The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-09-06
IRWIN AND LEWIS.

10Mlneo IOE OSaeo 6eEseoA A6ea1ss AAS1' 49,
Steele Independent Democrat supported
by the Republicans of Siskiyou, made the
allusion
Extract of speech of Hon. WIN. Irwin. delivered
at Hawfinsvills. Aug. 7sth. 1873
"Just after the 4th
of July, Col. Lewis made visit to this
part Of the State. Mr.. Lewis is attorney
for the Central Pacific Railroad. Now
there are those who believe that his bus
mess was to assist in the nomination of
Mr.. Steele to the Senate. =
Being a Democrat of distinction, who has
had the confidence of the party,
he (Lewis) was thought to be the st per-
SOD to manipulate Democratic counties to
their (R. R interest.
The above statements being thought in
correct, the following dispatch was sent to
Mr.. Lewis:
YRFKA, Aug 9th, 1873.
To E J. Lewis, Red Bluff: Irwin states
that you are attorney for railroad, and form
ed combination with Steele in their in
terest.
E. Fl. AUTENRIETH.
Mr.. Lewis answer:
RED BLUFF. Aug. 9th, 1873.
To E. II. Autenrieth Twins statement
is entirely false. l have never spoken to
Steele or any one else upon the subject.-
The statement is q willful lie, and Irwin
must know it.
E. J. LEWIS.
Colonel Lewis visited Yreka, at the re.
quest of Steele to assist in the defense Of
the Modoc prisoners, but when it was de-
cidei to try them by court martial and al.
low no attorney pleadings, the Col. went
home. After sending the above dispatch,
he followed it up with the following letter
which VIC find in the Yreka Journal of the
Sd:
RED BLUFF, Aug. 81, 1873.
To E. II. AUTENRIETH. ESQ.,, =
Sir: | have just this moment receiv-
ed dispatch from you, which perfectly as.
tonishes me. To think that man who
1 thought was my friend, should, without
any cause whatever, perpet,ate such will
full and malicious SANDER upon me as Mr..
Irwin has. hope that you are mistaken
cannot believe that Mr.. Irwin is guilty
Of the double crime of falsehood and hip.
ocrisy. 1t is true, know the reason
He fancies l will be in his way two years
from now, and has resorted 20 this coward
" method of trying to injure me. No man
living ever heard ME give expression to q
sentiment in favor of the railroad political
". In the last three years, l have attend
ed to three suits for the company, and they
paid me my fee, and beyond that have
had nothing to do with them. 1 suppose
they employed me because they conld trust
me- l voted against the Southern Pacific
subsidy bills. which Mr.. Ewin voted for,
aud he afterwards went back on them and
voted to sustain Gov. Haight's veto. If
Mr.. Irwin is vexed at me, l concluded that
be has not recovered from the lashing l
gave him in the Senate for attempting to
force an outrageous subsidy bill upon the
people of my district, against their will,
and against the will of her representatives,
and which Gov. Haight vetoed, and de-
,lared it to be one of the most impudent
requests that the railroad company had
made.
The journals of the Senate for the four
years that was there do not show a soil
.a,y instance where 1 voted for bill in
the interest Of the railroad company, while
Mr.. Irwin voted for many, if not all of
them, and finally saved his record of stand
ing by voting to sustain Gov. Haights ve-
toes. Mr.. Irwin has been my enemy for
years. While his tongue ba. formed splen.
did sentences of friedship, he has never de-
ceived me, but 1 thought be had cutlived
his littleness aud hypocrisy. thought he
knew enough to know that lawyer could
DO business for his clients nithout yielding
to their political opinions.
cannot afford to quarrel with Mr..
Irwin. He has paper, and 1 have no
doubt that I will be de6led, for MAJ who
would circulate such faIsehood as he has,
would try to justify himself by the sacri
Zee OF all truth, aud perpetuate bis infamy
BY q monument of lies.
Nov in regard to Mr.. Steele When l
was in Yreka in the month OF July, heard
that Mr.. Steele would be a candidate be-
fore the Democratic Convention. l asked
him if such was the case, and bis reply was,
that he could not afford it. This was all
the conversation we had upon the subject.
at that or any other time. Our bushes,
together was professional and not political.
have no sympathy with the railroad pol
itically, and ne, er shall have. have de.
voted the best energy in my lite in oppos-
ing its unreasonable demands, and have
made record which the contemplate
jealousy of Mr.. Irwin cannot deprive me
IF, and cannot believe that the people of
S;skiyou can be arrayed against me by the
mean trick of one who aspired to be a rival.
have no desire to injure the cause of
IN your county. l am with it,
heart and soul, but it is no part of my pol
tical faith to promote man who cannot
be believed, and if the grand old Democracy
IF Siskiyou elect this political Judas to tie
Senate, they will find that bis professions of
Democracy will sink into insigni6cance,
and his boosted honesty yields to bis uD-
desire for falsehood aud char
acteristic hypocrisy.
Mr.. Steele has served you 10 the Legis-
ature, and l know that you can trust him.
He is an able and true man, and you can