Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-27


doubt it does. But i, is absolutely impossible for
those who have
THE APPOINTING POWER,
Even II they ever so well disposed 70 make
careful selections for many thousand places in
short time especially considering the fact that
ally the least worthy applicants among the most
clamorous and the most skillful in securing the
strongest political Endorsements. Need | tell the
taxpayers what such experiment will cost7 / am
willing to assume that General Hancock entertains
the best possible Intentions and even that he may
form for himself plan Of action intended to obviaie
these difficulties and disasters He may possibly
tell you so, and mean what he SAYS Yet is il not
obvious that, having experience whatever in po-
tical life, he will be completely at the mercy Of
wind and waves, and that there will be power Of
wind in the Democratic yictor5 elamoring for the
spols strong enough to upset the ingenuity Of the
firmest and most skilled politician his party No
prudent citizen fail to be repelled by such pros
poets unless equally great greater dangers threat
from the other side.
Look AT THE OTHER SIDE.
Let us look at the other side now. | am certainly
not of those who would that the Repub-
lcan party has been without fault. l have been
one OF its most unsparng critics, and have been
sparngly criticised myself The Republican party
has undoubtedly made great many mistakes.
will not go back to the period OF reconstruction and
an absoved Southern policy, because that lies far
behind u.s. and is no, an issue in this campaign Its
constitutional results have become settlements
ceped by both sides in profession at least, and the
policy of force after the resdmission of the late
rebel States has under this administration yielded
to scrupulous rule Of constitutional principles.
Neither would deny that. with regard to the
question OF the public debt at one time and TO the
currency question for isorcA extended period,
there was in the Republican party an antagonism
of opinions, a contest of conflicting ends. For a
season the party seemed to stumble along with an
uncertain gait; but it has always had an u erring
instinct which in the end made il turn right side up,
and then it kept right side up. When in 1869 the
Republican majority in Congress declared for the
payment of the public debt, principal and interest.
in coin, there was the end, once and forever, OF
THE REPUTATION MOVEMENT,
Open and disguised, in the Republican party. When
in 1875 the Republican majority in Congress passed
the Resumption Act, there was the end, once and
forever. of the unredeemable papermoney business
in the Republican party. Those who remained re-
pudiationists or fatmoney men did not remain Re-
publicans at least not the leaders Of the party.
They tried their luck for some time inside of ii
then they left it, and became Independent Green
hackers, and finally most Of them landed in the
Democratic party, as the Democratic Greeubackes,
who for a time became Independents mostly went
back there. General Weaver and his followers
still in the intermediate state. but will no doubt
finally materialize as sound Democrats. But while
the Democratic party has been attracting such ele
ments tine Republican party has been either
verting them TO sound principles or ejecting them
until they almost wholly disappeared among its
ponent part. Thus it has become emphaticaly the
protector of the national faith and the party OF
sound money. / have no doubt that the disagree
still existing upon financial subjects of minor
Importance in the Republican party will be solved in
the same way after mature discussion. In this way
the Republican party, steadily progressing in
iightened perception of the principles Of sound
finance, has become the reliable soand money party
of the country, to which, as parties now are,
THE SOLUTION OF NEW FINANCIAL PROBLEMS
Can alone be safely trusted. and how magnifcently
do the effects of the results already achieved appear
in the revival of prosperity Indeed, not only
in the traditions and good sense Of the Republican
party DO you find the best security there is at pres
ent for the sanctity Of national faith, well
q successful management Of the financial policy
you find equal secdfity in the known opinions aud
principles of its ,anddate James A. Garfield His
convictions on these subjects have not found their
first and best proclamation in the platform of his
party or in his letter of acceptance. His record Of
nearly twenty years Of Congressional service is not
blank on the great questions Of the times like that
of his opponent. There is not phase OF the quat-
tion Of our national obligations; there IS not pos
Of financial policy from the first day that the sub
iect was considered in Congress siree he became
member OF that body to the present hour, that he
has not discussed with an ability and strength, lu
cidity of argument, amplitude OF knowledge and
rness of conviction, placing him in the first rank
of the defenders of sound principles.
IF YOU WANT TO STUDY TIE REASONS
Why the public faith should be nviolably main-
tained why an irredeemable paper currency is, and
always has been, curse to all the economic inter
ests of this and all other countries why confidence
can be restored and maintained, why business
obtain healthy development, why foreign COM
merce can be most profitably condusted only with a
money system of stable and intrn ic value, you will
find in the speeches of James A. Garfield upon this
subject the most instructive and convincing lnfor
mstion. You will find there opinions not suddenly
made up to order to suit an opportunity and the
necessities Of n candidate in an election, but the
convictions of lifetime, carefully matured by con-
scientious research and large inquiry, and main
tanned with powerful reason, before they had become
generally popular. You find there teacher, states
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cpes so firmly grounded in his mind rs well as his
conscience, that he would uphold them even were
they not supported by powerful party at his back
There is double assurance, therefore, in the radi
tions and acts of the party and in the character of
the leader at its head As to the civil service,
have stated to you what, in my opinion, its condi
ton is to day, and that opinion aeeoris, think,
with that of every fail minded observer. AS to
what it will become IN case OF
a. REPUBLICAN VICTORY,
shall not predict the millennium, neither from the
knowledge | have of the obstacles in the way Of n
p rmansnt reform on sound principles, nor from
the party platform, from the last utterance OF
the candidate. One thing, however, may be taken
for certain the administrative machinery Of the
Government will not be suddenly taken to pieces
and be dlsorganized, to be recomposed OF raw ma
terial. In far as it has shown itself honest and
efficient ii will he preserved in its integrity and
efficiency and, upon the good foundations laid,
there is reason for assurance that it VIII be devei-
oped to greater perfection.
And now L appeal 10 t0e CoIiStTNatNt CitZeuo VI
the Republic to you who desire the public faith
sacredly maintained, where will you gof Can you,
in view of the present circumstances, conscientious
" go to the Democratic partyt You VIII, indeed,
find there not few men who think as you do; but
with them you will find closely allied in party inter
est all those elements to whom our national obiga-
tions are the football of momentary advantage
You will find on that side every State that has re-
pudiated or speaks of repudiatng its public debt;
YOU will find there all those who decred the public
creditor as the public enemy, and whom no loyal
tradition and impulses attaches to the national
honor You will find there party, inside OF which
the public faith has still
TO FIGHT A BATTLE
With its enemies without any certainty OF its issue.
Is that your place? Or will you go TO the Republican
side. where the loyal maintenance OF our public
faith has become fundamental principle, uniyer-
sally adhered with answering fidelity, in spite
of the gusts of adverse public sentiment in former
days? And you who desire TO preserve the fruits
of the gained in the abolition OF the curse OF
an irredeemahe paper money and the retstabl1sh-
meut of specie payments, where will you GOT VIII
YOU go to the Democratic party, where again YOU
will find some who thins as you do, and yet with
them as powerful and perhaps the most numerous
component part Of the organization, welding COM
manding influence in great many OF the States
subject to its control, the great mass OF the infa
tionists and fiat-money men who we're gathered un-
der the Democratic banner by seemingly irressti-
BILE power of attraction and furnished many of the
acknowledged leaders of that organization, and who
even now when the prosperity of the country has
been SO magpifidently aided by sound financial
policy would be ready to subvert 1t all and throw
the country back into the wild confusion of the fat
money madness?
WILL YOU, BUSINESSMEN, FARMERS,
Manufacturers, merchants of the country, find the
safety of your interests there? Win you help
party to power, inside Of which, between Its COM
ponent elements, the battle OF sound money sys-
tenn and an irredeemabe paper currency is still
pending and will you trust the earnings OF the
poor as well as the fortunes Of the wealthy to the
uncertainties Of its issue? Or will YOU go to the
Republican side, where great victories for the cause
of good money have been achieved; where sound
sense and patriotism have every tight so far de-
cded, and where we may with certainty look for
the same sound sense and patriotism to solve the
problems not yet disposed of might so on with
the catalogue show you where the path OF safety
lies but it is enough. What Is there
ON the Democratic side which could &C.
duce YOU from the path Of safety? Is it
the nomination for the Presidency Of solcier
who during the did brave deeds and deserved
well of the country? Is it OF gratitude for
those brave deeds that should make you elevate the
| soldier to the place In which
A STATESMAN Is WANTED.
Gratitude to those who the field OF battle barred
their breasts TO the enemies OF their country is
sentiment of which shall not lightly speak it is
noble sentiment; but is the President of the United
| States mere bauble that should be given re-
ward for things done on field OF action wholly diff
ferent? Is the Presidency like presentation sword,
or gift horse, donation uf money, country
house, given to a victorious soldier to please him
| II go then simple justice would compel us to look
for the most merOrious OF soldiers, and reward