Daily national Democrat., 1859-08-31
An Electicneering Card,

Charles Lindley, County Judge by appoint
ment of his Lecompton friend and pitcher"
Gov. Weller, and aspirant for election to the
same Office by the people, is out with an cleo.
tioneering card (or speech, just as you may
choose to cali it,) in the Express, in which
he undertakes to enlist the sympathies of n
tender hearted public in his behalf, 10y tie
cry of persecution" He would make
mere fight between himself and certain
corporation, a great issue in which the 'in-
dependence of the Judiciary" is involved,
and the champion Of that independence at
tackled, as its defender aud representative, by
a band Of determined men, who, forgetting
their duties as citizens, and lost to all shame
and honor, arc bent upon undermining our
whole judicial system and trampling the robe
Of justice beneath their feet If there are
any persons silly enough to believe that the
independence of the Judiciary is really thus
attacked, and that the great hero or what
not, who throws himself before it as a shield
to protect it or as sacrifice in its behalf, is
Chas. Lindley, they certainly ought to vote
for him; for 1t is very necessary that justice
should 5eiadministered by our courts, aud the
persons of our Judges should be held sacred
If anybody believes that the whole fabric of
the judiciary would tumble into ruins, and a
wide scene of anarchy, confusion and desc
laton take its place, unless Mr.. Lindlcy was
elected and his pockets lined with COM
Portable salary, that person would certainly
be doing violence to all reason and common
sense, did he not vote for him.
But, is there any sensible man who be-
lieves this? Is there anybody who thinks
that the California Stage Company has arisen
in arms against the independence of the Ju-
dietary. and. striking at its vitals through
Mr.. Lin1ley, is going to crush out the last
element OF law and justice in the country
The whole of the matter is Just this:
When Mr. Lindey and Mr. Reardan were
candidates before the District Convention
for District Judge (neither of whom got the
nomination) the California Stage Company,
as they had a right as American citizens to
do used their influence for the nomination
of Mr.. Reardan in preference to Mr.. Lindley
This influence was particularly used at the
election for delegates to the Convention, and
Mr. Reardan succeeded IN carrying the city:
Mr.. Lindley was very severe upon the Com
pany, III his remarks upon tile streets and
elsewhere, on this account, and frequently
spoke of them with great bitterness As n
matter of course, they reciprocated, and the
war became in every sense of the word n
mere personal contest, in which the public at
large took no interest and which concerned
alone the parties engaged in it. While all
these feelings were ranking in the breasts of
happened in connection with the operations
of the California Stage Company, and por-
tion of the p1blic press commented upon it
quite extensively at the time, censuring the
leaders Of the company for their conduct in
certain incidents or preliuinaries of the af-
fair. The circumstance had its day of ex-
SieNiHN''u sAiiN tiA~ I'NlNi l'oSCh Oils
ing in another county, 1t was made the sub
ject of judicial investigation in that coanty,
and disposed of, Mr. Lindley being one of the
willing attorneys against the Stage Company.
Having been thus disposed of, and every
body knowing what feelings df persohal
nature existed between Mr.. Lindley and the
company, it seemed in very bad taste in him,
so long afterwards, in his capacity of County
Judge of Yuba County, to go out of his way,
in mere general charge to a Grand Jury,
to revive recollection of the affair and to
aim, under the shelter of his official charac-
ter, such an attack upon the company. Still,
it was his own business and he had legal
right to do SO If he chose. But to come out
now, after doing all this, and claim that, be.
cause the California Stage Company don't
like him, personally, the independence of the
judiciary and the glory of free institutions
are going to be sacrificed, unless the people
come to the rescue and vote for him, is sim
ply ridiculous,
What have the people to do with Mr..
Lindley's personal feelings or prejudices
against one thing or another? Suppose a
company, which he has attacked with tongue
and en-, do choose 10 work against his cleo
tion They do not do il because they have
any disrespect for the Judiciary, but because
they hate Charley Lindey. And this is the
substance of the whole matter. Because the
California Stage Company dislike Lindley,
does that entile him to the jndgeship? Does
it make him any better qualified for the Office ?
Does it wipe out the stain of his abominable
Lccompton principles Does it make him
any the less mere burr, like his brother
candidates on the same ticket, sticking to the
trailing garments of Il dctc.ted Admni,tra
ton? Hardly.
The DuncOmbe Case.
The Express makes great fuss over Hon