The Placer herald., 1873-06-07
THE POLITlCALPOT.

pot is boiling over. We have little conf
dence in any party at Sacramento. They
have been all corrupted by the sinister
agents Of rings and monopolists. This was
abundantly shown in the late city election,
when the railroad carried little over half
the votes in the city, after Stanford had an
nounced in a speech, eff any man stands in
our way we will crush him." Prudence and
sagacity on the part of the people should
have prompted them TO at once abandon
ali political parties and formed an associa-
ton. the gist of whose platform should have
been "anti-monopoly, antirug, anti-corrup-
ton, the subserviency of corporations and
associated wealth, and legislation for the
produce" the rich can take care Of them
selves. Such an organization would have
claimed and received the hearty support Of
all voters but those who are the chattels of
monopolists and the drones of society.
Something approximating such party
looms up in Sacramento this week after the
primaries of both parties have been called.
The address is not clear and outspoken
enough, the invitation not broad and dis
tinct enough; and yet it may be the very
association that all anti-monopoly Demo-
Gratis and Republicans should join. IF it
commits the movement to any one man for
Senator, and loses sight of the real fight, it
will and ought to be failure. If it is a
one man movement it has its growth, and
will wiiher and die without bearing fruit.
Such Democrats in Sacramento as read the
HERALD will understand us as demanding
for them perfect equality in this movement or
advising them to touch it not. The anti
ring, anti monopoly harvest is ripe, and the
laborers to gather it are abundant. In this
county the opposition to the ring and mo-
nopoly is pure, both sides having shucked
themselves last fall on the issue Of Page or
Coggius for Congress, and we won for
Coggins by 1OS majority. At the close of
the battle ameng the Page men stood about
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gins army stood 33o former Republicans
men who dehed the ring and railroad, par
ty ties and all the pleadngs and frownings
of the Auburn Ring and its monopoly back
ers. Thus these determined Republicans did
at Presidential election, when the party
harness fitted closely and the party lines
were drawn tightly. This act achieved for
these anti monopoly Republicans tie conf
dence of all in the ranks Of the anti-monop-
oily party this fall, and we may say 10 the
seventy Page Democrats, they have also
won a front seat in the monopoly ring party.
just as the Page and'Coggins men stood at
the close Of the last election theyw meet
at the polls fhis fall, with the exception that
the weight and odium of the Auburn Ring
candidates will be added to the monopolists
in the coming election. The ring railroad
ers may resolve and pledge until they are
all black in the face, and yet every intelli-
gent man will know they are lmonopos,
creatures Of the most servile kind. Not a
man of the Auburn &c. H. Ring but will
stoop to even degrading depths to get aitriv-
ial advertisement or job of printing away
from the HERALD, the anti-mcnopoly paper,
and to the .Ayyas, the Page, Stanford mo-
nopoly paper. In doing this they are de-
claring themselves The tools of Stanford,
Gorham q Co. in language that even their
oaths will not refute. Well, this is the way
the political fight stands in Placer this fall.
The people are on one side and the ring and
monopolists on the other. On these issues
the ''roll will soon be called, and as the vo-
ters answer they will take sides forever. u
The questions are, do you want open, can
did, honest, practicable business men who
will do right, though the heavens should
fall, for county officers officers who will
support, stand by and defend members Of
the legislature in compelling reduction in
the charges on freights and fares, the aboli-
tion Of free passes, the discrimination
between travellers and shippers, both as to
order of time and accommodation; Legisla-
tors that viii demand, adrocate and labor
increasingly for these laws. Such candi-
dates will be presented by the people. Will
you have them or such two-faced, connving
mouthlings as have served you in the past
six years and now serve you. These are
the issues and the only issues.
MODOC WAR ENDED.