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PARTISAN FINANCE.

Now that both the great parties have
made their platforms it is possible to gauge
their positions on the most important pub
lie issue, which is finance. And as we ex-
anime their positions it becomes apparent
that neither of them have had the courage
to deal with this question honestly and
boldly They have, in fact, both under.
taken to be as obscure as possible upon the
vital question of the currency. The Repub-
Gcans boast of their work in bringing about
the resumption of specie payments, but
they entirely avoid the silver question, and
they do not mention the fact that a law is
now in operation which, If suffered to con-
tinue, must ultimately restore the premium
on gold, and give the country once more
a deprecated currency. As for the
Democrats, they declare vaguely for "hon-
est money" but they do not undertake to
define what they mean by honest money,
and though they speak IF "gold, silver and
"paper," it is in such way that the
Greenbackers might without much strain
upon their views accept the plank. 1t is
in fact clear that both the great parties
have been afraid to deal with this issue
boldly, lest they should ALLEVIATE some
voters. This is enc of the ineradicable
follies of the average politician, and though
all experience proves its futility, it seems
impossible to drive it from the brains
of the managers. Again and again
elections have been literally thrown
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-26
THE DAILY RECORD-UN UNION.
THE WEEKLY UNION.

With the opening of the campaign the WEEKLY
UNION will be of still greater interest to the people
While it will in no respect lessen in the variety OF
its matter it will present also the current political
news in such manner to enable its readers by its
perusa to be constantly well informed on the issues
before the people and the positions assumed by the
respective political parties The WEEKLY UNION
presents each week more and better matter than
can be found in any journal of the Pacific coast 1t
gives the current news and criticism in art, science
agriculture, trade, mechanics, the social world,
fashion, discovery invention, mining, sporting al
fairs literature, etc. 1t appears in semi-weekly
parts each part consisting OF eight pages. Thus 1t
makes up weekly an aggregate OF sixteen pages Of
select matter 1t goes out twice a week instead OF
once as is the rule with the od-style weeklies 1t
thereby reaches It's readers with fresher news than
the ordinary weekly furnish. The reader OF the
UNION will find that he is three days ahead in infor
nation regarding current news Of the world, than
his neighbor who adheres to the once a-week jour
nails OF the day. The UNION presents the latest and
fullest teegraphc advces, has large corps OF cor
respondents, and devotes itself to the development
of the State and coast, the opening up of the re-
sources of the country, and the advancement and
elevation of the people The UNION has had an un-
precedented addition to its subscription lists during
year mast, and the extension of its circulation con-
tinues with undated vigor. The UNION is furnished
by mail, postpaid, for 81 per year.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-26
ETHER SUITED.

The happy pliability of the average Dem
ocratic disposition was illustrated anus
ingly when the Cincinnati nominations
were received here By some mistake the
telegraph first stated that the choice for
Vice President was James E. English, of
Connecticut This intelligence was re-
ceived with a great deal of satisfaction,
and good Democrats at once began to ex-
plain how admirable nomination it was
In the midst of their congratulations the
statement came that the real nominee was
W. H. English, of Indiana, but this an
nouncement made no difference to the
Democrats, who at once proceeded to de-
clare that though the first named was
Che best nomination that could be made,
this was a great deal better. In fact it
was perfectly evident that they were de-
termined to be pleased no matter who the
candidates proved to be, and that one man
was as acceptable as another, for general
purposes of jubilation. No doubt any
man who could guarantee them the offices
would suit the Democrats equally well, and
the last thing they would trouble them
selves about would be his fitness, so long as
the party had placed him on the ticket
This amiable disposition certainly tends to
the development of a healthy party disci-
pine, but it does not contain much assur-
ance of that discriminating judgment which
is supposed to be demanded in the best in
terests of the country.
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SPANISH AGGRESSION.

1t appears that our Government has at
last concluded to demonstrate with Spain
upon the insolent aggressions which her
cruisers have for some time been practic-
ing upon American vessels. As England
and France have also suffered indignities
from this source, and as those powers join
in the diplomatic note of protest and
warning, it is probable that redress and
explanation will be forthcoming, for Spain
knows that whatever the Washington Gov
eminent may be prepared to stand, those
of London and Paris will put up with no
insults, but will upon very slight provoca-
ton take the law in their own hands, and
give the Spanish cruisers a sound drub.
bing. Unfortunately for the protection of
American honor our navy is in so lamenta-
BILE condition that we cannot venture to
resent insults even from so feeble Power
as Spain, and it is quite possible that the
Peruvian navy might bully US with inn
punity. In fact, unless some serious steps
are taken before long to give us the means
of self.defense, there is no telling what
petty principalities may fout us, and fire
into our merchant ships upon the high seas.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-26
OLD FOES WITH NEW FACES.

The Democratic nominations have been
hailed with satisfaction by the Democrats,
and this is odd, for the thing which seems
to please the party most is the unlikeness
of the candidates to ordinary Democratic
selections. In fact, this qualification is a
tribute to Republicanism, however uncon-
sciously it may be made. 1t is an evidence
that the highest ideal of the Democrats is a
nomination as closely resembling a Re-
publican as possible. The Democrats at
present are going about chuckling, and say
ing "Look at General Hancock You
wouldn't know him from Republican,
would you?" And this is absolutely all they
have to rejoice over. We are free to admit
that the nomination is very unlike the
average Democratic choice, but though the
Democrats have particularly sound reasons
for wishing to be taken for something else
than what they are, their attempts at
disguise are destined to failure. Nothing
can be palmer than the real inspiration
of their present Joy. They believe
they have at last hit upon ticket which
which may very well pass for Republican,
and that consequently they may be able to
worm their way into power under cover of
it. 1t is an ingenious device, but unfor-
tunately it has been employed before, and
has been found out. General Hancock is
well enough in his way, but he is not the
Democratic party, and. he does not repre-
sent that party. His record is clear
enough, but it is not his record that has to
be examined and passed upon. The coun-
try cannot be deceived into forgetting who
stand behind the head of the ticket. nor
what sort of a record they have. The Dem
ocratic party will have to come forward
and take the witness stand notwithstand-
ing its shrewd device to put in substi-
tute, and it will not get off so easily as
the head of its ticket. If there was any
ground for believing that the pres
ent device to make the Democratic candi-
date as much like Republican as possible,
arose from sincere wish to bury the
past, and disposition to acknowledge
the supremacy of Republican principles,
we should hail the change with profound
satisfaction. But there is no warrant for
such an Interpretation. The Democrats
want Office and spoils, and they are willing
to appear all things to all men for the
sake of success. But their convictions
remain unchanged. They are going into
this campaign with the deliberate inten-
ton of stealing the electoral votes of all
the Southern States. They hope to win
by fraud and force. Their Southern allies
are willing to use General Hancock as
fgurehead, but they expect through him
to regain their lost political prestige, and
to govern the country as they did before
the rebellion. The leopard does not
change his spots, nor the Democrat his
ideas, and however nuch General Hancock
may resemble Republican, no Republican
will be deceived into supporting him.
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STATESMAN VERSUS SOLDIER.

The Democrats, as a proof of the sim
cerity of their opposition to military rule,
have put in nomination for the Presidency
a soldier, whose only record is military,
and who cannot from the very nature of
his career be qualified for civil admins
tration. Whatever distinction General
Hancock has gained has been in field
which has no analogy to that for which he
is now a candidate. The most conclusive
proofs of his military achievements and
capacities must fail to justify the inference
that can be said of him apart from his
purely army record is that he is free from
all imputations upon his integrity. The
profession he has followed, however, is one
which recent experience has shown to be
peculiarly i'll fitted for the development of
the qualifications needed in the Chief Ex-
ecutive of the Republic On the other
hand the Republican. candidate is states
man of unquestionable ability and we'll
laiile. w ME no QUE kHOWS what
General Hancock's views are upon any i'm
portant issue while it is not even known
that he has any political convictions his
opponent possesses singularly clear and
consistent record upon every measure and
question of weight which has come before
the country during the past twenty years.
Nor are General Garfields veiws
those of the ordinary politician. He has
given repeated evidence of having studied
and mastered every topic he has been
called on to treat, and in all cases he has
shown ripe judgment and courage of
conviction very agreeably unlike the COM
monplace positions of political hackneys.
On the currency question, for example, he
has always been right, and has always pre-
sented his views with firmness and pre-
cision. He has given an amount of care
and thought to all issues sufficient to
separate him from the ordinary Congress
man of the times, and to justify us in
characterizing him as statesman. OF
course he has erred sometimes, but even
when he has been wrong it has
been equally clear that his mistakes were
not those of mere ignorance, but such as
all men are liable to, no matter how
conscientiously they may endeavor to at
tain the truth. The Republican party has
never had candidate who more fully repre-
sented its intellectual strength and tend
enoies, or who more faithfully illustrated
its highest aims. He stands for the very best
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-26
A MAGNIFICENT PIECE OF 1mpUDENcE

The most magnificent piece Of impu-
dence we have encountered for long time
is that plank in the National Democratic
platform which affects to approve of free
ballet all over the United States. If the
ballot was free all over the Union the
Democratic party would stand no show
whatever in the coming campaign. If the
ballot was free there would be no hope of a
solid South, and no possibility of defeat
ing the Republican party. What can the
Democratic leaders think of the intelli-
gence of the American people when they
have the ineffable audacity to insert this
insolent mockery in their national plat
form? Slave owners affecting passionate
love of Liberty never cut more preposter-
GUS figure than do these Democrats while
pretending to admiration and concern
for the freedom of the ballot. And
after declaring that the ballot ought to
be free everywhere, the delegates from
the Southern States will return to
their homes and take immediate steps
for suppressing the colored vote through
out that region. We think the Democrats
might have spared the country this gra-
tuitous insult. We are going into cam
paign which is only uncertain because of
the notorious fact that the Southern Dem
ocrats refuse to respect the sanctity of the
ballot, and because they by force and fraud
suppress the vote of their colored fellow
citizens. They know and we know that
the Southern States will not be carried
honestly this fall. They know and we
know that the ostensible results in those
States will not represent the untrammeled
will of the majority. And considering
the undisguised effrontery with which they
have Haunted the ''solidity" of the South
before the face of the country, they might
have had the decency to abstain from
adding insult to injury by talking about
the freedom of the ballot. AS well might
a gang of pickpockets solemnly protest that
honesty was the lodestone of their exist
ence or band of horse thieves declare
that the lifting of stock was their particu-
lar aversion
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THE FRAUD ISSUE.

The Democrats who drew up the Cincin-
natl platform must wish they had known
beforehand who was going to occupy it.
The platform appears to have been orig
inaIly framed for the special use and be-
hoof of Mr.. Tilden, and when it was found
that he was out of the race it seems to
have been thought desirable to insert the
plank eulogizing him. But in refusing to
put him In nomination the Convention
made all the tall talk about fraud ridicu-
lous, for it is plainly impossible to convince
the country that the party believes in Mr.
Tilden's claims, seeing that it thrust him
out of the succession so cavalierly. AS
Dana shrewdly observes, the only way to
retain the fraud issue in the campaign was
to nominate Tilden and Hendricks. That
would have made the platform as it stands
consistent, though it would have necessi-
tated the excelsior of the plank about hon.
est money, or have made it absurd. As it
is, the rhetorical fourishes about the
fraud issue sound ludicrous in view of the
actual nominations, and it seems quite a
pity that so much space should have been
wasted to such little purpose. 1t is true
that the Democrats have no genuine issues,
and perhaps that is one reason why the
platform was suffered to remain without
any modification after the failure of Tilden
was apparent, but the embarrassment of
the Bourbon press will be great when it
comes to discuss the tissues" and finds
that the principal planks in the national
platform are as dead as julius Caesar.
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news OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds wert
quoted at J0Ss for Is of 1907 1888 for IS of 1881
1905 for AS sterling, 81 s6a4 SsA; silver bars
1l5s; silver coin, ] discount buying, par selling.
Silver in London yesterday, Sgd; consols
pS GIG; 5 DER cent United States bonds, l05{ ; IS
llOl; As, 112l.
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at par
Mexican dollars, 90 buying, 93l selling.
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at 0;
5da9s 10d for good to choice California
There was another 25- minute session OF the Sar
Francisco Stock Board yesterday morning. Nc
large amount of business be performed in sc
short time, but there was apparently all the op
portunity given that wanted. Prices, as rule
were a little better than Thursday morning. Union
Consolidated was 81 % better, and most other Com
stock shares were from 10c to Use higher.
David Miller committed suicide at Virginia. New
yesterday.
Philip Palmer, a pioneer of Suisun valley, died at
Suisun yesterday aged 50 years
Fears are entertained at Portland, Or, of repe
titon of the flood OF 1875.
Prices OF wool are advancing slightly at Portland
Or.
Two ishermen-Peter Anderson and Chris. Henk-
Icr-were drowned Tuesday in the Columbia river,
near Astoria, Or.
The report that General Grant bad expressed an
intention to vote for Hancock is emphatically denied
by the ex-President
Fire at Elizabeth, N j.. resulting in two men be-
ing killed and two injured.
Two Moonshiners were killed in Georgia Thursday,
while resisting revenue officers.
Near Maxwell, Colusa county, Thursday, Michael
WEIGH killed 3 enry Bismarck.
Mrs. Nancy Mills dropped dead at Grass Valley
last evening while trading in millinery store.
During the twelve months ended May S1st the
excess of exports over imports in the United States
was $50, 1852, 1903.
The funeral OF General Suffer at Litiz, Pa,
Thursday, was very imposing affair, and largely
attended.
The Prussian Diet has adopted the tenth article
of the Church bill
The Texas Greenbackers have nominated W. II.
Harmon for Governor.
NJ O. Heath has been nominated for Governor
by the Greenbackers in Vermont.
Harden Brown was hanged at Huntsville, Mo,
yesterday for killing his mother in-aw
The famine fever has appeared in KIlbran, Sligo
county, Ireland.
The Bradaugh case will be discussed in the Brit
ish House of Commons Monday.
The President has returned to Washington. He
will go to New Haven to-day to attend the com
mencement exercises Of Yale College.
The Democrats held grand ratification meeting
in San Francisco last night.
Three men were hanged upon one scaffold yester-
day at Canton, O., for murder.
The English House OF Lords has rejected the bill
.legaizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister.
The Egyptian obelisk left Gibraltar yesterday for
New York.
singular affair occurred yesterday in the Italian
Chamber Of Depu les.
Disastrous fire near Bradford Pa.
Much that will interest readers of the RECORD
UsIoS will be found this morning on the inside
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pletely forgotten by these enthusiastic gen.
tlemen. No doubt the General did his full
duty on that occasion, and as the President
suspended the writ OF habeas corpus in
order to put an end to the conflict between
the civil and military powers, the dispute
went no further. But it would certainly
seem that if the General had been the
kind of man depicted by his friends in the
Convention, he would hardly have taken
so firm stand on the supremacy of the
military over the civil power in the case
referred to; and the case was somewhat
important and notorious one, too. A good
deal of allowance may perhaps be made
for political excitement, but it is doubtful
whether General Hancock's generation for
the supremacy of the civil power will cut
very large figure in the present cam
paign.
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the party policy has ever produced, and his
own speeches can be taken in illustration
and explanation of every weighty measure
the party has made itself responsible for.
The purest, most patriotic and progressive
elements of the Republican party, can there
fore accept him unhestatingly as their ex-
| ponent and exemplar, for he may be re-
garded as faithful embodiment of the
spirit of the party in its Hottest manifesto
tions, and no Republican need be ashamed
of being represented by such man.
General Hancock, on the other hand is
mere fgure-head. He does not stand for
any principles of his party. He has no
civil record. He is in fact without polit-
ical connections, and it is necessary TO 90
behind him, and to deal with the record
and principles of the party which is seek
ing to cover itself with his military rep
| utation. The name of General Hancock
will not seem so good one to conjure
with when the real significance of his
nomination is recognized. The, want of
relevancy between his position and that of
the Democracy cannot be concealed. His
merits as a soldier will be conceded,
but when that is done it will be
asked how his gallantry or his knowl-
edge of tactics can help him in a
civil Office, or can be regarded as demon
strating his fitness to perform the
duties of such an office. General Grant
was a much greater soldier than General
Hancock, and he was believed to possess a
firmness which would guard him against
the dangers of political intrigue. But his
civil administration was a conspicuous
failure, and he was rejected by the Repub-
ican party at last, not because any diminu-
ton had occurred in the general admira-
ton for his splendid military services and
talents, but because the party had become
convinced that he was untitled for the work
of civil administration. The country has
no desire to repeat that experiment. 1t
knows what must be expected from putting
professional soldier into the Presidency
1t has learned by experience that the mill
tary school does not produce statesmen, and
that the latter alone are qualified for the
executive Office. General Garfield has
proved his capacity to fill the highest
political office in the State. He has
shown abilities which rank him with the
early statesmen of the republic. He
knows the issues which are before the
country thoroughly, and he has a most
creditable record upon all of them. To
elect him is to take the most satisfactory
development of our political institutions,
and put it where it is best fitted to be use
full. To elect General Hancock would be
to take a man who has proved his capacity
in one sphere, away from all his familiar
relations, and place him in another sphere
of which he has no knowledge or expe-
rience. To do this would be to elect the
leading Democratic politicians, practically,
and to give them General Hancock as a
fgure-head. When the country has so
magnificent an opportunity to honor itself
by the election of a statesman it would
commit grave mistake if it should pass
him by for a mere soldier.
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away by the cowardice of those who
made the platforms. Afraid of offending
this. that and the. other element, these
tlmeservers only succeed in removing
every evidence OF life and spirit from their
platform, and end by disgusting all who
have convictions, at the same time that
they do not satisfy the others. 1t does not
seem to occur to the managers that Green
hackers have positive views, however ab.
surd and mischievous they may be, and that
they are no more likely to be attracted by
mealy -mouthed sham declarations than are
the friends of honest money The most
curious circumstance, however, is the eau
tious abstinence of both parties from any
reference to the silver question. 1t is
known to all who follow public affairs that
owing to the operation of the Bland Allison
bill an immense quantity of silver has
already accumulated in the Treasury.
During the last Congressional session
it was found necessary to make
special appropriation to provide further
accommodation for this great mass of
metal. Now the more of this silver accu-
mulates the greater must the danger of
its being substituted for gold become. A
comparatively slight change in our foreign
exchange, a commercial condition liable
at any time to supervene, may cause the
export OF gold, and open the door for the
throwing of this mass of silver upon the
market. This is a positive and present
danger, and it involves the most serious
and calamitous consequences. Yet neither
party has thought it necessary to allude to
the subject at all, and the public cannot
gather from either of the party platforms
that any silver has been coined, or is being
coined, in the country.
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AN AWKWARD ILLUSTRATION.

In speaking of General Hancock before
the Cincinnati Convention, the point most
insisted upon by all his eulogists was the
assertion that he had acknowledged the
supremacy of the law over the sword, and
had recognized habeas corpus and civil
rule. The fact that General Hancock re.
fused to recognize the writ of habeas cor.
pus when it was sued out in the case of
Mrs. Surratt, appears to have been COM