Nevada County picayune., 1886-10-27
To the Voters Of Nevada County


 this, he 3rd Congressional dis trict. There are three candidates for that position, and it behooyesI all men who feel an interest Tn the welfare of our State to cast about them and choose one from those three who will be best fitted, and one who will, with the most zeal, represent their interests. The Democratic party has nominated the Hon. Thos. C. McRae; the Re- publicans have nominated J. C. Ray, and Il convention composed of few Greenbackers, most of whom live in this township, nomi. mated Rev. l.. H. Hit. One of these three will represent us in the next Congress. To vote in. teligently upon this matter we must take look at the merits Of these gentlemen, for l presume there isn't fair minded man in Nevada county who will sacrifice the interest of his county, his fam ily and himself, for political pur- poses.
 As to Mir, Ray, the Republican nominee, we cannot say much, either one way or the other, for he is utterly unknown to the citizens of this county, and to the whole congressional district. If he has political record 1t Is unknown to me; but he represents a party who recklessly donated to railroads and other corporations millions of acres of tbe public domain; par ! ty who bankrupted the State of Arkansas during the days of re- construction, and whose represen- tatives stand in our National Leg isla:ure to-day, battling for monop- olies. which they say makes the Government stronger, and which expresses and weakens the labor ing people-the bone and sinew of our country. His party, for the past twenty four years, have been pensioning men without regard to any injury sustained in the late war. aud in a great many instances men who never entered the war. At the same time they refuse to pension the veterans who fought i'll the Mexican war. because the most of them are Southern men This is all done for pure political pur- poses. Then, no faIr-minded man can vote for man who is a repre- sentative of this party, who so thoroughly discriminates against his country, and if MT. Ray is elec- ted he would certainly be with his party on all such measures.
 Those who urge Mir. Hitts cleo tion, do not claim any particular ability for him; but more from the fact that he has been raised'a farm. CT boy. IT. this respect he has no advantage over MT. McRae, for he, too, was raised a farmer boy, and by his energy has gained honors ! for himself and his State We will not discuss Mr. Hit any further as he stands no show to be elected, and every vote cast for him will count one for Ray.
 Let's see if Mir. McRae possess es any merit. The very fact that he is 35 years of age, and that Is years ago he was making his living by the sweat of his brow Op san dy land farm in Columbia county, and that to-day he occupies seat in Congress is sufficient to answer that in the affirmative And isn't it weak argument against him that one of his opponents was a blow boy! But this is not alone a qualification. If it were, we might send any man in this county to Congress. But We have tried McRae and know something of his merits. tiiS first effort ln Con- eress was to get a bill passed for feitiug several million acres of land that had been donated by the Re- publican party to railroads. He introduced this bill and after some amendments it became law, and all this vast area of land, which a great railroad monopoly had ob. tained through fraud by the assis- tance of Republican administra- ton, is now subject to homestead by actual settlers.
 Another blll he introduced that became a law was one to permit final proof on additional home steads to be mace in two years in stead of five as under the old law.
 Another bill that Mir, McRae heartily supported was one to pre- vent pauper immigration. It was introduced by democrat and was passed by democratic House and received the sanction of a demo-