The Placer herald., 1873-08-16
THE SACRAMENTO UNION.

Mr.. Ep1roR:-The Union first favored the peo-
pie in their Independent movement in the
county of Placer, but after several bounds back
end fourth, and sometimes on one side, over
then on the other side, finally alght in its fight
of the 18th inst. on the banners OF the hing
ticket, and pipes for the success OF its candi-
dates How is this? Was Jove lulled to sleep by
the willy arts of Juno" that Neptune might
again achieve victory through the favors OF the
Greek bearing gifts?' If this is not SO, VIII
the Union be candid enough to give the true
reason of its tergiversating approval! Why
espouse our cause in the county of Sacramento,
aud eschew it in Placer?-why approve the
ticket here approved by the Record there? Don't
the Union know that the Central Pacific will not
assist the Independent ticket in this county!
And don't it know that on election day the
hydra headed monster with its cohorts of bum
mers and strikers will support the Ring ticket
all through the line; and that until that time,
Num-, is the word, and deception" the only
hope of success of the socalled Republican
ticket? Don't the Union know that the Ring
ticket here is a fraud on the Republican party
and the people of the county, and that 1t was
gotten up in it's own interests, and is subject to
the orders OF the Railroad Company? If the
Union don't know these things, it is incompe-
tent to pass judgment on the tickets here, or to
obtrude healthy advice to the voters of Placer.
Why docs the Union give preference to the
Ring ticket Legislative, and not aH? Why not 60
the whole hog or none? Are they not all on the
same platforms, and pledged 10 Booth? But
why speak of Booth? Don't the Union know
that there is no question here respecting Mr..
Booth? That his name appears in the Ring
platform only as a blind as a part of the plan of
deception, and that the fight here is one solely
between the people on the one side, and the
Road and Ring on the other.
The Independent ticket in Placer is literally a
peoples ticket, imposed upon the candidates,
without solicitation on their part, and is made
up of men, true as steel; men possessed of suf-
ficient nerve and backbone to withstand all the
temptations the willy devils may bring to bear
upon them, and of sufficient intelligence and
powers of discernment and Discrimination to
and know that they are not sold out without
knowing it; men, too, who did not fael by the
wayside, pending the Page epidemic, most
loathsome contagion that told terribly on the
file of the ring-leaders, peculiar distemper
that seems to degrade man and make him
so,,irm, and about half way try to lie himself
out OF it, and swear, with the complaisance of a
moon-liglt possum that he knows he never will
have disease like that again, even if he did
have it some.
But why does the U.,ion prefer that disordered
ticket? Probably that paper reasons upon the
theory, that because a man did q wrong is the
best evidence in the world that he won't do so
again, because he the effect of it; hut the
people in Placer, who know their men, c"u
accept the philosophy of this sort of logic.
They reason that men who have been tried and
found wanting, are most likely to be found want
ing again; that Co1stitttoaally there is some
thing weak i'll the organism that is likely to
give way under heavy pressure; and observa-
ton has taught them what the Union has often
preached, that dogs will return to their vomit
again, and hogs to the mre.' No; the Inde-
pendent party here, believe that the best evil
dence that man will do right is that he has
done so, and as the interests of the county are
involved in this contest, they have placed upon
their ticket men of known worth and Integrity
who have proved themselves true to the people
in their proud efforts, and against oppression
and misrule, and as TO whose soundpcss upon
the issues of this fight there is not the least
doubt existing i'll the minds of any man, woman
or child in the county of Placer and the wonder
with us here is, how why it is, that in the
single instance of this county, the Sacramento
Union, eagerly sought and read by all, and GER
tainly honest in its intentions, should prefer
doubts to certanties, and cripples to sound men,
and at the same time pursue the opposite course
in regard to every other county in the State.
Can you Mr.. Editor any way have the Union
explain.
INDEPENDENT VOTER.