The Shasta courier., 1872-10-12
A CoNGREssIosAL AspIRANT.

and Liberal Republican" candidate for
Congress, in this District, held forth at the
Court house on Saturday evening. He
was not quite so verbose as when deliver
ing rehashed Union editorials in the Leg
islature, and drawing SO a day from the
State Treasury for SO doing and indeed,
upon several points on which the people
would have been glad to have bad little
explanation, the honorable gentleman was
very retcent. A portion Of his harangue
was an attempt to show why Democrats
could consistently support Horace Greeley,
but if he succeeded in showing to any bodys
satisfaction but his own, why Democrats
should beat Grant with Greeley rather than
beat Greeley with Grant, we have not be-
come aware of the fact. We thiuk that
Mr.. Luttrell's reasons for the sudden ad-
miration he has conceived for the Sage of
Chappaqua can be briefly summed up thus !:
MIR. Luttrell is candidate for Congress.
and Mr.. Luttrell wants the support of the
slim body of Republicans in the District
who have followed the venerable Horace
inte the mongrel camp.
But subsidies and monopolies are the
strings whose vibrations sound most pleas
ant to the ears of fthe "food of demagogue,
and Mr.. Luttrel's performance was mostly
on these two strings. The moment he
reaches the halls of Congress he will intro
duce bills to compel all railway conn anies
to pay the interest on the bonds which the
government guarantees We have some
recollection of his having, before his seat
in the Legislature was fairly warmed, start
ed in to get ahead of everybody else by
introducing bill to cut down fares and
freights. We don't know that his efforts
were crowned with success except so far as
they procured him the Congressional nom
ination, which VIC imagine was what he de-
sired most.
1t would not have been inappropriate in
Mr. Luttrell, when taking such decided
grounds upon, the subsidy question, to have
given little explanation of why he mad
voted few years age, to subsidize thirty
mile road to the extent of million and
half of dollars. Also, why he supported
n easure which, for the next fifty years,
would have taken the right to regulate fares
and freights on railroads from the hands of
the Legislature, and left the people at the
mercy ofthe corporations Again, why he
should, at mole recent date, champion
bill in the interests ofthe "bloated monop-
oily" to close the navigation of the Sacra-
mento river frem Tehama up. 1t would
have teen as we'll, too. if he had stated
whether he is still in favor of mob law
and notification Of the laws of that body of
which he aspires to become member
Or, having adopted Mr. Greeley as his
political god, does he approve of Mr.. Gree
ley's and Mr.. Summers ideas of Chinese
immigration and citizenship. Of course
the 'srailway organs" to which he alluded,
are not exactly satisfied as to the purity of
his motives, and it is hardly to be expect
ed that they will be, still, it would have
been well enough to have said something
on these points to the people whose suffrages
he is seeking. We did not expect him to
give any reason why he preferred to
'bushwhack" the District, instead of can
vasslng it with his opponent, for we know
that Mr.. Luttrell's chances of election are
greatly increased by him keeping out of the
range of free discussion We shall prob
ably refer to j. KS sublime effort again