Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1868-10-03
SAN QUENTIN ENLISTED FOR JOHNSON -JupeE

SAN QUENTIN ENLISTED FOR JOHNSON -JuDGE
HARRISON TO BE DEFEATED BY COLONIZATION
FRAuDs.-The following from the San Francisco
Bulletin of September 22d shows that the Nc
Garrihan influence is at work.
We have reports from creditable sources, of a
plan which has been set on foot to coloniZe vo-
tiers at the brickyards at San Quentin. double
force is to be put on of foreman, laborers and
supernumeraries, until after election The vote
in the Third Congressional District is expected
to be a close one. Johnson's chances are not so
promising as he and his friends could wish
Fifty votes manufactured in his behalf, at the
State Prison, might go great way towards i'm
proving his prospects. Whoever goes to the
brickyards for the purpose of ppe-laying, ought
to be officially invited to remain at San Quentin
some time after the election is over.
Johnson is one of the weakest and most mis-
chevous members, according to his small abi-
ity, ever sent to Congress from this coast. He
is like SO much dough in the hands of ADLER men.
He has voted wrong on all the more important
questions affecting the interests o. the people of
this State. His ears ought to Jingle to this day
on reading the blasting report made by Senator
Williams on the McGarrhan claim, which John
son supported heartily in the lower House. And
if anything more were needed to make the men,
Der ashamed of himself, it could be found in his
this coast. The people have been bounded,
vexed and cheated out of their substance by
pushing fraudulent titles. Some security has
been gained by the decisions of the courts and
the statute of limitation. Hundreds fraudu-
lent Mexican titles, most them manufactured at
about the time California ceased to be a Mexican
province and became conquered American terri
tory, are known to exist. After long and har-
assing litigation, these things were supposed to
be settled, and the people were settling down
with a sense of security and protection. The
legislation which johnson advocated was aimed
directly against the security of titles, and was in
the interest of men who desired to resuscitate
these worthless claims for private gain and for
the oppression of the people.
The colonizng of voters at San Quentin is
hardly worse in its tendency than the measures
which the member supported in Congress. The
record is bad one, if an honest service rendered
to the people constitutes good one. And the
case ought to be so desperate that no tactics at
San Quentin can secure reelection.
The truth is the people want California repre-
scented, rather than Arkansas. They want men
to stand by their interests, and not play into the
hands of jobbers and schemers. 1t is because
Johnsons Congressional record is a bad one on
its face, with the promise of being worse, if con-
tnued in Congress, that he ought to be elected
to stay at home. The shrewd device of coloniz-
ing at San Quentin ought to be narrowly scru-
tinZed. An election may turn on the forty or
fifty votes which INSCRIPTIONS men may concern
trate at that point for the purpose of making
bricks and Congressman at the same time.