The Placer herald., 1871-02-25
BY WHAT AUTHORITYl


declarations of its willingness to degrsJ' sud
make itself mere slave machine, ready to
do and support the foulest and basest of acts
at the dictation of Convention, makes the
following pure and impudent inquiries:
"Wehave been requested by very many Dem
ocrats to ask the Examiner, Santa Clara argus,
Solano Democrat, and PLACER HERALD, # they
,cM do as TIE Reporter has done, and pledge them
selves in advance, to abide by and support the
action of the Democratic State Convention what
ever it may be--whether it is in accordance with
their desires in all things or not p
The italics are ours "Do as the Reporter
has done ?" The PLACER HERALD answers
to this, no!--not for all the money, lands,
Railroads, newspapers, FOUNDERS, rascals and
slaves Stanford Crocker Il Go. own, would
we edo as the Reporter, has done"-would
rather be arrested for sheep larceny, or live
at public soup house all the days Of our
life. If the actions of the Convention are
Democratic and its nominees able and honest
Democrats we will support them, but if not.
no, forever no! Should the Convention re-
solve that free Government is q failure and
that we must have a monarch to rule us
that negroes and Chinese should be admitted
among our white children in school-that
Chinese suffrage was right and proper and
must be enforced-that Brigham Young's
doctrines of polygamy were essential to the
we'll being of the State and morality y-that
the State should give to Railroad corpora
tons the public property, and that Chinese
should be employed to do the work, to the
exclusion of white laborers, as the editor of
the Reporter voted in the Assembly--that
one man has the right to vote another's prop
erty to private individuals or corporations
that officials have right to sell themselves
to whoever will give the most, or in favor Of
any odious anti democratic doctrine, we
would not be bound by its actions or sup
port its heresies, neither now, nor between
now and the last toot of Gabriel's horn. We
have answered the Reporter because we
wish the public to know where we stand,
and not because we acknowledge the right
of the Reporter to question us. We DO
not recognize the Reporter as a Democratic
paper, or one having any right to question
us or any othei Democrat or Democratic pa
per. We know of no Democrat in Placer
county that believes the Reporter to be
Democratic, nor do we believe there is one
out of a hundred in the State that looks upon
it as anything but the organ of Stanford,
Crocker & Co. The Reporter is under a
cloud, repudiated and despised by all good
Democrats, and there il must remain until it
dsproves the charges Of its purchase by the
loath.ome, grasping, p!undering, Black Re-
publican crew headed by Leland Stanford u
Co., made by the Santa Clara argus. The
Reporter has failed utterly to do that yet,
and until it does make this proof we will be-
leve it to be the property of the Railroad
Republican robbers and the bitterest enemy
the Democracy and the people have in the
State. We commenced in 1910 and have
fought through every political campaign from
that day to this, always, and in every con-
test, for the Democracy and on the Demo
ocratic side, and him that asks us questions
or dictates to lis what is Democratic must
have an older, purer and more consistent
record than ours. In view Of the above
facts, unlike the Examiner, we have no
questions to ask the Reporter If we wish
ed to buy the paper or learn the course it
will pursue in the future, we would, acting
on the information furnished by the argus,
deem it proper to go at once to Leland Stan
ford. and if he could not answer our de-
mands we would then try to induce him to
call meeting of the Directors of the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad Company. Stanford d
Co.. have been overreached in this matter
and are badly swindled, while the pure De-
mocracy have made vast gains all over the
State. The bungling of the Reporter job
has united nearly the entire Democratic press
of the State and left none in the Democratic
party for the subsidyists but such as can and
will have to be bought. The question Of
which it is safest to be, good thief or a
| good hider must now be settled in Stanford 8
mind. The HERALD supports no rascals or
rascally measures, no matter whose collar or
label they may wear.
RATHER AMUsING.-The Marysville Stand
ard, edited and published by A. S. Smith,
first a Federalist, then a Wing, then a
| Know Nothing and then q Gorham MarYs-