Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-16

was not strong enough "by large
majority" The. committee wildly and
hbelously charg ,es the Republicans with
fraud IN the recent elections. OF course
this is can .paign lie, but it shows to what
desperate straits the Democratic managers
are reduf ed. The whole address is con-
elusive proof that the Democrats do not
reali,e the position in which they stand, and
moi hing more strikingly illustrative of this
Gould be adduced than their fatuous and
impudent observation that "the question
is not now the preservation OF the Union,
:" but of constitutional government. This
is as appropriate, coming from the allies OF
the solid South, as was General Hancock
declaration on behalf of "a free ballot, q
full vote, and fair count" 1t would
really seem that the Democratic National
Committee was ignorant of the impression
the solid South has made upon the North.
1t Is indeed true that the question now Is
of the preservation of constitutional gov
eminent. but it is of the preservation of
constitutional government from the organ
lied assaults being made upon it by the
Democratic party. That party has under
mined the foundations of free government
by It's infamous endeavor to steal the Pres
idency through the deliberate suppression
of the Republican vote in the Southern
States. 1t is the perception OF that au-
dacious scheme of Mexicanization which
has made the North solid, and which will
keep 1t so until the Democracy has once
more been relegated to impotence and
harmlessness.
And this party, this faction Of lawless-
ness and fraud and hypocrisy and false
hood and hopeless contradictions and in
constituencies, now has the hardihood to talk
Of intimidation and fraud, and to tell the
country, whileit plants it's base foot on the
neck OF Southern Liberty, that it is en-
gagged in an attempt to preserve constitu.
g tional government. Its methods GER
tainIy are peculiar. It has undertaken to
preserve constitutional government at the
South by counting out the majority, and
by bulldozing and murder. Il undertook
to preserve constitutional government in
Maine by DISTINGUISHING half the people.
1t undertook to preserve constitutional
government in Indiana and Ohio by i'm.
porting repeaters and DULLES from New
York and Kentucky and Philadelphia.
It's idea of preserving constitutional gov
| eminent was illustrated the other day by
John Kelly, when he advised Democrats
whose naturalization papers were fraudu-
lent to knock down any officer who ven.
tured to dispute their validity. This IDEA
was illustrated in Alabama By the whole
sale disfranchisenent of the Republicans
through ballot-bo stuthng. Wherever the
Democrats have possessed the power
they have pursued the same tactics.
Does not the country know this? Ii
there any doubt whatever as to the
! systematic yillainy and fraud which
have been resorted to for the
purpose of making the South solid
The Democratic National Committee
must be mad if it really thinks that the
policy and practices OF it's party are con.
cealed from general comprehension, and
if it imagines for moment that anyone
will believe its Pecksnifian cant about
the preservation of constitutional gov
eminent" As well trust the sheep to
the custody OF the wolves, as well set pro.
fesslonsl thieves to guard the Treasury, as
well repeal the constitutional amendments
and leave the negro to the mercy aud
| moderation of his former owners, as con-
fide the preservation of constitutional gov
eminent to the Democratic party. That
form of government will be preserved, but
it will be preserved from, not by the De-
mocracy. The Republican party has al
ready evinced it's determination and It's
capacity to guard the national interests,
and conservative voters everywhere are
resolved to put an end, once and for all, to
the hopes of a party which does not hes
itate to plan Presidential campaign upon
the deliberate violation Of the first and
most sacred principles of free government,
and which nevertheless thinks it possible
to pose in the attitude of defender of
republican institutions.