Year: 1874

lows:


He wires in and he wires out,


Leaving the people still in doubt;


Mhethert the snake that m axes the track,


was going south or coming back"


And we are now disposed to tack
the card to the back of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin. The editorial of that
paper, on the dismissal of Professor
CARR from the State University, was
the most complete piece of dirt-eat-
ing toadying that has disgusted an
intelligent community for some time.
The action of the Board of Regents
was one which presented no difficult
ties to an honest, independent jour-
nal, but to two-faced, straddle-the-
fence, good Lord and good Devil,
cowardly sneak like the Bulletin, how
to get over the dismissal of Professor
without speaking in terms denuncia-
tory of the Board, was the difficulty.
But the Bulletin was equal to the oc-
casion, 1t dare not print one word of
adverse comment on any act of SWIFT
or BOOTH. These gentlemen are
it's idols, and until such time
as the chances of the first for
Governor are dimmed, and patron
age of the second as United States
Senator weakened or destroyed, the
Bulletini will play toady to both and
lick the dust from their shoes with the
abject obedience of whipped spaniel.
While men of influence do wrong, the
Bulletin has not the courage to defend
the right. But a curious feature in
the Bulletins policy presents itself at
this point. Through BOOTH, in the
Senate, it expects to control the Fed
eral patronage of the Pacific Coast,
and through SWIFT, as Governor, it
proposes to control the State govern
ment. So far, all looks clear enough; /;
but when we remember that BooTH's
power in the Senate depends entirely
upon the Grange support, and the
placing of SWIFT in the Gubernato-
rial chair, is feat that can only be
accomplished through the Granger's
vote, we begin to wonder how the
Bulletin expects to secure the vote and
support of oftheGrange while palliating a
direct, and apparently premeditated,
insult to every farmer in the State.
The dismissal of Professor CARR was
in opposition to the wishes of the
Grange, and by voting for his dismis-
sal Messrs. BOOTH and SWIFT have
placed themselves in antagonism to
the people, yet the Bulletin while sup
porting their antagonism expects to
use the people to maintain ones power
in the United States Senate, and to
make the other Governor of the State
In supporting the action of the Re-
gents the Bulletin has shown the hol-
low hypocrisy of it's Independent
party professions, and proven that
while it pretends to be an advocate Of
the Grange interests it is in truth an
adherent of the money power repre-
sented by the Regent ring, that open
ly insults every Granger in the State.
1t is now plain that the Bulletins la
bored efforts to draw the Grange into
its independent party" were not
from desire to benefit the laboring
classes of the State, but merely to Sc
cure the farmers vote for the election
of its candidates to Office. The old
hypocrite may succeed in deceiving
the farmers hereafter; but after it has
SO plainly shown its hand it seems in
credible that anyone should become
its dupe in the future. The whining
excuse of the Bulletin that Professor
CARR is incompetent is characteristic
OF the paper, and is assumed for effect.
Just here the suggestion comes, why
has not the Professors incompetency
been discovered before He has
filled the Chair from which he has just
been removed for the past five years.
1T he is incompetent now, he must
have been incompetent all the time;
and the Regents have proven them
selves incompetent for the places they
hold by retaining an incompetent Pro-
fessor so long. No one more thor
oughly understands that the charge of
incompetency against Professor CARR
is base falsehood than the Bulletin
editor, yet he did not dare denounce it
as such, on the contrary he was made
to handle it on the assumption of its
truth. How despicable Isl