Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-07-03
A Rroderick Lie Nailed.

Brodcrick's miniOns have commenced carly 10
misrepreSent the Democracy, and 10 cast false i'm
putotOuS upon the motives Of the Democratic Cen.
trail Committee. II is congeniAl 10 Drode icksm.
however, and We have no disposition ~ question
their taste. Even whcu truth would serve their
purposes better than talschUOd. addicted arc they
70 bearing false wtneas against their neighbors,
~ natural does viicSiiOu belong tO their charac-
ter that they regard II aS al lnnOvauOn " speak the
truth. Exposure has NO terrOrs for them they
can, us they have heretofore done, brave 1t out.
Last Saturday their organ suggested line Of pol
icy for the Democratic Central COmmttce-whicb
met on that day-tO adopt; y policy that would
have permitted niggrr-wUrshpers W control our
primary meetings. Tho Committee. very properly,
treated the suggestion with provoking indifference.
Their auhOr'a 1ntecedents and Democracy entitled
neither him nor them to moments serious cOnSld-
Grafton. II was prescriptions and iu6Olent 10 him
to ray a word. His Democracy, his consistency,
his fidelity, have been often tried and found want
ing; und his recent cOquetting with the Black Re-
pubcHns has thrown him out Of the pale ii the
Democratic church more insdiOua enemy the
Democracy bare not. Smarting from defeat, thirst
ing for revenge, With knowledge that the Commit.
tee despisc him and never alluded 70 his advice he
rushed to his office and wrote letter TO the Sacru.
mentO Union, in which be took particular pains to
give maciOus'y false cOlori,ng 70 the proceedings
VI the Committee. The article contained almost US
many falschOOds as lines. Not content with pub
fishing his falsehoods in the t'nion in Tuesday 5
edition Of the paper n which be To
To correct the many measurements contained in
both articles and 10 expose their author We direct.
ed brief nnte " the members OF the Committee
who we're present, requesting them TO furnish u
SiatcmentfOr publication. In reply to our note they
nent us the following which settles the matter and
brands the author Of the communication aud The
writer Of the editorial with utterinE tLlsehOUd:
1.-The undersigned, members OF the I'll Dorado
County Democratic Central Committee, were pres.
ent ut the meeting Ut the Committee on the 26ih VI
June, 1853. c. HIx presented no resolution Th"teo
er at that meeting, and the following statement in
the Tri Wcekly ke1iNsr Of Placerville, aud state
ment similar in tue Sacramento thiOn, VIZ:
q. Xix offered the following resolution which
must meet the approval 1T eveTy-tFue Democrat
RGsotved, That all who shalt accept Of aud en-.
dorse the principles contained in the Cincinnati
Platform. and who will pledge themselves to sup
port the nominees VI the coming Democratic Con
vention are, Or should be, 10 our opinion, entitled
u vote at the Primary meetings. but, inasInuch as
We consider it anti-lemocratic to establish u test
by which the Democratic masses shall DC governed,
we recommend that each precinct establish its
tests and rules
which Was voted down, men, con.
Is false in every particular. No such resolution
WAS By any one mentioned, nor was introduced by
Dir. Hx before the Committee. We never heard VI
it until it appeared in tile mendacous sheet above
named mud any assertion to the contrary IL an un-
qualified talschOod.
j. j. Lawyer, Z. Hudson.
A. II. Richards, Francis J. Hoover.
Henry IArkin.
Col. Jack johnson was also present, but up 70 the
present we have been unable " zee him. We read
and presented the only resolutions that before
the Committee. After we had read them Mr.. HIx
remarked, suggestively, it not be- ptlicy "
permit each precinct 70 say who shall and shall not
be entitled 70 vote" The proposition met With de.
cided opposition apd no favor, and soon after, on
motion OF Mr.. Hudson, the resolutions that we
OHercd-ecery Onsyf theDs-were unanimously adopt
cd. The Liberal, reasonable, unobjecsiOnlbc res
OlutiOn VI Mr.. MIx" was not presented TO the Com
mltee, aud il either Mr. Xix his sponsors assert
that he did they assert Mltul and deliberate lie.
As the sacramento Union, perhups unwttingly,
published COMMUNICATION misrcpresenung the pru.
ccediugs Of the Committee, will il have the cOur.
tcsy ~ make the proper reIractiour