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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09
A DEMOCRATIC FALsEEooD.

Democratic journals take great pleasure
in quoting the Sacramento Bee as Repub-
lican paper This is barefaced falsehood.
The Bee claims to be independent, but is
in reality the only Greenback organ in this
State, and while its editors know that
there is not n ghost Of chance for General
Weaver to get the electoral vote of one
State in the Nation, they nevertheless give
aid and comfort to the rebel Democracy in
the Third Congressional District by trying
to influence Republicans to vote for Berry as
against Knight, simply because the latter
stands by the platform and principles Of
his party and opposes and denounces the
soft money craze. Republicans who read
the Bee and the Endorsement of its ideas
on the currency question by Democratic
papers, will not be led astray by the
whimsical vageries Of the independent q
Bee or its allies, the Democratic press Of
the State. Reconstruction is fixed ard
memorable fact, and gold dollar, silver
dollar, greenback dollar and goldback
dollar are Of equal value, and the Repub-
lican party made them So Mr. Berry,
true to the instincts of demagogue and
weak minded man that he is, is attempt
ing to ride into Congress on the Greenbsck
hobby, and by indorsing the soft-money
policy draw a few weak backed Republi-
cans to his support but the ruse will not
avail him anything, as he will lose many
more hard money Democrats than he will
gain soft-money Republicans. In fact this
Greenback- Labor party cry of "more
greenbacks, in order to give additional
prosperity to the country, will not go
down the Threats of Californians who have
been so prosperous under the present fnsn-
cial policy of the Government Red
Bluff Peoples Cause.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09
THE pAR1Y OF 1mpERIALIsM.

1t has sometimes been said by foolish
Democrats that the Republican party had
imperialist tendencies. In truth it is the
Democracy which is leaning in that direc-
ton, and the proof of this is not difficult.
The Democracy has signalized itself as the
foe of free suffrage. 1t has based its
present campaign on Southern alliance
deriving all its advantages from the sup.
preston of the popular voice at the South.
Ii it wins by these tactics it will have VIM
dicated this deliberate usurpation in its
own eyes, and it will have convinced
thousands OF rejecting men that there is
no longer any hope of stability under the
existing forms of government The sense
of wrong which so gross and undisguised a
violation OF fundamental republican
principles must cause, will inevitably
produce discomfort with the institu-
tions which have proved incapable of re.
sisting such assaults. The popular senti-
ment against fraud and violence will take
the form OF disgust at the sham republi-
canism so forced into prominence. There
is nothing that stimulates the desire for a
change of government SO greatly as the
notorious breakdown of existing institu.
tons. Such collapse disiliusionizes men
rapidly. They would in this case perceive
the hopelessness of further endeavors to
make. believe that they we're living under
government OF majority rule. They
would chafe and fret more and more under
the usurpations of the lawless minority.
And they would be driven swiftly in the
direction of those theories OF strong
government which always possess such an
attraction in periods of disorganization
and anarchy. And it is the Democratic
party which is now working to the
ends here described. Of that there can be
no doubt. That party is doing its best to
discredit republican government by
adopting frauds on the franchise as its
main reliance, and By pretending while
doing so that it is proceeding legitimately.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09
AMERICAN SKIPPING.


The ship builders have been taking
counsel together at New York, and natu-
rally enough the majority of them urged
the emancipation of their interest from the
thralIom of the tariff, though few ap-
peared to think that they could get along
well enough without any relief. The situa-
ton of the American shipping interest is
by this time plain enough. The interest
is in fact dead, and the tariff has killed it.
When ship builders meet now all they
have to tell one another is how many
thousand tons of shipping were built fif-
teen or twenty years ago, but there are no
reports of ship building now. The carry
ing trade of the United States has passed
to foreign bottoms long ago. The work OF
Congress has been accomplished, and there
is no longer an American mercantile ma
rine Nevertheless the supporters of the
tariff hold their heads as high as ever, and
continue to insist that the existing situation
is perfectly satisfactory. When the grasp
ing Intendants of Louis the Fourteenth OF
France were asked, in the midst of fright
full famine, how long the price of grain
was going to be kept up, one of them gave
the candid answer, g As long as the people
will stand it " And that is what must be
expected in regard to the tariff. 1t will be
kept up as long as the people will stand it.
So long as American farmers submit to be
plrndered by the tariff; so long as they
are content that everybody but themselves
shall be protected = so long as they,
cheerfully give the 1.-THE of their sub
stance to support pauper millionaires at the
East so long as they allow their Repre-
sentatives in Congress to sell themselves to
the Protectionists just so long will the
tariff be maintained, and Just so long will
all its evil consequences, including the
paralysis of the shipping interest, con-
tinue. There is no reason why we should
not transact our own carrying trade, be-
yond the blindness and folly of the voting
masses, but up to the present time these
defects have been proof against even the
sharp stimulus of self-interest and so the
Protectionist swindle has been carried on
successfully,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09
RANcocK,s SINCERITY.

II there is any significance in facts, and
if any responsibility attaches to men who
accept important trusts, then General
Hancock is not sincere man. We do
not understand the kind of tenderness
which refrains from telling truth because
it reflects upon person in high position.
We do not recognize that theory which
classes as gentlemen persons who mani
fest an Indifference to honesty and integ-
rity. We cannot comprehend how any
man with the feelings Of a gentleman could
have written General Hancock's letter of
acceptance. In that letter he declared
himself as desiring ga full vote, free
ballot and fair count" He referred to
the franchise as right 'preservative of
" all rights, " and he said that it must be
maintained throughout the United States.
Now when General Hancock wrote that
letter he must have been aware that he
could by no possibility become President
of the United States unless he secured his
election by systematic frauds upon the
franchise. He is not simpleton. lie
knows that the soHdity Of the South is not
caused by the sentiment OF the majority.
He knew then as he knows now that the
majority of the Southern votes are against
him, and that it was and is the purpose of
his party to suppress those votes. And
since, knowing these things, he wrote as
he did, we are compelled to pronounce
him an uncandid and dishonest man, and
utterly undeserving the confidence of mp
right and seif-respecting people.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09
begin by paying out all the coin in the

begin by paying out all the coin in the
treasury, there would be no specie reserve
to protect this enormous volume Of paper.
It would therefore rest upon nothing. 1t
would be fat money, in short. Such a
currency, consisting entirely of the debts
of the Government, and without any coin
TO redeem it, would be on par with the
French Assignats, or the Continental or
Confederate currency. Specie payments
would of course be put an end to. The
premium on gold would be restored. The
paper dollar would sink day by day
until it had fallen below the lowest point
reached by the greenback during the rebell-
ion. That never fell below SO cents.
The Greenbackers' dollar could not hope to
retain that value because it would be
redundant at the outset, as well as
irredeemable. As the payment of one
form of debt with another form of
debt is reputation, the discharge of the
bonds in greenbacks would necessarily de-
stroy the public credit. At the same in
slant the country would be flooded with
paper money, and it would inevitably sink
like stone National bankruptcy would
be the least disaster necessitated by the
financial programme OF the Greenbaekers.
Individual bankruptcy would follow as
night follows the day. Every policy of
insurance, every annuity, every mortgage,
every note which did not specify coin as
the kind of money in which it was to
be paid, would depreciate in the hands
of the holders, while those instruments
which called for gold payments would
ruin the debtors. Every widow and
ments in Government securities have been
made, would be stripped bare. Real prop
erty would of course follow the universal
collapse, and every savings bank and in
surance and trust company in the country
would become insolvent. Not only
would the current wages of the work.
ingnan be reduced forty or fifty or
sixty per cent; not only would he
have to pay three prices for all the
necessaries of life; but his little
savings against rainy day would be swept
away, and he would be left face to face
with restitution. These are a few of the
consequences which would unquestionably
ensue upon the carrying out of the Green
hacker programme, and it is this respecta-
bic and public-s spirited and intelligent pro-
gramme which the Democratic candidates
of Sacramento county have Endorsed, and
which they advocate with much zeal and
fervor at their meetings throughout the
county.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09
NATURALIZATION IN NEW YORK

Trouble Is apprehended in New York in
consequence Of the Democratic determine
ton to claim the right to vote on the
naturalization papers of 1868. That was
the year when Mr.. Tilden manipulated the
votes of New York, and when 10000
fraudulent votes were polled by the Demo-
Gratis An immense number OF fraudulent
naturalization papers were issued in that
campaign by Tweed's Judges. Thousands
OF foreigners who had just landed in the
country were thus admitted to citizenship
and helped to swell the Tammany vote. 1t
is somewhat natural that, as all these
frauds have since been ventilated, the
authorities should object to the voting of
those who were naturalizsd in this
summary fashion, and hence the trouble
1t is said that John Kelly has advised his
fraudulent friends to knock down any
officer attempting to interfere with them,
and if this advice ia acted upon, as it is
almost certain to be, there viii arise an
opportunity to ascertain whether or not
the Democrats, North as well as South,
can nullify the federal election laws
without going through the form of repeal
ing them.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09
A NICE PROGRAMMES.

The Greenbackers say they only want to
pay off the s7S2, 600, 900 of bonds which ma
ture next year, instead of refunding them.
To do this they propose to appropriate all
the cash in the Treasury. The cash in the
Treasury is at present sl54, GOO, 900. That
would not begin to pay off the bonds there
fore. To carry out the Greenback pro-.
gramme it would be necessary to issue at
least $500, 1000, 600 or $500, 600, 600 more
greenbacks. Thatwould raise the greenback
issue to at least $1,000, 900, 600. But
the Greenbackers also propose to abolish
the National Banks, and substitute green
backsfor theirissue. Thatwould increase the
volume Of greenbacks to about l,400.-
600, 600 As the Greenbackers propose to
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09
A SOUTHERN IDEA OF sEcTIoNALrsM

A new school. book called the Govern
ment Class book" has lately been pub
lished. 1t is intended to convey neces-
sary information to the young concerning
the nature and functions of the Govern
ment of the United States. Copies of it
have been sent by the publishers to the
various State Superintendent of Educa-
ton, and among others TO the State Super
intendent of Louisiana. That officer,
having reviewed the work, addressed to
the publishers a letter containing the fol-
lowing remarks: "Please accept many
=" thanks for the Government Glass book
sent this office. | have examined it
Sc with much care, and while there is much
&C to admire in It's beautiful and attractive
"dress and typographical neatness and
60 accuracy, In its clear and perspcuous
O. as well as condensed statements, yet it
contains many statements which are not
" borne out by strict construction of the
I" Constitution of the United States :;
and the heresy now so popular
in some sections, that this is nation,
is one that /, at least, am unwilling to
+" be taught the children of Louisiana, for
:" it is not true, if the early Fathers of the
Constitution knew whereof they af-
" firmed. regret that any such sectional
"idea perhaps I should say national
"idea) should permeate the book. re-
"gret l cannot introduce it into the
"schools of Louisiana, for with this excep-
"tion ike it. !" The letter is signed by
edwin H. Fay, A. NJ, State Superin-
"tendent of Public Education" and is
doubtless genuine. To Mr.. Fay the idea
that this is a nation appears mischievous
heresy, and he faithfully represents the
views of his community. This little in
cident serves to show how sectionalizm is
fostered and cultivated at the South, and
how little prospect there is that it will die
out, as many simple folks have imagined
possible. If this is not a Nation, then
Secession is still in order. and that is what
is involved in the Southern doctrine of
State Rights.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09
If we wish to know how such practices re.

If we wish to know how such practices re-
suit in communities whose standard of
civilization is somewhat lower than our
own, we have but to turn to Mexico and
the South American repoblics. In those
States the suffrage has long been what the
Democratic party is trying to make it in
the United States, namely mockery and
sham. In those States anarchy is the
normal condition, and every election is fol-
lowed by revolution. In this country.
however, the aggregate wealth and intelli-
gence of the people would preserve them
against relapse into absolute political and
social chaos but it would do this by the
abandonment of free institutions. Impe-
rialism, dim, shadowy and unreal phan-
tom as it may appear now, is the logical
and inevitable goal of the present Demo-
cratic course, and the success of Hancock
would have the effect of bringing it SO
much nearer that none could any longer
doubt the reality of the danger. or its true
nature.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09
SATURDAY
THE REST PAPER

Published in California to-day, for the family the
business Office, the shop. the market and the field
is TuE SACRAMENTO WEEKLY UNION, issued in semi
weekly pats j. e., every Wednesday morning and
every Saturday morning, eight-page part of the
paper appears, the two making up paper OF 10
LARGE close pages the whole furnished by mail, pre-
Maid. one year, for g. so. The advantage of the
IJy1oS in being sent out twice each week must be
obvious to all. 1t brings the news oftener and
frsher to every reader and thus forestas the news
iii the old style of weekies But the USIos is also
the best paper in matter of all kinds Its editorials
are bold, clear, positive and logical its miscellany
choice, chaste and varied; its news departments
full fresh and from the most approved sources its
market quotations reliable its correspondence from
the best of WRITER'S and in all its departments 1t IS,
by all odds, the leading paper of the coast.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09

THE Republican party conceived and created the
praenbae and reared 1t to its present full and ma
ture stature despite all the diseases "nien IL LAO "
encounter IN its infancy and youth, ana oesp''e az
the malignant devices and Vaccinations WHO Nnich
the Democracy sought early and late to eniseoiS'
cripple and destroy it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09

Ii Pontotox county. Miss, Horace Wilder (col.
ored) was sent to the Penitentiary for eighteen
months for stealing pig valued at 81 so. lie bad
Just finished his term OF service and the Superin-
tendent asked for the cost Of prosecution. The
Circuit Clerk certified the amount to be tho epor-
nous sum Of s7i s5-the net expense of prose-
cutting coored lad for stealing pig worth dollar
and half. At twenty-five cents day be will DO
required to work three hundred days.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09

THIS is the way they re-enslave the negro in
Texas under the State laws A colored woman was
arrested IN Aatagorda county and the Judge hired
her out at quarter Of a cent day to work out
fine OF $50. This is but ono of many instances of
oppressive laws The contract system is universal
In the South and its barbarty might be illustrated
by citations from the laws OF all the states
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09

It is at this stage that the characters are
introduced The negro had not even a
name. Marriage was unknown among bis
race. Property he could not hold. And
upon these conditions the new structure of
society had to be erected. The feeling of the
Southern whites was peculiar. What they
resented in the situation was the presentation
of the negro as man. They had been
logically compelled by slavery to exclude this
view of him vigorously. 1t was only in the
light of an animal that the Southern Legis-
latures and Courts had regarded him. To
fortify the atrocities of slavery this theory
had been SO sedulously inculcated, SO but
tressed by the plausible sophistries of supple
theologians and sectional scientists and
jurists and educators, that the greatest
shock of emancipation consisted in the sud-
den violence done to these traditional ideas
concerning the status of the negro. The
Southern whites could not bring themselves
to admit that he was q human being.
They resented the action of the North
as a cruel attempt to Disgrace
and humiliate them by comforting political
rights upon kind Of beast. They had
no belief that the negro could ever become
self-supporting, for their creed had long
compelled them to assume that he was in
tended by the Almighty to be slave, and
could succeed in no other relation. When
ne was thus launched, stepped to the lips in
ignorance and helplessness, upon the world,
the North at first lent him some guidance and
help through the Freedman's Bureau. Judge
Tourgee shows that this maligned institution
did incalculable good throughout the South
It was extremely useful in checking the
brutality and the aggressive tendencies of the
old slave-owners, who would very soon have
made such use of negro Ignorance that serf-
dom at least would have been restored. had
not the Bureau stood between them and their
prey so OPPORTUNITY. Even as it was the IN
famous Black Codes enacted by the ma
jority of the Southern States laid
them under disabilities which Were
as cruel and burdensome as opposed
to the purpose of the North and the spirit and
letter of the Emancipation Act. By these
yillainous statutes, which could only have
been passed by men warped and blinded by
the degrading influence of Slavery, a thousand
crafty devices were employed to snare and
trap the rnwary freedman. The most arbi-
trary provisions were made in regulating his
relations with his employer. He was sur
rounded by pitfalls day and night. If he was
thrifty enough to raise a little cotton or tc-
bacco for himself he could not sell it without
observing whole code of fanciful ceremonies,
the infraction of any of which subjected him
to the con6scation of his property, and the
imprisonment of his body Poll taxes were
imposed upon him, and their payment made
the condition of voting. Road taxes were
enforced by compulsory labor. In all con-
tracts with white men the negro was given
the worst of the bargain. He was legis-
lated against at every turn, and no effort
was omitted to discourage him, to prevent
him from becoming industrious, tc render &C.
cumulation impossible for him, to make him
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-16
FLUE DUST.
Scraps from the Notebook OF the
Sentinei's Reporter.


Sentiners Reporter.
Usual religious services at the churches
to-day.
A number Of our citizens are making
preparation to emigrate to Colorado.
A large amount Of tribute work is being
done in the Richmond Company's mine.
Mr.. @. c. Fall, who broke his leg in the
California mine several days ago, is rapidly
improving.
The Eureka Base Ball Club will play a
practice game this afternoon on their
grounds, above the Richmond works.
Mr.. Otto Kaufman did not succeed in
selling his property at public sale yester-
day. 1t is o offered at private sale.
The new strike in the Silver Conner
mine promises to be an extensive one, the
ore increasing in richness and extent.
The developments being made in the
Geddes a. Bertrand, at Secret Canyon, are
proving very satisfactory to the owners Of
the mine.
So much ore is now offering at the Rich
mond Company's smelling works, that
they decline receiving any more until the
yard is cleared.
Read the advertisement of the Centennial
Guard second grand annual target excur-
sion and picnic on Saturday, June 18th.
1t will be q pleasant affair.
In the case of Antonio Vasquez, for the
killing Of Jose Garcia, Judge Cromer yes
terday remanded the prisoner to jail to
await the action Of the Grand Jury.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-16
THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES.
Samuel j. TiIden the Choice in Eu-
reka County.

The Democratic primaries yesterday
passed off quietly and resulted in a victory
for Tilden. The contest was nowhere
sharp, though Mr.. Sadler and some other
active supporters Of Mr.. Thurman made
quite a spirited rally for their favorite in
the First Ward, carrying the same by 10
majority. In the Second Ward, however,
Mr.. Tilden led Mr.. Thurman Sc votes, Civ
ing him the town over all opposition by a
majority Of SO. On Ruby Hill, Prospect
Mountain, and in other outside precincts
everything was for the Sage of Gramercy.
From yesterdays voting there can be no
question that a large majority Of the
Democrats OF Eureka county favor the
nomination Of Mr.. Tilden by the Cinein-
natl Convention. In the town Of Eureka
there was but one ticket voted for in each
ward.
FIRST WARD.
This ward polled 1T votes, electing the
following delegates by an average of IT'S
each Vim. Stephens, D. H. Hall, s. S.
Sloss, II. S. Bullock, Ed. Leyenthal, NJ.
Victor Maillott, Thos. Kennedy. The vote
for President stood, Thurman, SO; Tilden;
70; Hendricks, 8,
SECOND wARD.
The Second polled 166 votes. The fol-
lowing delegates were returned by average
majorities Of 165. Following is the count
for President: Tilden, 100; Thurman, "a;
Hendricks, Z; Bayard, l.
RUBY HILL PRePER.
There was no opposition to the Tilden
ticket on the Hill, and the following gen.
tlemen were elected as delegates TO the
County Convention d. ]. j. MeLaugh-
lin, Ed. Horen and Frank Fitzpatrick.
RICHMOND SIDE.
Tilden had also a clear field on the Rich
mond side. Messrs. Pat. Stanton and NJ.
Kelly we're chosen delegates to the County
Convention.
PROSPECT MOUNTAIN.
The Democrats on the east side Of the
mountain met at the Industry mine, and
organized by ~electing Mr.. Abram Laird
Chairman, and Mr.. John Roach Secretary.
Mr.. Maurice Hartnett was unanimously
elected as the delegate from that precinct
to the County Convention. The sentiment
OF the meeting was unanimously for Til
den.
The above comprise the returns 30 far as
received. Precincts yet to be heard from
will swell the Tilden boom.