The Placer herald., 1873-07-19
A WORD TO INDEPENDENT VOTERS.

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rupted, and it is right that they should be
as there is no national policy in issue, ant
the only matters that concern you are you
State and county administrations. The tw'
great parties are found to contain monopoly
elements that are as poisonous to all who ap-
proach or act with them as the deadly Upas
tree, while the great mass of both the ole
Republican and Democratic parties agree ex-
taetly on the only issues before the people
this coming election. These issues are;
shall n,onopolies rule the State and bleed
lis people at uiU /? shall its rings, agents
ard time -seruers rule the counties as they
haze This for yearse In this county the
railroadized ring of the old Republican par
ty has made its slate; is to-day packing its
convention right in ycur midst, to endorse
this list of candidates made up by the Au-
burn Court House Ring. The work in that
party was all done a week ago in Auburn,
and on Monday next will be ratified in Au-
burn by the packed convention.
Next Saturday the people will have a
chance to attend the anti-monopoly, anti
ring primaries, and select delegates to nomi-
nate candidates opposed to every species of
monopoly and ring stealing for you to elect
we say elect, for you will elect them cas-
ier than you carried the county for Coggins,
the anti-monopoly candidate for Congress
last fall against Page, the Auburn Ring and
all the tools and timeservers Of Stanford,
Gorham & Go. Atthat election you showed
your independence Of party rule and clique
ism and won, and now when your interests
and property are menaced an hundred fold
over what Page could do, you can not fail to
repeat the ctory by an increased majority
of at least 800. Let every anti-monopoly
and anti-ring man, then, who can, leave his
abor on Saturday afternoon next and attend
the Independent primaries, and see that no
delegates are elected but those who are
pure, staunch and true TO the principles Of
the Independent address. Select your dele
gates, not because they will support this or
that man for office, but such only as will
vote in convention for the ablest, truest,
purest and most popular men before the
convention for every office. Goods well
bought are more than half sold, and if
your convention selects good candidates
their election is sure, and the majority will
be very large. Independent conventions are
being held all over the State, in which Dem
ocrats and Republicans are mingling, fusing
and fighting shoulder to shoulder to rescue
the State and county governments from the
tiger grasp of great and lawlcss monopoly
and its tools, the county rings. Then let not
the good citizens of Placer, who have suf-
fered more and longer from this monster
and its second fiddler, the Auburn Ring, be
behind in this fight. She leads off in the
work with the ablest, cearest and most
powerful and convincing arraignment of the
monster and its ring and fugemen of any
county in the State; let her keep the lead
and come out with the best county and
legislative officers and largest proportonate
majority in California. Independent anti
monopoly and anti-ring Republican, go now
to your Democratic neighbor and ask him to
join you in this fight for the overthrow of
these public leeches; Independent anti-mo-
nopoly and ani-ring Democrats, so to-day
to your Republican neighbor; put your
hand on his shoulder and say the enemy is
in both our camps; come, let us join togeth-
er and rout and destroy him forever. Do
this all over the county, in every neighbor-
hood, precinct and township, and your
county will be redeemed from the leeches
and the spoilsnen of the Auburn Ring, and
your Legislature will free you from the iron
grasp of the monster railroad monopoly that
bleeds you from every source of your labor
and income rBury the hatchet," lay
aside the old issues, and rally to the only
party that will declare aud make the people
and government, both county and State,
above and masters of all corporations and
county seat rings. Do this and You will
have done your duty as noble freemen; do
less and you will be and deserve to be the
public goose for all officials and corporation
thieves to pluck, as in the past.
| ATTACK THEM ALL ALONG THE LINE
That is the cry that is extending all over
the State among Independents. The fight
opens in Placer on next Saturday, at the
Independent primaries. Anti-monopoly and
anti-ring Democrats and Republicans con-
suit together and be prepared, on that day,
to select your best men and send them to