The Silver State

HARD TO PLEASE.

The Republicans of California are exceedingly hard to please. George C. Gorham, Secretary of the United States Senate, and A. A. Sargent, a member of that body, came all the way from Washington immediately after the adjournment of Congress, to arrange matters for their benefit, and have spent months in selecting a ticket and framing resolutions, and yet the masses of the party are not satisfied. Those eminent individuals, one of whom holds office at Washington by appointment, and is really not a citizen of California, called a State Convention at the proper time and place, ran it to suit themselves, and saved the delegates much trouble by selecting the candidates and framing the resolutions, and yet there is grumbling and dissatisfaction. The ticket and platform are all, too, that could be desired. A majority of the former are known friends to the monopolies, while the resolutions are strongly against them, having been drawn up with great care to please the farmers and merchants. It is really distressing that the labors of unselfish individuals like Gorham and company are not appreciated by the bulk of the Republican party in California. It is too bad that candidates nominated to suit corporations and a platform framed expressly for the people, should receive such a chilling reception in all parts of the State. It is surprising that even Republican journals not owned by the monopolies should spurn and repudiate the ticket and the platform as the bastard conception of an alliance of the monopolies and office-seekers. These things are strange, but the most astonishing of all is the attempt of those who manipulated the Convention to make the honest Republicans of California father those bantlings as their own. They find, however, that the people and the press are not so easily gulled as they imagined, and the result of their connubial unions reveals its parentage so plainly that it fails to deceive the most unsophisticated Republican in the Golden State.