The Shasta courier., 1871-08-05
THE POLITICAL DISCUSSION.

The Court House was crowded on Monday
Evening, hv the respective friends of Messrs.
! Cnghlan and rearce- many ladies also grac-
ing the. occasion with their presence. The
debate was opened b7 Mr.. Coghlan. f'low-
ed BY -Mr. Pfarce. who in turn gave way TO
Mr.. Coghlan for reply. Our space will not
permit US % comment at length upon the
points made by fhe opposing gentleman
p rhaps we should say the pints made bv
Mr.. Coghlan. and those attempted to be made
by Mr.. Pearce.
Cnghlan having in his opening address
arraigped Governor Hight and the bemeo
ratio party of this State. Pearce in reply tnok
somewhat extraordinary grounds that as
his opponent and himself were not candidates
for State Office, they should eschew State
and di.euss only questions of National poll
ties. Evidently Mr.. Pearce considers the
Democratic State Administration wholly in
defensible. and does not wishto impede HIM
self in the Congressional race by being load.
ed down with the weight of the thousand
and one iniquities. which have di.graced this
State under Democratic rule. Self preserva.
ton is the first law of nature. and we can
hardly blame the Democratic aspirant for
endeavouriue-.e ehirk the defence Of the
q" Legislature of Thousand Commissions, y
and try and pick Jaws enough IN National
Legislation 70 throw a glamour over Demo.
cratic misdeeds at home. But the dod ge
didn't work. Coghlan is working for the
election Of the State ticket as well as for his
own. and commented strongly upon Governor
Haighi's subsidy record, the swamp land
question. the Burnett monument affair and
nther matters of record. to some Of which
Pearce IN de feeble effort at reply while to
others he seemed to have nothing to say.
Evidently Pearce had learned his piece
like school boy. and speaks it wherever he
| goes. as we see by he comments of our ex-
changes that he but reiterated here state
ments which Mr.. Coghlan had as successfully
refuted at other place as in this. In that
| part of the discussion relating TO the Chinese
| problem We think that Coghlan had decided
ly the advantage of his opponent. The re-
cord of the Republican party is the same to
day that it has been in the past, the resolution
| in our State platform in this campaign i,
| identical with the one adopted -four years
| ago and the Republican party has sought
| by legislation to throw all possible Imped-
ments in the way of Chinese immigration.
| That this legislation was declared null and
void under the Constitution does not matter
it is proof sufficient that ouI party is op.
posed to the presence here ola class of people
with whom we cannot assimlate either soci-
ally. morally nor politically. Mr.. Coghlan' s
position is the only true one-to abate an
evil of this nature we must appeal directly
to the treaty making power of the nation.
| Both gentlemen were listened to attentive
| ly, showing that the people are deeply inter
ested in the questions at issue. They are
| bnh fairspeakers, though we. think Cnghlan
,.uch more pleasing in delivery, while Pearcs
is the more fluent. The latter gentleman s
attempt to distort the educational PLANK of
our platform to make it seem to mean some
hing which it really does NOT, will meet with
but little favor al the hands of those who be-
,-ve in the education of the masses. The
American people have learned that ignor-
ance and crime gn hand in hand and intend
to profit by the lesson. If parents chnnse to
educate their children in private schools at
their own expense, there will be no objection
TO their so doing. and all assertions to the
contrary are simply. "bosh,' disgusting to
intelligent men If all parties