Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-07-22

writing from Truckee, under date of July 10Th,
has the following
The Republicans held an enthusiastic mass
meeting here last night, which was addressed
by our nominee for Congress, Sargent, and by
F. A. Hornblower of Sacramento. rhe former
dwelt at length on the claims Of the national ad-
mnstration to the confidence of the people, and
reviewed the Democratic platform and Haght's S
record with great severity. Among other points
he showed up that part of the Democratic plat
form which claims credit for the party for re-
ducing the rate of State taxation from ST. l3
cents on each hundred dollars of taxation TO S5
cents. He showed that in 1860, during state
of peace, the rate OF taxation was so cents the
hundred dollars, thirty of which was applied
under law TO the payment of the enormous
debt created by previous Democratic admins
tratious, in disregard of plain constitutional
provision, but ordered paid by vote of the peo-
pie He said the law by which 80 cents was TO
be paid was in the nature OF a compact but the
Democratic administration had made a new law
by which only 5 cents is collected and paid on
the State debt, and making the amount they tax
the State for other annual purposes II cents.
The Republican party honestly paid the 80 cents
on the State debt, and kept up all the extraordi-
nary expenses caused by "A state of war, includ-
ing the expenditures to arm and equip the mill
| tia, and bounty to volunteers, as well as the or
dnary expenses of the Government, for SO cents.
finding the treasury bankrupt and leaving it full.
A true comparison could only be drawn between
the 30 cents used for State expenses in 1860 and
the II now consumed under Haight, except that
the taxable property Of the State has doubled,
and the rate of taxation should be less than in
1860. How much more Haights Amador war
! would consume no one could tell. But the leaks
were open everywhere. The contingent expenses
of the last Legislature were $ll2,l23 against
only S68 $50 of the previous one crowd of
usa nttari,as cd ba baIl IlS ,a1
up the passages of the capitol, of exceeding num-
bers and rapacity and the Legislature attested
its generosity with the peoples money by voting
them all extra compensation If honest men are
to be believed, no legislation, however necessary
and just, could pass unless these cormorants
and many of their masters "Seen," and
corrupt bills were started to extract money from
those to be injured by them. New offices and
commissions were created by the dozen, the sal
aries and expenses payable ont of the treasury.
Fees and salaries of county officials were iu-
creased all over the State at the demand of i'm
pecunious Democratic office holders, who were
not satisfied with the rates allowed by law at the
time of their election Contingent expenses of
State officers were lavishly increased The man
in the moon held his nose rs he passed over the
capitol, the stencil of corruption was so over
powering. What wonder that from that assem-
bage Of harpes sprang lottery, litigant and sub
sidy bills innumerable? After selling hundreds
of thousands Of dollars worth of State property,
and taxing the people beyond precedent in
state of peace, they boast of reducing the State
debt II any one turns to the advertising col
umnS Of the Examiner he will find IL grand
scheme for manipulating that debt, enacted by
the last Legislature, to be submitted to the peo-
! pie this year. He considered it crude expep-
sive and uncalled for opening the way for infa-
nous specuations at the expense of the State
and hoped the people would remember to vote
against it.
Hornbower followed with few pungent re-
marks on Democratic corruptions. Both speak
ers were frequently applauded, and the speeches
were punctuated by the firing of anvils. and fol-
lowed by rousing cheers as the meeting ad-
| journed
DEMocRArIc JOURNAL DsGusrED.-The Men
docino Democrat is thoroughly disgusted with
the late Democratic Gubernatorial nomination.
Hear it:
The "new departure " taken by the Demo-
cratic State Convention, coupled with the re-
nomination of Halght, places the editor of this
paper in peculiar position. We have no enco-
miums for the one, no Endorsement for the other
The new departure" accepting the political
situation forced upon the country by the mere
edict of might, is yielding up to the Radical
| party without struggle what we and sort
of people have been fighting and contendng
|
tion of Haight is what have been warning
against as measure not only anti Democratic
but decidedly and unequivocaliy wrong. As an
old-line, lifelong Democrat, what are we to do
Certainly we cannot talk for Haight, for what we
! have said of him was based on indisputable fact
fact patent as that rain drops to the earth and
ships sail upon the waters of the sea- We NAV
spike our guns, say naught against Haight
| for the canvass, but most assuredly we cannot
! do more. One thing is certain, we cannot " eat
! dirt, cannot take back what we have already
honesty said. It's noteworthy fact that one
of these so-caicd amendments to the Federal
Constitution, now accepted as law by the plat
form Of our late State ConventoG was con-
demned by Governor Haight as unconsttutonal
null and void, and was so written of by that gen.
teman in special message to the last Legisla-
ture. Governor Haight, when put in nomina-
| tion few weeks ago. wheeled as usual and gave
his assent to the consttutionality of this amend
ment.
WHAT HIS NEIGHBoRs SAY OF HrM.-Mr. Pearce,
the Democratic nominee for Congress in the
Third District is a resident of Petaluma, and
the Petaluma Journal and Argus published in
his own town, in speaking of him uses this Ian
guage
Politically he is Objectionable in the highest
degree. He is too honest man to deny that he
has been, and is, believer in the right of seces-
sion, and that he considered dissolution of the
| Union preferable to coercion and war; Mr.
Pierce has II consistent record on this point and
he IS not the man to go back on that record. His
election to Congress-of which there Is scarcely
the remotest ossibiIity-would be an indorse-
ment by the people of the Third District of all
the odious features of the Calhoun theory of
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