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154 SEPTEMBER 4, 1877 GRASS VALLEY UNION
We give a partial report of Niles Searls’ speech, made at Truckee a few evenings since. His
position ought to suit the people of Nevada and Sierra counties. Judge Searls has lived a long time in
this part of the State and has filled high positions. He is one of the ablest and purest men of the many
California can boast. In these days when the mining interests are to be attacked through legislation,
such men as Searls and Coleman should be in the Senate. . . .
Judge Searl’s [sic] Position.
The Truckee Republican gives a synopsis of Judge Searl’s [sic] speech made at Truckee last
Wednesday night. We give a portion of the report:
Judge Searls eulogized and supported Hayes, his course and his administration in
a manner which met the full endorsement of every Democrat and Republican present,
and we regret that we did not phonographically report his remarks, that they might be
read verbatim et literatim throughout the county. Regarding the Chinese question, Mr.
Searls very truly said, thee were but three methods by which our laboring classes could
be maintained, to wit; by the sweat of the brow, by the State as paupers, or by the State as
criminals. If the means are deprived us of earning an honest livelihood, which by reason
of this horde of barbarians is being done, hundreds will fall into the hands of our officers,
some as criminals, and others embracing the remaining alternative. As a remedy for this
evil it was conclusively shown wherein we could expect no redress otherwise than through
Congress, and not there until the upper branch was in harmony and union with the lower.
Mr. Searls, unlike Mr. Turner, his opponent, not only pledged himself, but gave his sacred
word that the United States Senator to be elected, before receiving his vote, he should know,
not by pledges alone, but by a personal promise to be fully in accord with these sentiments,
which are at present agitating our people. When alluding to Mr. Walling, who so strenuously
presented Mr. John C. Coleman’s defects, in relation to the employment of this cheap labor,
Mr. Searls presented every act referred to, and every incident connected with it, in such a
light as to almost prove Mr. Walling, on that point, a will full -—.Mr. Walling received from
the gentleman many laudatory remarks, concerning his usual actions and past life, and also
regrets that he would be so bae, as to stoop to falsehood, though it was to benefit himself.
NAILED TO THE COUNTER.
The North San Juan Times having published an article to the effect that Michael Garver,
Democratic nominee for Assembly. Had refused to assist a lady to establish a laundry, and that he
told the lady, in effect, that he was for Chinese cheap labor, we give the following card from the lady
alluded to , which nails the Times’ assertion to the counter:
TO THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA COUNTY:
The attention of the undersigned has been called to an article published in the North
San Juan Times, of Sept. 1st, 1877, headed as follows, viz: “A Nice Caucasian He Is.” The
undersigned asserts that she is the identical person referred to in said article, and was
obtaining subscribers in Nevada City to establish a laundry in that place—the laundry
referred to in the article, and I am the person with whom Mr. Michael Garver is alleged to
have had the conversation concerning said laundry.
Mr. Garver is misrepresented in said article. He told me that Mrs. Clark, a lady in
Nevada City, was washing for him, and had been for many years, to his entire satisfaction.
Notwithstanding, to encourage a laudable enterprise, he would sign the paper presented to
him by me; and he did at the time I presented it sign the same, and he told me he would do
all he could to help me. MARY W. SOGGS.
Nevada City, Sept. 3rd, 1877.