Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-01
WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BET

falsehood, forgery, fraud these have been
the agencies with which that party has
sought to convince the public mind The
history of the republic contains no record
of any campaign SO monotonously sinister,
malignant, and envenomed, as that which
has been conducted by the partisans of
General Hancock. Loaded down with the
weight of a record crammed with treason
and heresy and dishonesty, the Democratic
party has this year seemed bent on proving
how easy it is to Guido even the worst OF
its past misdeeds, and how boldly it can
face the country stripped of every sem
blance of sincere purpose, and trusting
altogether to its talent for lying and trick
cry. The poor apology for platform OF
principles which it fabricated at Cincinnati
by copying the old professions of its OPP
ponents, proved too much for its slender
moral capacity, and it lost no time in repu-
dating it. Having thus cut loose from
principle altogether it was free to follow
the bent of its inclinations, and pretty
dance they have led it. The funda-
mental error of the Democratic politicians
has been in assuming that the American
people were fools or knaves. They must
have been the first to believe the Dem
ocratic campaign assertions, and they
must have been the second to indorse the
Democratic campaign practices. In truth
they are neither the one nor the other,
and because they are not we have no
doubt as to the nature of the judg
ment they will render to- morrow.
The Democracy stands forward I'M
disguisedly to-day as the champion of
the most tremendous fraud that has ever
been perpetrated in politics. That party
declares that it has secured l3S electoral
votes for its candidate by consolidating
the Southern States. The country knows
chat this consolil ation means neither more
nor less than the stealing of those Southern
votes by counting out the Republican ma
jorities everywhere in the Southern States.
This gigantic fraud is not even thought of
sufficient consequence to be either denied
or excused by the Democratic press. That
press thinks that public intelligence can
be hoodwinked as to the meaning of the
solid South by clamorous abuse of the
Republican candidate. The October elec-
tions showed how this Democratic plan
works, but the only effect of that sharp
warning upon the Democratic leaders was
to stimulate them to more outrageous
frauds. They seemed to think that the
way to secure success was to increase the
dose, and SO they forthwith proceeded to
supplement ballot-box stuf1ing and bull
DOING at the South with forgery at the
North. The moral caliber of the Demo.
cratic press has been fairly gagged by its
reception of this last maneuver. With but
one or two honorable exceptions it has
Endorsed the infany with effusion, and
the history of journalism affords no par
allel to the willing baseness with which it
mas sought to utilize the scoundrelism Of
its fuglemen on this occasion. No better
proof could have been furnished OF the
utter Generalization of the party.
The campaign on the Democratic side
has been one purely and simply of sour
rility and defamation. Every demonstra-
ton of the danger to be apprehended from
Southern domination in the Government,
from Democratic want of principle and reck-
lessness, from the Mexican practices en-
ployed at the South, from the greed of rebel
claim holders, from the unconcealed hos
tility of the South to the war legislation,
has been answered merely by fresh bursts
of abuse against Garfield. Every remon-
STRANGE against Democratic frauds has been
met with new frauds, more impudent and
outrageous than the last. Twenty years
ago the country was called upon to put
down Democratic rebellion. Then there
were Democrats who had the courage of
their opinions, and who manfully up-
held them in the field. For these brave
rebels we entertain the appreciation which
belongs to open and resolute courage,
whether in a good cause or in bad one.
But how have the mighty fallen The
spirit which twenty years ago found ex-
preston IN candid hostility, and which set
its life upon the cast, now manifesEs itself
in the dirty work of forgery and fraud !;
now expends its energies in fabricating
false letters, writing lying dispatches, and
stufing ballot boxes. When we look back
upon the events of the campaign which
closes to-day we almost feel ashamed to
discuss these matters as though there
could be two opinions about them, for it
seems to imply question of the integrity
and the intelligence of the people to do SO.
And indeed there must come time, when
popular education has ceased to be a
shadow and has grown into reality, that
will witness the death of all such foul and
evil methods as have been employed in
this contest, because it will no longer be
possible to cherish the delusion that such
methods can deceive anyone. That we
are nearer this point than the Democratic
politicians believe, we feel confident even
now, and we do not hesitate to predict that
to.morrow's election will justify our belief.
The popular vote will be rebuke and a
reputation OF the immoral and malignant
agencies which the Democracy has been re-
! lying upon, and an announcement of the
hopelessness of all efforts to wipe out the
past or to conquer the future by such
means. We trust too that the Judgment
rendered may be in such terms as to empha-
| size the popular resentment at the Demo-
cratic policy. a party that stoops to
base its campaign on fraud and forgery
ought not merely to be defeated. 1t
; ought to be annihilated.
THAT wREr cHED FORGERY.
As the examination of the Morey letter