Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-02
THE CHOICE.

most desired and approved. 1t saved the
Union. 1t freed the slaves 1t MAN.
tanned the national faith and honor against
ceaseless assaults. 1t brought the cur
rercy to par with gold. 1t has diminished
the national debt, increased the national
revenues, encouraged commerce and man
ufaetures, fostered the interests OF Labor,
spread abroad popular education, and OPP
posed itself always and everywhere to the
sinister influences which have been at work
to destroy the fruits of the war. No party
ever had a more magnificent record, and if
there are some errors to regret, some mis-
takes to confess even some wrongs to
redress in its history, it may confidently
be asserted that no party has ever held
power so long with less faults to ask for
giveness for. 1t appeals TO the country
to-day on the strength of what it has done
in the past, and also on the strength of
what it is prepared to do in the future.
1t can point back to four years OF the most
blameless and prosperous administration
the country has ever enjoyed. Its enemies
have endeavored in vain to find any mate
rial for SANDER in that period It's guar
antee for the future is the character and
record of the statesman it has made
its candidate. General Garfield is
one of the best examples of the
self-made American statesman to be
found anywhere. He has served with dis
tinction in the army, and has won de-
served reputation in Congress. He is no
drlll-seTgeant, no military martinez igno-
rant of everything that does not appertain
to the profession of arms. He is an accom-.
plished scholar, trained politician,
statesman If ripe experience and capacity.
The time has come when the complicated
and multifarious duties of the Presidency
of this great republic imperatively demand
the services of disciplined civilians, and
when it is neither safe nor rational to in
trust them to mere soldier. General
Garfield is in all respects thoroughly
equipped for the position, and he will
prove one of the ablest and most conscien-
tious Presidents the republic has ever
elected. He is representative man in all
that honors and ennobles the national
character, and he stands to-day for all the
best and highest impulses and tendencies
in the national life. He stands for equal
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South, East and West. He stands for the
dissemination of knowledge, for the eleva-
ton of politics, forthe opposition to Mexican
practices, for honest money, for just laws,
for peace and law and order and prosperity.
Whoever votes for James A. Garfield to.
day is voting for his own best interests,
and for the best good of the country.
On the other hand is the Democratic
party, with twenty years of treason and
misrule and fraud and outrage behind it.
II has not single reason to offer for the
change of government it proposes. 1t is
not only not better than the party it seeks
to supplant. It is immeasurably worse.
To the Democracy the country owes the
rebellion. and since the rebellion the at
tacks on the public credit, the at-money
Graz re, the silver lunacy, the solid South,
the rebel claims. 1t has during these
twenty years been in alliance with IN
reconciled enemies to the Union. 1t has
welcomed and supported every movement
to prevent resumption, to injure the public
credit, to cheat the nations creditors, to
corrupt the franchise, to win political
power by fraud and chicanery. 1t is the
party that tried to steal Maine. It is the
party that did steal thirteen Southern
States. 1t is the party that in this cam
paign has openly abandoned all arguments
and all principles, and after stultifying
itself in dozen ways, has at last rested
its case upon the most infamous and shame
less forgery that has ever been perpetrated.
What it could not 80 by persuasion it has
sought to do by lawless fraud. It has
come into the field armed with the stolen
Electoral votes of the South, and has
then flung SANDER and detraction
broadcast. Incapable of defending
its own bad record it has endeavored to
defame the Republican candidate. The
conduct of its campaign has been given to
men devoid of honor and truth, and its
press and speakers have promptly Endorsed
every lie these rogues have uttered and
every fraud they have perpetrated. And
behind all this deluge of immortality and
filth turks the Southern element of unre-
constructed rebels, which hopes to get the
control of the Government through the
help of the Northern Copperheads, and
which contemplates the notification of the
constitutional amendments and the pay
ment of the Southern claims. This is the
Democratic party, and whoever votes for
it to-day must realize that he is voting to
sanction lying and forgery and lawlessness
as political agencies, that he is voting for
the naturalization of Mexican method,
that he is voting for the reward of the
most sinister, malignant and villainous
practices that have ever been employed in
the country, that he is voting for the
transfer of the Government to the Southern
Brigadiers, and to undo all the results of
the war and of the subsequent years.
With sane men there can be no room for
hesitation as to the choice.
THE CLOSING DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS.
The desperation of the Democrats is
shown in the efforts they have been max.
ing latterly to stir up trouble in various
parts of the country. In these efforts is
also to be seen the no longer concealed af-