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WELLS St- !*“’*• ***’•
Republican State Convention.
Rooms of the Union Republican
State Central Committee, San Fran
cisco, April 14, 1875.
The Union Republican voters of
the State of California are requested
to choose delegates to a State Con
vention, to be held at the City of
Sacramento on Thursday, the 10th
day of June, 1875, for the purpose
of nominating candidates for State
officers, and for the transaction of
such other business as shall come
before said Convention.
Tim apportionment of Delegates
is as follows:
Alameda, 17
Alpine, 1
Amador, 1
Butte, 8
Calaveras, 6
Colusa, 3
Contra Costa, 0
Del Norte, 1
El Dorado, 9
Frespo, 1
Humboldt, 8
Inyo, 2
Kern, 1
.Lake, 2
Lassen, 1
Los Angeles, 9
Marin, 4
Mariposa, 3,
Mendocino, 4
Merced. * 2 i
Modoc, I
Mono, 1
Monterey, 8
Napa, 6
Nevada, 14
Placer, 9
Plumas, 4
Sacramento, 23 j
San Benito, 1 ;
San Bernardino, 2 .
San Diego, 3 j
San Francisco, 78
San Joaquin, 12 '
San Luis Obispo, - . 3 |
San Mateo, 4
Santa Barbara, 5
Santa Clara, 15
Santa Cruz, 7 ,
Shasta, 4 I
Sierra, 6 ,
Siskiyou, G'
Solano, 1G;
Sonoma, 11 i
Stanislaus, 3!
Sutter, 3!
Tehama, 3
Trinity, 2
TH !■: I' A CIFIC APP E A L
Tulare, 3
I Tuolumne, 5
' Ventura, 1
Yolo, 6
Yuba, 8
('-ouniy—w. 1
provision in their respective Coun
ties for the election of Delegates in
j accordance with said apportionment.
The Committee reccommend the
following as a test:
“All voters in the State, who are
i opposod to the restoration to power
i of the Democratic Party, and in
l tend to act in good faith with the
: Republican Party.”
The State Central Committee
j recommends that delegates to the
■ Congressional Conventions be cho
; sen at the same time; and that the
Congressional Committees arrange
their call for Congressional Con
ventions in accordance therewith.
By order.
Walter Van Dyke,
Chairman.
Wm. Sherman,
M. I). Boruck,
Secretaries.
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA.
The State Central Committee of
the Republican party of California,
assembled for the purpose of calling
a State Convention, deem the occa
sion an appropriate one for inviting
attention to the political situation.
So far as State affairs are concern
ed, it may be safely assumed that
the masses of the Republican voters
will, in the selection of delegates to
represent them in the State Conven
tion, choose from among themselves
men of such character as wil: ensure
the nomination of candidates for
State offices whose names will be a
guaranty of honesty and capability
in thaStato abministratioa. Unless
tho RopobfTcXtis of the State
honest or less intelligent than their
political opponents, they can elect
from their ranks in the usual man
ner, at primary elections well guard
ed by law as fair and discriminating
a body of men as can be assembled
in California, who shall, in an or
derly manner, name such candidates
for State offices, as will deserve and
; receive the support of all true re
publicans. Our call is addressed
to all who have a decent regard for
republican institutions, and are will
ing tovote intelligently
for their preservation. We urge
upon all who are with us, to take
an earnest part in the election of
delegates, to the end that the State
Convention may truly represent
them. In vain will be all profes
sions of a desire for honest and
economical government, if the can
didates are not trustworthy men.
To doubt that such candidates can
be selected by the united efforts of
all good Republicans, is equivilent
to saying that all who entertain cor
rect political views are unworthy
and that to ensure good men we
must support those of bad political
principles, or of none at all. Hon
esty and capability in our candi
dates will be the best; platform we
can present to the people on State
affairs. Those who really have the
best interests of the state at heart,
cannot easily go astray in dealing
with public questions as they arise.
The Republican party is National
The aim of our ancient enemy is to
cripple and paralize it, under a
false pretence of superior regard for
home affairs in each State, in order
that democratic success in the nation
may be thereby assured in 1876.
It is to this scheme the committee
desire to call special attention.
The Democratic party of the
country has not forgiven the sup
pression of the rebellion, and eman
cipation of the slaves, the extension
of equal rights, or the establishment
of manhood citizen suffrage.
At the south a guerilla waijhas
been remorsely waged by a desper
class, against law, order and govern ,
ment, ever since they recovered
from the stur ning shock given them
by the overthrow of the Southern :
Confederacy, and the capture of tho j
armies of Johnson and Lee.
The sworn testimony of hundreds 1
of witnesses, —among them Unionists
and Confederates of the high posi-!
tion, and national reputation—fill
ing more than twenty columns of
large size with closely printed mat-
“Trutli cruslied to earth will rise el g-sc Izz / 7
SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1875.
ter, constitutes the faithful history
jof a period more disgraceful to the
j country than were the years of the
! rebellion itself. If the barbarous
I atrocities perpetrated at the South
4 bad been commit-tod only occasional
i ly, they would have aroused n spir
jit in the nation which would have
i brought swift retribution, upon the
I offenders; but so common have
wrong and outrages become—death
and torture for political opinions—
that they apparently ceased to at
tract the general attention.
In the single State of Louisiana
more than four thousand citizens
have fallen victims to the savage
and insatiable hatred of defeated
rebels.
Not ,alone are the blacks thus
hunted down, but throughout the
lately rebellious States no white
man, whether of northern or south
ern birth, can avow himself a Re
pub’.icin without endangering his
life. If he is from the North he is
insultingly denounced as a carpet
bagger; if a native of the South,
even though he fought in the Con
federate army, he is known Only as
a scalawag.
White Republicans of Southern
birth have first been scourged, and
then forced to advertise a recanta
of their political opinions, Dr as the
phrase there is—to “publish their
principles” on pain of a repetitioa
of the outrage.
Peaceable and thrifty citizens of
Northern birth have been driven
out of their habitations, and shot
like dogs on their way under a
pledged safe escort to distant and
more hospitable abiding places.
Women and children have taken
refuge in the woods by night, steal
thily returning home by day for
food, having less to fear from such
exposure and deadly malaria Ihjyr
■ r -rmrnrgjinizen 0< rv
aitti which has been strong
to defy the law.
White Leagues, Ku Klux Klans,
Pale Faces, and similar secret or
ders have flourished, sworn to pre
vent the holding of office by their
political opponents, whose fair elec
tion by the people was not denied.
The ballot box has been forcibly
and openly seized and destroyed
when known to contain more Re
publican than Democratic votes.
Churches and school-house have
been burned, and clergymen and
teachers foully outraged.
Surviving friends found the
slaughtered victims of the Vicks
burgh massacre unhurried, being
guided to the place by tLe foul
birds of prey which circled in the
air above them. Says one of the
witnesses: “Where we saw the buz
zards hover there we found the dead
men.”
Magistrates are powerless or in
different, juries are tainted with the
presence upon them of the very oat
laws themselves, witnesses are in
timidated, and law and justice are
a mockery.
This reign of terror, inaugurated
and maintained for the sole purpose
of securing Democratic ascendency,
has done its work in most of the
Southern States, and in them the
hapless victims of barbarity arc
dumb. In the remaining States,
the Federal arm has now and then
been extended in aid of the local
authorities, in compliance with the
plain provision of the Constitution
of the United States (as originally
framed), which provides for national
protection of the States against do
mestic violence.
In the presence of this long con
tinued saturnalia of crime and blood
shed, not a word of Democratic re
buke or remonstrance has been
heard North or South.
Southern Democrats, when placed
on the witness stand, exhibit their
insensibility to shame, and their ig
norance of the most common rights
of citizens, by testifying that “North
ern men are never maltreated unless
they meddle with politics.” They
arc unable to realize that any citi
zen of the United States may select
his residence in any State or Terri
tory and be a Republican, as well ;
as another may be a Democratic
partizan.
The Southern Democracy are not
engaged as a whole in the deadly
work we have described: but neither
do they interfere for its suppression.
’ They excuse, palliate, shield and
thus encourage it. Many openly
i declare that the extension of suf
i frage to the negro is just cause for
war, and tha|j as they cannot wage
‘Ofko- .Ar, tfiey are jwifierl iii re
to assassination,
i The Northern Democracy look,
complacently as they did during'
the war (except when irritated by
rebel reverses), and when the blood
of slaughtered citizens cries from
the ground, they sneer at what they
are pleased to Dall the “ outrage
, nil].” They have fonnd no cause
i oljcomplaint against the murderers,
; but when, occasionally, after long
sufferance, an attempt has been
made by the exercise of undoubted
constitutional power by the Presi-
i ufent to aid the State authorities in
restraining violence, ihcir well
feigned indignation has filled the
air with hyocritical clamor, and the
people of the North have been urged
: to restrain the tyrant hand of Fed
jeaal usurpation. sections
the Democracy moan over the dan
ger to civil liberty and State rights
which must flow out of the restraints
put. upon the law-breakers of tho
South. The late Gen. George H.
-Thomas, in an official report to the
war department, made three years
and a half after the war had ended,
said:
“ The controlling cause of the
“condition of affairs in the depart
“ meht is, that the greatest efforts
“ made by the defeated insurgents
“ since the close of the war, have
“ been to promulgate the idea that
“libertyjustice, humanity, equality
“ and all the calendar of the virtues
“of freedom, suffered violence and
“ wrong, when the effort for South
“ ern independence failed. This is,
“ of course, intended as a species of
political cant, whereby the crime
“ ofTreason might be covered with
“ a counterfeit varnish of patriotism,
“ so that the precipitators of the re
bellion might go down in history
“hand in hand with the defenders
“of the Government, thiis wiping
“ out with their own hands their own
“ stains; a species of self-forgivness
“amazing in its effronterv. when it
“ is considered that life and property
“—justly forfeited by the laws of
“thecountry,of war, and of nations,
“through the magnanimty of the
“ Government was not exacted from
“ them.”
The wolf assumes a lamp-like
tone at the North, and rebel chiefs
like Generals Gordon and Laraar
are sent among the people in New
England villages, to persuade them
that Republicans alone are opposed
to peace and quiet in the South.
The end of these things is to
come next year. Either the rebel
Democracy will then regain power
in the nation, and so “ the
empire will be peace,” such as
reigned on the plantations before
the war, or else the party of law and
order will prevail, and equal rights
be enforced by rulers fresh from the
people. The latter result can alone
bring lasting peace. The former
will sooner or later drive the negro
to desperation, and when he shall
match the barbarity of his enemy, as
he surely can, the South will be a
desolation.
The present administration has
used all the power at its command
to preserve the peace and execute
the laws. Had it been in less faith
ful hands, still greater disorder
would have surely ripened into com
plete ami flagrant anarchy and re
bellion, or the subjection ot all who
refused to vote the Democratic ticket
The rebel Democracy of the South
hope to remove the obstacle of na
tional restraint, by possessing them
selves of the Presidency. This is
a more imminent danger than loyal
men generally suppose. The ag
gregate electoral vote of the Union j
is 366.’ Necessary to a choice, 184.1
Of these the Southern States have
138. If violence, fraud and intimi
dation can consolidate for a Dem
ocratic candidate the 138 Southern
votes, only 16 out of the 228 North
ern votes will be necessary for the .
success of the treasonable disunion '
faction of the Democratic party. I
The 138 Southern votes made by the
white leaguers would not go over
to the 46, but would absorb them. 1
Can those who were war Dem
ocrats during the rebellion contem- ;
plate the near future with indiffer
ence? Can Republicans afford to
waste their in senseless
bickerings in such a c >ndi-
Jtion of affairs ?
" The Union men of the Democratic
party will ever be powerless as
liigainst their Southern taskmaster
within that organization. Demo
cratic succe s?s in
means Southern ascendancy aud a
restoration of the old order of
things. It means revenge on the
: patriotism of the nation, a whole
s sale plundering of the national
, treasury for Southern claimants,
■ and dishonesty towards national
i creditors. If such a disaster cannot
be averted, the nation would not
long outlive such complete humilia
tion and disgrace. The premium
thus set upon treason and rebellion
; would soon do the work of final de
structioiL
To aver these calamities the dan
ger needs only to be realized. Cal
ifornia. Ohio, and Maine arc to hold
elections this year. Let us do our
share towards staying the reaction
which has already placed 84 ex-
Confcderate soldiers in the next
House of Regresentatives. Let us
meet the cry of federal interference
with a stern demand that organized
assassination and tortures shall
cease, and law and order be respect
ed throughout the land. Putting
forward our best men, let us show
our opponents that the Republican
party can govern the State well,
without ignoring national issues.
The same treacherous voices which
now demand silence upon these
questions urged upon us in 1861
that California had no interest in
the great sectional war then inaug
urated by the South. The people
refused to be deceived then. Let
us be equally vigilant now. Na
tional patriotism can never be too
fervent,- or too suspicious of those
who deprecate its free expression.
It is now nearly tweaty years
since the result of a presidential
election has 1 een peacefully acqui
esced in by the defeated party. The
choice of Buchanan, in 1856, was
followed by no dangerous expres
sions of the deep discontent it cre
ated; but Lincolns authority was
resisted by eleven States from the
day of his inauguration until a
month after his second began,
and when rebellion was driven into
the last ditch he was assassinated by
one of its natural outgrowths within
a week. That Grant’s authority
has not yet been openly defied is
true, but the embers of rebellion are
carefully kept alive, and peace has
not been restored.
The rebels and malcontents now
propose to drive enough Republi
cans away from the polls at the
South to give the democracy of that
section a vote entirely out of pro
portion to their numerical strength
—an insolent and revolutionary
subversion of the right of the people
to the choice of a President. Ter
rorism and violence are to be sub
stituted for the peaceful decision of
the majority. The past ought to
admonish the rebels and their abet
tors to beware how they thus chal
lenge the manhood of the North.
The knavery which, under the
thin guise of local interests, strives
to wholly divert public opinion
from the great and overshadowing
question we have here presented, is
clearly in the interest of those who
are preparing to strike a blow at
the vitals of tho Nation. The ene
mies of the Nation cannot be the
friends of the State.
Walter Van Dyke,
Wm. R. Wheaton,
Wm. F. Whittier,
Henry R. Reed,
Frank Eastman,
F. D. Atherton,
Paul Neumann,
John Martin.
John Sedgwick,
Wm. Sherman,
Executive Committee.
[Communication.]
‘ Consistency, Thou art a
. Jewel.”
The editor of the Elevator in its
last issue works himself into a per
fect frenzy, and indulges in insinua
tions and attempted aspersions
against men who differ with him as
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to’the utility of the so called “ Civil
Rights Celebration,” which took
place at Horticultural Hall on the
20th of April.
He assumes the position that
there was no honesty of purpose
with .those who differed with Jiinu.
iaud -vainly attempts to arraign
the ministerial and political, as weM
P os<^ou a °f those who
with, h.'.jjjn order to
| joathe course he had mapped
out to pursue in regard to the cele
bration. The writer of this article
is charged with belonging to the
“ hoodlum element,’’ because of his
opposition to the so-called patriotic
dancing celebration. I admit that
a notice did appear in the Pacific
Appeal, signed by the writer hereof
and others, that a celebration would
take place, but through some inad
vertence on the part of some one, a
false construction made it appear
that I was in favor of celebrating
the Civil Rights Bill. Now, the
• editor knew lull well that I was
bitterly opposed to celebrating the
.event, and had so declared in his
presence and in the presence of
others. He also knew that I was
elected a member of the committee
of arrangements before he was (the
editor himself being on the nominat
ing committee that presented my
name), and the report of the nomi
nating committee was unanimously
adopted by the meeting. He is also
aware of the fact that when the
names were presented at a subse
quent meeting, my name was inten
tionally omitted from the printed
list, which was under the control of
himself and the editor of another
journal. Now, I ask, in all sincerity,
why was my name omitted? The
reason is because he knew full weii
that I would make a determined op
position to said celebration, hence
ho, as President of the meeting,
■ ruled that I was not a member of
; the committee, my name not appear
ing in the printed list, which he
himself had purposely manipulated.
“ Oh, Shame, where is thy blush ?”
Again, as to the “ hoodlum element”
in connection with his paper—l was
one of the thirteen who started the
concern, and paid up every dollar of
my obligations to place him as ed
itor. I worked on the paper three
months, carrying, folding, etc., re
ceived twelve dollars for my ser
vices in cash, and there was owing
to me by subscribers the amount of
forty dollars, which I presented to
him.
And further, while in Portland,
Oregon, only three mouths, I do
nated in cash more than the price of
one and one-half year’s subscription
to his paper. After my return to
San Francisco I found the concern
in a hopeless pecuniary condition,
the editor having abandoned all
hope of publishing another issue.
Acting upon the authority of a pub
lic meeting, I, in company with Mr*
Montgomery, canvassed the city,
and collected the sum of two hun
dred dollars for him, and, lastly,
donated a sum towards purchasing
the type, to prevent its loss to the
concern, and from tho first issue to
the present time I have been a con
stant subscriber to the paper, and
paying for the same. Now, if this
is “ hoodlumism,” it would be far
better for the concern to build itself
upon such hoodlumism. Oh! in
gratitude. As to the vindication of
my character, I will leave that to
those who have known me for the
past twenty years upon this Coast.
In the absence of Wm. H. Hall,
who comes in for his share of slurs
in this connection, I would say that
he is fully able to refute the unman
ly aspersions cast upon him when he
returns from Panama.
As the editor has given us a hom
ily upon politics, a .d claims to be
an unswerving Republican, reads
good meu out of the party, and now
comes boldly to the front, and ad
mits in his last issue that as soon as
Mr. Cockrill, a good Democrat,was
elected Chief of Police, he came
upon the scene, and we find him
quietly manipulating for positions
for his truant friends. Truly,
“ Consistency, thou* art a jewel.”
R. A. Hall.
Flagging of the white marble is
beinjj laid in front of the Palace
Uo ‘ el - w»a