Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-10-07
DEMOCRAT ON THE RAMPAGE.

sonorous voice OF The Wild Ass OF Slskl
you re-echoed and reverberated through
the hsn Of Thomas' Theater. but it wal
not alone Reform which was sung
upon those cansry-like tones. For th'
Honorable Jay Kay had a crow TO pick
with the TRINITY JOURNAL, and he had
also Ang to put the feathers in. The
SiskiyOu statesman seemed 10 feel in
the inmost recesses OF his heart of heart:
that he had been foully misrepresented
that the invaluable services he had rend.
cred to the country had been hidden away
from the public gsze and sadly deprecia-
ted. The JOURNAL does not aim TO mis-
represent ANYBODY; not even the founder
and father Of the Minersville Republic.
1t holds Luttrell to be blatan; dema.
gogue and if anything were wanting to
convince his audience Of the truth Of this
charge, his speech on Wednesday light
would have been all-sufficient. For a
more pitiful appeal to prejudices to secure
votes, or more glaring misrepresenta
tion Of certain facts could not have been
made.
Mr.. Luttrell claimed that the JoULNAL
misrepresented him in saying that all his
] lavish promises of reform legislation
dwndled down to the passage Of n single
bill. Luttrell knew perfectly we'll what
we meant, but it suited his purpose TO
!
tcnce, and tbereupon the Siskiyou states
man gave the titles of several bills which
had become laws Of which he was the
author. With the one exception, all
these bills were passed during his first
term of office and in the Journal of two
or three weeks ago, in an article speak
ing of the work of our representatives, we
stated the facts in a manner not TO be-
! misunderstood. And we repeat now, to
give effect to the Hawaiian treaty, was
the only one of the many introduced by
him, which became law in the nine
months session of Congress just ended -
That Luttrell has introduced great
many bills we we'll know, for he thereby
earned and acquired for himself the title
of the champion introducer. Blu: he
certainly did not possess influence enough
to get them passed into laws and that
was all the JOURNAL said of him.
Mr.. Luttrell was apparently very anx-
ious for the JOURNAL editors to come
forward and show wherein he had failed
in keeping his pledges or doing his duty
as public servant. That was another
piece of demagogism and buncombe.
He knows well enough that public speak
ers do things in their way and editors in
their own; that we were not prepared to
rise upon the spur of the moment and
show facts and figures to support any as
sertion we had made or might choose to
make. But this defiance looked and
sounded well to some of his audience and
that was all he cared for.
The.poitical character of public men is
always just field of newspaper scrutiny.
Luttrell's whole career, from the hour in
which he first set foot in the county with
Governor Irwin in 1868, has been marked
by systematic misrepresentation and
! demagoguery. The effect of the Fifteenth
| Amendment was distorted till ignorant
voters believed it carried negro social
equality and Chinese suffrage in its train;
he belittled the boon of American birth
to tickle the ears Of foreign born; "the
naturalized citizen" says this model
American, as better than the native
born; the one is a citizen by choicc-the
other by the accident of birth" Next,
he came into the county to a horse race
and found one horse Supervisor Com
vention offs six delegates and five proxies
assembled at Mnersvile. Here was a
chance Cor the exercise Of his peculiar
talent not to be overlooked. He drew up
and presented the "Convention" a string
Of buncombe resolutions long enough for
a National declaration of principles, one
Of which pledged the miners OF the county
to drive all Chinese from the county
"peaceably If we can-forcibly if we
must" if they refused to pay the license
imposed upon them by the State law.
Then J. X. disappeared from Trinity and
next was heard from the following year
MS candidate for the Assembly from
Sisldyou. At this time the feeling in op-
position to railroad monopolins and subsi-
dies had been agtated until it became
apparent that the railroad question was
to be the question of the hour and the one
to lead to popular favor. The Legisla-
ture assembled on Monday, and on Wed
nesday, before the House had completed
its organization and notified the Govern
or its readiness for business the Siskiyou
gentleman had given notice that he would
introduce a bill to regulate fares and
freights on rsilroads-a thing he knew
about as much of as hog does of the
creation. Having got this vantage
ground he rested content until the ques-
came up.
Luttrelfs own party have little conf
dencc in him. He would not have got
the Democratic nomination in 1872 if
Mr.. Irwin, or any other man of
ability could have been found to accept
it. Irwin was the choice of the Democ-
racy of this county notwithstanding Lut-
trell's bid for the anti Chinese vote. He
sloshed backwards and forwards between
the Democrats and Independents until he
has the confidence of neither. But he is
a "rustler," knows how to take men at
their weak points and gather in every
vote which is governed by prejudice rather
than reason. The Solano RepubitCd,,
hits the nail on the head when it says
"Luttrell goes about p7esuming upon the