Year: 1859




The Fillmore Ranger and tho Know


NoGhlhgs.


The following extract from the Stock.
ton Weekly Democrat was designed more
particularly for "the latitude" of San Joa-
quin. but, when it is taken into consider
alton that the editor of the Express once edi.
ted the Stockton Republican, it will be seen
that it strikes a little into this latitude also:


" We would inform that paper the Stockton
Republican that the Buchanan paper of Marys
vile that does the Government "advertlsing'
was also a Know Nothing. We suppose the De
mocrat means to say the editor of the paper, and
not the paper itself And further, we would re-
mind its proprietors, that the San Joaquin Re
publican was also edited by Know Nothing for
several months last yearly Know Nothing,
too, who had never voted the Democratic ticket,
and who refused to vote for Buchanan, and who
is stronga whig that he has not voted at a
Presidential election since he cast ms vote Tor
Henry Clay, being indignant at the people for not
electing him, and having on that account declar-
ed he would not vote for President. Under
such circumstances, this is not the latitude for
| the Republican" to complain about Know Moth
| iups. If is so opposed to editors editing Dem
ocratic papers who had been Know Nothings,
why did it have one who edited Know Nothing
paper, the "Fillmore Ranger" Of San Francisco,
! to so long preside over its columns? And why
did il advocate the election of Dent, who had been
a Know Nothing, to the State SenateS'


Our neighbor of the Express will perceive
that the Stockton Democrat has somehow or
other got the same opinion that we had, when
we propounded to him the inquiries of Satur.
day morning, to wit: that he, the editor Of
the Express, was the leading spirit of the
"Fillmore Ranger" when that paper was
campaigning it SO terriically "agin the elec-
ton of Jeems Buchanal."


Our cotemporary emphatically denies that
he ever edited the Fillmore Ranger. Well,
then, we would ask him if he never wrots for
it? We would further ask him, if he is not
familiar with the song that was sung during
the campaign and on the eve of the election
in 1856, but never after it, beginning with
the words,


"Who are your I'm Fillmore Ranger"
and set to the tune of


''Where now is the good old Daniel ?" &c.


AS the editor of the Express very compla
Gently intimates that he has very triumphant
ly answered our former interrogatories, by
the declaration land similar ones) that he
"went quietly into the Democratic ranks
Uery quietly it must have been indeed-after
he found that the Wing party had really and
indubitably gone in, we shall merely ask him
one more question, and let the matter of his
Democracy, which has been of such very
long standing drop. We would like to know
of him, ifhe did not in 1856, as the pro tenn
editor of the Marysville Herald, write against
the Democratic Party and the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. If so. was it
before, or after that paper dropped its Know
Nothingism and hoisted the flag of Republi-
canism?


While we are on this subject of Know
Nothingism, and its relations, we may as well
ask the Lecompton press, generally, if they
are not aware that this talking about the
Know Nothings is not rather sore subject
with majority of the leaders of their own
party. Why if we wanted to look for the
greatest number of Ex-Know Nothings con-
gregated together at this time in this State,
we should 90 into the present Lecompton
Legislature at Sacramento. These Lecomp-
ton members were elected under an organi
zation established by the Lecompton State
Convention of August last which conyen
tion was presided over by an Ex-Know
Nothing, and the body of it composed in such
a manner, that, as Coffroth has humorously
said, che could have gone into it with the
Know Nothing sign and emptied the hall of
about half its contents" !" Furthermore, it is
very well known, that many very many Of
those SO called Democrats who are now iden
titled with the Lecompton organization, were
tie. first to desert the Democratic Party in the
memorable contest of 1855, and cause its de
feat 10y joining hands with its enemies. Had
it not been for their desertion the Know
Nothings would never have taken possession
of the State Government. Why did they
thus desert the Democratic Party? Because
the nominees of that party did not happen to
be of their particular clique or faction, and
they were determined to "rule or ruin" AS
they deserted the banner Of the Democracy,
then it is very fitting that they should de-
sert Democratic principles now, by opposing
that doctrine which is the main principle
of Democracy, doctrine of Popular Sow
eighty


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