Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-06-22
How II was Done.

PeiuSeu Tue Proceeuiugs OF tne Iale Union Otate
Convention as published in the Sacramento Union,
which has greater circulation in this county
| than all other papers in the State combined. OF
course the JOURNAL is not included in this count.
What we now propose to show is, that in the
event of disruption of the Union party in this
State, the censure will justly fall upon the head
of one man, and that man is William H. Parks.
He, as chairman of the State Central Committee,
called the State Convention to order, and in do
lug SO said that what little time shall preside
in this Convention, it shall be presided over i'm
partially, honorably, fairly; with no snap,udg-
mentsi no arbitrary ruling by the chair no de-
Gliding of motions before both sides are put u
Now for showing of Mr.. Parks partially.
The roll was called by counties. When Sac
ramento county was called, ]. H. Sullivan
(Short responded-'' Twenty-one for Stow
the chairman promptly said-' Sacramento will
be passed for the present" But there was
method in that madness.
Holland said-"I am authorized to cast sixty
three votes for Stow
]. NJ. Wood, of the opposing delegation from
San Francisco, said" Mr.. Chairman, desire
to state that the seats of those delegates are
tested"
The Chairman (interrupting)-" You will have
to bring your contest before the Committee on
Credentials.
The vote Of San Francisco was then recorded
1t is proper to state here that there were con-
testing delegations from both San Francisco and
Sacramento = that the Long Hairs" and
i" Short Hairs " were both striving for seats in
the Convention. If it was impartial to reject the
Sacramento vote, was it not honorable to reject
the San Francisco vote also? But Parks knew
that his ends would be frustrated should he rule
that San Francisco be "passed for the present"
And even after admitting the sixty-three votes
from San Francisco Stow had only two majority
over Mcfarland. He knew the Short Hairs "
would pack the Committee on Credentials if they
triumphed in the temporary organization, and
so they did. We know that deep indignation pre-
vailed throughout the Convention at this ruling
of the chairman of the Central Committee, and
only wonder that it was tolerated. The act has
politically damned Wm. II. Parks in this State,
anu ue W III SO ulSCOFeT ueQ Luc votes are count
ed on the 4th day of September next
The following ventilation of Slows case bv
the Sacramento Bee is appropriate at this time
{" The chairman Of the State Convention,
which nominated Gorham for Governor, was W.
W. Stow, who while be was Know Nothing
Speaker of the Assembly in 1855, made an at
tack upon the Jews, so fierce and unwarranted,
as to create public disgust and which forced
h int Y,riy fa tfn fbof n Nv
he should have been placed there when his very
seat was contested and before that question was
decided, is matter of general inquiry. He
was inimical to the nomination of Judge
Currey, and came here, it is said, for the
sole purpose of defeating him ; but, of course,
save by the appointment of committees and his
influence with delegates, he could not control the
Convention on that subject-although, strange
as it may appear, the Secretaries counted Currey
out on the first ballot, when everybody else, who
kept tally, knew that he was clearly and fairly
nominated Stow was chief cook of the slate,
and to him, and Parks, and Gorham, and Howell
are the Union party indebted Cor the wretched
ticket presented. Stow packed the Committee
on Credentials, allowing not single place upon
it to friend of Bidwell and, of course, it re-
ported against the admission of the Z" Long
Hairs J" from this county. He was packed into
the chair by Parks and Gorham, and he packed
them upon the ticket
Speaking of these things the San Francisco
Bulletin says:
"The chairman Of the Union State Central
Committee, which gave the San Francisco Boys
their seats before vote Of the Convention es-
tablished their right, is William H. Parks, who
was the chief agent of the tide-land swindle dur
ing the session of the last Legislature. The
chairman elected through the vote of the Boys
to preside over the Convention, is ". W. Stow,
the very head-devil in engineering the same
swindle in this city, and also one of the chief
men who nominally owned the Western Pacific
Railroad at the time when Gorham was lobbying
for the bill which gave them $1,000, 900. Thus
has .rumphed the most stupendous conspiracy
to rob the State and crush the people with taxes,
that was ever organized in California;