Amador ledger., 1901-10-25
DISGUSTING FLATTERY

new gang, for the old timers learned
during Mr.. Gregory's first years in
Office they could not ply their call
ing in this county with safety, and
have since given him a wide berth
The sheriff will undoubtedly teach
the new corners the same lesson,
from the way he is gathering them
in.
Tt is unnecessary to state that the
foregoing relating to the capture of
Frank Trabucco last week, is copied
from that ''servile" sheet, the ANA
dor Dispatch. Our cotemporary is
engaged in the uphill business of
trying to boost the sheriff in to popu-
larity, and thereby pave his path
way for reelection next year. The
radical partyism underlying this
nauseating reitefation and magnify
ing of every little act of the sheriff
is too self-evident to demand COM
ment. Our cotemporary evidently
thinks it has herculean task before
it in preparing the public mind, and
has therefore commenced the politi-
cal campaign in the interest of his
valuable patron early. Therein
perhaps he is acting wisely. 1t will
take him all his time between now
and election day to convince the
people that the one he is trying to
puff to the skies is the proper per-
son to be again intrusted with the
principal executive office of the
county Indeed, if he continues in
his one sided and distorted methods,
we are inclined to think that almost
anybody on the republican side,
without any political record what
ever to speak in his behalf, will have
pretty much of a walkover if pitted
against this champion sheriff of the
Dispatch Office. 1t is easy to overdo
the SOLDERING act; in fact, it is i'm
possible to do it at all without over
doing it. This is truth very hard
to get through the Uranium of the
average politician. Our cotemporary
very truthfully remarks that the
corralled individuals above referred
must belong to new gang" By
that expression is doubtless meant
the migratory, voteless class. We
freely admit that this raiding of the
new gang" is, and has been, and,
it is safe to assume, will continue to
be, the distinguishing feature of the
present administration. The re-
cruits for the county boarding house
come almost exclusively from the
new gang" We remember, only a
few weeks back, a new conner was
hauled off to prison three times in
side of twenty four hours, and it is
a matter of history that, with all
the strength of the official clique, they
failed to convict him of any wrong
doing. 1t is also matter of history
that our contemporary lauded that
example of oppression of the strang-
er. 1t is refreshing to be told that
all old timers have been taught to
have the fear of the law always be-
fore their eyes. How about the
blowing up of Chinatown? What
about the daylight providers who
carried off anything they deemed of
value from the burned district of
Chinatown? How about that case
of arson up Jackson creek? These
were crimes that struck deeper at
the root of social order than the
open-air slumbers of a score of
ordinary DRINKS. But we have not
heard of any particular effort on the
part of the Dispatch protege to get
to the bedrock of these transactions.
About the time that the above
puffatory notice was being penned
in the office of our contemporary,
quite different scene was being en-
acted in the Ledger Office. One of
the ''new gang'-who had been
given % days to sober up at the
county's expense-was giving US a
chapter of his experience during his
incarceration. He related how he
had been put to work in assisting in
the erection of a stove for some
private person, also in the saw
ing of wood for outside parties,
all of which is contrary to the
provisions of the ordinance regulat-
ing the employment of prisoners
confined in the county jail. He also
stated that he was visited in the
Jail by the justice, and asked to
plead to a charge that was pending
against him. We were under the
impression that this starchamber
practice of substituting the precincts
of the jail for a court room had been
abandoned, and were not a little
surprised to learn that it was again