Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-06-27
John BIDwELJ..


It Is curious to note the comments OF
the press on the Chico statesman, since
his nomination for Governor Of Cali
fornia. The late Sacramento Union
built up for him a fictitious popularity
which may be of some service to him
in the campaign, but when he comes
to be better known and understood by
the people we imagine that he will not
be half so strong as many now assume
to believe he is. We append a few ex-
tracts lust to show what is being said
about him. The Enterprise, whose
editor has known him intimately for
the last twenty years, has the follow
ing:
The anti monopolists of California
have nominated John Bidwell for Gov
ernor. This is appropriate. Bidwell
owns some twenty thousand acres OF
land in Butte county, where he has
cultivated wheat, mustangs and Indians
for something like a quarter OF a CEN
fury. There is a natural awe of him
about Chico, where he lives; men there
think he must be great or he would not
lave so much wheat, so many Indians
and mustangs. Every wild-hog catch
er, every wild.honey gatherer in the
foothills, will support Bidwell, for is
he not a Granger, and does he not look
stately and wise enough to be a Justice
of the Peace? Briefly, Bidwell is an
honest, ignorant man. Without his
wealth he would never be thought of
in connection with the Office for which
he has been nominated. There is not
a county in the State that has not
among its unknown citizens an ADLER
man. He has never done an act worth
recounting; never spoken or written a
sentence worth remembering. He is
but the representative OF an Ignorant
autocracy which measures men by the
wealth they possess, and for that
wealth claiming preference. He is a
chronic office-seeker, and he always
seeks an Office which he is hot COM
petent to worthily fill. Every princi-
pie which the Independent party of
California processes is stultified by his
nomination.
The Grass Valley Union knows a
thing or two about the head of the
Dolly Warden ticket, which it pro-
ceeds to relate in the following sar-
castle manner:
John Bidwell, of Butte, is the man
they put up for Governor. He is a
splendid anti monopolist. He owns
only about twenty three thousand acres
of land in one body, and he is thor
oughly impressed with the idea that
any maj who owns any farm, larger
than his little affair OF twenty three
thousand acres, is o land m~onopolist
who should not receive the encour-
agement OF the people of this State.
Then, again, he is a temperate man,
and never goes on any heavier spree
than is furnished by devouring
a pint of peanuts. So strict an
anti-monopollst and so great q
social person as John Bidwell will,
no doubt, receive some votes.
And now comes the Alta. the only
straight Republican paper in San
Francisco, telling of some Of the n.y.
falutin airs which are characteristic
of the gubernatorial nominee of the
Reformers. Hear what that journal
has to say:
Is it not a pity that the Dollies
could not have Booth for their can
didate? Instead of that "child- like
bland :" face, they have been forced to
nominate a white vest and a pair OF
white gloves. General, what have
you been doing to your hair 2" saw
we'll, it is some little twist my barber
taught me when / was in P~ar-ee."
He was six days in Paris, we believe,
and since then has been exquisite in
his pronunciation of the name OF
the grand French Capital. If you de-
sire an audience of the General now,
send in q scented card by his darkey
Anvil