Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-28
TIE IMPORTANCE OF DECISIVE
VICTORY.

1t is not enough that the Republican
party should triumph next Tuesday. tits
necessary that the defeat of the Democracy
should be so emphatic and conclusive as to
put an end forever to the hopes and pros
poets of that party as now constituted.
The nation cannot afford to daily with the
malignant influences which are controlling
that organization. It cannot afford to ex-
hibit any half-heartedness in rebulking the
Infamous methods and destructive pur-
poses which have characterized the Demo-
cratic campaign. a sweeping rout of the
opposition will shatter the solid South to
pieces. That combination is like the
Southern Confederaey-a hollow she'll
And as Sherman pierced that hollow shell
and marched through it to the sea, SO will
the onset of the solid North crumble and
pierce its successor. The Democratic party
is trying an audacious experiment Fail
ing to win power by the profession of
principles which it could not gain credit
for belief in, it has this year abandoned all
principles, and boldly undertaken to base
its fight on the fraudulent suppression of
the Southern Republican vote. By tramp
ling on republican institutions it has made
the South solid, and its only hope outside
of the South lies in the desperate lying OF
its press and speakers. All the means it is
employing are hostile to the well. being of
the republic. It has, in fact, ventured, for
the first time in American history, to openly
overthrow the freedom of the suffrage.
This act is an emphatic step in the direc-
ton of revolution. 1t is systematic
adoption OF lawlessness as a party
policy, and since it involves the use
not only of fraud, but force, it
constitutes an assault upon the funda-
mental guarantees of free government. 1t
is necessary that this experiment upon the
patience, long suffering, and patriotism of
the nation, should be shown to be a disas-
trous failure. 1t is necessary that the
popular Judgment to be rendered next
Tuesday should be SO comprehensive and
unnlistakable that there shall be no posi-
bility of misinterpreting its meaning. The
solid South and all that the phrase implies
must be condemned with the weight of
emphasis so high-handed an outrage de-
mands. The determination of the Amer
lean people to preserve and perpetuate and
establish every one of the righteous conse-
quences of the rebellion must be made so
clear that none can doubt the position
taken. The absolute right of every citi-
zen of the United States to the political
privileges conferred by the Constitution
must be once more affirmed. The repndia-
ton of the dishonest, insincere, untruth-
full, policy of the Democracy must be made
overwhelming. In short the verdict of the
people must be SO strongly delivered that
the public enemies who seek to disturb the
growing prosperity of the country, and to
resurrect the issues and the abuses which
the war was fought to settle and abolish,
will at last realize the futility of their ef-
forts, and accept situation which it is
beyond their utmost power to change
Nothing less than SO unanimous and telling
a judgment Will suffice to put en- end to the
myriad-headed mischief now threatening
the republic.