The Placer herald., 1871-03-25
JOHNSON ON SUBSIDIES, Z

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subsidy plank in our platform, were the
open and implied advocates Of the nomination
of Hon. j. A. johnson for Governor, and
this fact taken into connection with johnson s
record in Congress and letters he had writ
ten to this coast favoring county subsidy had
induced us and nearly the entire party in the
State to believe that Mr.. johnson was, in
fact, an avowed subsidy candidate. But
now since Mr.. Johnsons arrival and after
holding open receptions in San Francisco for
days and comforting fully with his special
and peculiar friends he has, by pre-arrange-
ment through the telegraph by subsidy
friends, been met at Marysville by a brass
band and crowd, and was called out to make
public declaration of his principles. His
words were all arranged, and his enuncia-
tions all pre-decided upon, and that speech
must be accepted as his latest and final pro-
clamation of principles, except, only the cod
icil which he is to write out at Davisville.
1t is an unfortunate thing for Mr. johnson
that the dispatch sent to Mr.. Duficy, the
landlord of the Western hotel, was signed by
the reputed author of the Railroad subsidy
pamphlet and sort of private Secretary of
Gov Stanford, which would look like Stan
ford's fngleman had consented to and ad
vised Johnsons declaration of anti-subsidy
principles The speech at Marysville, con-
sdering that it was a matured one, is SO re-
markable as to convince all who read it that
it was the enthusiastic utterings of new
convert, whose feet had just been taken out
of the mire and clay of filthy, wicked subsi-
dyism and placed on the neck of ant-plunder.
In that speech, our ex-Congressman regret
ted that the subsidy question had been raised
in the party $50 does the Stanford plunder
ers), and in the same breath denounced even
the five per cent bill as the most infamous
law ever placed on the statute book and the
yileat scheme of robbery ever inflicted on the
people. What crazy contradictions. If he
believes these denuncations just, what a
knave or fool he must be to regret that the
question of wping this vile law from the
statutes has been raised This vile five per
cent act thus denounced as having no paral-
lei in history, was voted for by every Senator
and Assemblyman of both parties and con-
sequently the whole one hundred and twenty
honorable legislators are williams and thieves,
and yet Mr.. Johnson regrets that the ques-
ton Of It's repeal has been raised. lie
would have vetoed this foul theiving bill and
yet he is in deep sorrow that its repeal is ag-
iLated in the Democratic party. Whence
came this new light that it is wrong to right
wrong? 1t must have sprung from the
head of the turtle upon whose back rests the
world, as it is neither heavenly or earthly
light. But little farther down be promises
if he is elected Governor to work for its re-
peal, and Yet is sorry the question of its re-
peal is agitated so that he people can elect
Legislators 70 repeal it. But again, this
speech tells us that this act is grossly violatve
of the Constitution, and that the Supreme
Court will declare it void in April. Then
why repeal it-why shoot dead dog But
again he says, 81 do not attack the Legisla-
ture that passed the bill, nor Governor Haight
who signed it, nor the Railroad Company.
What. no word of condemnation for the
wretches that perretuated the foulest swindle
erer inflicted on a people and perjured them
selves by violating the Constitution, nor the
railroad "sharks" either. This wont do,
Mr.. johnson, YOU must make another speech
and attack these perjured williams and rail-
road sharks, even if you have to excuse them
on the ground that they were all fools, and
that the railroad sharks were only joking or
the people, your special friends, will not
vote for you. 1t might have accurred to
Mr.. Johnson that Gov. Haight and fourteen
honest men did kill the vile fifty per cent
bills, and this five per cent bill, only one
tenth as niqultous as the ones Killed, was
compromise dodge to get time to get the
question before the people (Which he regrets
SO they could elect legislators that would
mash out the whole clan of railroad sharks
But we suppose he never heard that in Wash
ngton and that his special friends in San
Francisco forgot to tell him. But the most
murderous thing in the whole speech was
denouncing our friend Alex Montgomery, of
the Mendocino Democrat, as a lbeler and
slanderer. Montgomery published the doctrine
that the people Of the counties should have
the right to vote aid to railroads; sent his
paper to johnson at Washington who there
and then read it and wrote back to Alex that
that was his doctrine, and our poor friend of
the Democrat published that fact with an