The record-union., 1896-07-22
"LABORED FAITHFULLY"
Overwhelming rlajority Predicted for
Congressman Johnson.
lFrom The Marysville AppeaI

(From the Marysville. Appeal)
Now that the Congressional campaign
is about to open few remarks touching
on the candidacy of Grove L. Johnson
are timely. While it is generally con-
ceded that he will be nominated and
reelected, yet with a view to making
the majority as pronounced as possible
from this section, which certainly owes
much to his efforts i'll the session just
passed, the Appeal would like to call
the attention of those politically opposed
to him, who have property interests
hereabouts, to the necessity Of contin
uing him in the position where a man of
capacity is required, and where, judg-
ing from the results he has succe eded in
accomplishing during his first term, a
man of capacity marked far above any
thing we have had from this district
for years has been.
1t is we'll known fact hereabouts that
the question of river Improvement is
paramount. The beds of the rivers are
gradually raising as the debris in the
streams works it's way down, and one
after another fertile tracts of land which
few years ago were high and above
all danger from either overflow or sip
age, are now encroached upon. The de-
pCsitS of debris may stop tomorrow,
associations may be formed and main
tanned at a considerable expense to the
taxpayers of the counties affected to see
that it is not resumed, and granting
these two propositions entirely success
full, the fact remains that unless some
general plan of river Improvement is
entered into and continued year after
year for a considerable period by the
general Government, no person who
flatters himself that he owns princi-
pality in this valley at the present time
can look forward to leaving his pos
terity ought but legacy Of impending
doom.
We have have had several Congress
men in the past ten years from this dis
trict. Some have looked winsome, some
have made extravagant assertions as to
what they were going to do If elected,
and when elected have done nothing.
Others, and they are few, have done
something, but until the incumbency of
Grove L. Johnson nothing worthy of
note has been accomplished. In his
canvass of two years ago Congressman
Johnson told the electors of his district
that he would do something to relieve
the then existing troubled conditions
before the expiration OF his term. An
ordinary Congressman during his first
term generally succeeds in getting ac-
quainted sufficiently so that if reelected
he may be in a position to do something
for his district, that is about all. In
the instance of Congressman Johnson
we have, however, an example of what
a man of capacity using in a proper
channel the force inert in him, may ac-
complish. AS an evidence of his efforts
an appropriation of $25O,O0O has been
gained, which in connection with $780,
900 additional, which has been contin-
gently appropriated by the State Of Cal
ifornia, makes a total of $500, 900 i'm
mediately available for work upon our
rivers, not one cent of which would have
been devoted to our relief had another
than an efficient Congressman repre-
sented this district at the last session
OF Congress 1t will be well worth the
while of all electors to remember that
without continued appropriations no
remedial efforts will ensue after the ap-
preparation in hand has been expended
and the first requisite toward gaining
continuous appropriations is to have a
roan on deck who carries sufficient guns
to get what the needs of his district re-