Pacific Appeal

Author : Horace W. Philbrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332436866
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book An Appeal to the People written by Horace W. Philbrook and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Appeal to the People: The Southern Pacific Company and Their Corrupt Judges of the Supreme Court of California; The Destruction of Individual Citizens by the Southern Pacific Company, by Means of Corrupt Judges as Their Agents In December, 1894, and in the first few months of 1895, a small part of the facts stated in the following pages was given to the public by the newspapers of San Francisco. And although the part of the facts so given to the public was small, and although the publication of even that small part was meager, yet they called forth at the time a wide-spread and deep indignation and a strong public opinion throughout California and particularly in San Francisco. But, after the lapse of only a few months, a careful and complete suppression of the facts of this particular case by all the newspapers was established. By what means such suppression was established, the reader may judge for himself, upon the facts here laid before him. Ever since it was established, the public have had no other information of the case than what I could publish at my own expense. Such a publication was made by me in 1896 in a small circular entitled an "Appeal to the People," which was spread abroad in San Francisco for about three weeks just before the general election held in November, 1896, offering myself as an independent candidate for Judge of the Superior Court. Even with such inadequate means of reaching the people, there was in San Francisco such public opinion about the case that I was given at that election, according to the official returns, 12,644 votes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.