The union Democrat., 1871-09-02
CHOOSE FOR THE RIGHT.


will decide who shall have the control and
management of their public affairs for the
next four years. Notwithstanding the shame
| full INTERPRETATIONS of the present admin
istration BY Radical partzans, the people
throughout the State manifest confidence in
Governor Haight. feeling certain that he and
his officers have had the interest of the State
at heart and have done all in their power
to secure the welfare of the people against
the wiles of the great monopoles that have
made desperate strides towards placing cor
porations above and superior to the govern
ment itself. The present administration has
been tried for four years, what it has done is
guarantee of what it will do il retained in
power. The great issue to be decided in this
election is very simple one, it is this, shall
the people be allowed to choose their own Of
fcers and govern themselves CIR are they to
surrender their rights to a class of men who
will turn them and their government over TO
a power that will not only make their officers
and laws. but that will deprive them of their
hard earned means to help put larger taxes
and heavier burdens upon their shoulders.
1t is the same struggle that has agitated the
country for years, capital against labor
The present National Administration ranks
foremost in the line of granting subsidies
they have given millions upon millions of
dollars from the public treasury ard whole
princpalities of public lands to railroad and
kindred corporations, and the Republican
party of this State at their Convention and
during this canvass endorse and approve that
administration. With such q fact staring
him III the face, can any workingman vote
for Mr.. Booth and the Republican State
ticket on which there are men whose entire
efforts have been given when in public service
to the interests of monopolists, and believe or
feel that in so doing he is securing his future
against subsidies and grinding taxation.
The Republican party of this State also de-
clare against further immigration of Chinese
but by endorsing the administration at
Washington they are not honest in one or the
other of the declarations. The administra-
ton and the Republican party in the Eastern
States favor this kind OF immigration for the
purpose of supplying the country with cheap
labor and that too at the expense of the white
laborer. Nothing now is needed to make
the Republicans unit on Chinese labor but
the endorsement of California and the Pacific
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nese equality will be forced on the people by
that party in like manner that the amend
ments to the Constitution were. The success
of Mr.. Booth would he pointed to by his
! friends in the East as an acceptance of their
theories on this vital question. 1t would
have the effect of pre- venting any effort being
made to disturb the present treaty with
China. The only way that our people can
hope for any steps to be taken with the least
prospect of success, is to show at the ballot
box their unmistakable, uudying opposition
to the party through whose policy and theo-
ries our State is threatened by the scum OF
Asia. Mr.. Booth is we'll known to favor the
elevation of these classes at the expense and
degradation of white men. With hisrecord on
this subject which is the same as Mr.. Cor
hams, who was defeated for Governor of this
State four years ago with the platform of
his party upon which he stands endorsing
the great subsidy granting administration, no
workingman can give him his vote and be
consistent with his true interest. How diff
ferent it is with Gov. IIaight in whom all
classes except monopolists have firm I'M
| flinching friend. A man that has proved
true as steel, who has stood between tie peo-
Pile and their oppressors. On the one side is
man who has not been tried but whose asso-
Citations identify him with policies that are
not in the interest of the people, on the ether
is one who has been tried and not found want
ing.