The record-union., 1896-08-27
UNEQUIVOCAL ENDORSEMENT.
An 81 Dorado View Of Congressman
Johnson.
Why He Should be Reelected In
Preference to Any Other
Candidate.
(From the Placerville Nugget)

VI lOHl the HldcerVllAe NuSSOS'
With the exception of the Nugget
every Republican paper in this con-
gressional District has had its little say
about the action of the Second Con-
gressional District Convention in NOM
mating Hon. Grove L. Johnson for re-
election to Congress.
1t is the Nuggets time to add its
Endorsement of the acts of that con-
Vention to the Endorsements of every
other Republican in the district. The
Nugget" as is well known, is for the
UrequivocaI upholding of Republican
principles, and it believes that the
grand old party is now passing through
crucial test. If the promises made by
the platform chosen by our representa-
tives at st. Louis are to be carried out,
If we are to raise the burden of these
hard times from the shoulders of the
masses, if we are to defeat the ruin
and poverty inducing measures
threatened by the Bryan supporters, if
we are to prevent the party of repudia-
ton, the party of free trade, free silver
and free souphouses from gaining pow
er in our land which we all love so well
we must see to it that our standard
bearer, William Mckinley, has not his
hands tied, his mouth gagged by Dem
Ccratic Congress. The Nugget be-
Heves that every good and true Repub-
lican recognizes the fact that it is duty
10 do as much as he can to prevent the
loss to the party of one in the House of
Representatives at Washington. Every
one counts. The Democratic conditions
of parts Of the country, conditions that
insure the election of Democratic Con-
greSsmen, leave no room for Specula-
ton, and make it so that we cannot
afford to lose one man. Every vote
counts for the Congressman and places
every Republican under the response
bility Of duty to party, and country,
and that means home and fireside.
That Hon. Grove L. Johnson Will be
an able and efficient aid to the carrying
out of the principles Of Republicanism
enunciated at st. Louis, no one with
reason will deny. He made himself felt
at Washington during his first term.
Going there a stranger to the condi-
tiOns that were to surround him, he in
sisted upon being heard, whether
Speaker Reed and his rules of order
would have it or not, and he was heard.
lie kept his State we'll before his broth
er members of the national lower
house. He attained recognition for CAL
tfornia such as no other Congressman
from this State has ever done
SO far as the interests of Ell Dorado
County are concerned, before every
thing else, of State or local Importance
TO us, our mining industries come first
and foremost. They are the predOm-
mating bread furnishers to every citizen
OF this county directly or indirectly.
Shut down every mine in the county,
and there isn't a man in the county but
would feel the great loss. Mr.. Johnson
has proven himself beyond all shadow
o. a doubt to any man who viii accept
facts that he is the friend of our pre-
dominating industry, of our best inter
est. We want him to take up the work
where he left off, and we believe he can
DO it better than any man who has
never been there before and certainly
lar better than any man proposed for
the office thus far. He is a gentleman
OF unsurpassed intellectual force and
capacity, and of great strength of
character, and the Nugget" an un-
eQuivocal top to-the . bottOm-of the
national = Republican ticket neWspa-
per, herewith pledges its full, volun-
Tary and hearty support.