The Shasta courier., 1872-08-31
rnE UNIONS, CONSISTENCY.

are quoted by the Democratic press ss he
publican doctrius whenever its course hap
pens to be in unison With their own wishes.
In past campaigns, the course Of the Un-
iion has done much to deporalise s2d 5<-
fsss The Rsrphlissp party, and .bs stand it
has taken in the present cahpaign shows
that it is still possessed by the same "rule
or ruin" anin US Failing to control the
kepubIican Congressional Conventions, and
get creatures Of its own nominated, it is DOW
waglDg a bitter warfare against all the
Republican Cougressiona nominees
While it PROCESSES to deplore the election
OF Horace Greeley aud Of a Democratic
majority in the popular branch of Congress,
it Is using all its extended influence to
forward the election. of four Democrats
to Congress from this State. Promising
that the Republicans Of California are alive
to their own interests, AID Can and have
made their Congressional nominations with
out submitting to the dictatlon OF either
the Sacramento Union or the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, We have word
to say ia reference to the course Of that
journal upon the Congressional question,
aud espec ally as regards the Lominees
from the Third Congressional District.
1t is the duty vf pubic journal to labor
for the interest Of the oumunity from
from which it derives its support, and 81
lclg as it is believed to be actuated by
motives to that end, its action will com-
uand approval and respect. But with the
private quarreis OF any journal the public
at large have neither sympathy or interest.
Hence, while the Union was battling in
the interest of 'he people against high
fares and freights and swindling subsidies,
its course met with the countenance aud
assistance OF the press OF the State, R.pub
licau and Democratic alike.-when il becauie
evident that it was dictated by malice
alone, aud that /. made the public welfare
secondary to defeat Of soue object sought
to be gained by the Railroad Company !;
that coupteaauce aud support wa, with
drawn. In tie present Instance, the mo
tiv-s underlying the Unions course Of ac-
tion are tooappareut to be misunderstood-lt
makes national principles secondary to its
private animosity against the Central Pacit-
ic. That this the case is 80 plaiu that
be who runs uay read. 1t opposes Clay
ton and Page, os ensibly because the Rail
road Interest is said to have procured their
nominations, though We have yet to see any
pr Of Of this charge-and it opposes Cogh-
Ian and lioughton y reason Of their vote
upon the "Goat Island Bill" We do
not propose in this article to enter into
the merits Of that vote further than to say
that we believe it was gwen in the inter-
ests OF commerce on the Pacific Coast,
that it was cast in acc rdance with gener
al public seutim. Mt in the interior, aud
that majority Of the Assembly and of the
State Senate, including thirteen Of the
twenty-five Democratic members Of the last
named body, approved Of the cessou Of the
Island under the well-guarded restrictions
of the bill.
With this enc exceptional vote we be-
lieve che Congressional course Of Mr. Cogh
Ian has been such as to merit the universal
approval Of his constituents, aud even Of
the captious Union. But that Journal now
gives its influence in favor o, the election
OF tina. new boru opponent of subsidies, j.
K. Luttrell, who received the Democratic
omination at the Marysviile Convention,
and in its issue of the 26th undertakes
the uphill task Of Convincing Republicans
that Democratic majority in the lower
branch of Congress is not 50 bad thing as
might happen This Luttrell is Demo
crat of the most ultra stamp, and when in
the Legislature some years ago, was one OF
the foremost of subsidy men. On the pas
sage OF. the bill graDtlng aid to the Placer
vile aud Sacramento Valley Railroad, the
measure which lost the State OF California
to the Republican party at the next State
election, the vote OF Mr. Luttrell was cast
10 iavor of the measure, which would have
entaied tax of ten cents on each one
hundred dollars worth Of property in the
State for the twenty years succeeding =
The bill was vetoed by Governor Low, and
the day after it had passed the Union pub
lished list Ut members voting for the mea-
sure, with the editorial comment that
mo. one OF them should ever be returned"
Yet to-day we find the same Union ad-
vocatiug the election of one of those mes
to seat in the National Legislature, whom
a lew years ago it deemed unfit TO repre-
sent county 1t is popular to be oppos-
ed to subsidies now Mr.. Luttrell is nak.
ing bold strike for Con- ress, and of course
desires to be on the popular side Of this
question. So, no sooner last year than the
Legislature was fairly assembled, before
its organization was fairly completed by
the appointment of cowmit ees etc, Mr..
Luttrel starts in to take the wind out of all
sails but his own, By oddcipg bill to
reduce fares and freights. He was appar.
emily oblivious Of the fact that the Legisla-
ture of 1865, of which he was member,
passed an act which took the form Of sn
irrepealable contract between the State and
all railway companies accepting its provis.
ions, by which curing the life Of the char
ter OF each corporation, it would be entitled
to charge from seven to 6fteep cents per
mile (sccording to elevstion), for passengers
and proportiouately high for freights. We
do not know that Mr.. Luttrcll raised his
voice, nor do We 6nd bis vote recorded
against this measure, which Gov. Low, il
his veto message characterized a. '.mon.
.tron. The Tnson mi ncidad v;th Gova,n