Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1855-03-10


fitting finale to his political existence,
and leaves the industrious Doctor
about as fiat as mushroom after saw
log had rolled over it. 1t discloses TO
the pubic the per6dy and rottenness of
the Gwin faction, and must satisfy the
people of California, that an iEterreg-
nun in the Office of Senator is far pref
cradle to the reelection of Mr.. Gwin
The proprietors of the "Statesman,"
finding they were losing money in the
publication of a paper urging the re-
election of Mr.. Gwin, and to pay their
creditors were obliged to dispose of the
establishment. They then commenced
suit against VIM. VI. Gwin, and J. R.
Hardenburg, for the sum of $4,000
damages.
According to their complaint. filed in
the District Court of the 9th District of
California, they were induced to COM
mence The pnb 'ication of the States
man," and to advocate the reel elton of
Mr.. Gwin, by the defendants promising
to pay them 50, 800, and from time To
time furnish and pay to them suffi cicnt
sums of money to keep the paper from
loss. 1t is stated in the complaint that
Messrs. Gwin and Hardenburg, agreed
as soon as Gwin should get to Washing
ton to take the printing of the United
States laws from the ''Empire County
Argus," and give it to the Statesman"
to print at California prices. They fur
Their state in tn If complaint that they
complied with their pat of the contract
and that Mcssrs. Gwin and Hardenburg
failed in theirs-that by such failure
they have sustained damages to the
amount of 100000, and therefore bring
suit and ask Judgment for that amount
and costs.
\ card signed by J. W. Denver, Jas
II. Hardy, Sam Bell, and G. p. John
ston, pronounce the statements made by
"Gish and Woodward false in almo It
every particular
Messrs. Gish and Woodward in their
statement to the public on the discon-
finance of their paper, state that they
are practical printers and had purchased
the material for the purpose of estab-
fishing job printing office in Sacra
mento, and were induced to commence
the publication of a Gwin paper upon
promises as set forth in their complaint
The failure of the gentlemen to keep
their promises has caused them to lose
their office, together with vast sum
which they expected TO make Under
ordinary circumstances We should GER
tainly regret to see practical printers
meet with the loss of their establish
mcnt; but when practical printers be-
come the tools of selfish and corrupt
politicians, and lose their all we have
but little sympathy to expend in their
behalf. 1t seems strange that persons
with intelligence sufficient to learn the
art of printing could so far sink their
manhood and independence as 10 be-
come tools of aspiring and selfish dema-
gogues. A plea of Necessity will not
avail in country like this, where the
mines, with their vast wealth are open to
I'll. Had they preferred the man tn y
advocated, staked their all on the result,
and lost it, it would have looked much
better-no one would have been to
blame-nobody sued. The affidavit of
one party wonld not have been pronoun-
ced ''false in almost every particular
by another. But so it is. Those who
advocated the election of Gwin and were
to be rewarded by the robbery of others,
have prayed stern justice to compel their
compel their political idol to act an hon
orable part.
There, ye wise Saints behold your light, your star
Ye W CID be dupes and victims, asd ye ARK!"
There are doubtless ga few more OF
the same sort" left. How many other
Gwin papers have been expecting the
printing the Z. S. Laws, as soon as Gwin
could get it away from the empire
County Argus" We opine the an
nouncement that the Statesman" was
to have had that printing, will be indig-
nantly denied by at least ONE of DIR
OWNS rural organs.
The circumstances Attending the dis-
continuance of the Gwin organ at the
Capital, affords an illustration Of the
manner in which aspiring and unprinci-
pied politicians attempt to manufacture
public opinion. The same method wa:
attempted last year of starting papers tC
create n sentiment in favor of Sar