Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-04-13

:. THrRr's MONEY Is Ir."-Many of our readers
have doubtless ere this perused an article under
the above title which appeared in the Sacramen-
to Union Of April 5th, and to some Of them the
statements therein made may have been startling.
We PRINT q portion of the article below, and as
Introductory thereto desire to ask if citizens OF
this county have not frequently heard the asser-
tion made in connection with two prominent
candidates for State ofices-Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor-that they were backed 6y We1l',
Fargo 4 Co. and the Bank of California; We
have heard it proclaimed not only in the streets
of Weaveryille, but at other points in the county,
accompanied by the assumption that men "back-
ed - by those monster corporations could not be
defeated in the State Nominating Convention
We have not time to refer at length to this mat
ter now, but can safely assert that it will be well
ventilated before the State Convention assemblies.
San Francisco sends less than one-third the
delegates which will compose that Convention,
and it remains to be seen whether "a sufficient
number of delegates from the rural districts can
be bought to aid in forwarding the schemes of
implacable monopolies which, not content With
the legitimate business in which they have en-
gagged, now seek in the manner indicated TO
plunder the State and people. We copy the
concluding portion of the Unions article:
alt is we'll known to those who have been
watching the maneuvers. of the politicians, in
view of the coming contest for the best bits OF
California spoil, that slate has been made up
between San Francisco and Sacramento by a
clique of small place-hunters and veteran PEN
sioners. We are told that the combination is
truly formidable )" that it has the support of
at least two wealthy corporations, and that it
must win. because " there's money in it," The
report would be alarming, but for the fact that
we have heard something like it before-once
relative to a combination to elect certain can
didate to the United States Senate, who failed to
get single vote in the Legislatures horse
that "let down" before he had run the first
quarter. No such arrangement can be formida-
Bile after the people have been duly apprised of
its nature, because they feel the sting of the in
suit and are always ready to resent it. Yes, sin
gular as it may seem to the indurated intriguers,
the majority of the people of all parties do OBJ
ject to being impudently told they shall not
have free and fair choice of public servants,
but shall take such as may be named for them
by ring of political paupers, with an outer cir
Gle of moneyed men. They do resent the sug-
gestion that the high Office of Governor or the
very responsible position of United States Sena-
tor is to be the prize of the longest purse and
the most brazen grasp, without regard to popu-
lar opinion or capacity for public station. They
do condemn, and will, in their own good time,
punish any and all attempts to :orestall their
choice and crush the franchise with the weight
of money-bags. AS for the details of the exist
ing combination, said to be O. truly formidable, +"
full exposition would require much space.
The two chief aims are TO elect Gorham or Pix
ley to the gubernatoral Office and to re-elect
John Conuess to the United States Senate, Gov
ernor Lows name being used merely to catch
votes for the present Senator in locality known
to be hostile to the reelection of the latter.
The movement is said to be engineered by B. B.
Redding, Secretary of State and Land Agent of
the Central Pacific Railroad Company; William
C. Stratton, State Librarian George c. Gorham,
Clerk of the United States Circuit Court and
the fast friend of Justice Field, of test oath
memory Frank Pixley, late -i.torney General,
of eccentric renown William B. Carr, San Quen-
tin contractor and chief lobbyist for the Western
Pacific Railroad grab, which "didn't CO." and
somebody connected with the Bank of California.
The bank may be dragged in to give luster to
the inducements of the clique; but as it has fig
ured in political contest on the other side of
the mountains, there is reason to suspect that
its influence is not to slumber here while Gov
ernOr and United States Senator are to be chosen.
There's money in it, indee any amount. The
names of the purse-holders are gratuitously men,
toned to guide strikers, bummers, and wire
pullers to the sources of revenue. Since the
last local elections in Sacramento the Capital is
| not considered a favorable field for operations,
but in San Francisco you will be told the game
is made. 1t is proposed to elect delegates to
the State Convention, not directly by the people,
but by the County Convention, and it is said the
County Committee has already been " secured'
for this end. With solid delegation from San
Francisco, pledged to vote as a unit, it is assum-
ed that sufficient number of delegates from
the rural districts can be bought, either with
| hard cash or by trading Offices, to enable the
combination to control the Convention. After
the nomination of Gorham or Pixley for Govern
or, the combination will conduct the canvass
with view to securing majority of the Legis-
lature for Conness. Where the legislative can
didates of the Union party are known to be op-
posed to the reelection of the present Senator
negotiations will be opened with the Democrats
who will be offered the best local Offices as an
inducement to support independent" Comes.
| candidates for the Legislature. This will doubt
less be the programme in the county of Sacra
mento, as a similar successful here
when we had no Registry law. 1t will be seer
that the whole scheme depends upon the pur
chase of Union majority in San Francisco
| But whether that majority be marketable not
the impudence and rottenness of the combina
ton, to say nothing of the antecedents Of the
men engaged in engineering it, will insure it.
defeat
VIM. C Stratton, one of the parties above re-
ferred to, publishes card in the Union of the
9th, in which he says -" am surprised thai
you should connect me with those persons, fol
it is we'll known that all but one of them have
been my most bitter political enemies, particu.
larly Conness and Redding, who have never los
an opportunity Of showing their enmity to me
have not entered into any political combina-
tion whatever, nor have l proposed to do SC
with any person or persons neither has any
proposition to enter into political combination
been made to me-"
STATE PRIsoS SrArIsrrcs.-By the courtesy o.
Charles W. Gordon, Clerk to the Commissioners
we are furnished with the following statement o.
changes in the prison population Of San Quentin
during the month Of March. It will be observed
that crime within the State Is steadily on the in
crease: Number of prisoners in confinement
March lst, 7o6. Received during the month, 80
whole number in confinement for the month, 745
Number discharged under act of Legislature o.
April, 1854, 20 number discharged by pasdor
by the Governor, 3; BY order of Court 2