Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-02
SCATEING.
A Democratic Journal on the Member
from Mexico.
The San Francisco Aita of yesterda.
tanned the following editorial

from Mexico.
The San Francisco Attd of yesterday con-
tanned the following editorial
The Democratic Convention is full of ex-
cellent material. The delegations that have
come in from the country are representa-
tive OF the property, enterprise and Intelll-
gence Of the State. They are good men, to
whom the chicanery and tricks OF politics
are unknown, and who are interested IN
good government and believe their party
to be It's safest and surest vehicle. These
reasonable men see no cause for divisions
in the party. They are not in sympathy
with any effort to use it for personal pur-
poses, and they are too level-headed TO re
spond to the screech of the demagogue and
the squall of the crank. If they were left
alone to guide its destinies the party would
always succeed for they are honest and
without guile. When the Convention was
called to order they found themselves in
line with Senator Taylor's splendid speech
putting Judge Curtis in nomination for the
Craftsmanship, because it was an appeal Tor
good fellowship and harmony, and why
should there be anything else Ill q Demo-
cratic Convention They were ready to vote
and 20 on with the business of the Conyen-
ton, but Mr.. Henley, of Santa Rosa, was
disquieted by the signs Of good feeling.
Mr.. Henley is happy only when he is I'M
happy. His unfortunate appearance in poll
tics having lost his county to the party,
having been laid as naked political found
ling on the doorstep of the Colusa Democ-
racy, and in his last candidacy saved by
strangers when outcast in his own home,
himself victim OF the evil spirit of conten-
tation generated in his uncontrollables pites
Mr.. Henley could not permit the party TO
be peaceable, to be harmonious, to be sue
cesSful, and so he took the floor to disturb
the peace. \ judiciOus distribution of the
tickets had excluded the country from the
galleries and the Hobbies, and they were
filled with claque which hailed his APP
pearance. Up to the time that Mr.. +! en-
ieys unfortunate gall entered the contest it
had been between two gentlemen whose
friends had a right to support them but
he announced that it was q fight between
two factions; that his candidate repre-
scented the - true Democracy" the other the
| counterfeit So through a bitter speech
Mr.. Henley tried to make his unfortunate
mouth the grave of the party, crowding his
own political corpse, which is in advanced
maceration, in the same sepulchre. The
answer to his description of the supporters
of the two candidates for the Craftsmanship
came promptly back from the country,
where those whom he denounced as the
untrue Democracy, supporting a nOmina-
| ton inspired by the railroad company, gave
| TO his candidate l43 votes to 2l2 for Judge
| Curtis His own Congressional District,
whose delegates sat around him, gave his
candidate - votes and 50 to the man he
maligned. The answer was prompt as the
| insult had been virulent, and its impact
will long leave q bruise upon the cheek of
| the person from Sonoma.
ell hob ,,f
be forgotten, when Judge Curtis rose, and
one by one traversed the gross imputations
that had been cast upon him, his friends,
his party, and his candidacy. Denying
that his candidacy was inspired or sup
ported by the railroad, he said that during
| a long law practice he had had no case and
taken no fee from the railroad, nor touched
nor tried to get its money in any other
way. Then silence fell on the Convention,
for scores of the quiet country people knew
| the meaning Of Judge Curtis words, for
| they had read this record of one of Mr..
Henley's lawsuits, which we give verbatim
to explain to others an incident in that
gentlemans career which does not appear
in his official biography:
| THE COMPLAINT.
Twelfth District Court, City and County of San
Francisco, State of California. Barclay Hen
! ley ct al, plaintiffs, vs. The California Pacific
Railroad Company, defendants.
First-Plaintitfs complain and Gllege that in
| the times hereinafter mentioned, plaintiffs
were, and still are, copartners and attorneysat-
| law and doing business as such in the town
of Santa Rosa, Sonoma county, state OF Caliior-
mia.
Second-That the defendant is now, and at
| the times hereinafter mentioned was, corpora
| ton organized and constituted under the laws
| of the State of California.
Third-That defendant is indebted to the
rNlo ittitf nm m n n
Tor professional services as attorneys OF defend
ant, rendered by plaintiffs at defendants special
| instance and request, between the 10th day OF
| April, A. ID. 1870 and the 10th day of September
of the same year, in the matter of procuring
the Board of Supervisors of Sonoma county to
convene and assemble officially at various
| times, and making application TO said Board,
on behalf of defendant, to order an election
| submitting to the people of said county the
question of voting donation OF county bonds
TO aid in the construction of q railroad in said
county; drawing petitions to and contracts
with said Board and engrosSing the same; ap-
pearing upon various occasions before SAID
Board and addressing it in advocacy OF the ad-
visibility of ordering SAID election examining
S atutes and laws and giving advice thereon,
and general diligence and attendance i'll and
about said business and matters connected
Herewith, all Of which was done at the special
instance and request of defendant and upon de
PENDANTS retainer, and is reasonably worth the
sum of 5000, and that no part thereof has ever
teen paid.
Foufth-And for an.ther cause of action
plaintiff alleges that between the 10th day of
April A. d. 1870, and the 10th day of September
of the same year. plaintiffs got up various pub
lie meetings of the citizens of Sonoma county
at different points in said county, and addressed
the same in advocacy OF the said proposition to
donate county bonds to aid i'll the construction
of a railway in SOnoma county; prepared for
publication and circulated various documents
and circulars approving said proposition; made
various Journeys and trips through Sonoma
county, and 10 and from San francisco and
Santa Rosa, and also to the city OF Vallejo, in
connection with and upon said business and in
advocating said proposition to donate bonds.
Sworn to on the LIST of December, 1870.
JUDGE M'KISsTRY's SCATHING DECISION.
February G, 1872, trial for cause February
It'll cause submitted. March 9th, Judgment
for plaintif-OR cent damages.
The following language was used by Judge
McKinstry in delivering his opinions;
at is the duty of every good citizen to give
to such of his countrymen as may ask 1t his
best advice in respect to public affairs, and
when a voter is advised to exercise his fran
chise in a particular manner, the law presumes
that the advisor is actuated only by a desire to
benefit the whole community, and Will not
recognize the fact that his influence has been
purchased. II will not be permitted that this
proud privilege shall be degraded to hired
advocacy.
"A Court cannot estimate in money the worth
of that species of intellectual exercise. 1t has
no market value.
patriotic spirits who feel that they are amply
COMPENSATED by the plauditS OF an intelligent
and appreciative audience.
Il am compelled to limit the finding to nom
inal damages for one can't
All this passed through the minds of the
quiet people from the country, who had
Just refused to support the contention of