Year: 1875

EDITOR Journal To hear the cry
Of the Independent Press end not know
the seat of pain that forces the cry, one
would be led TO believe that the chicanery
and fraud of party leaders in nominating
Conventions, resented by the virtuous in
dignation and determined opposition of
all fair-minded people, were the true and
inevitable cause of party dissolution
Such is the cry of the Independent
Chronicle such is the disappointed foam
ing of the pseudo Independent Record


Union in regard to the Republican and
Independent Conventions. Both Of these
renegade journals have fed from their
allegiance, holding up hands of holy
horror and crying fraud but never once
showing fraud in the nomination Of any
Republican candidate. What have they
TO say against the qualifications or avail
ability of Mr.. Phelps for Governor p
Nothing, except that he has better
knowledge of politics than he pretends
to. Or any other of the Republican nom
inees ? Nothing for in their estimation
these men are entitled to no consideration.
Because Mr.. Phelps, having no opposi-
| ton, received the unanimous vote of the
Convention (thcir favorite, Pacheco, with
drawing after allowing his name TO go
before the Convention they say the peo-
! ple's wishes have been thwarted. If the
wishes of Republicans were not carried
out in that Convention, when was there a
| Convention in which the will of the ma
jority was more unmistakaby expressed
or how is such n thing to be accomplished
! That is only n pretended fault, an absurd
and ansparently futile attempt to graft
fly their chagrin by an endeavor to mar
shall Republicans to their own deteat-be-
cause Republicans thought themselve:
competent to do their own thinking with
out the aid of the papers named. These
journals say they wish to teach such polt


ical tricksters as Gorham and Sargent q
lesson. Must the whole Republican army
be destroyed to teach one or two general;
a lesson J.? To insure its destruction, the
Recoyd- Union throws it stick of pois.
oned candy by saying that next year the
Republican party will rise in all its orig
inal might purged from all corruption,
Would it not have been better to have
laid aside petty malice and supported the
excellent nominations of the Republican
Convention, and, at the same time, whip
ped the tricksters out Of the party =? Had
Gorham himself nominated Pacheco, and
a bare majority voted for him, the Record
Union and Chronicle would have given
him most enthusiastic and unqualified
support, Notwithstanding the anti-lairoad
resolutions. Then those resolutions would
have been considered no more objection


able than the older and unamplifcd ones


" George c. Gorham, the DISCOVER o


Parties" 1t is neither Gorham, Sargent


Carr nor any other man in the Republ


can ranks that is the dissolve or attempt


ing DISCOVER of party at this time, bu


the renegade, truculent and marketable
journals Of the California press. Will
the cheek Of n hotel clerk or What


Cheer-House hash Singer, they pretenC
to be in full accord with the wel-wishcr


Of this State, while they are doing all il
their power to crush the party that pre-


served this State and the rest of the con


s.elIatio" of Freedoms lights, and rein


state the one that wished, ana still wishes
to darken all its ""me-to crafty thei


pigmy souls, whose bidien but true mott,
is Rule or Ruin" UNION.