Show A striking picture there are honest arld and sensible peo po fo la who wiio oppose ose oso the vigilance committee men alen who find it difficult giffi difficult cult to unlearn their respect for legal tribunals bandla tri trl taught them were ilie 1110 vindicators vindicatory of justice as well welt as the interpreters of statutes they still have faith falth in courts and aud believe atiat tl at through thern them alone cm cin our social evils be reached feucht d and remedied such nen men and arid their opinions deserve much in och iha tha public at large may differ with them for honestly lies bea at the foundation of their belief but the chief aud and most mot bitter opponents of this thia movement of the people are th gambling political hacks hacka ani aul their satel sat lites dilce of cour couraw they woud d oppose that which will take lake dway away their billing and their thein bread their cigars cifare and their thor grog the means of their comforts and their debauchery tile the billot stuffer r objects his hia freedom is 13 curtailed if ir tiie the committee co should institute the he era of fair elections how many acores scores are there in hig his this city of thee theo vite vila scoundrels who hive hire never earned e an honet honest dollar hav hare never done a days d ays vork work and yet who nho dregs dreas better belter alivs liv lly more aa babp ip enjoy more luxuries aej spend in more money than most aiosi of ua who havel have work worked d ere nard ard and long dy day omd nid night all al ibe the tima for the list l sst seven years ears hi Culi odil california fornia these there th freebooters ars ara oil olf eject to an any ani it regeneration any fae aae act t of tha tho people wih take lake anav capital viz the privilege lere lege of perpetuating frauds at e actions they neltha wish to be sent out of the tise country bor r be deprived of the tile opportunity hereto heretofore foro roro enjoyed d of preventing good men from being elected and I 1 I 1 put putting ting villains vill Till dins in by fraud A step te P or two higher or lower perhaps in the tho scale of humanity are the objectors on an political grounds men whose chief if not only chances of success would be irretrievably ruined mined b by y a purifying of our elections the box stuffers ers are only their tools they are tile the workmen some of them have used all these fraudulent appliances appi appl applan ances cei to get into offices office others hope yet to use them and to ride into luto such frauds have llave we forgotten the tha elec election tin of 1853 does not everyone know that it was a vile swindle havene have nave we forgot similar swindles sincel since lias has there been an hon hou est election for four years not one have not these professional politicians hired these dional bullies and rogues to beat away from tho tile polls peaceable peace able abla citizens to stuff ballot boxes take out ou the honest votes und substitute fraudulent ori ort onest es they have nye aye und and they would do it again and it is because they fear tile tiie loss of their supremacy through the loss of those rascals their hirelings thal thai they oppose the committee just as they oppose the registry law and just as they ever oppose every attempt atempa at reform the fact is if we would have havo this thia city and Sate slate a place fit for fer families to come coma to dwell ing lag in the ha bands of rascals who have perverted justice III fil insulted liberty libert ilbert yI violated law destroyed the tiie free exercise of the right of suffrage beaten and shot and stabbed voters taken possession I 1 of the polls broken open the ba balat ot boxes bozes wio are the brawl ers the bulges bulj ies les iee the fighters the assassins ol 01 the tha city and state these pests must be curbed must be sent seat out of the tiie state or over to the state prison or th chatman atman should be besent sent to the lusane asylum who would bring his family to this state or city this city has not been teen a fit place for a respectable spec table lady to live iu in it is not a fit place for children to be bred in it is not a fit place for men whose duty it is la to denounce crime and criminals the tiie guilles have ruled the city ruled elections made officers and have been rewarded by gold by position by profit they with their masters the shameless political mountebanks mount ebanks have made and kept this city a hell tv who ho wants to bring his wine wife here who would bring children hero here what lady knowing what the place has been if it is to be so hereafter would wish to comee come who that has had a family here has not desired them hem elsei elsewhere vilere have the courts done anything to make society better to protect life to age virtue girtue to make crime dangerous to check evil to purge society of its pests peste to purify the community if so when where how no wonder that they who have lived and end fattened upon the results of crime as buzzards upon carrion should oppose reform come in it what w way y it might we could have desired it t to 0 come through its legitimate channel as it a hould should have done long ag ago through the tile legal tribunals bu rials dut but it has not and we welcome it from the only source through which there seems any chance of receiving it the people themselves we are for law while it is available and beneficial when it is not a fig for all quil quibbles bles and pretensions its assumed sanctity while it endorses crime by protecting the tha crimiti criminal pl give us justice without outlaw law rather than lav law without justice we havo have had the he latter until human hu man endurance fails degust hes has succeeded the respect which education taught us to bear towards legal courts judges and juries bowlet now let a us a try the people and their courtesan cour tSan F francisco ran cisca chronicle june 5 |