The mountain Democrat., 1863-10-03
Questions for 9. w. BrOckwAys


1 have just read some questions in the San
Andreas Register, purporting TO have been
6cissored from the PlacervilIe News, addressed
to Hon. James Johnson. and signed "Pil"t
Hill." 1t may not be aniss tn follow " Pilot
Hills" example, and ask Mr.. s. W. BrOckway
few questions, as he also expects to be elect.
ed to the high position of District Judge, and
70 be elected must receive votes from loyal
Union voters-frOm men who believe that u
record, but should be \ man sustaining high
eaetectefI for tnSSIaf worth, honesty and in;
Stgrity: W. ''
QuEsrfoNs.-were you not, Dir. 8. W. Brock.
way, Whig, when, ROme ten years since, you
came tn MOkelumne Hilll Were you not the
hrst man in CalaeeraS to Join the Know No.
thing party, and the last man to leave i! Did
johnson, Know Nothing candidate for Govern
orr Did you not remain in full communion
with the Know Nothing party as long as that
party had Q name! Did you not denOunce in
the most vituperative terms The Glow Irish"
the " beer-swilling Germans" and " "mercena-
" Italians"f Did you not 20 to New York o
Know Nothing, and return Q Buchanan man,
"dyed in the WOOL? Haveyou not repeatedly
expressed yourself as having the most implicit
confidence in Mr.. Buchanan's Administration 2
Have you not often said that Floyd, as Secre-
tary of war, was " man after your own heart!
From the time Fort Sumpter was fire! upon
until last March. did you ever raise your voice
in favor Of the Union cause or Union partyy
After having answered the above questions,
take breath, rest while, and then answer a
few others.
Was there not an agreement entered into
between you and Bill Dudly that you were to
assign your law practice 20 him, in considera-
tiOn Of which you we're TO receive the nOmina-
tiOn for District Judge? . Did not you and
Bill Dudly use your utmost efforts tO prevent
Arehy Campbell from receiving the nomina-
tiOn for Senator, because he was Black Re-
pUbIican"? Did not you end the aforesaid Bill
do all you possibly could to defsat Frank Da-
Wis, "because be was for Sat AndreaA for the
county seat"f Have you yet paid The aSsesS-
ment of one hundred and fifty dollars levied on
you by the Union Central Committee to assist
in defFaying the expenses nf The canvas!-
Were you not, with few others, (for the pur
pose OF casting q Slur on Bill Higby,) taken
with Q spasmodic ft of benevOlence in which
you subscribed fifty dollars to the sanitary
fund, and did you not, after urgent solicitation
and repeated dunnIng. at last pay the sub.
scVipiiOn in greenbackS? Were you not q
witUess 10 the Hardy trial, and do you recol-
lect what Gen. Williams said Of the pudleys
and 8. W. BrockwayG How much better 0fi
do you think the Union cause will be when
you steP into Jim Hardy's shoes: Don't you
Trenchmen and all foreign. born citizens would
be the creates. fools on earth, should they vote
for you2
AtaeF you shall have answered these, there
are o few more qHestiOns that some persons
would Ike to ask and have answered, pArlicu.
hrly as to the means y0u have employed TO
~ roll up" some forty or 6fty thousand dollars.
PILOT KNOB.
Calaveras County, Sept. 2sth. 1868.
SHoULD ATTEND CHURcE.-One Of our Black.
stoaiAn friends was the pOssessor Of feet al
Reese River, which be sold on Monday st si1
dollars per foot. The pious pastor Of one o
eur City Churches. on Sunday last, informed
bis hOck that the Church would soon be able
to pay Oh its debts, "as their Reese Riveu
stock Was now worth ten dollars foot, and b.
the grace Of Goo, IL would soon be worth tweu
ty." The feet Of the Church were in the same
ledge as those Of our legal friend. who aOld hi.
90 Monday at six dollars. Had be attended
Church on Sunday, like . piOuS fellow, b,
WoOd have known the value Of his property
end not have Lost four dollars per foot on BIZ
zsesS RtVES' Siock. We hope the icSsOG VII
not be lost on him.
RsAD I'VE publiS6, on our iirst page, th,
temperate, logical and patriotic address O
Judge johnson 70 the votersoF the Eleventh
JUdieil DistFiet," and we eommOad II 70 th,
GsiD consideration Of our rssdeFv.