The Placer herald., 1873-08-02
DID THEY SWEAR HIM'

The story Is current, on the streets, tina
the editor Of the argus, who is on the ring
monopoly ticket, for the Assembly, went Il
Sacramento, last Saturday. when Morril
and Anthony had him put under oath, as t.
the monopoly tendencies ofthe ring legisla
tive ticket in this county. Of course this
Page chick was the only man on the ticket
who was willing to perform degrading,if &c,
criminal service, the others being above the
intermediate class of beings that divide the
human and brute creation. 1t is remarkable
that the Union propretors failed to detect the
true character of the being by his physicg-
n,iny. If they had of called in plrenolo-
gist and had the head of the creature ex-
amintd he would have at once told them
to disp.nse with all trouble in swearing or
questioning the chick, as it was mentally
incapacitat,sd to tell, or even swear the
truth where q falsehood would suit better
This, we think, would have been about the
determination and report of a pbrenologist.
Many of the Unions readers here, regret
that it did not take testimony on both sides,
and many oftLem are cbagrined to see it
unwittingly support tic tools. as all here
know them to be, of the great monopoly.
Our Democratic friends, IN Sacramento,
who are supporting. in good faith, the lnde-
pendent Taxpayers ticket, tel us, they
believe The Union is sincerely m honest
opponent of the monopoly. This we have
thought was the case ourselves, but how
paper can support the Independent Taxipay-
.ers ticket in Sacramento, pledged to the
support Of an anti-monopoly man for the
United States Senate, and oppose exactly
ithe same kind of candidates, under even
stronger pledges on the same subject, in
Placer, is more than we can understand.
Two Of Our Legislative candidates were Re-
publicans and two Democrats; in Sacru-
mento, three were Republicans and three
were Democrats. These tickets are both
opposed by the nominees of the regular Re-
publicans, and if their opponents are elected,
their members will meet in caucus along
with the railroad members, TO determine
who shall be United States Senator, but if
the Independents of both Sacramento and
Placer are elected, of which we have no
doubt, they will act together with the other
anti-monoply members in sle election Of a
United States Senator We are sure our
Independent ticket is superior in talent and
ability TO that Of the Sacramento Taxpay-
ers, and that our principles as laid down in
the resolutions are more explicit, freer from
verbagc, and more direct to the points in
issue than those of the Sacramento 1nde-
pendents. The Independents to be elected
here are bound to act with the Taxpayers
to be elected in Sacramento, and it would
be P"ssins strange 10 SEQ newspaper sup
port one and oppose THE other Every
strong railroad man in the county, be he
Democrat Or Republican, will work and
vote for the regular Repubiean ticket, and
how wonderfully strange 1T would seem, to
see the Sacramento Unlon working with
these parties Every honest and intelligent
anti-monopoly man, in Placer co,snty, will,
he he Democrat or Republican, work and
vote for the Independent ticket in this
county, and to see them and the Union
fighting for different tickets would be rar-
ity in politics not hitherto seen or heard Of
in political history. The railroad comT any
is a power in this county, and it is the duty
and task OF the Independents to break that
power and defeat their ticket, but we have
the men on our ticket that can 90 it and
will do it by large majority. We have
the best ticket, take it all in all, ever pre-
sented to the people of this county, and the
man who fails TO give it his most earnest and
hearty support must be set down with the
enemy, the ring and the railroad.