The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-29
REPUBLICAN TROUBLES IN CALI
EORNIA,


are already upon the manipulators
of the successful party in California.
1.-The railway-Gorham ring,"as the
Sacramento Union terms it. have got
zen possession of the deck, and are
already dividing the spoils of the
Legislature and of the U. S. Senate
among themselves, supremacy indif-
ferent over the walls and threats of
the chief of victories Nos. IL, and 3.
1t is a little amusing to hear the
lamentations aud warnings of the
Union against the rings and combi-
nations now swarming through the
Radical thickets, after tn at journal
has allowed these spoilsmen to use
it to bring about this very result !; a
result foreseen by every thoughtful
man acquainted with the compost
ton of the party which followed the
banners of Booth. What matters it
how sincere the Union may haTe
been in its warfare upon the rail
road. if when the critical time came,
it played with all its forces into the
hands of that incorporation lndi-
reetly that very opposition to the
Pacific Railroad Company aided that
company to carry its point. Honest,
but short-sigRted men pinned their
faith on the Unions capacity. and
supposed knowledge of the ground,
and blindly followed its lead-and
now both Union and its followers
find themselves in the hands of the
Philistines. Rings and combine
tions rule the hour, and sport with
the fools for whom they have no
more use.
The Union claims hal the object
of these rings is to secure a Z. s.
Senator "who will control all the
Federal appointments in this State
for five years to come :" and to
nominate the Speaker of the Assem-
bly,. who Will control the makeup
of the Assembly committees. and
thereby give tone and character to
the legislation of the session." which
Legislation will be directed by the
elaquers and agents of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, and by
the influence of Geo. C. Gorham."
The alarm CT the Union is un-
doubtedlv well-fouuded. That such
will be the end OF all this professed
independence of railroad influence
by which the election was carried,
no well-informed man can have any
doubt. There never was any SINGER
ity in it among the leaders. It was
only used to catch simpletons in the
rural districts. The Union may i'm
plore the people in the Assembly
districts to instruct their representa-
tives on this point but this Will do
ne good. 1t is too late. The mem
hers are elected, and are independ-
ent of those whom they fooled into
electing them. They will go to
Sacramento to follow the natural
bent Of their interests, and the spirit
and influence of their party, which
there, and here, and all over the IA
ton is the party of Capital VS.. the
People.
The Union threatens another pc.
~litical revolution if these combina-
tons and rings succeed. We are
told their success would surely
work the ruin of the Republican
party in the State next year, and
give over the electoral vote of Cali
~fornia, Oregon, and Nevada to the
Democrats" Continues the Union
Now if these things come about; i
the railway, with its immense power
for local corruption, on the one hand
and the GOrham set, with their equa
corrupting power III controlling the
: distribution of the Federal offices il
favor OF the legislative creatures O
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