The record-union., 1896-09-28
TAKE NO CHANCES.
importance Of the Election Of Grove l..
johnson.
This District Cannot Afford to Send an
inexperienced and Untried
Man to Congress.
(From the Placerville Nugget.) }

FrOm the Placervllle Nugget)
From all the towns in which Grove
L. Johnson has thus far spoken in his
present campaign comes reports of
large, enthusiastic and successful
meetings At Coulterville he was met
outside of the town by the Mckinley
Club, 14O strong, and by citizens in car
riages. At Mariposa he talked two
bours and sixteen minutes, and still the
cry was for more His campaign is
amounting to what is practically a
march of triumph, and there is no rea-
son why it should be so.
The district needs Grove L. Johnson
back in Congress at the next session.
This district needs Grove l.. Johnson
back there for the very same reason
that it needs William Mckinley of Ohio
in the White House. 1t needs Mckinley
and Johnson because half of the lugu-
brious story of this districts condition
which was told by Mr.. Johnson's OPP
ponent regarding the hard times in this
district is true-but only half, mind
you. The rest was principally bun
combe appeal for votes with no logical
argument upon which to base it.
This district needs a Republican
President and it needs a Republican
House and it needs Republican Sen
ate. Neither one without the other
would be of enough value to us as an
aid to legislation to make it worth our
while wasting powder on it and blow
ing it into the Potomac. If we are to
elect a Republican President, to be
perfectly consistent we must elect a
Republican Congressman to aid that
President in carrying out the princi-
pies because of which we place him in
the chair. William Mckinley would be
in a pretty fix if he had his hands tied
by a mob Of free silveriteS with their
great variety of ideas as to the effects
OF free coinage, their total disregard for
our courts of justice, our governmental
power, and with heads full of the an
archistic platform of Chicago. 1t is be-
cause of a possible danger in this di-
rection that we should not take one
chance, however small. Every Con-
gressman counts and every vote counts
for Congressman. Every vote, remem-
ber-yours. tOo fellow Republicans.
And these are not the only reasons
Why Mr. Johnson should be returned.
There are many others. He is man
Of national reputation now and COM
mands the respect of his colleagues in
the halls of Congress and Of the people
who have not had the misfortune to be
under the educative influence Of black
mailing demagogues and libelous apol-
oeies for newspapers. He is man of
national reputation, you say, because
those people sent him to Washington.
Very true to a certain extent, but let
us say that if it had been De Vries or
n McGlashan nobody would ever have
Goo ant p
nobody would ever have known that
an appropriation was needed in order
TO make it the more possible for hy
6raulicking to continue, nobody would
have heard one-quarter as much Of Cal
ifornia and Reed would not have had
occasion to say, "Well, California can
certainly furnish a statesman If she
wants to-" 1t Is his great ability, it is
his force of character 1t is his giant
intellect it IS his knowledge of how
things are done at Washington, 1t is
his indomitable courage in backing up
measures that bring upon his head the
announcements of a lying, unscrupu-
lous press because he believes he is
right and because his people had SO ex-
pressed themselves at the time of the
introduction of the Act
During all Of the time Of the railroad
1nVSSugatlOn at w aSnlnStOn neWSpd-
rors had men all through this district
interviewing the leading shippers on
the funding question. The bulk Of the
interviews with the representative cit
i7ens favored the funding of the rail-
road debt, and the Nugget" knows of
at least twenty-five Of the heaviest
patrons of the Central Pacific Railroad
N the northern part Of this district,
those whose pocketbooks were directly
under the influence Of heavy freights,
who virtually instructed Mr.. Johnson
fer the funding bill. But these were
not all, mind you. On an average
twenty men Of this district day were
interviewed on the subject and ex-
pressed themselves fully as being in
favor of it, He broke no confidence, he
did as he was instructed and went for
his instructions with the best and most
reliable means at hand The Wash
ington Post" printed the interviews of