The Placer herald., 1873-07-05
THE ISSUES ARE BEFORE YOU.

'"0'N Soii io' " SouHty CoiIseHtIoH, anu Tue
Independents, composed Of anti-monopoly
Democrats and Republicans, have also pub
lisLed an address and issued call for a
county convention, wh'ch will be found in
our columns to-day. The fight is identical
with that made between Page and Coggins,
for Congress last Fail; the roll was then
calle' and with few exceptions the soldiers
will this Fall fall into line as they did last
year. Stanford, Gorham, Sargent and the
employees of the monopoly we've for Page
last year, and they viii all be for the nomi-
nees of the Auburn Ring convention this
J year. Did you vote for Page, was the test
in 1872; and do you vote for the nominees of
| the Auburn Ring convention in 1878, will
be the motto this year. No man who is not
! the clay to be moulded into tool of the
monopoly, will be nominated by The ring
convention, and no man who refused to vote
for Page, the Stanford candidate for Com
g.ess last fall, can have place on that pink
ticket this year. The railroadzed Republi-
! can Committee, with railroad lawyer as
| its Chairman, has called its convention, and
| already has its cand dates booked for ratifi-
cation when its packed convention mec.s.
Stanford has already issued his dispensa-
! ton, and said to the A1,gats and to the Au-
burn Ring, curse me, and call me and those
who belong to my ring seoundrels, thieves,
and villains, but pack your convention, nom
mate and elect men that viii 20 my bid
dings when they have taken office. These
ale solemn facts, readers, whether you lie
| Republicans or Democrats, and facts that
you should remember at your peril on the
day the ring primaries take place. On that
day as you make your bed you may expect
to lie on it, You know all this is true, and
we tell it to you only to remind you of that
which it is our duty to do as an honest man,
who has no more interest, present or pros
pective, in politics than each of yeu. But
turn the other leaf over-refer to the address
in another column, and you will read the
language that honest men speak; read the
wanton robbery that you have suffered in
years past and in their call if promptly re-
sponded to, find the relief you have so often
felt was your due. The address points out
your grievances in plain and positive Ian
guage; fixes the data that is indisputable,
and defes the minions of monopoly to con-
| tradct or meet with decent argument. The
| address contains matters of fact and history
that every man in Placer County should
make himself conversant with. Read it
and lend it to your neighbor to read, with
tue injunction that he shall pass it to his
neighbor also. This is great, rich, power
ful and gifted people, and they ought not to
allow themselves to be dragged into menial
slavery and poverty by schemers, monopo-
lists and petty county rings and thieves.
We believe from the bottom of our heart,
that the men who indicted this address and
issued this call, mean what they say; that
if you heartily second the call and doctines
of the address, that Placer will be again her
proud self, and stand at the head of the
counties in this State in the great movement
to overthrow corruption, rascality and the
further robbery of the honet toers and
past in this county tells such an infamous
tale of petty and grand larceny, SO to speak
such rule of mediecracy and imbecility or
impotency, that even the party who stood
behind those in power are ashamed Of the
creatures that govern. To be ignorant in
times like these of all these robberes the
taxpayers of Placer have suffered, is a
crime; to refuse to right them is a disgrace
to the people of the county, and one, too,
we hope and believe, they will never again
bear. All admit change is necessary.
We have struck the bedrock of ring and
monopoly pilfering, exaction and stealing
and if the people of Placer do not now step
to the front and right these wrongs, surely
! good men have mo reason or hope longer to
fight for them. If they are too slothful to
be moved with what has occurred in past
years, surely they are not worthy of long
er contest on the part of cool and self-sac-
rifcing men, and when this campaign ends,
let the flag of equal and exact justice to
all men and exclusive privileges to none,
whether up Or down, tell what kind of gov
eminent the people of Placer County want
and deserve.
NO RAILWAY PARTY.