Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-11
HANDWRITING ON THE
H. WALL.

-, .ooert State election in California
l ~ be regarded as a foreshadowing
seems ,oIicv that is to enter in the po-
o. .I' issues of the immediate future,
Il,' sbows that the people, when they
'D' aaakened to their interests, possess
ST. ;,teIIirence and discretion which can
al 'I Ne controlled by party discipline or
Ny S;nnoted to the juggernaut of any cor
s .,,ote monopoly, no matter how power
=, and well organized. The power that
~, Central Pacific railroad has hereto
u, , ovorcised over California politics,
wv. W. ,son irresistible and almost as COM
u a.,os that Of Camden and Amboy in
I, Jersey. Whether true or not, the
wv .n,o believe that both the Republican
democratic organizations in the
s oaI are pledged to the railroad ring,
-. 10 the returns, so far as received, indi-
,,oo decisive and complete victory of
w., ~, newborn peoples or labor reform
.,r,y Of the State over both the estab-
r.bc5 organizations there.
From the fact that the Republican
.,-,v Of the country is so largely in the
as,,ioritv through the nation, and by its
,,landid record for more than a dozen
,..or. has enshrined itself in the hearts
If tbe people, it is sought to make it the
rf,tim and engine of the mOnopolists to
garry on their war against the progress
,ftic age. We do not believe the party
kin any danger of being reduced to an
ms.rnmcnt Of any such dirty work, and
+, Incomes necessary that the several
state organizations should speak no I'M
certain words upon the great issues that
arp daily looming higher in. the political
heavens. The days of railroad politics
and financial rings to control elections,
,-o very nearly numbered. AS business
facilities and as agents to carry out great
fmnroyemcnts in the business prosperity
of the country, they must ever be power
mi. and 50 far as they Confine them
.eIygs 10 their legitimate functions, they
will he respected and upheld by the peo-
ME. but as far as they seek to usurp the
privileges Of the citizen by guiding and
controlling politics, the recent election in
california, shows that they will be over
vbolmcd I'M defeat, and be made to I'M
dersand that they are getting out of
their place in the economy of the age.
Probably the complaint of the farmers
Of the great West against transportation
lines, has been caused as much by the
cytorlons of the rings, in their efforts TO
procure means to carry elections and cor
npt politics, as by their greed for gain,
and the reaction is now powerful and
will undoubtedly carry matters to the
other extreme for while, so that official
connection with powerful railroad or fl
nrcial concerns, will be an absolute dis
qualification for political preferment.
and though we should deprecate politi-
cal and legislative war upon so necessary
clements of our prosperity as the primer
pal transportation lines of the country,
It is surely coming unless they at once
from the field of politics, cease
10 spend money in elections and do JUS
lice to the people, by such a reduction of
freight and passenger rates as will give
,nly fair compensation to legitimate
nsiness.
There can be no doubt that in Califor-
ia, in common with some other States,
rasping and INSCRIPTIONS corporations
ave combined, and bought and sold
legislatures, and sought by money cor
uptions to direct the legislation of the
State. They have done all they could
o educate the people, that congressional
md legislative measures were unneces-
,ary. to establish justice, as between
railroads. and the people, and the people
have accepted the issue, and fought their
first battle in the local elections of last
week. Governor Newton Booth, had
been assaulted by the railroad oligarchy,
for his independence, and his telling
BLOWS in defence had great effect in the
grand result. Senator Eugene Casserly
could not be governed by the Central Pa
cifc and they went for him, after the
manner of the immortal William Nye,
when he caught the heather Chinee
cheating at cuchre, and brought him in
10 disfavor with the Democratic party,
but this very opposition of The railroad,
put Casscrly ahead, among the agricul-
tural people in his State, and the result
gives him reelection to the Senate of
the United States, if he desired il.
There is a new deal to be called for, and
old organizations will lose their power.
The principles of justice, equity and
fair dealing, are to come to the front,
and whoever does not fully accord with
them, is to be left behind in the politi-
cal march. Existing parties must decide
whether they will accept the situation,
or be abandoned, and everybody WI
has hopes of preferment through III
power of railroad or other mo- nonolies;
better stand from under, for they are go
ing to hear something drop. We beliey
the tenets of the Republican party ar
to be right on this question, and that i,
the future, as in the past, it will be tn
party of progress, of reform, and the on
around which the pride and hope of tn,
citizen will cluster, for justice ant
right.
VIRGINIA.