The Placer herald., 1868-02-29
Capital Re.
hpresent, instead
which appeared in

Is confess that our article
\. sorrow and shame over the
Exporter had taken. Of the ten
gsaders Of the Reporter in Auburn,
them, to our knowledge, failed to
,lsted with it, while the Mongrels bad
a broad grin on their faces. More than
once we're we sau,ed with, "Oh, no Croker
has got your State organ!" "Sing Who's
peen here since ish pin gone.'" That &C.
counts for the Mississippi ex editor Of the
Dutch Flat railroad organ, abolitionist, hav'
ing situation in the Reporter office " and
many other similar expressions which we had
much rather the editor Of the Reporter bad
heard than ourselves. In our article we
pointed out the silly falsehoods Of the Re-
porter, and asked it 10 candid and fair
manner to explain its meaning, by talking
| about Hundreds Of thousands Of families
coming to California over this road to "de-
velop our mighty resources" when it was
advising Democrats in the Legislature to be
liberal in thier Legislation.
When the Reporter says 1--WE denounce
the act Of 1861, passed by Democratic
Legislature" it simply asserts what is not the
fact. We commended the language used In
that bill, and only denounced those who seven
years after its passage, refuse to change the
rates in accordance with the times and cir.
cumstances of the people and Railroad
companies.
When the Reporter asserts that we are in
harmony with the abolition delegation from
Placer or Nevada it again asserts what is
VIGOROUSLY false. We have been at war with
them ever since the Legislature convened
because. they did not respond to the almost
unanimous demand Of their constituents on
this very question of freight and fares.
So far as the democracy of the HeraMs
editor is concerned, we can only say that we
never belonged to but one party never
voted any other ticket but the Democratic
ticket; never sought an office by appoint
meut never wrote any letters to prove our
loyalty to aboli,iouism, and never wrote for,
published or had anything to do with any
but Democratic paper. "The managers
of the railroad" wiU support Roberts bill
if. the words "there is hereby granted are
not stricken out, notwithstanding they have
said they won't through the columns Of the
Reporter. If their seeming opposition will
aid the Roberts s~indle, then they will sup
port it by a pretended opposition. The
Placer Herald is the first paper in the State
that agitated this question OF the reduction
Of freigh,s and fare, and it has continued to
ventilate the question until the great mass
of the people of Placer and Nevada couu'
ties, of all parties, are with us. The Demo-
cratic press Of tue State are with us, so far
as they have spoken, with the solitary excep-
ton Of the Reporter.
If the Reporter is to be guerilla sheet
aud fight for whoever pays the most, then say
SO at once, and we will know where to place
you. The fact that nearly every body here
believes that the Railroad Company did buy
the influence of the Placer Courier and the
Dutch Flat Enquirer, with two thousand
dollars Of paid stock, and tried to get the
Union Advocate on the same terms, but fail
ed, don't add anything to the reputation of
Democratic paper, that defends or apologies
for this corrupt monopoly.