Weekly Trinity Journal

"DEMOCRATIC STANDARD." - J. R. Hardenburgh
announces prospectus of an Administration journal, at Sacramento, named The Standard - Ex-
Judge Botts, editor. In declaration of intention,
Botts said: "It will advocate the interests of the
party, the whole party, and nothing but the party."
And in that event we shall look for an early
funeral. Six better political writers than Judge
Botts, all writing for "nothing but the party"
twenty-three hours a day, might kill the journal
sooner. It has been the mistake of every demo-
cratic paper, living and dying at the capital, to
stagger daily under an over-burden of politics.
This pleases a few score of politicians, but keeps
the paper from extension among citizens who
might be persuaded to support and adhere to
democracy. Established, orthodox democrats do
not require a journal for stimulus; it is the wa-
vering and undecided who need argument and
exhortation; no man in this State can make a
popular paper by overcharge with politics. It
must be a newspaper; in general interest, it must
equal independent journals, or it is confined to
the Custom House, the Post Office, Indian Agency
and political cellars.

Now, if an act of ours could make Judge
Botts' paper famous, influential and opulent, we
would hasten to its performance; we most sin-
cerely wish for the Standard's extension and
success. Botts can write a column or so a day
that will command respect, and govern and add
to the party - no one man can do more. He must
have help by writers superior to himself in knowl-
edge of journalistic details, though inferior in
capacity to construct a solid political "leader."
If he will prepare and print three or four columns
a day of political matter, modified by a few
accidents, police reports and scraps of mining
news - as other journals have done there, he may
prepare for literary obsequies in about a year.
Others, contemptible in political opinion, unscru-
pulous in principle, malevolent in intent and
abounding in news, will rub their silver-glazed
palms in miserly glee over the remains of Judge
Botts' fallen Standard.

We trust these remarks will not be esteemed
impertinent; observation has convinced us of
their truth; we wish, above all political things
that the Standard may extend, strengthen and-
pay; we hope it may be a permanent journal at
the capital, exemplary not only in party commen-
taries but in all sound policy.