Year: 1871

the day we first set foot on the soil OF Pa


Ger county, in August, 1919, every word
uttered, every line written, and every official
and non-oficial public act of ours for this
twenty-five years has been for the good and
honor of the great body of our people of all
parties, in religious accordance with our best
judgment, and knowing in our heart that
these are truths, we propose to say few
brief and very, very plain words to the pco


pie that elect and the delegates that will
meet in the Court house here next Monday.
For the last eight years our county has been
robbed Of hundreds Of thousands of dollars;
our Courts have been loose, lax and inefi-
cient, while peculation and incompetency, if
not downright corruption has been the rule,
and honesty, efficiency and open-hearted
fair dealing with the public has been the ex


ception in our county officials and Legislative
been grinding the material substance out of
the people, while the officials, most of them,
have been only plotting and taxing their
brains to see how they could get more
money out Of the taxpayers and into their
own pockets. These facts we will prove to
all intelligent men of all pa ties before the
9th day of September next, if the Conven-
ton of Monday will place before the people
men who promise a radical change, men in
whose personal fitness, honesty and integri-
ty we can hope for fair dealing towards the
public and economy of the hard-earned tax


es of our people; 9th rwisc there will be no
use of our longer taxing our exertions, con-
sumug our time and making enemies Of
those who would be gladly our friends, if
we would permit their sins Of omission and
commission TO lie hidden from the public eye.
As a voter, we will be content to choose the
least of two evils, but as an editor We acW
not puff Or defend incompetency or promised
negligence or rascality. TO this Convention
we look with hope, because we believe it will
neither commit the folly Or sin of placing any
man on the ticket whose Whole past history
for honesty, intelligence, sound Judgment,
industry and morality is not guarantee
that will command the respect and insure the
confidence of the whole public in his honor,
integrity and fitness for the position Let
the Convention and every delegate in it de-


termne to lay aside and forget all personal
and neighborly feelings and bury, for that
day, all private malice or enmity SO far as
his duty to the public is concerned and think
and act only for the good Of the public. The
delegates to this Convention should act with
as much solemnity and with as great de-


gree of consciousness and impartiafty as
sworn .jurors-they having in their hands
the personal and material interests of the
whole people of the county for the next two
years. No man that would loose "A vote,
or one to the ticket, or upon whom the
slightest suspicion rests or could be charged,
should, for a moment, urge his nomination
before the Convention; and if such there be
they should be treated only as their merits
deserve Offices were not made for men,
but for the benefit Of the public, and they
should only be given to those who earn
them by their devotion to the public inter
ests The saying that "the Office should
seek the man, and not the man the Office, y
is a true one, and worthy of our deep con-
sideration, and especially at this time. Gen


orally speaking (there are exceptions to this
rule) the man who has met with no special
Affections of self, family or business, and
whose only plea for the emoluments of office
is for the sake of the pay, is not fit man to
be entrusted with the business management


of the public funds or interests. These con-
siderations, however, should have no weight
with the Convention where the known ca
pacity, honesty, and prompt and untiring
business habits of the man are known to the
public. Our party cannot elect weak
ticket, and if weak and vulnerable men are
placed on it, they will be found beaten when
the votes are counted out, even if portion
of the candidates are elected. One man
placed on the ticket in whom the public has
no confidence weakens the whole and endang-
ers not only himself but the whole party and
public Plenty of men are willing to take
'the chances" but the Convention should
take no chances Of either bad officer or
one that will be beaten if the tickets run
even. 1t would be objectionable and ex-
ireme folly, after we have been beaten in
this county for the last eight years by ma
iorities ranging from two to eight hundred
votes for our Convention, now that we see
bare chance of success and have a hope of
relieving the people of Placer from the de-
vourng sharks, to weigh our ticket down
with single dead weight. There is no