Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-20
The People and the Politicians.

The San Francisco Bulletin and some
| other ~half-witteu sheets, are continually
| rratiug about the Union party as though
i, WAS divided into two parts. One,
they are pleased TO call the people, and
the other, the politicians. In the first
| place, there is no grounds for such u
distinction; there is in fact no such d.
| vision. For in that wing Of the party
| which the Bulletin "calls the people,
| are to be found some Of the most active
| politicians in the State. They have not
| held office, but sought it, hankered sf-
ter it, bargsined, snapped and traded
for it. The truth is, since the Peoples
| party has been broken up and dissolved
| in San Francisco, the Bulletin calls q
part of hat motley crowd 1.-The people,
When in fact it is that part Of the vot-
ers Of that city who were never in any
true allegiance to the Union party. At
best, they were only peepo-Republicans
or Union men. In municipal matters
they belonged to the Peoples organiza-
ton, IN State politics they have been
generally boilers. After once sending
to the Legislature , full Democratic del
egation. with 8 single exception, and at
the last State election half Of one, they
finally dissolved the organization, and
at the last municipal election they really
elected a Union ticket, nominated by
a Union County Convention.
But at that time, &. X. Fitch, the
leading political spirit Of the Bulletin,
was away at the East. He has now re-
turned, and has entered once more upon
his favorite work, Of distracting and
dividing, to defeat the Union party. 1t
is due to the Onion men Of the Bay city,
and Of the State, that his character as u
politician should be distinctly under
stood. He has always been a mischief
making m~arplot, but never a member Of
the Union party, if ever even d sincere
Union man. He talk Of politicians; if
there has ever been a more wriggling,
venal, or INSCRIPTIONS one in the State,
we have never heard his name. We do
not propose to rake up his rotten record,
we only wish the patriots Of San Fran
cisco and the State to know why he il
now at work to bring the Union men of
that city under the manipulations Of the
old Star Chamber committees Of a dead
organization. He is a schemer and trick
s,er Of the very first water, and he a
never bear to see the people of San
Francisco pass from the control Of a
party of which he has been for some
years the head and front to that Of which
he can never become a member. II the
~ men he has helped to select and man
age in past years can only make the
delegates to the Union County Conven-
ton, by his help or dictation, he is once
more the political autocrat Of San Fran
cisco and of the State. Let all Union
men beware OF him.-Duteh Fiat En-
quirer.
Fitch was State Printer Of California,
by Broderick's aid, and he sent the most
Of the work'to the East, and had it done
for 81. cents per thousand, while he
managed to extort from the State from
ten TO sixteen dollars per thousand! And to
fill out the proper illustration of his
character, it should be told that he
turned on his benefactor, Broderick, and
slandered him up to and beyond the
hour Of his death. He is as low q
wretch as lives.