Year: 1875

The course Of those who acknowledge q |
fealty to Republican principles, yet are
opposed to the State ticket of hat party,
can hardly be justified under the present
condition of circumstances. 1t is admit
ted in the first place that the personnel of
the State ticket is unexceptionable, that
the character of its nominees is above re-
proach. 1t is also admitted the platform
adopted is one which fully represents the
sentiments of the majority Of the party,
and that its utterances upon some OF the
leading questions Of local importance are
such as should commend it TO the consid-
Grafton and support of lovers Of good
home government in all parties. 1t is
admitted, again. that the campaign has
national Significance hat its results will
have strong influence on the elections
to be held in the East, and that there it
is not the Railroad question nor the Land
or Water question, but the Republican
party which is held to be on trial before
the people Of California.


Yet, in spite OF these considerations
which should appeal with great force to
all Republicans, there is a present dis
satisfaction with the ticket which threat
ems its defeat. Brought down to tangi-
bic basis, this feeling arises from the
simple fact that the ticket and platform
were gotten up by the wrong parties. In
other words, if one or two men had been
absent from The Convention, both ticket
and platform would have been cordially
acceptable, but because these men assisted
and took Il leading part in framinga good
platform and nominating an equally good
ticket, it receives but a lukewarEl recep-
ton. If this is not carrying personal
matters to extremes we do not know what
is. If our cause is a just one, we should
welcome all the aid it can receive and
the assistance Of those whose talents and
public position give them great power for
good or evil, should be received with de-
light. And so it would have been but for
the fact that these men have been subject
for long years to misrepresentation and
unsparing abuse. Powerful journals,
claiming to be in the interests Of the peO-
pie, have denounced them increasingly as
being the paid servants Of gigantic mo-
nopoly, and constant reteration gave the
charges a semblance of truth. Now, how
does the case really stand Mr.. Cor
hams speech at San Francisco soon after
the Convention had finished its labors,
sheds light on the subject and sets forth
statement which even the most menda-
cious Of the Independent organs dare not
and do not dispute. So far from being
"in" with Stanford & Co., the only con-
nection he has ever had with any railroad
matter wns at the session of the Legisla-
turc of 1865 6, when he was engaged MS
an influential private citizen in endeavor-
ing to procure State aid to a rival railroad
to the Central Pacific. When he subse-
quenty obtained the Republican nomina-
ton for Governor, he did it without the
aid of the Central Pacific, and in opposi-
ton to the wishes of its managers. Since
! that time he has studiously refraiacd from
interference with the politics of this State
except to canvas. on the R1nubican side
when Presidential contest was IN pro
gress. But he being Republican and
at one time the nominee of the party for
Governor, it suited the purpose of those
blood-hounds Of journalism, who bad pri-
vatc enmites to crafty, to denounce him
and the party to which he belonged as
"rairoadized." Mr.. Gorham thinks it is
time his true position and the true position
of the party upon this question should be
understood Thoroughly, and no one will
venture to dispute the fact tnat the Re
publican platform. as it stands adopted,
reflects the sentiments Of vast majority
o! that party. There are individual Re-
publcans who think that the resolution in
reference to corporations is uncallcd for,
but that does not alter tho fact that it is
true index of Republican sentiment.


Upon this question, the views of all
parties may be said to be identical, and
whatever influence the abroad exerts will
be given for the Democratic ticket. The
Independents can lay no claim for support
greater than either of the other parties
can show unless we allow their sclf-assert-
ed one Of 'puity'-one which the people
who have given any attention TO their
proceedings will be slow to allow. Our
platform and nominees are all that any
true Republican could wish, and the only
objection raised-that they were the work
of Sargent and Gorham, is a puerle one.
Republicans can find no real Justification
for opposing their nominees, especially
when it is borne in mind that upon local
questions all parties are bound to the same
policy in the event of success, while a de-
feat of the party here can have none but
IL damaging elfectupon the contests which
have been inaugurated in other States.


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JOINT Canvass Mr.. Luttrel has
agreed to make partial canvass of the
District with DEMO, his Republican OPP
ponent. The prudent Jay Kay leaves
lOnn holo 10 oro ,,,l ,,ut Of f,r a., ,,,., ~ ,