Year: 1872

took snuff they sneezed. 1t Is evident
that the Union entertains the same opinion
of its readers and places no higher esti-
mate upon their intelligence. That paper
is for Luttrell because it is against Cogh-
Ian. 1t is against Coghlan because he
refuses to bend the knee to Anthony q
CO., ard recognizes Luttrell as one who
will servilely do its bidding. The Union
has given no reasons and can give none
why Coghlan should not be supported,
not only by Republicans, but by all the
people of this District. 1t has charged
that he was nominated by the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, but offers no
proof beyond its naked assertion. Is this
sufficient? ? We think the public will re-
quire more than the bare word of paper
so willfully untruthful as the Union has
lately been in its opposition to the Repub
lican party and its nominees for Congress.
The statement that the Railroad Company
controlled the Convention which nomi-
mated Coghlan is a falsehood fabricated
in the sanctum Of the Union. The ma
jority of delegates to that Convention,
from the so-called Railroad counties where
the Railway management has the greatest
influence, were for Geo. Z. Perkins, of
Butte. The delegations from the counties
in which, like Trinity, the Railroad has
no business or employees were for Coghlan
and gave him the nomination, We have
not the slightest doubt that the Union
knows the fact perfectly well. We pre-
sumo that it will not be controverted that
if the Union did not dictate to the Marys-
vile Convention it at least brought about
LuttrelI's nomination by its assurance Of
support if nominated. The Democracy
having done what was asked OF them, it
now devolves upon the Union to do its
part. And now, at this stage Of affairs,
does it not seem little odd that what is
wrong in the Central Pacific should be
right in the Union ? 1t is written that
no man can serve two masters and the
people Of this country are very much dis
inclined to submit to any arbitrary asser-
ton of authority over them. Yet we are
told by this boiling Sacramento paper
that we must choose between Anthony &
Co. and Stanford g. Co. He who does
not " entertain q sentiment Of extreme
! hate" toward the Central Pacific (the
italicized words are taken from the Union)
is a bought Railway creature and tool.
To this complexion it has come at last.
If you don't help Anthony & Co. to graf
ity their revengeful feelings toward Stan
ford & Co., you will be published in the
Union as a purchased creature Of the
Railway corporation. We are Of the
opinion that the cudgel of denunciatiOn
which Anthony & Co. are brandishng
so freely will be worn out in this canvass
and profit them nothing. Pride and anger
are the worst Of advisers, but the course
of the Union at this time is marked by
an exhibition Of arrogance and revengetul
feeling seldom seen in any journal OF
large circulation, and which if persisted
in will react to its great injury.


Besides saying that Coghlan was nom
mated by the Railroad, the Union finds
fault with his vote on the Goat Island
bill, and this makes up its objections.
1t has not been and cannot be shown that
Mr. Coghlan did wrong in voting to
make Goat Island railroad terminus,
and that was all it amounted to. On the
| contrary, that measure was in the interest
of the whole State, outside of San Fran
cisco, and SO far as San Francisco was
concerned only affected that class of its
population which fattened upon the un-
Necessary wharfage, drayage, commissions
and similar tolls levied upon every ton
of freight taken out or into this State at
the Bay. BY the Goat Island bill these
| grievous exactions would have been en-
tirely done away with, besides striking
an indirect blow against the shipping ring
in San Francisco whose extortions from
the farmers are truly enormous, and con
corning which the Union has nothing to
say editorially. We make no accusations
without we can produce the proof, but
when we find day after day the Union
warning the people against monopoly
and pitching into the Central Pacific as
though it was the only close corporation
or monopoly on the coast, we are sadly
puzzled to account for it upon any theory



favorable to the Unions intelligence or
regard for the interests of the people.
When we reflect that California has
known steamboat, stage and telegraph
monopoles, and that the Union was a
partner in one Of the most oppressive
of them all; when we revolve the fact
that there now exist on this coast a bank
monopoly which controls our finances,
grain ring which takes millions annually
from our farmers, and a quicksilver mo-
nopoy which exacts from the miners
twice or three times fair price for that
article, we can come but to one conclu-
sion. We cannot say it has been bribed
to silence, for we do not know it and we
are more charitably inclined. We ac-
count for the Unions course on the mo-
nopoly question by supposing that the
Central Pacific is the only one that has
incurred the ill-will of Anthony & Co.,
and Te are quite confident the public are
beginning to see it in the same light.
The Union may be firm in the belief that
its readers win sneeze every time it takes
snuff, and yet be mistaken. They might
do so while it used a good and genuine
article, but when it comes to mixing Lib
eral Republican, Cincinnati Convention,
Grant and Wilson Republicansm, and
| Luttrell Democracy together and taking