Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-13
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I0EO from Cato, Jr..

Mnssks. EDEToRs I shall now, according "a
my promise, proceed with the history Of the
honest and incOrruptible Senator. IN one Oi
my former articles spoke Of bis movements
In his first campaign for ONCE when he ran for
Congress In New fork. In my remarks
asked Questions for him 70 snsweF. | shail
now adopt q different course. l shall make
specific charges, and when he denies any Oi
them, I'll prove them by good and reliable
testimony. now charge you, BrodeTick, Ol
making arrangements with several Of the
keepers Of BlackwelIs Island 70 release about
two hundred Of the prisOners there kept, the
night previous to the election, and place them
in your district for the purpose OfvOting for you
and that ell Of them did vote for you with the
exception Of shout thirty, who were arrested
10 house on Howard street. now charge
you Of making an agreement through warm
personal friend Of yours to have the Fremont
electors placed on the Democratic iicketin the
1St aud End wards Of this city, the Republi-
cans paying one thousand dollars to be given
to your friends for working the ticket Said
bogus tickets were brought to your room for
your inspection, and YOU wcse satisfied, the
Republicans agreeing to vote Cor your Lcgisla-
tive ticket. The bogus tickets we're NO worked
in said wards. The number that was voted !
do not know. II there was but one, It Is suf-
ficient for my purpose to prove that you were
net then In favor the erection Of Mr.. Bit
chanan, and that you were living lie on the
Democratic party, using every corrupt and
deceitful measure that you could command to
secure your own selfish purposes. ] observe
that in your PlacerViIle speech you speak OF
the Vigilance Committee having your charAc-
ter under investigation, and that you canle
out Of that fiery ordeal pure and Rpotless.
here state that you were informed BY q warm
personal friend that the executive branch Of
that body had decided against you, and you
then LEFT the city and went up the country,
and did not return until you were informed
that the board Of delegates had disagreed to
the decision Of the executive branch. ! do
not like to refer to the dead, / therefore hope
the public will pardon me for 70 doing.
now charge you as follows. Having been
called on by q warm personal friend Of yours,
who informed you that Martin Gallagher had
returned to the city for the purpose Of taking
his vile away with him, and being asked by
that warm friend for pecuaiHry assistance for
said Gallagher, at aaid Gallagher's request,
you directed the Aforesaid, Aasnd 70 call on
certain other persOas wbom. you designated,
asking them to contribute. lie did 10; bot
none Of them contributed single dollar save
one, and that one gave V26-yOu, yourself,
giving nothing. This 80. thus procured.
ives taken to GAllagheE, ,whOi6diknantly refused
TO accept It, requesting the bearer 70 20 TO you
and say that if you did not furnish him with
sufficient money, by next morning, to answer
bis immediate necessities, thst be would q
down 70 the eoGnmitteO and answer cestnin
questions that had been prOpounded 10 him,
the answering Of which would have made oi
you, BrOderick, his fellow exile. assert tha,
through your aid and assistance the sum OI
eA6O was immediately raised end ssNt to Mf
Gallagher long before the time speciRsd b.
him.
Now, sir, you speak Of having in that com.
mittec many warm friends, they can say
whether Martin Gallagher and WIN. Lewis,
and several others. did or did not refuse "a
answer questions PFOPounded to them, and
they can also state whether the executive
committee did or did not convict you.
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