The Placer herald., 1873-06-21
DUTCH FLAT ORRESPONDENCE
DUTcH FLAT, June 16, 1873.

EDS. HERALD
The mining season is drawing to close. The
water is failing rapidly, and will soon give out
but the season will be longer, and consequently
more prosperous, than we expected few
months ago.
Grant is President. Smiler Colfax has shown
that man may smile and smile and be a rascal,
and until recently there has been but one poll
tician in Dutch Flat, and yet the world moves
The political cauldron begins to boil, and the
word fusion is coming into and growing in
favor, and am in favor of fusion with the
honest wing of the Republican party if it can
be effected honorably; but if a cinging, un-
bending policy is to be accepted on cur part as
was done in the last Presidential campaign it
will be miss count to count me- because such a
cause always has and always will end in disas-
ter and disgrace
Takingthe vote of Coggins and Page in this
county as a criterion, we will find that about
one-fourth of the Republican party can be re-
lied on to support the peoples candidates,
while about fourteen ffteenths of the Demo-
cratic party can be relied on to do the same
thing; and three-fourths of the Republican par
ty and one-ffteenth of the Democratic party
may be expected to support the ring monopoly
candidates. Now, am willing to give our Re
publican friends who may unite with us in this
fight against the robbers and plunderers of the
people, more than equitable share of the
candidates, but they must not insist on making
the election of Governor Booth to the United
States Senate an indispensable condition of fu-
sion, for that will be to throw stumbling block
in the way of union of the anti-monopoly
forces, and will defeat it. Let the admirers of
Governor Booth present him their choice,
and his claims will be fairly considered
am a wood-dyed Democrat, but 1 would
vote for Booth for any office in the gift of the
people in preference to some Democrats could
name who are his equals in talent, but who
have shown themselves the friends of the peo-
pies great enemy.
When Newton Booth was candidate for the
Office he now fills, he found it necessary to
pledge himself that, if elected, he would serve
out his full term. This pledge was necessary
because Pacheco was well known to be in the in
terest OF the monopoly, and no man who pre-
tends to have common sense, will pretend to be-
lieve that he could have been elected without
making this pledge, and now he is u candidate for
the United States Senate, and if he is elected, it
will make Pacheco Governor for nearly year
and perhaps more. However, the Sacramento
Union says. "his Gubernatorial term will expire
about the time his Senatorial term will begin
Is it possiblethe Union thinks March and De-
cember of the sam year is about the same time? !?
Again: the. same authority says 'The people
have released him from this pledge, because
they want his services in the Senate" What
people have released him? l answer, none but
the anti monopoly wing of the Republican par
ty, and l have shown that that wing compr ses
about one-fourth Of the party and one-fourth of
the Republican party is about one-eighth of the
people, hence it appears that the Sacramento
Union and one-eighth of-the people are willing
to release him from his obligation to serve them
four years as Governor. have no candidate
for the United States Senate. We must make
the big fight first, and decide what the Senator
shall be, and if we win, We will have ample time
then to decide who he shall be.
hear some names mentioned in connection
with the State Senate, among whom is w. @.
Norton OF Auburn. There is rule which is,
believe, as old as the county, to take the sena-