Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-06-03
ON A RAILROAD RAMPAGE.

Lord love us, how things change
Here we have been warning the people
of Nevada and California that it was
their duty, through Legislative enact
ments, to guard against the Dutch Fiat
Railroad Company as q monopoly, ana
the Sacramento Union has all that While
been hurrahing for the corporation.
When the Freeport line, by which We
got our mail at 10 p. N. the day after it
left San Francisco, was broken up by
Stanford + Co., in a most outrageous
"!monopofizing" manner, the sacra-
mento Union fairly crowed over the IN
famous procceding-involving as it did
a misapplication of Government FUNDS
for railroad building and facilities. NOW
the Union is denouncing the Dutch Fla
Company as a "Camden and Amboy'
Here's a revolution for you Here are
words true as Holy Writ, from the Union
of Saturday. 1t amounts to a para
phrase on what we have said, over and
again, for two years past. And some
of our legislators have so spoken, for
which the Union abused them in I'M
measured terms, by correspondence and
editorials. Read this from Saturdays
Sacramento Union:
"The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany, instead Of combining its attention
to the work for which it was chartered
and endowed, and in which it has tho
cheerful support and applause of every
public-spirited Californian, evidently
aims ut becoming the Camden and Am
boy Company of this State. The man
ayers appear to divide their time be-
tween tunneling the summit Of the
Sierra and drilling forces for the pri-
mary elections between running a
railroad and running Conventions-be-
tween hiring laborers and hiring voters.
They are not ready to not them
selves as candidates for high Office, for
they have still a big job Of legitimate
work to do and desire to control the
continental route as far east as Salt
Lake, but in the meantime they wish to
prove that they arc q power in our poll
tics, able to dictate nominations and de-
eide tho result Of elections. They COM
menced with the local Offices of the
Capital, but have already lifted their
eyes Us high as the United States Sem
ate. The people are vain enough to
think that a Senator ought to represen,
the State, and that they have the power
to select the fttest man for the position.
The Central Pacific Camden and Amboy
Company, on the other hand, name the
Senator in advance of an election, and
then set other engines than those useful
in the operation Of a railroad to work
to procure an apparent conhrma.
ton of their choice. Laws are spurned
which cannot be strained to aid this
purpose. The disruption Of a party il
attempted because it grew FESTIVE under
such d~ictation. A purse is hung up to
tempt the marketable men. A railroad
office is turned into a rendezvous fol
POLITICAL Clique buu ShuSus Ds tuc ia
reputable tactics Of the old Tanmany
crowd, a ticket is putin the field labeled
as the Railroad Senatorial ticket, sud
then, fearing that the nominees will
have no chance of election if they are
allowed to stand as they are, machinery
is started to secure the Endorsement o.
it by II Convention truly representing
the people, the principal plea being the
necessity and advantages Of restoring
harmony in a party which is sufficiently
harmonious already in repudiating the
idea Of re-electing the railroad agent te
the United States Senate. But after all,
this corporation is only q tadpole imita'
ton of the New Jersey frog. 1t hal
shown its hand, or rather tail, too soor
to be mistaken for a full grown power,
Their attitude is distinctly defined,
Millions for building q railroad across
the Sierras, but not one primary fol
the imposition of Camden and Amboy
yoke upon the free neck of California