The Placer herald., 1870-08-27
SMOKED OUT.

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them democratic Precedents," for the
purpose of an attempted defense of a
"cold grab" from the county by the pres
ent Supervisors; but when we drew rea-
son and common sense on it, it smoked
out and comes pretty plainly to the de-
fense of the present Supervisors. What
the Stripes says about our limiting and in
sinuating needs no reply from US, as the
whole public know that we do speak out, and
II plain language, at all times and under all
circumstances, and that the paper that as
serts otherwise is only guilty of placing itself
in position to be dsbelieyed when it does
tell the truth This fact is so notorious that
that man who asserts the contrary can ex-
pect no one to believe him in the future, ex-
cept he be mentally on a par with the Os
trich when it gets its head in the sand Now
what we said about the sale of our railroad
stock to ID. 0. Mills & Co., has been said
over and over again in these columns and i'll
the plainest words, but as this editor of the
Stripes was not here at tie time, and has
failed to inform himself of the facts, we will
give him here few facts and some of our
ideas, very briefly.
Mr. Van Vactor was informed by letter
that O. d. Lambard had been here and offer
ed par for our stock in the Railroad. This
information he received by letter signed by
Judge Hale, VIM. Crutcher and ourself.
With this he went to Sacramento, ard sold
in connection of the other two, the Stock to
another party for only par, without ever al
lowing Lambard to make a second bid The
Supervisors knew these facts, and they also
knew that Lambard was good for the money.
In our issue Of May 2Sth, after giving a full
statement of the whole transaction, and Civ
inc Van Nactor nearly two solid columns of
explanation, we said:
Had we have employed these three men to
sell this stock, or similar amount for u.s. and
they had made such n sale they did for the
county, after having the information they had
We would have considered them either incompe-
tent or dishonest, and discharged them without
a cent"
Was this not plain language enough We
say again, that with the knowledge that
Lambard had offered par when no other
known bidder was in the market and when
they had informed themselves of his ability
to pay the money or more, the Supervisors,
in not allowing him to know what they were
doing, and giving him a chance to bid against
Mills & Co., they did betray dishonesty or
incompetency. More, when they had sold
and got the money, they afterwards allowed
the bonds to run four months on interest
amounting to some Sc 900 as favor to
Mills & Co. and an injury to the taxpayers
of the county, and this also, betrayed dis
honesty or incompetency. More yet, We
say that their failure to notify Lambard that
they were going to sell the Stock to Mile &
Co., and to come up and bid upon it, they
did loose for the people of Placer county
thousands and perhaps hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars. Further, we say that by
selling the Stock as they did, and when they
did, according to sales of Stock since re-
ported, they did loose to the people of this
county over half million of dollars And
we say that all these wrongs to the people
of Placer county resulted from dishonesty or
incompetency. For further information to
our neighbor, we refer him to our issues of
April 23d, May 14th, 2lst, 2Sth and June
11th, etc, and if after reading these files he
feels like stalking his reputation upon whcth-
er we merely msinuate or speak out, he can
do so to his hearts content.
The Stripes con defend the Supervisors
as long and as strong as it chooses, either on
the score of honesty or competency, but it
would be well to remember there are some
taxpayers in Placer, and that these taxpay-
crs are now and have been raising money by
voluntary subscription to prosecute a suit to
keep them from taking money out of the
County Treasury which they are believed to
be neither entitled to by law or service rem
dered. AS private individuals we have
nothing to do or say about the Supervisors,
put as public officials we have, and the pub
lie have much to do and say.
The WAR NEws.-We give in to-day's
HERALD tie more reliable and reasonable
dispatches from the two sources of informa-
ton Our readers must take these dispatch
es as we do for just what they think they
ara worth ater disnatches from French