Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-01
Calif0rnia.POIitics.
THE HARMONIOUS DEMOCRACY.

THE HARMONIOUS DEMOCRACY
San FRAscrsoo, July 25, 1920.
The main topics of ocaIinterest just-now
are the political speeches Of Gwin, Broder.
ick, Latham, and Weller. Broderick, in
on, of his speeches, spoke as follows:
"Would it not have been well for DR..
Gwin to have come out and offered to live
up TO his pompous challenge, made, as ]
have elsewhere shown, in the United States
Senate, whether l was competent to meet
him or not? l am not in love with pub
lie speaking, but l would ask my friends
to administer poison TO me if l believed
that 1 wasn't match for DIR. Gwin, on the
stump or in the council chamber, or in any
other position in life. This is a scheme to
avoid meeting me. Yet, this old Lime
Pointer undertakes at goodly distance to
arraign me. shall not speak of him to-
night with much harshness; l intend to
speak of him very plainly, however, before
the conclusion. Of the canvass. l shall be
able to prove to you that he is. DRIPPING
with corruption; that, instead of represent
ing you, he has been the representative of
capitalists; that be found himself in the
United States Senate disgraeed man, for
be accepted his election upon terms which
no honorable man would agree to. He
says that I saved my friends salaries,
while was influential 10 reducing the sal
aries, of his friends. What would this
prove if anything! DR.. Gwin is an Ad-
ministration man, and has party majori-
ty of ten OF twelve members, to which he
should look for support. l am in the an
administration ranks-one or the Bit
terest enemies of this Administration in
the United States. Why does he attri-
butte influence to me while he affects to
despise mee He is an old man, an old
Senator, having held the post of United
States Senator. for eight years, while have
held the office of Senator but for two
years. l can give you the rsason for his
lack Of influence. His word is not be-
lieved in the United States Senate. True
1t, is that Tombs, Davis Brown, and other
chivalric gentlemen permit him to asso-
ciate with them and vote with them, but
they never believed anything that he says
Gwin spoke thus of Broderick:
"Well, if Broderlck is correctly reported
Il hope he is not-I Will assume he is not,
for it is vile SANDER, for am sworn to
support the Constitution of the United
States, and the constitution permits no in
Fiction of cruel and UNUSUAL punishments !:
and after presenting those resolutions.
which must have had such humiliating
effect upon him in eensuring his course, if
| had afterwards proposed to him to meet
me in public discussion, l should have been
charged with an unconstitutional act-that
of inficting cruel and unusual punish
mentor l had heard of his first effort in
the Senate, and to have offered to meet
him on the stump, before the people, when
he had never made stump speech in his
life, would have been infiictiug upon him a
humiliation was not capable Of"
Weller has asserted in public speech
that Broderick obtained his seat in the
United States Senate by bribery
Broderick asserted at placervile that La
than, the present Administration candi-
date for Governor, stole letter in 1857
from the room of Frank Tilford, now Ma
val Officer of this port, and gave a long
account of the circumstance of the theft.
Latham has publicly declared the charge
to be false, and promised to give com
pleie statement of the affair, and show
that not himself, but Broderick, is the
"heavy villain" of the transaction. Til
ford has published a letter, in which he
exonerates Latham from blams in regard
to the alleged theft, and asserts that Brod
erick knew Latham was not 10 blame.
. So, you see, we are having nice lime
among our public men. In regard to the
charge against Latham, Broderick seems
10 haye the worst of it so far.
The papers tell US that Weller is in fa-
vor of protecting naturalized citizens
against compulsory military service in their
native lands; and that Curry, Anti-Le-
nominee for Governor, says Con-
gress has the power to exclude Slavery
from the Territories. l think l previously
wrote to you that the Republican nominee
for Governor and Congressman in this
State, while claiming the power for Con-
gress to forbid Slavery in the Territories,
say they do not wish to see that power ex-
ercised, preferring as matter of policy,
to leave it to the people, who, if untram-
meled, will invariably exclude Slavery.