Daily national Democrat., 1859-03-15
COl. TOmDkiuS.

man we have nothing to say, ana We
it has not vet been attacked from any quar-
ter AT the same time we have two leading
and insuperable objections to his being cleo
ted to the Mayoralty of this city, ana SO we
believe have majority of our fellow citizens
In the first place, it is well understood that
the coming election is the opening OF the
socopd great battle in this State for the domi
nation of that cardinal principle Of the Demo
cratic creed known as the doctrine of popular
sovereignty. Col Tompkins belongs to the
school of politicians who are opposed to that
war against it to the bitter end. These enc
mics of popular sovereignty we consider as
dangerous to the government under which
they live as the most open and ayowed mon
archists, and the only downright mouarchist
that We ever knew in this state is at this
time one of the staunchest supporters of the
Administration Of James Buchanan.
In the next place, it is an undisputed fac.
that Col. Tompkins is identified with q Com
pany which makes it point to battle against
the best interests of this city "A Company
which, having failed in one instance TO crush
out an enterprise expressly designed to build
up the prosperity Of Marysville through the
mt dium of the Courts is now engaged in II
| second attempt of the same character They
were in favor of the subscription by the peo-
pie Of 100000 to "a Railroad, but so soon
as they found that the Board of Supervisors.
acting in accordance with the wishes Of the
voters, were about to apply the subscription
to the benefit of the San Francisco and Marys'
Vile Railroad, they could see no propriety in
the subscription, and proceeded to deny the
right of the people to subscribe the money at
all 1t was all right, rs long as there was q
prospect of getting the money for the road
that was to benefit Sacramento, and the road
in which they themselves were pecuniarily
interested, but, when it was to be applied to
the benefit of that road which is the favorite
of the people of nearly the whole city and
county, why then every act and thing con-
nected with the subscription was illegal and
unconstitutional" The Legislature of the
State having chartered the road; the peoples
money having been subscribed to it a large
amount of stock having been taken in it in
dividually by our citizens; the contractor for
the road having gone abroad for the purpose
of negotiating for the material with which to
build it and having already concluded some
essential points Of his negotiation; the public
mind being awake to the enterprise and the
attention of capitalists favorably called to it
just at thif iuncture, when our goodly little
city is beginning to look up to newer al d
better condition, and to hope for a speedy nd
vancement in all the elements of wealth and
prosperity, this Company, with which the
Lecompton candidate for Mayor is so thor.
oughly identified. is now asking and urging
the Supreme Court to render decision which
shall restrain and perpetually enjoin the
Board of Supervisors of Yuba county from
subscribing 100000 to the capital stock of
the San Francisco and Marysville Railroad
Company" They made this same applica-
tion before, but were denied, on the ground |
that the Court could not touch the merits of
the case unless the Railroad Company were
equally made parties in the suit with the
Board Of Supervisors. Persistent in their hes
tility to Marysville and her interests, they
now join the Railroad Company with the
Board of Supervisors in the suit, and again
seek to accomplish the destruction of the
We call upon the voters then, of this city
to deposit their ballots against Col. Tompkins |
if for no other reason, on the ground that he |
is an enemy to the San Francisco and Marvs- |
vile Railroad. He has right to hold stock
in the Folsom Railroad, and right to be
party, as he is, in the Supreme Court, in
suit which has been instituted for the sole
purpose of breaking down the rival road
No one disputes his right in the premises but
being thus embarked in opposition to the
vital interests of the city, let him not claim
or expect the support of her citizens.
We shall allude to this subject again.
IN FAVOR OF STUFFING.-A Lecomptonite
becnme 81 eveitc1 IN d,souss;rr, a. ,,r~,,,,oo.-