The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-08-22

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OILY.
10 n friend in San Diego, Cali
iornia, We are indebted for copies
of The DdiW Union Of that city,
containing interesting information
in reference to the Congressional
contest in that district. Politics, it
seems, has been entirely subordi-
mated there, to the railroad question;
that is, whether the Central Pacific
manopaly shall continue in porpo'
tuity to levy tribute upon the whole
trana.C Continental commerce, and
practically exclude tho South from
the Pacific coast, or whether Con.
gress shall grant tho loan of Its
credit for the completion of the
Texas and Pacific and thus put
an end to il. The man who
is running in the interest of manop.
oily calls himself II Democrat, while
the friend Of fair play to the South
and to his district, which is largely
interested in the completion Of the
Texas and Pacific, is " Republican.
Nothing illustrates tho democrat.
ling powor possessed by II vast ma
nopoly, like the Central Pacific,
than the present position of cundi-
dates and parties in California on
this Texas and Pacific question.
The people Of California are
grooming under the dospotism
Of this grasf'ng and gigantic
monopoly, which owns nearly every
mile Of railway in the State, and
lcvies tribute ut discretion, on every
human being and every pound of
freight, which reaches tho Pacific
coast by land. In spite of this
fact, with the exception Of Mr..
Houghtcn, tho leaders and can =.
didatos of both political parties
seem to DO owned, body and
soul, by this gigantic corpora
ton. Tho dcspots caro- nothing
for tho politics of their tools, so that
they boar faithful allegiance to them.
In Democratic districts the central
railroad candidates are Democrats,
and money is poured out like water
to secure thoir election. In Repub
lican districts the central railroad
candidate are Republicans, with free
access TO the excheQuor Of thicr mas
tcrs Or, it may be, rs it ia, in som,
of tho districts of California, that
the candidates Of both parties veal
tho brass collar Of Stamford and
Huntington and the Bank Of Cali
fornin.
As for Mr.. Wigginton, the oppo-
nent Of lIoughton, in tho Southern
Congressional District, it seems 80
we'll understood that he is the mere
creature of Che Central Pacific mo.
nopoly that the best Democrats OF
tho District arc holding aloof, and
taking no part in the election
Little wonder, for rs between n con.
fessed Republican, although an hon
est and unimpeachablc man, and Il
spurious Democrat, wearing tho liv.
CRY of Il mnstor, this seems to DO the
only alternative left them.
To Texas, and especially to this
part of it, this is u question
Of great Importance. With thi,
trans-continontal highway compile
ted, our population would extenc
itself in an unbroken series of pros
porous communities from here Il
I'll Paso, n distance of nearly seven
hundred miles. The vast expendi
turo Of the company within the
State would of itself stimulate i'm
migration to an enormous extent,
and in ton years Texas in popula.
tion would rank the fourth or fifth
State in the Union, and in twenty
years would not DO far behind New
York itself.
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