The Placer herald., 1873-10-04
MUiUAL AIbMtttAIlUN.

The S,cramenio Union at the lite Peo-
ple's Convention, had arranged 10 have
itself puffed as well AS Gov. Booth, and
why not ? for it has been an anti-monopoly
paper longer than Booth has cen an anti
monopoly politician. True, the Union had
been the slave and servant Of the Central
Pac fc Railroad monopoly willie it could be
useful to it; supporting and praising it from
iis very inception all the time while it was
begging for aid from Sacramento County,
San Francisco County, Placer County,
Sacramento City, the State Government,
and the United States, even in the bill of
1854, which doubled the bond and land
grant of the General Government, and was
the cgg that hatohed the Credit MohiIier and
Contract and Finance Compan es, and gave
rise TO all The stealing and swindng hy the
IA aroad company in California; still it was
three years after all this had been accom-
plished for the company and 10y the com
idIl1 UCIOlc iuc CUtOu iOoN SIOUiluS toI
the people-we mean in the election of 1867.
1t seems that Jonas Spect, Of Colusa
County, was TO be temporary Chairman of
The convention, and that lie was also to
introduce II resolution lauding the Union for
for its ant-monopolyism. He intro
duced the resolution at the close of the
convention; immediately another delegate
arose ard moved 70 add the Bulletin and
CAL; another delegate moved to add all
the Ind pendent Press of the State; one of
our delegates wanted to except Placer
County from the re, olu,ion, but there was
such a hubbub that he failed to be heard, as
the Union had worked against the lndt-
pendent ticket all through the contest in
this county. md for what our people knew
to be the monopoly ticket, even charging
the day before the election that two Of our
candidates, Martin and Norton, had been
adopted hy the monopoly, and printed
circulars issued directing the employees of
the company in this county to vote for them.
L is was doue on the authority Of name
less correspondent from Auburn, and when
gentleman of Sacramento called on n
proprieo o. the Union TO learn the name
of their correspondent he refused to give it.,
and these two men on our ticket had to en-
Ter the contest the next day with this ssnder
h.. neing over them, and yet they were both
elected, thus showing that the Sacramento
| Union was unable to defeat the Independ-
ent candidates here, though it did all in i,s
power to accomplish that Object. So far
rs Placer County is concerned we owe the
Sacramento CniCn no thanks, for we elected
our Independent an,imonopoly candidates
in defiance of it, and against is every effort
tc defea, them. The resolution was finally
amended 30 as to include all the lndepend-
ent Presa OF the State. We certainly feel
grateful to the Hon. ". C. Norton for tho
fine culogy pronounced in our favor, for our
action in 'he last contest in this county, il
the Un,on did suppress It in its report Of
The convention. But these are by-gones
and the Union is fighting now very wei
by our side, for we claim to lie the Oldest
anti-mnaopoly paper in the State, as ou'
files will show. Maybe. hs all right fal
the new converts to 60 off with the prizes
for the Scriptures do say: "1he flst shal
be las. and the last 6rs.