San Andreas independent., 1857-03-07
Election off. A. Woodworth.


At the recent Senatorial election in San Fran
cisco, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the re-
signation of Senator Tilford, Mr. f. A. Wood
worth was elected The following is the result
of the vote in the city:
The whole number of votes cast, includ-
ing IS scattering, ~ 800
Woodworth, (yig. Committee,) received, 4.50l
Jones' Democrat received, .......2 ,9O3
Tracy, Republican, received....... .............471
Woodworth's majority over Jones, was..l ,o9o
g Jones and Tracy, III
The following are the additional returns
from San Mateo county
Whole number of votes cast,
Woodwork (vig. Committee, received,......
Jones (Democrat,) received,
Tracy, Republican, received........ .....l
This is the first election, and we hope it may
be the last, that the acts of the late Vigilance
Committee was made an issue at the POLLS
political contests. The Legislature and the
people will actwisely by abandoning all idea of
making the 'vexed question political issue.
We thus advise, on this subject, because this
and wrong, of the Committee, are buried, and
that the people although justifying themselves,
do not wish to agitate the question. The Bul-
letin thus notices the election;
"THE SEA SPEAKS TO THE MOUNTAINS. THE
STRUGGLED is over the victory won. The issue forced
upon the people of this city by revived rowdy-
ism has been met in manner that should con-
vince even the most audacious of the crew who
have so far persisted in their unholy endeavors
that their period of rule in San Francisco has
passed away for ever. The rebuke thus ad-
mnistered is stern and sweeping one, falling
alike on the conductors of corrupt journals, the
leaders and members of incendiary clubs, and
the legislative drivellers who have libelled our
city fair fame. The lie was yet warm from
the lips of the criminal State Jailer, has been
crammed down his throat, and should stfie any
similar utterances which he may have pro-
jected Ere his mendacious assertion that no
Vigilance man could hereafter be elected from
San Francisco" had reached the borders of the
State, the people of the redeemed city have
flung his falsehood in his face. Honor to them
for their noble resentment Shame and dis
grace be the portion of those who have aroused
it!
The very manner in which the canvass was
conducted is in itself no small triumph No
hired ruffians swarmed around the polls, in
sultng honest voters and making the air heavy
with their oaths and indecent utterances.-
Quietly and with dignity the election proceeded,
none debarred of their privileges, and few seek
ing to misuse or unlawfully extend them. That
on an issue which involved a heated difference
of opinion and great acrimony of personal feel
ing, the struggle should have been concluded
without any disturbance of a notable character,
C., -
ment, and in vndicating the claims of repub-
licansm proves that the basis of Vigilance Com
mttee action and that of good government and
public order are identical. There is no city in
the world where such question could have
been decided more decorously or with more
dignity; and few indeed where characteristics
exactly the reverse would not have been con-
coniitants of the contest.
We congratulate our citizens and the friends
of reform throughout the State on the result of
this struggle. 1t sets at rest forever the ques-
ton of reaction" and places its resurrection
beyond the power of either self-conceited in
dicters of semi-clerical letters, or slanderers,
whose highest ambition is to rule over the
States convicts. The people of San Francisco
have improved the first opportunity afforded
them, of vindicating their past action and pro-
claiming their present attitude. They assert
the principle, that reforms like revolutions,
never 90 backwards, and that in purely local
issues, the claims of party must be made sub
servient to the general interest. Until the
power of political organizations is curbed, the
people will never be truly Independent, and we
hail the results of the two latest local elections
in this city as an augury of her future pros
perity. Every step that tends to weaken the
power of politicians, is direct benefit to the
people, and leads to the permanent establish
ment of actual popular sovereignty"