1850 American Gold Baron

Chapter 484: Digging for Gold in Shit

Author: fish nest

Chapter 484: Digging for Gold in Shit

Gervin wore glasses and carefully read the campaign statements and slogans of Buchanan and Scott.

Democratic candidate James Buchanan advocated safeguarding the sovereignty and integrity of states, opposed interference in states' internal affairs, and opposed the forced implementation of abolitionism. He supported the development of the domestic economy and the strengthening of railway construction.

Support the construction of the Yucatan Canal to increase trade between the United States and Central and South America, and strengthen the United States' influence in the Americas. Implement President Monroe's American strategic thinking that America is for Americans.

In addition, Buchanan opposed the power of "intellectuals" and believed that political and administrative positions should be placed more in the hands of ordinary people.

The slogan shouted by Buchanan was: "Cosmos and Montague iris (two flowers), the country forever; Buchanan and Bricklin (their names), united."

Cosmos and Montague iris are two flowers that represent the interests of different regions, while Buchanan and Bricklin represent two different political factions. Buchanan tried to emphasize that different groups should unite and unite.

National interests come first.

On the surface, this old boy opposes too many intellectuals taking power and supports more ordinary people participating in politics, but the slogans he shouts are formal and not at all close to the people. They are somewhat insincere.

Whig candidate Milton Scott advocated decentralization, administrative reform and tax cuts to ease domestic political tensions.

Support more job opportunities and rights for black people and immigrants.

Oppose "fundamentalist" political and religious forces and advocate reform of the education and judicial systems.

Oppose expansionism and involvement in wars and conflicts with Britain and France.

Coaster's slogan is much simpler and easier to understand: "American ideas, American workers, American products."

After carefully reading the campaign ideas and slogans of the two men, Gervin finally understood why Fremont would say that he would not vote for them even if he threw his vote into the cesspit.

Regarding the core issues of slavery and abolition, both of them unanimously chose to continue to work together.

They as far away as California are deeply disappointed with the two men's claims, not to mention those voters in the eastern districts.

"I am deeply worried about the situation in the next four years." Ge Wen's face was full of worry.

Judging from the political propositions put forward by the two men, neither of them has the ability to save the crisis.

"Fortunately, California is far away from the center of the vortex, so it won't be able to affect us for a while," Fremont said.

This is the only thing worth celebrating.

The cultural and intellectual level of Kuomintang members varies greatly. Some party members (mainly from the nouveau riche) were scratching their heads and scratching their heads anxiously after seeing that the campaign materials of the two men were still unclear.

For example, Sartre and Xu Zicai had a relatively low level of education. Although they could clearly read the words on the document, it was still difficult to understand the meaning clearly.

Upon seeing this, Liang Yao became the class representative and summarized the two's core political opinions.

James Buchanan: defended state rights, protected federalism, upheld the Constitution, protected the interests of the South, opposed the expansion of slavery, promoted a balanced foreign policy, and opposed intervention in conflicts between great powers.

Milton Scott: Improved social and economic conditions through government intervention, supported national banking and internal reforms, opposed the expansion of slavery, promoted trade liberalization and western pioneering.

After summarizing, Liang Yao did not forget to add the sentence "Study hard and read more" at the end. After doing this, Liang Yao asked his assistants Carnegie and Coney to copy a few copies and give them to party members with low education levels to read.

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"You must study hard when you go back, otherwise even if you sit in the parliament building, you will just be a puppet on strings at the mercy of others." Xu Zicai secretly made up his mind.

As for Sartre, he didn't care much about his low cultural level. He just wanted to guard his three-quarter acre of land in Sacramento.

"Sir, who do you think you are more optimistic about?" Ge Wen asked Liang Yao, who had not yet expressed his opinion. He wanted to hear Liang Yao's opinion.

"No one is optimistic about it." Liang Yao shook his head, "If you have to dig for gold from the shit, go to Buchanan. I am more optimistic that the Democratic Party can win this election."

The word "dig for gold in shit" caused a burst of laughter in the hall, which slightly livened up the atmosphere of the meeting.

The Democratic Party is now in ruins, but the historical background is there, and the chance of winning is still better when the opponent also pulls his hips.

Furthermore, Buchanan emphasized that he would not reduce state rights after being elected. Among the many proposals of the two men, this was the only one that attracted Liang Yao.

"If you all understand the ideas and slogans of the two candidates and have no objections, just vote."

A quarter of an hour later, California Secretary of State Gervin began presiding over the voting.

Liang Yao and Fremont voted first, and both voted unanimously for Buchanan.

Liang Yao was also helpless and could only blame the Whig Party for being too disappointing. As long as the Whig Party was more powerful internally and the candidates they introduced were more reliable, which could give Liang Yao some hope, he would be willing to give it a try and support him.

A handful of Whigs.

After all, the Whig Party had a more friendly attitude toward California than the Democratic Party, and he and Fillmore were old acquaintances.

In this election in history, Buchanan received 174 votes in the Electoral College, surpassing Fremont's 114 votes. As for the candidate promoted by the Whig Party, young Milton Scott, he only received a poor vote.

of 8 votes.

There is no way to fight against such a huge gap, so it would be better to just sell the Democratic Party a favor.

To put it bluntly, if Liang Yao had himself run for president and participated in this election, he would have received more votes than Scott.

After the voting ended, Gervin and his assistants counted the votes in the ballot boxes.

"The results of this vote: Buchanan: 35 votes, Scott: 2 votes."

After the statistics were completed, Gervin read out the voting results to the core members of the Civic Party as usual and asked.

"Do you have any objections? If you have any objections, you can raise them now. If you question the voting results, you can recount them again."

"No."

Everyone expressed no objection.

"Since there are no objections, today's meeting is over. When you go back, you will publicize the content of the meeting and the voting results in your own constituencies, and inform all party members not to forget to attend the Civic Party's plenary conference on September 10." Ge

Wen said.

After Gervin announced the end of the meeting, the core members of the Civic Party began to exit in an orderly manner.

The core members of the Civic Party mainly come from California and Oklahoma.

Although the average educational level of the members of the Civic Party is not as good as that of the Democratic Party and the Whig Party, there are many upstarts with low educational levels.

However, due to the consistent fundamental interests of party members, every meeting of the Civic Party is very orderly and harmonious.

The Democrats and Whigs had pistols in their arms, pockets, and civilized sticks in their hands. It had never happened in the Civic Party that they would start a fight in the Assembly over a disagreement.

Of course, with Liang Yao and Fremont presiding over the meeting, the Civic Party members would not dare to make any mistakes.

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May 18, 1856.

Rong Hong and Huang Kuan brought Theodore Dwight Woolsey, the president of Yale University, and a group of professors selected by Woolsey to California for inspection.

At this time, transportation between California and the East was not very convenient, and people in the East had very limited understanding of California.

California is a new state, and the stereotype of Californians from the east is that of nouveau riche. They are rich, vulgar, and of low quality.

The impression of California still remains that California is a wild land that has not been deeply developed. After all, as a new state that was only established in 1851, California is still very young.

Most easterners think that California should be a relatively backward state like Arkansas and Missouri. The only difference is that California has gold and oil, so Californians are much richer than people in Arkansas and Missouri.

Influenced by what he saw and heard, Woolsey also believed that California should be like this.

Perhaps the situation will be slightly better in big cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, where there are some relatively strong industries. After all, you can often buy some products made in California in the eastern markets.

Regional discrimination exists everywhere, and the United States is certainly not immune.

In addition to regional discrimination between the north and the south, America also has discrimination against border states and border areas in the old eastern states.

This discrimination can be briefly summarized as discrimination between the east and the west (the old states of the United States are located in the east, while the central and western regions were developed later and are generally called border states or regions).

Before the development of the West Coast region centered on California, the eastern region headed by the Thirteen Founding States was the absolute core region politically and economically in the United States. Its concept is similar to the eighteen Han Chinese provinces in China.

The Thirteen States of the Founding of the People's Republic of China are actually the eighteen provinces of the Han Dynasty in the United States. Of course, the Thirteen Founding States of the Republic of China are also divided into three, six, and nine levels, so I won't go into details here.

The political color of regional discrimination between the north and the south of the United States is stronger, while the economic color of discrimination against border areas in Laozhou is even stronger.

However, when Woolsey came to California in person and saw the customs and customs of California with his own eyes, Woolsey was greatly surprised.

The development of commerce and trade in California has exceeded his imagination, the scale of industry is larger than he imagined, and the industrial categories seem to be quite complete.

It doesn't look backward at all, it's even a bit developed?

Comparing New York and Philadelphia with San Francisco and Los Angeles in California is really inappropriate and very bullying.

However, it is not impossible to compare San Francisco and Los Angeles with the "second-tier cities" of this era in the United States such as Boston and Baltimore.

Of course, in careful comparison, San Francisco and Los Angeles are definitely not as good as Boston and Baltimore.

It's just that when Woolsey subconsciously compared San Francisco and Los Angeles with Boston and Baltimore, Baltimore and Boston had actually lost.

After all, the former was only founded five or six years ago, while Baltimore and Boston are both American cities with centuries of history. San Francisco and Los Angeles still have great potential that can be explored.

If California has performed as Woolsey expected, it is that the overall cultural quality level of California immigrants is indeed low.

Perhaps this is why the California Speaker invited him to come here to run a school?

Woolsey was thinking wildly.

(End of chapter)