The Clifton clarion., 1889-06-12
Notes from San Jose.

= cOllecleu LOT tinllluS-dll NltH tHe . significant remark, Keep your eye - on the gun; something is going to : happen the first thing you know" . Harvest has commenced. The bar l. ley crop is light and wheat is much : affected by rust. A change of seed is e needed; in fact, change in the entire s system of farming. The holding of ! large tracts of land by one man, who i is neither liberal by instinct nor train t in@, and whose every movement is -l,aguiSted by the cold maxims of
 mon. ,v making and greed, is not con-
 dncive 2 the building up of com-
 munitv ont,' that is the reason why
 this settlement is behind in the race.
 Ii makes m diaar. nee how rich the
 soil or how great the industry ot the
 people, if all that was p ooucfu save
 enaugh for bare living wel e pe' 'oU,
 ically taken away from the settl, T aii> | 1 poor: and as tie people are deprived
 of the power to accumulate capital, production must be carried on in the
 most primitive style and at the great est disadvantage. And thaG has been | the condition of San Jose. Now, 1 these and other matters are beginning | to be thoroughly discussed by the people. As you gre aware. this pre-. cinct gave last fail big majority to the reform party under promises of low taxes and honest administration but when it is found that taxation must be higher, that petition for a justice is refused for req sons that are very plain, and that projected enter priSes are frowned upon for selfish interests, the o'er true tale of the rot tenness of those who would be keep CTS, when told in the son orous lan- guage of Castillo lose nc ne of their import
 Dr. Hoeffer is q frequent visitor in his modern Goshen. Now, the doc or IS not so exclusively a bC'okworm IS Is usually supposed. He is pretty yell posted on matters and things in :, he valley aud knows just how the and lays. He can surprise Blue Dick Tith his knowledge of reform poli- ics and the number of paying ads. in he Bladder; he can also talk cor ectly and brilliantly with Fitzgerald n horticulture, especially so ar Tapes; and he can surely le arn ,harley Solomon his duties as Jost- master. The doctor is jolly good ellow, anxiou H.s any one for the rood things of life; a warm hearted, iberal gep tlcrnan. whose Unaffected manners always make Dim welcome n uur rhidst,
 Prepare .tions are being made for a cele 'Oraf.lon on the Fourth of July which will include horSe-racing for a p'Irse of S200.
 fsuppose, through the Bladder get !. ting so many pen bricks from all over the county, that the hydrogen of sophistry with which it is inflated is
 getting exhausted, which accounts for its cratic, irregular and uncer-
 tain editorials. It is plain that the
 aim of this journal is to misrepre- sent. and the only answer it has yet given to direct charge has been per sonal abuse, which is its stock in
 trade. No petty thief but that makes l for himself some justification. It is : doubtful if any deliberate wrong is
 ever committed: it is certain no
 wrongful course of action is ever con- tinued without the forming of some theory which may duil or placate the
 moral sense. But this is evidently
 not a country in which men may CllllClsC pi HNN' HO
 wish to argue wltt the reformers' or
 gan. A simple exposure of few of
 the methods of some of our county
 officials who seem to have forsaken the primary obligations, both of pub
 lie and private honor, was all l in-
 tended to accomplish, and have sue ceeded.
 I have been told of transactions from personal knowledge which clearly indicate that nothing has ever been alleged against the worst admin istrative body in any country that can be compared in corruption with the desolating dishonor of the reform |. party in this county.
 $ J. II. VAUGHN. 9 San Jose, June 8, 1889.
 .-1