The Placer herald., 1857-02-28
The San FIancisco Senatorial Election
What the Hot~purs and State Journal
would bring the Democratic Party To.

would bring the Democratic Party to.
On the 25th inst. an Election came off. in San
Francisco to fill the uneXpired term of Mr.. Til
ford. In n political point of view the Election
was not considered important and although the
Democrats of the young mems Club, and the Re
publicans made nominations. the issue was finally
narrowed down to contest between those who
sympathised with the Vigilance Committee of
last year and the opponents of it. Mr.. Wood
worth was the man set forward by the Vigillan-
tees. The result of the voting is abaut as follows:
! Woodwork 1901 votes; Jones. Democrat, 1908
votes; Tracy Republican, Al votes; total of votes
cast in the city 1881. This gives Woodwork
majority over Jones of 1898 and over Jones and
Tracy combined of ll21 Thus we that not
withstanding the great rcvusion in public opinion
which we have heard so much talk about not
withstanding the political thunders at the Capt.
tai, the people who were present and were
tors or spectators in the string scenes of May,
June and July last, after nearly {. years cool
reflection come up to the polls and reafirm the
correctness of that movement. This is their
deliberate jud dgement In their fierce zeal DEM
ocrat and republican forgot their antipathes,
ana pedded each others tickets anything and
everything to defeat the Vigilantees. If this is
true of San Francisco. how are we expected to
know more Of the right of the quarrel, living
we do at distance, and to decide more correctly
than they; yet if we are to follow the lead of
the State .Iouynai, we must drag in as of
the cardinal principles of Democracy opposition
to all who have ever participated in or counte-
nanced this revolutionary move.
koo in To Of anJt 1ia
no paper that has not denounced the Committee
as a miserable set of shopkeepers vendors of
soft Pork and sour -four" murderers and
strang glcrs. can be considered orthodox upon de-
mocracy, no democrat who has ever countenanced
the Committee is worthy of trust. Follow
their lead and what will be the result? there are
more vglantees in the country in proportion
than in the city Of San Francisco. this day, and
make this, as it will become when adopted at all
the one absorbing question, and the Democracy
will be swept from the ield-and by democrats
at that There is not an intelligent democrat in
the country that does not know this to be true,
no matter what he may say-Well let San Fran
cisco people settle their own di1icultes.-Our
blowers in the Legislature must shut Off their
gass and if the State Journal and its friends have
axes to grind they must take them to some other
mill-we'll not take the Vigilance question into
our Democracy.
TIE STATE PRIsoN,-Ihe House Commit
tee have made what appears to be very
impartial report upon the condition of this
establishment. 1t is quite lengthy, contain
inc much information of interest to the
public which we will try and give our readers
next week. They arrive at the conclusion
: that the managers heretofore and the pres
, ent lessee should have been indicted long
since for permitting the convicts to rQn at
large, that Estel has violated bis contract
and ought to be dismissed, and that the bond
, he oaye the State is without authority OF
law and void, the prisoners fed on damaged
meat and meanly furnished with clothing.
How this committee dare make such a re-
port, is rather astonishing, when they must
know that the General will spot them.
The STATE INDEBTEDNESS AGAIN.--The
Supreme Court have recently been called
upon to confirm their former. opinion regard
ing the unconstiutonalIy of the State debt
that is all over 100000, in deciding the
case Of JOSEPH Nougues Us. d. f. Douglas
ct al, and they not only reiterate what they
decided before, but least they should be msun-
} derstood declare that there is no distinction
to be made in regard to how or for what pur-
pose any particular portion of that debt was
created
The decision by Judge Burnett and the
remarks by Murray in concurring are quite
lengthy occupying about five columns Of the
UAion.