The Shasta courier., 1867-07-20
Those Purity Chaps.

When the State ticket was first nominated
indeed, before it was completed or
four of the journals which had been urging
" BidwelPs nomination for Governor" raised
a great cry of corruption and fraud against
Gorham and his friends in the matter of
Bidwel's defeat We then considered the
charges as baseless as they were unjust and
uncalled for, and so stated. knowing from
the nature of the events which preceded the
meeting of the Convention that the species
of bargain and sale, fraud and corruption
charged was entirely unnecessary to ac ;om-
plish the result complained of; and without
assuming that Gorham and his friends were
too pure to do these things. gave them credit
for at least good sense enough not to do them
unnecessarily. This seemed to US a self evil
dent proposition, too plain to need argument;
but our basis for so stating was this Cor
ham came to the Convention with the San
Francisco delegation (53 votes) square and
solid, and had other delegations enough to
give him the organization of the Convention
by small majority, with contingent dele
CATION of q from this county, which had all
the claims of party regularity in its favor,
and which was afterward admitted and we
submit now that the greatest political noodle
in the State, with these advantages, could
HdNO uUH6 all lUdI OOTUdlIl ulu lTUH LudI
time forth without any corruption, fraud
trade or dishonorable act. Hence, our con
cluson and statement. But these journals
continued to howl and dole out these same
silly charges, and are doing so still, notwith-
ing Gorham had pledged himself to withdraw
if they could sustain any dishonorable accu-
sation against him. From this we concluded
that they and their friends had made i'm.
portant arran gements contingent upon the
success of Bidwell and were disappointed,
or else had been acting corruptly and basely
themselves and were guilty rogues, crying
Sc stop thief" or, in all probability, both
together. very little inquiry satisfied Us,
that with some of them, at least, this theory
was correct, and we have since been fur
nished with accumulating evidence in corro.
boration. Something over two weeks ago
we published, in this connection, specific
charges of the most astounding character-so
much so, indeed, that we would not admit
them to our columns except as an advertise
ment, notwithstanding we were assured
that the necessary afidavits were behind
them and yet, strange as it may seem not
one word of refutation has been offered. On
the contrary, however, some of them have
been fully confirmed by unmistakable evi-
dence. and the inference is irresistible that
tue o<ueTS are eQudily lTue. III speaking OF
this matter. the editor of the Stars and
Stripes, after commenting upon some others,
says:
"This " is followed in the Record correspon-
dence by something which comes home to us
in Placer. He says:
"A delcgate-Long Hair-from Placer.
made the proposal to a gentleman of this
city, that they would give six votes in favor
of the admission of the Shorts if they would
return the compliment, and give six votes
for Bidwell
To the truth of this statement the writer
hereof can bear his personal testimony, as
be was the vehicle of communication, and
can state that the Sacramento men replied
emphatically " No, we are all for Gorham,
and will give him our full vote or none"
We have conversed with the bearer of
another of these propositions in relation to
another delegation, aud the confirmation was
equally as emphatic; and were it not that
we have already transgressed our limit for
one article we would mention others. But
these will suffice to show the nature of these
sterling advocates of purity-these sainted
sticklers for absolute virtue who cry out
bawd at every one who may dispute their
immaculateness. Verify, they are eminent.
ly fit persons to least the first stone."-
Parity forsooth why these howlers are lit
orally reeking with corruption Sacramento
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