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324 PARTY CHANGES.
to state offices. 8 These changes were made upon
principle by those union men who were formerly republicans,
and who viewed with dismay the union
party, which had so clean a record, being prostituted
to place and money-getting without reference to the
welfare of state or nation by men who made noisy
pretensions to patriotic sentiments, yet whose acts belied
their declarations. These seceders now re-allied
themselves to the national republican party.
Bidwell, however, declined the nomination, preferring,
perhaps, the quiet and profit of his estate to
the doubtful honors to be derived from being beaten
by a division in his own party. The candidate substituted
for the ex-congressman was Caleb T. Fay, 9
who accepted with a full knowledge that he would
probably be beaten. His letter of acceptance, and
speech on the occasion of his nomination were remark-
8 These were William H. Parks, for sec. of state, changed to J. G. Me-
Callum; Josiah Howell, controller, changed to William Jones; and D. D.
McCarthy, state printer, changed to E. G. Jeffries. McCallum was formerly
state senator from £1 Dorado, serving with distinction. He was also presidential
elector in 1864, carrying the certified vote of the state for Lincoln to
Washington. Jones was from the same county where he settled in 1S50.
He was a mechanic, had been mayor of Placerville, and was a colonel in the
2d regt Cal. vols. in the union army, having enlisted as a private. Jones
was a native of N. Y. In 1873 he was the candidate of the independents
for state senator. In 1875 he was the republican candidate for assemblyman
but was beaten by G. J. Carpenter, dem. In 1867 he was again a candidate
for the same position, but died before the election was officially decided, at
the age of 60 years. Jeffries was one of the original publishers and proprietors
of the Sacramento Union, a good printer and a good man.
• Caleb T. Fay, a native of Mm, born in 1821, came to Cal. in 1849, on a
vessel which, with the cargo was owned by the Northwestern association
of Boston as the emigrants to the land of gold styled themselves. George
W. Denny, pres't of the Granite bank of Boston, was pres't of the association,
and the company was composed of the sons of prominent men. The
vessel was commanded by Capt. Moore, of the U. S. navy. Fay Boon drifted
into a profitable business. He ran for mayor of S. r. on the republican
ticket in 1860, and took a prominent part in forming that party. Only 1500
votes were given for the republican ticket for mayor in 1860, but in 1861 he
came within 500 votes of an election. In the autumn of the same year the
republicans elected their whole legislative ticket, and in 1862 elected Fay
mayor of S. F. as a unionist. In 1867 he was defeated for governor. In
1872 he opposed the claim of the Central Pacific R. R., to the possession of
Goat island, and was appointed a commissioner to proceed to Washington
in company with Gen. Alexander and Prof. Davidson of the coast survey, to
represent the matter to the gov't, and succeeded in defeating the claim.
Ihis placed him in antagonism to the railroad supporters in Cal., and was a
point in the campaign of 1867. Fays Hist. Facts, MS., 1-23.