Daily National Democrat

New Men for Public Position.

We know not whether the wishes of the more intelligent masses of the people will be consulted by the incoming legislature in regard to the election of a United States Senator. But, we are quite certain that the public mind is much prejudiced against the selection of any of those old hacks, like Weller, who have heretofore represented, or affected to represent, us in that august body. The people have had enough of them. They have never done the State any good, and never would, were they to go to the Senate fifty years in succession. They are too limited in their views: too thoroughly partisan in their notions; too fond of showing favoritism where the public interest should rather be consulted; too liberal with the public money in the purchase of land et cetera for the Government, from the hands of private speculators; too Lime Pointish, too truckling and subservient to Executive dictation; too mindful of themselves and forgetful of California.

It is time to have new men—men of more integrity and of more ability.

We think, for instance, that the election of Joe Baldwin, of the Supreme Court, as the successor of Mr. Broderick, would give far more satisfaction than that of such a man as John B. Weller. Judge Baldwin is a man of unimpeachable honor, great consistency of character, and universally acknowledged ability.

B. F. Washington, too, is a man of far superior mental and moral caliber to our present Governor. Besides he has more independence of character, greater moral courage under exciting emergencies, more dignity in public position, less of the frothy demagogue, and would command far more respect in the Senate of the United States as well for his general bearing as for his qualifications as a public speaker. Besides, he is more entitled to respect as a partisan than John B. Weller, for he has never shifted his ground from one side of a political question to another, or trimmed his sail this way and that to suit the popular breeze as it seemed to change. He has gone straight on in the course originally chosen, and, right or wrong, has at least been consistent. He has not proclaimed himself one day for Douglas and the next against him. He has not vilified and abused the friends who stood by him in former times, in order to curry favor with faction which he believed to be in the ascendant.

We have no particular personal interest in the approaching Senatorial contest, but we feel inclined to give utterance to what we conceive to be the wish of the thinking class of the people in regard to electing new men to the responsible positions of the country.