remarkable. When a man
is placed on party ticket, selected
according to- accepted methods of
party usage, by u convention com
posed of representatives selected in
orthodox fashion,,. the nominee has a
strong claim upon the rank and file of
the party generally. He can say
-"Here, l. have been selected as a
candidate by the convention of your
party, appeal to your party allegi-
ance to vote for me- And this is a
plea that cannot rightfuIly be set
aside, unless lack of fitness for the
position is the excuse for non-sup-
port. 1t is the duty of a republican
voter to support republican candi-
date regularly nominated, other things
being equal A republican is not
justified IN brushing aside party ties
for any frivolous excuse. But the
asplrant for office should be extremely
careful to place himself in position
to be able to claim the benefit of
party allegiance. And if he volunt-
arily cuts himself adrift from this
rule, it does not lie in his mouth to
complain if his claim for support is
largely repudi lated at the polls. A
sagacious politician seeking office
will never put club in the hands
of those upon whom he depends for
election, by which they may beat him
down at the ballot box. We are
prompted to these remarks by the
unprecedented action of q. Ii. Nc
Kenney, present assemblyman, and
now an aspirant for state senator
ship. He lives in Suffer Creek. At
the last legislature he sat in his seat
and permitted measures of vital i'm
port to his district to be rushed
through, and. has candidlY admitted
that he did not at the time they were
passed nor for months afterwards,
know their plain legal effect upon this
county. We believe that is the naked
ought to prove a good teacher, and g
man once caught out, should be a
little wary Of the ground he is tread
ing lest he spring another trap upon
himself. 1t is the policy of asplrants
for oGce to keep aloof as much as
possible from all compromising
alliances. The republican county
committee met in Suffer Greek re-
Gently. Mckinney is not member
of that body. 1t is a we'll established
unwritten law that a mem be1
cannot be admitted to seat in that
body on proxy. Proxies can only
be given to brother committeeman.
This did not phase the Assem- bI lyman.
He was there to do business, on q
proxy from lone. he was one of the
committee appointed to recommend
plan for the selection of delegates
to the state delegates,
mark you, which have the whole say
as far as. Amador is concerned in the
makeup Of the state, congressional
senatorial and assembly tickets. And
he recommended that the delegates
with such sweeping powers be ap-
pointed by the central committee.
THAT'S to say, he voted to take the
nominating authority away from the
people, and place it IN the hands of
five men of his own and the COM
mittee's choosing In other words,
he has assumed the right-on a proxy
too,-to name delegates to a conven-
tion that is expected to name him as
the republican candidate for senator
in this district. And should he be
selected as the candidate by the
district convention, what kind of a
predicament will he be placed in
when he appeals to party voters for
support. They can say to him.
"Why, by your own action you have
absolved us from all obligations as
paItisans to support you. You have
not Recognized US in your nomination.
You did not seek the candidacy
through regu lar channels of the party
machinery. We we're not consulted
in naming the party delegates from
AmadoI county that hepled to nomin-
ate you. You sanctioned the scheme
to ignore US in the matter - What a
suicidal dilemma for a candidate for
Office to voluntarily place himself in.
Only seven aliens have been ad-
mitted to citizenship in the superior
court of this county during the
current year. This is an unprece-
dentedly low record for general