Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-03

the stability OF the currency, rob every
workingman in the land Of from ten to
twenty per cent. of his wages. drive thrift
and industry abroad, and effectually break
down the prosperity and commerce and
peace and order which have been estab-
lished with so much pains and labor.
We do not care whether Mr.. Glascock
personally believes any of the imbecilities
which he has been so prompt to adopt as
his principles" 1t is enough for us that
ne has shown his readiness to play the
demagogue. No man who viii indorse
what he has Endorsed, believing or not be-
lieving it, is fit to represent this district in
Congress. We want no fat-money luna
tics, no repudiators, no communists, no
advocates of deprecated currency, no
defenders of the "buzzard silver dol
lar, no supporters OF initiation and
wild speculation, there. The voters of
the Second District OF California are sober
minded, intelligent, conservative people,
who have no sympathy with any of the
currency crazes which affect weak brains.
They are, moreover, too shrewd not to see
that Mr.. Glascock is merely playing the
usual game of the Democratic party in ac-
cepting parcel of assorted principles at the
lowestrates. Suchcandidatesh aveno convic-
tions they are not willing to change to-mor-
row. They will promise anything to catch
votes, and they will repudiate their cheap
promises with aslittle compunction. ftispos-
sible that if he was elected Mr.. Glascock
would turn his back upon his present rag
baby allies and laugh at them But he
has proved himself to be demagogue. and
capable of indorsing any absurdities, and
therefore no confidence can be placed in
him. The District ought, with such can
didate, to give Hon. H. F. Page the largest
majority he has ever yet had, and we have
no doubt that it will do so.
BUFFERS CHARACTERISTIC MoDEsFY.
General Butler has displayed his charac-
teristic modesty in declining the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor OF Massa-
chusetts. He puts his refusal on the
ground that he has not been Democrat
long enough to clear him from the imputa-
ton of having rejoined the partyfrom selfish
motives, should he accept the nomination.
He thinks that after year Or so of proba-
ton it will perhaps be in order to put him
in the front. but for the present he prefers
to vindicate his good faith by serving hum
bly, in the ranks. There will doubtless be
envious and malignant critics to suggest
that the Generals true reason for the de-
clin.tion was his conviction that he could
not be elected and it cannot be denied
that there is some plausibility in this idea,
however uncharitable it may be. General
Butler, however, has worked his way
round to ithe Democracy in perfectly
natural and in fact inevitable way. He
set out as currency hereto, and has gone
through all the transmigrations of those
peculiar people, from fat money to BIZ
" metallism, and thence to greenbackism,
with all its Protean imbeciities. And
having passed through all these changes he
has found himself az length in the
Democratic camp, where indeed all
such paths lead in the end. For the
Democracy is the party of all forms of hos
tiIity to the currency system and the
financial system which were set up during
the rebellion. Il is the party Of opposi.
ton to the honest payment of the public
debt, OF opposition to the honest resump-
ton of specie payments, OF opposition to
the maintenance Of the whole currency at
par. It is the party which advocates and
approves every scheme and measure for
discTediting the war debt and the war
currency, and for cheating the pensioners
and the creditors who upheld and saved
the Union. All these various projects for
introducing bad money and driving out
good money, for substituting deprecated
paper for gold, for compelling the country
to make silver the sole standard of value,
for regulating the bonded debt under
pretense OF paying small part of it, are
thoroughly Democratic in character and
spirit and conception. Whoever holds
such views IS bound sooner or later to
bring up in the Democratic camp, as But
Ter has done, and whoever holds such
views either does not understand Repub-
lican principles or has ceased to be in
sympathy with them, and has, consciously
or unconsciously, assimilated the old Cop
perhead doctrines hopelessly. As for But
Ter, be is joined to his idols; let him alone.