The Shasta courier., 1872-10-19
TIE CONGRESSIONAL CANVASS.


is true to the republic, and they have said
that the party which has governed so well
in the past, is the one to whom its govern
ment must be again entrusted. Mr..
Greeley has never received any but for
ced support from the Democratic wing of
his adherents, and the few Republicans
who have followed him into such strange
company are powerless for harm. His
cause was stronger at the first than at any
time since, and from now to the Ides of
November it will lose ground every day.
The opposition press and individual Demo
Gratis may try to disguise this fact and
sp,ak hopefully of reaction of public SEN
timent, but it is like boy who whistles as
he goes by graveyard, to keep his courage
up. Since the great Central States have
spoken, the nominees of the Louisville
convention are gaining strengh daily, and
without question will poll strong vote in
many States.
1t being looked upon as certain by Re-
publicans that Gen. Grant will be triumph
antly reelected, it becomes of Importance
that the national Congress shall be in full
accord with the administration. In this
view, the people of California are interested
in the return of four Republicans to the
House of Representatives. A delegation
in full syhpathy with the administration
has far greater power to work for the inter.
ests of their constituency that one in op-
position. The Republicans of this District
have unanimously put forward our present
member Hon. j. NJ. Coghlan, and we be-
lieve that in spite of the unprincipled
manner in which the canvass is being con-
Quoted against him he will be triumphant
ly reelected. We have, heretofore in this
journal, given ample reasons for the Re,
pubicans of the District to accord to our
talented young representative a united
support, and we again urge them upon our
readers. The pledges he made when can
vassing the district last year were not made
in spirit of demagoguery, but from earnest
conviction, and have been faithfully kept
Recognizing that the era for subsidies to
railway corporations has passed away, he
has sought, by constitutional amendment,
to preserve the public lands of the United
States sacred to the use of the actual
settler thereon, for homestead purposes
only. The Democratic Convention, (pre-
sided over by defaulting ex postmas-
ter) which nominated his opponent, adopt
ed almost the precise language of Mr..
Goghlan's amendment as one of their re-
solutions, having done which, it proceeded
falsely to denounce Mr.. Coghlan as sub
sidist and meanly declared that he had
supported such measures, when it is a
matter OF record that not single subsidy
VISA granted by the House at the last
session. But the action of that "Reform''
convention was only part of the deliber-
ate system of Misrepresentation which Mr..
Coghlan's opponents in this canvass have
seen fit to adopt While the Luttrell
convention falsifes the record to make a
point for its candidate, the Sacramento
Union misrepresents the Goat Island Bill,
claiming it to be a subsidy to the Central
Pacific Railroad Company. The fact that
the Union supports Grant while opposing
Coghlan gives credence to the utterances
Of that journal against Mr.. Coghlan which
a Democratic paper could not obtain
Thanks however, to the Republican press
the motives which actuate the Unions course
are being exposed to the light, and with
the knowledge of its deceptive treachery
its influence has gone The Republicans
of California owe duty to themselves to
rebuke the arrogance OF journal which
failing to get its creatures taken up against
the wishes of the party, wields its influence
to defeat the choice of the Republican
voters and secure the election of blatant
frothy demagogues in their stead. If the
assertions of the Union in regard to the
purport of the Goat Island Bill we're true,
it would have published it, but to publish
it now would be to convict itself of deliber.
ate falsehood. The Republican papers Of
the district hastened to lay the bill before
their readers, that voters might Judge for
themselves Instead 1t publishes synop-
sis of its contents as far from truthful as it
can be distorted to appear. 1t is full time
that such an unscrupulous journal was
taught wholesome lesson. We can come
to but one conclusion in the premises, and
that is that the Union has sold out the Re-
puDllcan ca0utudleS liUu lue IlTSI, InlIQ
and Fourth Districts, in return for the as
surance of Democratic support for its tool,
Coggins, in the Second. And it would
have mattered but little who received the
Republican nominations-they would have
been denounced as bitterly as the present
nominees are being denounced, unless the
Union had dictated the nominations Had
the bill which Mr.. Coghlan is condemned
for supporting been the monstrosity the
Union claims, that Journal would have
blazoned it forth in every edition. That
the bill would have Injured in some degree
to the benefit of the Central Pacific we
do not question, and that is of itself sufici-
ent to call upon its friends the maledic.
tions of the would be California Thunderer.
For, no matter how great benefit mea-
sure may be to the people, if the Central
Pacific is benefited in the least degree, it
at once insures the Unions opposition.
The opponent of Mr.. Coghlan has moth
ing to commend HIM to the suffrages of
Republicans. His political acts are public
property and are not calculated to inspire
confidence in the man. His legislative rec
ord shows how he skips from side to side